nah, it's worse than nothing due to the false positive rate. BEtter to leave it unrestricted and simply notify the feds when someone tries to fly under a terror watch name - they can confirm the face and arrest them when they show up to fly.
I explicitly have the right to travel freely. The government has no right to restrict my travels without a damn good reason (like parole) - look it up, they have no powers to do this sort of thing.
Think about it - they show up after all services have been pretty much suspended and, without any sort of justification, attempt to take away your means of self defense. They aren't going to stick around to defend you either, so you're basically being stranded in hostile territory with no means of defense. In my mind, this is the same as taking someone's horse - horsethieves are hanged.
Who's going to run those tanks? It's not as if you can count on the armed forces firing on their brothers. Besides, nukes have no tactical value and tanks are vulnerable without support from footsoldiers.
PArt of the problem is that the guys getting slaughtered don't have guns and the guys with guns are doing their level best to keep the place under wraps until they're done.
Yeah, that's why the FBI can eavesdrop on conversations using onstar. The only reason they can't really get wiretap warrants right now is that it interferes with normal onstar operation. Given that this is GM, I don't trust them to have made this secure. Most likely, you've read the marketing literature. Doesn't mean it has anything to do with reality.
Meh. The point of jury nullification is that law and govt comes from the consent of the governed, so convicting someone under a law that the governed find unjust is unjust itself.
Yeah, that'll work. you've proposed key escrow, which again requires trusting the government (generally). The fact is, handing a kill switch to the gub is a non starter, or have you been asleep for 250 years? This country is built upon mistrust of authority, and with good reason.
Don't be arrogant yourself. 16 year olds are 2 years away from adulthood - if you can't trust them out of your sight without surveillance, you don't trust them at all, and you won't be able to do much once they are adults. At 16, they should be able to go off for a day or two without you worrying. Also, by that time, if they're so irresponsible that they need constant supervision, they won't change in 2 years (unless they go to jail or something). Honestly, your job as a parent is mostly the first 8 years, by which time the core of a kid's psyche and moral center should be mostly formed. By 12, they should be about how they will be through adulthood.
Kids don't have to be perfect to be able to function apart from their parents.
I'm another one. I'd prefer a weaker government, largely because of what happens when you get the current situation where you ignore limits on government power. There's no reason for a remote kill that can be used by anyone that can convince a judge. I'll just wait for the first time a cop uses it on his ex girlfriend.
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nah, it's worse than nothing due to the false positive rate. BEtter to leave it unrestricted and simply notify the feds when someone tries to fly under a terror watch name - they can confirm the face and arrest them when they show up to fly.
I explicitly have the right to travel freely. The government has no right to restrict my travels without a damn good reason (like parole) - look it up, they have no powers to do this sort of thing.
Have you seen the average american?
Think about it - they show up after all services have been pretty much suspended and, without any sort of justification, attempt to take away your means of self defense. They aren't going to stick around to defend you either, so you're basically being stranded in hostile territory with no means of defense. In my mind, this is the same as taking someone's horse - horsethieves are hanged.
I really don't understand that logic. What are you going to do - start murdering your elected polititians because you don't like their policies?
Start shooting state troopers when they go door to door rounding up guns like they did after Katrina. It's not murder, it's self defense.
Who's going to run those tanks? It's not as if you can count on the armed forces firing on their brothers. Besides, nukes have no tactical value and tanks are vulnerable without support from footsoldiers.
Even as a joke, that's stupid.He's an American - hell, he's in America - he deserves due process.
PArt of the problem is that the guys getting slaughtered don't have guns and the guys with guns are doing their level best to keep the place under wraps until they're done.
Yeah, I'd rather get a subaru. Don't think they do Onstar
In fact, forget the datacenter!
It's just incrementalism - the same strategy used to get people accustomed to DRM in the first place.
Yeah, that's why the FBI can eavesdrop on conversations using onstar. The only reason they can't really get wiretap warrants right now is that it interferes with normal onstar operation. Given that this is GM, I don't trust them to have made this secure. Most likely, you've read the marketing literature. Doesn't mean it has anything to do with reality.
Do you really think that the cops would use choke holds and batons on someone for not shutting up?
Meh. The point of jury nullification is that law and govt comes from the consent of the governed, so convicting someone under a law that the governed find unjust is unjust itself.
Yeah, that'll work. you've proposed key escrow, which again requires trusting the government (generally). The fact is, handing a kill switch to the gub is a non starter, or have you been asleep for 250 years? This country is built upon mistrust of authority, and with good reason.
Don't be arrogant yourself. 16 year olds are 2 years away from adulthood - if you can't trust them out of your sight without surveillance, you don't trust them at all, and you won't be able to do much once they are adults. At 16, they should be able to go off for a day or two without you worrying. Also, by that time, if they're so irresponsible that they need constant supervision, they won't change in 2 years (unless they go to jail or something). Honestly, your job as a parent is mostly the first 8 years, by which time the core of a kid's psyche and moral center should be mostly formed. By 12, they should be about how they will be through adulthood.
Kids don't have to be perfect to be able to function apart from their parents.
If you need this stuff to deal with your driving age kid, you have failed as a parent.
Oh, how did I ever get on without onstar, woe is me! Waitaminnit - I don't have onstar, and I'm just peachy.
I'm another one. I'd prefer a weaker government, largely because of what happens when you get the current situation where you ignore limits on government power. There's no reason for a remote kill that can be used by anyone that can convince a judge. I'll just wait for the first time a cop uses it on his ex girlfriend.
Well, unless you build tent-style buildings like the roof at DIA.
Screw you, I'm getting a PRS!
It's not that CA is so far to the left, it's that the rest of the country is way off to the right.
The executive was intended to be weaker than the legislative. You can't have them all be exactly equal, you know...
They have the ability to do all kinds of enforcement, and even pass it up the line to the executive, who can call in the commandos, etc.
Up the line? Don't you mean down the line? The executive is supposed to be weaker than the legislative.
Have they "upgraded" the DMV to reduce the wait?
Depends where you live. In seattle, the DMVs are mostly outsourced (or online). In VA, it's just not a problem.
Kinda reminds me of when AT&T was the only companey that could provide telephone service.
So why are you advocating the new ATT?