heh, we'll miss you. You do know that millions of people make the trip with nary a problem. Bad shit happens everywhere, dip shit bureaucrats fuck up everywhere, it gets publicized a lot because a lot of people are fed up with the TSA and want to put pressure on it. I personally think the anti-terror pendelum has swung way too far but still it's a small percentage that have any real problem. I know lots of Americans wont travel overseas too though so what the hell. Hope you enjoy the vacation where ever you decide to wander.
Now that's an idea I like. Force them to pay foreigners more than they would a US worker. Thus they don't have an incentive to hire foreigners unless the shortage is real and when the shortage goes away they'll hire US workers. No wonder Germany manages to continue to be successful even though the EU flounders.
He's not going to sign any tax act that doesn't raise taxes and Congress isn't going to do that. It's called an impasse. The Republicans like off-shoring and the Democrats like raising taxes which combined pretty much destroys US run businesses (the few that are left).
Sadly you've been moderated funny. I have no mod points but your comment is dead on insightful. This is exactly what is happening in the US. I remember when Made in the US meant so much, now it's no different from Made in China because the desire is to make money not products. The idea is to turn out cheap shitty products at a profit and sell extended warranties that cost more than the products themselves cost to produce. The days of a 15 year old washing machine are gone.
And the book publishers will screw themselves too. Look at Baen publishing. They have embraced DRM free ebook publishing and profited. They also make lots of their author's older books available for free at their website. Strangely they have continued to thrive.
Better is to buy lots of music and movies but only from the independents. This is really where most of these assholes so called profits are starting to leak away to anyhow. People who download movies often can't afford them or wouldn't have bought them anyway. Most of their shit sucks nowadays, I've gotten up and walked out of movies that were boring me to tears after buying tickets at ridiculous prices. I can afford to piss away money on entertainment but it still pisses me off what these cocksuckers have done to American cinema.
And no one rational says it is. But even though you can't stop rape and murder you only punish the culprits, not the taxi driver that gave them a ride. Not the guy that rents them an apartment. Not the store that sold them a butcher knife. You don't make everyone wear a RFID tag and track them 24/7. You don't put cameras in every room of every house. No, what you do is you catch the culprits and punish them. The problem with the anti-piracy people is that they seem to think it's okay to take away everyone's freedom on the internet instead of doing actual investigation and punishment of those who actually commit piracy.
It took a while but maybe MS has pulled their head from their asses. If not it might at least be a glass belly button so they can see where they're going.
I actually own some apple hardware. It's really nice stuff but then it costs a lot of money so it should be. What bothers me is that the OS isn't what it could be. It's better than Windows in my opinion but really I remember putting Snow Leopard on my Dell 1545 just for kicks. It ran well on there and everything worked well and I played with it a week and then wiped it and went back to Linux. I had a Powerbook at the time that I used for iMovie and a couple of other Mac applications, I loved the hardware it was really nice but I really didn't like Leopard that much. I can buy nice Intel hardware a lot cheaper for similar equipment without the apple on the case and after I wipe the malware it comes with off and install Linux I'm much happier than I am with OS X. I'm not sure what's up with the interface but it seems sluggish to me....like their is lag in it or something. I still use OS X occasionally as I picked up a 2008 macbook for iMovie but with Openbox getting better I'm thinking of selling it off. I want to like OS X but it's so hard to. Maybe I'm just spoiled.
You totally missed my point. I actually agree with you about the founding fathers. It's todays idiot fathers that are the problem. They are undoing what was done to provide a free democracy. They apparently intend to build a tyranny in order to keep us safe. They want to abolish freedom in order to protect. I know, it was kinda tongue in cheek and maybe over the top but still those kinds of attitudes the founding fathers had would not go well in todays nanny state.
I see your point. You don't think Clinton was as bad as W. While this may be true it's like saying Idi Amin wasn't as bad as Hitler. I'll give ya the advantage though, Bush sucked worse than Slick Willie. He was also better at avoiding the blame. I liked that joke, "Clinton could ride through a car was in a convertible and someone else would get wet". It don't get much slicker than that.
We've a long history of terrorists. If George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and Patrick Henry were alive today they'd all be on the no-fly lists. Their views would certainly be considered anti-government. Heck, what about the original tea-partiers at Boston Harbor. Those guys would probably be consigned to gitmo.
I think bringing up the Constitution like that qualifies you as a troublemaker too. They don't really like hearing from that old document, it's too old fashioned.
Well, bang stick comes to mind. But I used to read a lot of survivalist material. I've since decided that survival is too much work to be worth the minimal rewards.
The beauty of it is that by flying airliners into buildings the 9/11 terrorists effectively ended hijacking. Now when someone tries to take over an aircraft the passengers leap over seats to attack them. It used to be they flew you somewhere, might kill one or two people during negotiations, then eventually it all settled out maybe with a gun battle and the majority of people on board made it home a few days late. Now, knowing the fuckwads are gonna fly you into a building, it's in your best interest to rip the fuckers head off or die trying.
In a police state they'd have kicked your door in, clubbed you senseless, hauled you off never to be heard from again. Your family and friends wouldn't even ask about you for fear they'd be next. This site itself, silly as it is, would be taken over and it's management would be also hauled away. I don't like what's going on either but jeez! Get some perspective.
Seriously the guy pled guilty. It's not a kangaroo court, they follow rules even if those rules are not unanimously approved by everyone. Evidently the torture isn't of an all consuming nature there since many of the detanees maintain their innocence. Many have been released due to lack of evidence which doesn't happen in kangaroo courts. Again, while I don't agree with what goes on at Guantanamo it's not even close to what passes for justice in Iran.
Yes. Arar was wrongfully sent home to Syria, a country he is a citizen of, and they tortured him. He was cleared of any charges by them and a Canadian commision. He was later apoligized to by the Canadian Premier and awarded 10.5 million dollars(Canadian). A clear case of wrong doing by over zealous governments. It still hardly compares to the case above. Want to bet this guy survives to collect any money? Would you really rather take you chance with Iranian justice instead of US or Canadian? Don't get me wrong. I don't like the attack on civil liberties since 9/11 and I think the war on terror is out of hand. That said, if you think Iran and the US are on the same plane you've clearly lost any sense of perspective.
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heh, we'll miss you. You do know that millions of people make the trip with nary a problem. Bad shit happens everywhere, dip shit bureaucrats fuck up everywhere, it gets publicized a lot because a lot of people are fed up with the TSA and want to put pressure on it. I personally think the anti-terror pendelum has swung way too far but still it's a small percentage that have any real problem. I know lots of Americans wont travel overseas too though so what the hell. Hope you enjoy the vacation where ever you decide to wander.
Now that's an idea I like. Force them to pay foreigners more than they would a US worker. Thus they don't have an incentive to hire foreigners unless the shortage is real and when the shortage goes away they'll hire US workers. No wonder Germany manages to continue to be successful even though the EU flounders.
He's not going to sign any tax act that doesn't raise taxes and Congress isn't going to do that. It's called an impasse. The Republicans like off-shoring and the Democrats like raising taxes which combined pretty much destroys US run businesses (the few that are left).
Sadly you've been moderated funny. I have no mod points but your comment is dead on insightful. This is exactly what is happening in the US. I remember when Made in the US meant so much, now it's no different from Made in China because the desire is to make money not products. The idea is to turn out cheap shitty products at a profit and sell extended warranties that cost more than the products themselves cost to produce. The days of a 15 year old washing machine are gone.
And the book publishers will screw themselves too. Look at Baen publishing. They have embraced DRM free ebook publishing and profited. They also make lots of their author's older books available for free at their website. Strangely they have continued to thrive.
Better is to buy lots of music and movies but only from the independents. This is really where most of these assholes so called profits are starting to leak away to anyhow. People who download movies often can't afford them or wouldn't have bought them anyway. Most of their shit sucks nowadays, I've gotten up and walked out of movies that were boring me to tears after buying tickets at ridiculous prices. I can afford to piss away money on entertainment but it still pisses me off what these cocksuckers have done to American cinema.
And no one rational says it is. But even though you can't stop rape and murder you only punish the culprits, not the taxi driver that gave them a ride. Not the guy that rents them an apartment. Not the store that sold them a butcher knife. You don't make everyone wear a RFID tag and track them 24/7. You don't put cameras in every room of every house. No, what you do is you catch the culprits and punish them. The problem with the anti-piracy people is that they seem to think it's okay to take away everyone's freedom on the internet instead of doing actual investigation and punishment of those who actually commit piracy.
It took a while but maybe MS has pulled their head from their asses. If not it might at least be a glass belly button so they can see where they're going.
I actually own some apple hardware. It's really nice stuff but then it costs a lot of money so it should be. What bothers me is that the OS isn't what it could be. It's better than Windows in my opinion but really I remember putting Snow Leopard on my Dell 1545 just for kicks. It ran well on there and everything worked well and I played with it a week and then wiped it and went back to Linux. I had a Powerbook at the time that I used for iMovie and a couple of other Mac applications, I loved the hardware it was really nice but I really didn't like Leopard that much. I can buy nice Intel hardware a lot cheaper for similar equipment without the apple on the case and after I wipe the malware it comes with off and install Linux I'm much happier than I am with OS X. I'm not sure what's up with the interface but it seems sluggish to me....like their is lag in it or something. I still use OS X occasionally as I picked up a 2008 macbook for iMovie but with Openbox getting better I'm thinking of selling it off. I want to like OS X but it's so hard to. Maybe I'm just spoiled.
You totally missed my point. I actually agree with you about the founding fathers. It's todays idiot fathers that are the problem. They are undoing what was done to provide a free democracy. They apparently intend to build a tyranny in order to keep us safe. They want to abolish freedom in order to protect. I know, it was kinda tongue in cheek and maybe over the top but still those kinds of attitudes the founding fathers had would not go well in todays nanny state.
Well it's been so long I can't remember.
ack...not good proofreading. car was = carwash, sorry, long day.
Sadly it's obvious that what little common sense existed in governmental bureaucracy, and that was very minute, is now gone.
I see your point. You don't think Clinton was as bad as W. While this may be true it's like saying Idi Amin wasn't as bad as Hitler. I'll give ya the advantage though, Bush sucked worse than Slick Willie. He was also better at avoiding the blame. I liked that joke, "Clinton could ride through a car was in a convertible and someone else would get wet". It don't get much slicker than that.
We've a long history of terrorists. If George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and Patrick Henry were alive today they'd all be on the no-fly lists. Their views would certainly be considered anti-government. Heck, what about the original tea-partiers at Boston Harbor. Those guys would probably be consigned to gitmo.
If they had done this from the start I believe they would have fared much better.
I think bringing up the Constitution like that qualifies you as a troublemaker too. They don't really like hearing from that old document, it's too old fashioned.
Well, bang stick comes to mind. But I used to read a lot of survivalist material. I've since decided that survival is too much work to be worth the minimal rewards.
The beauty of it is that by flying airliners into buildings the 9/11 terrorists effectively ended hijacking. Now when someone tries to take over an aircraft the passengers leap over seats to attack them. It used to be they flew you somewhere, might kill one or two people during negotiations, then eventually it all settled out maybe with a gun battle and the majority of people on board made it home a few days late. Now, knowing the fuckwads are gonna fly you into a building, it's in your best interest to rip the fuckers head off or die trying.
It didn't seem to make much difference when Sen. Ted Kennedy was on the no fly list. He got it fixed with a phone call and life went on.
In a police state they'd have kicked your door in, clubbed you senseless, hauled you off never to be heard from again. Your family and friends wouldn't even ask about you for fear they'd be next. This site itself, silly as it is, would be taken over and it's management would be also hauled away. I don't like what's going on either but jeez! Get some perspective.
Fucking lucky not to be sent to Gitmo. They're starting to refer to copyright infringers as terrorists.
And that's a whole different category now isn't it?
Seriously the guy pled guilty. It's not a kangaroo court, they follow rules even if those rules are not unanimously approved by everyone. Evidently the torture isn't of an all consuming nature there since many of the detanees maintain their innocence. Many have been released due to lack of evidence which doesn't happen in kangaroo courts. Again, while I don't agree with what goes on at Guantanamo it's not even close to what passes for justice in Iran.
Yes. Arar was wrongfully sent home to Syria, a country he is a citizen of, and they tortured him. He was cleared of any charges by them and a Canadian commision. He was later apoligized to by the Canadian Premier and awarded 10.5 million dollars(Canadian). A clear case of wrong doing by over zealous governments. It still hardly compares to the case above. Want to bet this guy survives to collect any money? Would you really rather take you chance with Iranian justice instead of US or Canadian? Don't get me wrong. I don't like the attack on civil liberties since 9/11 and I think the war on terror is out of hand. That said, if you think Iran and the US are on the same plane you've clearly lost any sense of perspective.