Well, faced with that masterful rebuttal, I suppose I have no choice but to fall in line and believe that everything the american government does is just fine and dandy.
Why would a terrorist bent on making bloody mayhem even bother with forging an ID? He could just wander into the crowd of people waiting for the security theater ritual. There's a far higher density of people there than you get on a plane, and it would certainly get just as much press as bringing a plane down.
Of course, there's another thing that Bruce is too polite to mention about the security theater is that its actual purpose is to compel the public to make a conspicuous show of obedience to arbitrary, useless, and idiotic authority figures. They might as well just demand a stiff-arm salute and a heel click in the direction of a photo of the Godlike Leader Whom We All Love Or Else.
We're the ones who assumed BHO would be different from GWB.
Speak for yourself. It was obvious to a lot of people that the teleprompter-in-chief was a wholly-owned minion of Goldman Sachs before he even set foot in the Senate chamber for the first time.
British law allowed for soldiers to essentially write their own search warrants.,
It was actually worse than that. A soldier could write out a "writ of assistance" that compelled people to help him conduct the search, including the person whose property was being searched. It was as bad as the "PATRIOT" act.
Well, for that to happen we'd have to have a justice system. I'm not holding my breath for that, but then again I didn't expect to see the Berlin wall come down in my lifetime.
...if I ever had occasion to view, much less comment on any gawker media site. Those clowns have been on my shit list ever since that stunt they pulled that got them banned from the CES a couple of years back.
In a related story, the congress is holding hearings on the magnificence of the emperor's clothing, and are excluding outspoken children from testifying.
Bingo. Apple will just increase the price to account for the cost of the extended warranty, and EU consumers don't get to choose whether they want to pay the difference or not. Woo, hoo! Big win for consumers. NOT.
What measures are you willing to accept to enforce a requirement for insurance? Don't you see any issue with a government that continuously expands surveillance of everyone in the country?
Another revolution, and a new Magna Carta? This time, make sure that your founding documents say very clearly that the people are not the property of the state, and that the state exists to secure the rights of the people, not to compel them to obedience to the desires of the political class.
last I checked, Windows was still on some 90% of desktops worldwide
Sure, and back in 1988 or so, as PCs were proliferating on desktops, IBM still had a commanding market share of mainframe installations. The desktop isn't where the action is anymore.
You're thinking of iPhoto slide shows. I'm talking about business presentations. Most of the conference rooms I've seen in the last five years have an HDTV on the wall.
this is a website with a freaking Borg icon for bill gates
That is a bit of an anachronism, but it was entirely appropriate when it was made. We had no idea ten years ago that the Window monopoly was going to be breaking up within our lifetimes.
We can stream video and audio via Wi-Fi to an TV from any other iOS device. I can now play Keynote presentations on any TV that has an HDMI port, without even having to plug the iPad into it.
More to the point, where is the constitutional authority for an agency like the FTC to exist in the first place? The commerce clause exists to prevent the states from creating trade barriers against each other. It doesn't grant the federal government the power to tell a business what assets they may or may not keep.
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the $700B of the stimulus was half what he prescribed.
Medieval barbers typically prescribed more bloodletting when a patient's condition failed to improve from bloodletting.
-jcr
He's said the right kind of war would help the economy,
Yes, that's one of the idiotic Keynesian canards that he frequently repeats. War production wastes resources, it doesn't create wealth.
>keep pretending Krugman is a hack who hasn't consistently made very accurate predictions
Like when he advocated a housing bubble as a remedy for the NASDAQ bubble?
-jcr
Krugman's exactly the kind of ivory-tower asshat who believes that there's such a thing as a good war.
-jcr
>It's because you're fucking idiots.
Well, faced with that masterful rebuttal, I suppose I have no choice but to fall in line and believe that everything the american government does is just fine and dandy.
-jcr
This is either an April fool's joke or an act of war against Cuba, Canada, Mexico and the UK.
-jcr
Why would the government want a bunch of sheep?
Why does a shepherd want a bunch of sheep?
The more docile people are, the more government can take from them.
-jcr
Why would a terrorist bent on making bloody mayhem even bother with forging an ID? He could just wander into the crowd of people waiting for the security theater ritual. There's a far higher density of people there than you get on a plane, and it would certainly get just as much press as bringing a plane down.
Of course, there's another thing that Bruce is too polite to mention about the security theater is that its actual purpose is to compel the public to make a conspicuous show of obedience to arbitrary, useless, and idiotic authority figures. They might as well just demand a stiff-arm salute and a heel click in the direction of a photo of the Godlike Leader Whom We All Love Or Else.
-jcr
it is largely congress, not the administration, that has dropped the ball on reigning in the finance industry.
The only "reigning in" the finance industry needs is to be exposed to their own losses.
And most of the "bailout" was already in motion by the time Obama took office.
Obama appointed Timothy Geithner as the secretary of the treasury. Don't kid yourself, Obama's a wall street minion.
-jcr
He's doing a marvelous job of systematically shredding the bullshit that the TSA is trying to sell.
-jcr
We're the ones who assumed BHO would be different from GWB.
Speak for yourself. It was obvious to a lot of people that the teleprompter-in-chief was a wholly-owned minion of Goldman Sachs before he even set foot in the Senate chamber for the first time.
-jcr
British law allowed for soldiers to essentially write their own search warrants.,
It was actually worse than that. A soldier could write out a "writ of assistance" that compelled people to help him conduct the search, including the person whose property was being searched. It was as bad as the "PATRIOT" act.
-jcr
Under the "border search exception" of United States criminal law,
Which does not trump the constitution. I'm very glad to see someone litigating this issue.
-jcr
Well, for that to happen we'd have to have a justice system. I'm not holding my breath for that, but then again I didn't expect to see the Berlin wall come down in my lifetime.
-jcr
...if I ever had occasion to view, much less comment on any gawker media site. Those clowns have been on my shit list ever since that stunt they pulled that got them banned from the CES a couple of years back.
-jcr
In a related story, the congress is holding hearings on the magnificence of the emperor's clothing, and are excluding outspoken children from testifying.
-jcr
Bingo. Apple will just increase the price to account for the cost of the extended warranty, and EU consumers don't get to choose whether they want to pay the difference or not. Woo, hoo! Big win for consumers. NOT.
-jcr
> I'm all for individual rights,
Apparently not.
> but uninsured drivers can just fuck right off.
What measures are you willing to accept to enforce a requirement for insurance? Don't you see any issue with a government that continuously expands surveillance of everyone in the country?
-jcr
Another revolution, and a new Magna Carta? This time, make sure that your founding documents say very clearly that the people are not the property of the state, and that the state exists to secure the rights of the people, not to compel them to obedience to the desires of the political class.
-jcr
We still have world-class university-level education, because universities have to compete for their customers.
-jcr
last I checked, Windows was still on some 90% of desktops worldwide
Sure, and back in 1988 or so, as PCs were proliferating on desktops, IBM still had a commanding market share of mainframe installations. The desktop isn't where the action is anymore.
-jcr
You're thinking of iPhoto slide shows. I'm talking about business presentations. Most of the conference rooms I've seen in the last five years have an HDTV on the wall.
-jcr
this is a website with a freaking Borg icon for bill gates
That is a bit of an anachronism, but it was entirely appropriate when it was made. We had no idea ten years ago that the Window monopoly was going to be breaking up within our lifetimes.
-jcr
We can stream video and audio via Wi-Fi to an TV from any other iOS device. I can now play Keynote presentations on any TV that has an HDMI port, without even having to plug the iPad into it.
-jcr
More to the point, where is the constitutional authority for an agency like the FTC to exist in the first place? The commerce clause exists to prevent the states from creating trade barriers against each other. It doesn't grant the federal government the power to tell a business what assets they may or may not keep.
-jcr
There's a whole lot of snake oil in the audio business that needed some serious debunking.
-jcr