Quite right. Time to change the process required for a constitutional amendment so that only a bare majority need to agree. Requiring 75% is anti-democratic.
You do not go far enough. For freedom and democracy to prevail, we should carry it further. Why should some old piece of paper block the will of the majority elected government? A constitution is inherently tyrannical; it says that there are things that the government, elected by the people, cannot do. What an insult to the principles of liberty that we hold dear!
If the government, voted in by the people, wishes to pass a law then it should be able to do so. That's democracy. Anything else is liberal tyranny and should be abolished.
But I'm curious, if the next 9/11 is going to be the US's fault. Why is that, and how would the US have to change to not have it happen?
Because it will not be done by a Muslim fanatic but by a McVeigh. It will not be done out of religious mania (unless you call the New World Order conspiracy theory a religion) but out of hatred for the government that is destroying what America once stood for.
Ask yourself: how bad does it have to get before you become a terrorist? Substitute the equivalent phrase 'freedom fighter' if it makes you feel better. Then think that there are people whose tolerance for perceived tyranny is less than yours.
Only according to anti-American Communist Islamic organisations like the UN and Amnesty International. Remember, the people this will be used against are terrorists. You don't support terrorists, do you?
Or are they possibly better informed than you and doing what they think we need done?
Good point. We should trust our government. They are better informed than we are. They are more intelligent. The Government knows better than we do what is best for the country. We should not question the government.
So, in your universe, what is the rationale for holding elections at all?
Why is the current Doctor *needy* and petty with an apparent infatuation with a 19 year old?
Possibly because the Time Lords have been exterminated. It seems that there was a Time War in which both the Time Lords and the Daleks were wiped out; the Doctor claims that this was his doing.
For eight whole lives the Doctor was the superior being, a Time Lord from Gallifrey, impressing the hell out of the lesser humans - but he never needed them. Now, though, there's no home to go to, no Gallifrey, no Time Lords, just him and the TARDIS. No wonder he's clingy with Rose: he's got nobody else now.
So let me get this straight. Some nutcase into UFOs uses script kiddie technology to port scan Windows boxes and somehow manages to get into the Pentagon and the military?
Hey, guys! No, really, guys! Yes, you, al-Qa'eda over there!
You'll never guess what... No, seriously. And it didn't even need anyone to kill themselves. You're gonna love this...
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I suppose it's a good thing it was a UFO believer rather than an Allah believer who found this monstrous security fuckup:-)
Plus, he could be our secret weapon against those vicious North Koreans. He's got to be worth at least 100 NK's if he's the "biggest in the world, right?"
Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't this process require the fusing of four hydrogen nuclei to get helium, not just two?
Not necessarily. If you're using deuterium - hydrogen-2 - it only takes two nuclei to produce a helium nucleus, and the energy required to achieve fusion is much, much lower. Any commercial fusion reactor will rely heavily on deuterium, and probably also on tritium - hydrogen-3.
Corporate types will want to know which developer it was who reintroduced this seven-year-old bug, and what the Mozilla Project plans to do to prevent a similar incident from ever occurring again.
Yes, we hear that all the time with the Microsoft products. Here, whenever a disastrous Windows bug allows worms to run riot, or drive-by spyware installs to devastate hundreds of desktops, we always ring Redmond and demand to know the name of the developer who introduced the bug, and what Microsoft plan to do to prevent a similar incident from occurring in the future.
Sometimes, when the guy at the other end of the phone has finished laughing, he tells us that Microsoft expect us to keep on writing them cheques.
"Since Slashdot started displaying the destination of hyperlinks in posted comments, the traditional goatse.cx troll has been consigned to the anals of history."
We'll get the crap, and the Chinese will still be free to get the best of both worlds.
Aren't you glad you live in the Free World? In Communist China, their tyrannical government forces them to use inferior, incompatible computer systems that do not allow them to connect to the Disneynet. It's so good in America. You are free to do as we tell you!
Besides, the very first use of the very first skyhook should be to build the *second* one.
You're kidding, right? The first use of the first skyhook should be to undercut all other launchers and put them out of business. The second use of the first skyhook should be ruthlessly to exploit its monopoly on access to space and make an astronomical profit.
Once a second skyhook is built, then there's competition, and that's just unamerican.
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You do not go far enough. For freedom and democracy to prevail, we should carry it further. Why should some old piece of paper block the will of the majority elected government? A constitution is inherently tyrannical; it says that there are things that the government, elected by the people, cannot do. What an insult to the principles of liberty that we hold dear!
If the government, voted in by the people, wishes to pass a law then it should be able to do so. That's democracy. Anything else is liberal tyranny and should be abolished.
Because it will not be done by a Muslim fanatic but by a McVeigh. It will not be done out of religious mania (unless you call the New World Order conspiracy theory a religion) but out of hatred for the government that is destroying what America once stood for.
Ask yourself: how bad does it have to get before you become a terrorist? Substitute the equivalent phrase 'freedom fighter' if it makes you feel better. Then think that there are people whose tolerance for perceived tyranny is less than yours.
Well, that's where Diebold comes in.
Oh, good. America is still free: criticising the leadership is not a capital offence.
Is that the standard now? America - Land of the Not As Bad As North Korea?
Only according to anti-American Communist Islamic organisations like the UN and Amnesty International. Remember, the people this will be used against are terrorists. You don't support terrorists, do you?
Good point. We should trust our government. They are better informed than we are. They are more intelligent. The Government knows better than we do what is best for the country. We should not question the government.
So, in your universe, what is the rationale for holding elections at all?
Dude, calm down. Those Jack Chick comics are just really funny satire. It's not real.
Ah, but we do. Oh, we don't, not we sophisticated intellectuals, but we the people as a whole are very keen on these rules.
Every single damn poll I see reveals massive support for further crackdowns and additional police powers, to protect us from terrorism.
The masses actually believe they're in real danger. They've completely bought into the whole politics of fear we've been fed for the last few years.
With thunderous applause, indeed.
Well, he's already got at least one granddaughter...
M&Ms get you into trouble. Jelly Babies, on the other hand, will always get you out of trouble.
Keeping a recorder, a totally ridiculous scarf and/or a sonic screwdriver handy is also a good idea.
That said... never mind who's Doctor Who, what I want to know is who's afraid of the big bad wolf?
Possibly because the Time Lords have been exterminated. It seems that there was a Time War in which both the Time Lords and the Daleks were wiped out; the Doctor claims that this was his doing.
For eight whole lives the Doctor was the superior being, a Time Lord from Gallifrey, impressing the hell out of the lesser humans - but he never needed them. Now, though, there's no home to go to, no Gallifrey, no Time Lords, just him and the TARDIS. No wonder he's clingy with Rose: he's got nobody else now.
Well, if it does, and printing at that speed, we might finally get some use out of the classic error message 'lp0 on fire'...
Hey, guys! No, really, guys! Yes, you, al-Qa'eda over there!
You'll never guess what... No, seriously. And it didn't even need anyone to kill themselves. You're gonna love this...
...
I suppose it's a good thing it was a UFO believer rather than an Allah believer who found this monstrous security fuckup :-)
What are we going to do, drop him on Pyongyang?
Somewhere in the world where the Americans aren't in control? Closest you're going to get is probably Iraq...
Ladies and gentlemen, the terrorists have won. Fear has made us change our habits to suit them.
Otaku. One otaku, two otaku, three otaku, four. It's a Japanese word, and so it doesn't change in the plural.
Not necessarily. If you're using deuterium - hydrogen-2 - it only takes two nuclei to produce a helium nucleus, and the energy required to achieve fusion is much, much lower. Any commercial fusion reactor will rely heavily on deuterium, and probably also on tritium - hydrogen-3.
Yes, we hear that all the time with the Microsoft products. Here, whenever a disastrous Windows bug allows worms to run riot, or drive-by spyware installs to devastate hundreds of desktops, we always ring Redmond and demand to know the name of the developer who introduced the bug, and what Microsoft plan to do to prevent a similar incident from occurring in the future.
Sometimes, when the guy at the other end of the phone has finished laughing, he tells us that Microsoft expect us to keep on writing them cheques.
For instance,
"Since Slashdot started displaying the destination of hyperlinks in posted comments, the traditional goatse.cx troll has been consigned to the anals of history."
Never mind Tuxracer, the game I'm looking forward to playing on Cell has just got to be Angband...
Aren't you glad you live in the Free World? In Communist China, their tyrannical government forces them to use inferior, incompatible computer systems that do not allow them to connect to the Disneynet. It's so good in America. You are free to do as we tell you!
If this project means that Americans finally manage to learn foreign languages, I'm all for it!
You're kidding, right? The first use of the first skyhook should be to undercut all other launchers and put them out of business. The second use of the first skyhook should be ruthlessly to exploit its monopoly on access to space and make an astronomical profit.
Once a second skyhook is built, then there's competition, and that's just unamerican.