Read it moron. It explains quite well why Citizens United is not the joke so many make it out to be. That the ruling is sound jurisprudence defending the freedom of speech.
Or you can just accuse someone who simply cited Wikipedia on the case and ruling of being a shill for simply stating the facts.
You write and or call them. There is no check when submitting comments to any elected official to see if you are a voter, Many congress websites will ask for your address or at least zip code to verify that you are a constituent but otherwise there is no check on ability to vote.
Disagree. Many who are concerned about this don't feel confident in their understanding or ability to express their understanding of the technical and functional issues of these rules and the impact revoking them will have. A form letter allows those people to say "Me Too" far more eloquently than they could have. And without having a form to submit, they would likely just not submit any statement allowing the FCC to say they were not opposed to the change.
Such form letters allow the usually silent majority to speak up because they can do it quickly and without having to spend hours trying to compose a letter on a topic they might not feel fully comfortable addressing due to lack of in-depth knowledge of the topic.
Every one of those form letters needs to be counted as a statement on the topic. Discount the spambots and non-unique senders. But each letter from a unique individual needs to be counted.
Sure, insult your allies in this fight. That's always a smart way to lose a battle.
We need to work together across the political divide to fight this. There is extensive opposition to eliminating Net neutrality on both sides. But we can't work together they can divide us with petty political differences and ram this through.
Conservatives and Libertarians would like to see the regulations eliminated, but many/most recognize that the free market can only prevent abuses if it really exists and in much of the country there is not a free market thanks to the protected monopolies that the Cable companies have. Thus until we can kill those protected monopolies it is recognized that we need net neutrality rules to be kept in place. Our reasons for keeping it might not exactly align with yours but if we both want to keep the rules in place, why are you attacking us? They may have been Republicans, but the goal is the same: to protect the Internet. So stop insulting your allies. (ones who might have a bit(a very small bit) more pull with the party in power.
Not true, it shows them by count alone that many people are concerned about the issue. Many people I know are concerned about this issue but don't feel confident enough in the details or with their ability to write a cognizant letter expressing their views on the topic. So a form letter allows them to indicate if only as a "Me Too" count, that they are concerned.
If we only allow unique individually composed letters or emails on a technical topic it allows the FCC and their corporate owners to claim that only a few geeks are concerned, as since the rank and file citizenry didn't complain they thus must be okay with it.
Form Letters have great value and should not be discounted. But they must be examined carefully to ensure each sender is unique.
Changing the official position after several months of study is not a back flip. Seven months ago one minister says they are considering it. That means they were looking into it, not that it was absolutely going to be approved. Now after those months of study and debate they have decided that it will not be adopted.
That's called studying an issue and announcing the conclusions after the study. Not a backflip. A back flip would be minister A saying Bitcoin will be adopted, and then a short time later, Minister B saying that it would never be accepted, without giving any reason for the change in position.
It is not against the law to go out of business when you are losing money, even if your employees want to unionize (and increase your rate of loss). There are laws against resisting Unionization in many states but none of them prevent a business owner from closing the business because it's been unprofitable and it is going to become even more so. No law can require a business owner to keep dumping money into a losing proposition.
If employees want to unionize in pro-union states is either allow it or go out of business, in this case he chose the entirely legal second option.
And as such every state that requires ID provides a free ID card.
But again, ID is essential to live in this world, even more so to collect the benefits those too poor to afford a small ID card fee would bee collecting every month. So your claim that it is tantamount to a poll tax disproves itself because the very poor already have the needed ID in order to get the government assistance they collect every month.
No it may be detected, but when the real Darinbob shows up, all they can do is disqualify the prior vote. And provide the real person with a provisional ballot. They still cannot prosecute someone who is long gone. But those that plan such activities select voters very unlikely to actually show up. Making it even harder to catch anyone to prosecute.
Or you could just fill out the forms (available at any post office, library or civic/community center. I've even seen churches that maintain a supply of them.) and mail them in, or fill them out online.
Yes standing in line at the SSA was very slow. This is on purpose, they want people to use the widely available alternatives, it cuts down on their more expensive and least efficient manpower costs. Further who in this day and age does not have a SSN? If you have a job, and pay taxes or if you get any form of SS, Medicaid, Medicare or any government assistance you have to have one. Are you assuming that minorities are incompetent at obtaining this identifier so basic and universal it's issued at birth now? You can't leave the hospital with your new child without completing the forms to request their SSN.
Yet with this identifier so universally required the left insists that there are supposedly many poor minority voters who are incapable of obtaining an SSN? Requiring basic identity is not discrimination. Assuming that minorities cannot get something so essential to life in this world is far more discriminating and racist.
"Actual fraud is rare. This is solving a problem that does not exist." No, Actual fraud convictions are rare. This because voter fraud is extremely difficult to prove at the individual voter level. You basically have to be caught by the Poll workers somehow recognizing that you are not the Darinbob that is their neighbor and then them managing to hold you there until the police arrive to arrest you.
If they don't hold you there and have you arrested on the spot, you disappear forever and they have no way to prosecute and thus no record of your attempt at voter fraud. If they don't catch you out at the poll, they might realize later that your voter signature does not match that on record and they disqualify the vote, but that's not counted as voter fraud, just a disqualified ballot. Or they may never realize that you committed voter fraud.
That it is rarely prosecuted does not mean it does not occur far more often than you are willing to admit.
The design is finished, all four variants. And it is in active deployment. They've been flying overhead for over a year now, as the local TFW converted. Now I rarely see a 16 and most of those are probably coming in from other bases for scheduled landing gear maintenance.
The wing just announced their first overseas deployment to Japan for six months. Pretty brave taking an incomplete design across the ocean to Japan. Those birds are combat ready and fully mission capable.
Or even what if some members of the media are making things up or refusing to report all the facts. Maintenance is going on at the designated Depot Hill Air Force base, which is also where the first full wing is almost deployed to. If maintenance is so bad how are they sending a squadron overseas for four months as was just announced by the wing in the local media? I haven't seen a 16 fly over in a few weeks, it's all 35's now, the local wing (388th TFW) doesn't seem to have problems keeping them in the air.
A lot of media seems hell bent on trashing these aircraft, and I was buying it. Until I started talking with the aircrews that maintain them and the pilots that fly them. The Air Force boots on the tarmac and pilots love these aircraft. Not that many in the media will admit that.
Development cost is higher, but due to the numbers that will be ordered, it will be far cheaper. Stopping production of the 22's at 122 birds kept them from spending the development cost across more birds putting their per frame cost much higher.
The 35, now that it's in actual deployment and production with a planned purchase of well over 2000 frames will be much cheaper per frame.
SAMs are not air to air, SAMS are surface to air. The F22 is an air superiority Fighter. Which means fighting other aircraft to control the skys, Once this is done then the 35's go in as wild weasel to take out the SAM emplacements and then the bombers go in. CAS is not about SAM's it's about other aircraft.
The MX program was about greater density of warheads allowing for more MIRV's (9), than the three the Minuteman III carries. The Minuteman has three stages and more than sufficient range to target anywhere in the former Soviet Union. They have complex in flight guidance systems.
Whoever told you the silo's were aimed is pulling your leg. Angling a silo at all creates a great risk of damage to the missile on launch that would result in it flying out of control. They sit and launch vertically. All aiming is done in flight by the guidance system of the rocket.
The General executed by AA gun was reported in NK media first. The Uncle fed to the dogs was reported in NK media first. SK and China and our own intelligence sources all report that he has total control. He is not controlled by nor limited by his Generals but rather he controls them.
I used "Beloved Cheeto" in comparison with the terminology used for Kim Jong Un. And because while I voted for him, and gladly so compared to the alternative. He was far from my preferred choice. But keep making assumptions, so far you are 0 for at least 4 in assuming my intentions or meanings.
You mean the Generals Kim Jong Un regularly has shot, or eaten by dogs, or blown up, publicly executed in some-other extreme manner? Those Generals? And which of them is going to try to control or limit him? None of them if they want to live. NK is a cult of personality and the current Kim on top is the center of power.
As opposed to our President who cannot do anything like that and has not tried to do such to any of our generals or any of his advisors who dared to cross him. All he can do is fire those who don't agree. They can then go to the press and complain about him and why they were fired. Not one of them has been hauled out and executed for crossing the Beloved Cheeto.
ICBM silo's point up, they launch rockets that aim in flight, The targeting is in their programming. They can be reprogrammed and in fact most if not all are actively "pointed" at an empty spot in the ocean. That can be changed in a matter of minutes or less.
You are right about bombers being slow as well as a very visible indicator of our intent. We can prep the staging area (what is currently happening) stage the bombers, start drilling the crews on rapid responses, launch the bombers to their refuel/orbit tracks and finally send to their IP and then to attack, and at any point up until they actually drop the devices out of the planes they can be recalled.
With ICBM's the first indication visible to the outside world is the hatches opening seconds before the missiles fly, and there is no recall option.
Costing us the missile and spreading weapons grade plutonium across a wide area, or dropping it in a dense lump for easy retrieval by whomever gets to it first. Planes can be recalled without destroying the weapon and dropping weapons grade materials into the hands of others.
Bombers gives us a threat we can ratchet up gradually several times before we commit, first we prep to stage them, then we stage them, then they take off to their orbit points, then they move to initial attack points and then they go in to attack. At every point until they drop, we can recall them, the first few steps are publicly visible and easily reported via the press, making sure those we are trying to warn off know what we are doing.
With ICBM's (submarine and land based) we have two options, launch or don't launch. There is no using them as a warning beyond their mere existence.
Actually it's not that bad for a delivery route. I drove one Christmas for UPS a couple years ago and my route (which was one of the furthest from the hub) put about 70 miles a day on the package car delivering about 700 items a day. 60 wouldn't be enough and I'd want more of a buffer, but that 60 range would handle the full delivery schedule for many of the routes that didn't have to drive 15 miles each way to get to and from the route. As the trucks in the article are all part of a system put charge wireless points at each store and you could extend the range at least a little.
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Read it moron. It explains quite well why Citizens United is not the joke so many make it out to be. That the ruling is sound jurisprudence defending the freedom of speech.
Or you can just accuse someone who simply cited Wikipedia on the case and ruling of being a shill for simply stating the facts.
You write and or call them. There is no check when submitting comments to any elected official to see if you are a voter, Many congress websites will ask for your address or at least zip code to verify that you are a constituent but otherwise there is no check on ability to vote.
Disagree. Many who are concerned about this don't feel confident in their understanding or ability to express their understanding of the technical and functional issues of these rules and the impact revoking them will have. A form letter allows those people to say "Me Too" far more eloquently than they could have. And without having a form to submit, they would likely just not submit any statement allowing the FCC to say they were not opposed to the change.
Such form letters allow the usually silent majority to speak up because they can do it quickly and without having to spend hours trying to compose a letter on a topic they might not feel fully comfortable addressing due to lack of in-depth knowledge of the topic.
Every one of those form letters needs to be counted as a statement on the topic. Discount the spambots and non-unique senders. But each letter from a unique individual needs to be counted.
Sure, insult your allies in this fight. That's always a smart way to lose a battle.
We need to work together across the political divide to fight this. There is extensive opposition to eliminating Net neutrality on both sides. But we can't work together they can divide us with petty political differences and ram this through.
Conservatives and Libertarians would like to see the regulations eliminated, but many/most recognize that the free market can only prevent abuses if it really exists and in much of the country there is not a free market thanks to the protected monopolies that the Cable companies have. Thus until we can kill those protected monopolies it is recognized that we need net neutrality rules to be kept in place. Our reasons for keeping it might not exactly align with yours but if we both want to keep the rules in place, why are you attacking us? They may have been Republicans, but the goal is the same: to protect the Internet. So stop insulting your allies. (ones who might have a bit(a very small bit) more pull with the party in power.
Not true, it shows them by count alone that many people are concerned about the issue. Many people I know are concerned about this issue but don't feel confident enough in the details or with their ability to write a cognizant letter expressing their views on the topic. So a form letter allows them to indicate if only as a "Me Too" count, that they are concerned.
If we only allow unique individually composed letters or emails on a technical topic it allows the FCC and their corporate owners to claim that only a few geeks are concerned, as since the rank and file citizenry didn't complain they thus must be okay with it.
Form Letters have great value and should not be discounted. But they must be examined carefully to ensure each sender is unique.
Changing the official position after several months of study is not a back flip. Seven months ago one minister says they are considering it. That means they were looking into it, not that it was absolutely going to be approved. Now after those months of study and debate they have decided that it will not be adopted.
That's called studying an issue and announcing the conclusions after the study. Not a backflip. A back flip would be minister A saying Bitcoin will be adopted, and then a short time later, Minister B saying that it would never be accepted, without giving any reason for the change in position.
It is not against the law to go out of business when you are losing money, even if your employees want to unionize (and increase your rate of loss). There are laws against resisting Unionization in many states but none of them prevent a business owner from closing the business because it's been unprofitable and it is going to become even more so. No law can require a business owner to keep dumping money into a losing proposition.
If employees want to unionize in pro-union states is either allow it or go out of business, in this case he chose the entirely legal second option.
And as such every state that requires ID provides a free ID card.
But again, ID is essential to live in this world, even more so to collect the benefits those too poor to afford a small ID card fee would bee collecting every month. So your claim that it is tantamount to a poll tax disproves itself because the very poor already have the needed ID in order to get the government assistance they collect every month.
No it may be detected, but when the real Darinbob shows up, all they can do is disqualify the prior vote. And provide the real person with a provisional ballot. They still cannot prosecute someone who is long gone. But those that plan such activities select voters very unlikely to actually show up. Making it even harder to catch anyone to prosecute.
Or you could just fill out the forms (available at any post office, library or civic/community center. I've even seen churches that maintain a supply of them.) and mail them in, or fill them out online.
Yes standing in line at the SSA was very slow. This is on purpose, they want people to use the widely available alternatives, it cuts down on their more expensive and least efficient manpower costs. Further who in this day and age does not have a SSN? If you have a job, and pay taxes or if you get any form of SS, Medicaid, Medicare or any government assistance you have to have one. Are you assuming that minorities are incompetent at obtaining this identifier so basic and universal it's issued at birth now? You can't leave the hospital with your new child without completing the forms to request their SSN.
Yet with this identifier so universally required the left insists that there are supposedly many poor minority voters who are incapable of obtaining an SSN? Requiring basic identity is not discrimination. Assuming that minorities cannot get something so essential to life in this world is far more discriminating and racist.
"Actual fraud is rare. This is solving a problem that does not exist."
No, Actual fraud convictions are rare. This because voter fraud is extremely difficult to prove at the individual voter level. You basically have to be caught by the Poll workers somehow recognizing that you are not the Darinbob that is their neighbor and then them managing to hold you there until the police arrive to arrest you.
If they don't hold you there and have you arrested on the spot, you disappear forever and they have no way to prosecute and thus no record of your attempt at voter fraud. If they don't catch you out at the poll, they might realize later that your voter signature does not match that on record and they disqualify the vote, but that's not counted as voter fraud, just a disqualified ballot. Or they may never realize that you committed voter fraud.
That it is rarely prosecuted does not mean it does not occur far more often than you are willing to admit.
The design is finished, all four variants. And it is in active deployment. They've been flying overhead for over a year now, as the local TFW converted. Now I rarely see a 16 and most of those are probably coming in from other bases for scheduled landing gear maintenance.
The wing just announced their first overseas deployment to Japan for six months. Pretty brave taking an incomplete design across the ocean to Japan. Those birds are combat ready and fully mission capable.
Care to update your opinion by a few years?
Or even what if some members of the media are making things up or refusing to report all the facts. Maintenance is going on at the designated Depot Hill Air Force base, which is also where the first full wing is almost deployed to. If maintenance is so bad how are they sending a squadron overseas for four months as was just announced by the wing in the local media? I haven't seen a 16 fly over in a few weeks, it's all 35's now, the local wing (388th TFW) doesn't seem to have problems keeping them in the air.
A lot of media seems hell bent on trashing these aircraft, and I was buying it. Until I started talking with the aircrews that maintain them and the pilots that fly them. The Air Force boots on the tarmac and pilots love these aircraft. Not that many in the media will admit that.
Development cost is higher, but due to the numbers that will be ordered, it will be far cheaper. Stopping production of the 22's at 122 birds kept them from spending the development cost across more birds putting their per frame cost much higher.
The 35, now that it's in actual deployment and production with a planned purchase of well over 2000 frames will be much cheaper per frame.
SAMs are not air to air, SAMS are surface to air. The F22 is an air superiority Fighter. Which means fighting other aircraft to control the skys, Once this is done then the 35's go in as wild weasel to take out the SAM emplacements and then the bombers go in. CAS is not about SAM's it's about other aircraft.
50k in Silicon Valley? I think McDonalds starts at that wage there.
The MX program was about greater density of warheads allowing for more MIRV's (9), than the three the Minuteman III carries. The Minuteman has three stages and more than sufficient range to target anywhere in the former Soviet Union. They have complex in flight guidance systems.
Whoever told you the silo's were aimed is pulling your leg. Angling a silo at all creates a great risk of damage to the missile on launch that would result in it flying out of control. They sit and launch vertically. All aiming is done in flight by the guidance system of the rocket.
The General executed by AA gun was reported in NK media first. The Uncle fed to the dogs was reported in NK media first. SK and China and our own intelligence sources all report that he has total control. He is not controlled by nor limited by his Generals but rather he controls them.
I used "Beloved Cheeto" in comparison with the terminology used for Kim Jong Un. And because while I voted for him, and gladly so compared to the alternative. He was far from my preferred choice. But keep making assumptions, so far you are 0 for at least 4 in assuming my intentions or meanings.
Nice try trolling, comrade.
MOAB requires a cargo plane to drop, it won't fit through bomb bay doors but must roll out the back of a C-130 or C-17.
Hollywood movies do not make a good basis for evaluating national policies and military strategies.
You mean the Generals Kim Jong Un regularly has shot, or eaten by dogs, or blown up, publicly executed in some-other extreme manner? Those Generals? And which of them is going to try to control or limit him? None of them if they want to live. NK is a cult of personality and the current Kim on top is the center of power.
As opposed to our President who cannot do anything like that and has not tried to do such to any of our generals or any of his advisors who dared to cross him. All he can do is fire those who don't agree. They can then go to the press and complain about him and why they were fired. Not one of them has been hauled out and executed for crossing the Beloved Cheeto.
ICBM silo's point up, they launch rockets that aim in flight, The targeting is in their programming. They can be reprogrammed and in fact most if not all are actively "pointed" at an empty spot in the ocean. That can be changed in a matter of minutes or less.
You are right about bombers being slow as well as a very visible indicator of our intent. We can prep the staging area (what is currently happening) stage the bombers, start drilling the crews on rapid responses, launch the bombers to their refuel/orbit tracks and finally send to their IP and then to attack, and at any point up until they actually drop the devices out of the planes they can be recalled.
With ICBM's the first indication visible to the outside world is the hatches opening seconds before the missiles fly, and there is no recall option.
Costing us the missile and spreading weapons grade plutonium across a wide area, or dropping it in a dense lump for easy retrieval by whomever gets to it first.
Planes can be recalled without destroying the weapon and dropping weapons grade materials into the hands of others.
Bombers gives us a threat we can ratchet up gradually several times before we commit, first we prep to stage them, then we stage them, then they take off to their orbit points, then they move to initial attack points and then they go in to attack. At every point until they drop, we can recall them, the first few steps are publicly visible and easily reported via the press, making sure those we are trying to warn off know what we are doing.
With ICBM's (submarine and land based) we have two options, launch or don't launch. There is no using them as a warning beyond their mere existence.
Actually it's not that bad for a delivery route. I drove one Christmas for UPS a couple years ago and my route (which was one of the furthest from the hub) put about 70 miles a day on the package car delivering about 700 items a day. 60 wouldn't be enough and I'd want more of a buffer, but that 60 range would handle the full delivery schedule for many of the routes that didn't have to drive 15 miles each way to get to and from the route. As the trucks in the article are all part of a system put charge wireless points at each store and you could extend the range at least a little.