This is one of the bigs reason for why Congress has been raiding the helium reserve
Of course, thee only reason Congress has a helium reserve to raid is that helium was once considered essential for the big new thing in long-range aircraft - zeppelins!!!
Yes, we have a Helium Reserve because the Army and Navy (no air force at that time) wanted to hang onto it for the exclusive use of US Army and Navy dirigible airships....
Depends on whether the Employer Mandate is considered part of that "majority". Obama put that part of the law off a year, remember? You're required to have insurance this year, but your employer isn't required to offer it till next year....
1. Require all new housing within 10 miles of a coast to be built either on stilts or with a ground floor only used for garage, mud room, and guest room.
Note that New Orleans is >10 miles from any coast.
Note also that it is below sea level.
Defining a solution to a problem in terms of "miles from the coast" shows enough ignorance of the subject that anything you suggest can safely be disregarded....
If they have "direct and verifiable probably cause", getting a "court-issued warrant" should be easy.
So let's simplify things to "I propose that the NSA be allowed to wiretap phone calls and keep logs of phone calls when they have a court-issued warrant"
IOW, she's just going to put a spin on how she presents the program to the public, no actual changes to the program itself are intended.
No, from the news article I read this AM, she wants to make it easier to spy on some people than current law allows.
Admittedly, the "some people" are "foreigners entering the USA", but last I looked, without diplomatic immunity, "foreigners entering the USA" have the same Rights as anyone else in the USA.
pre-packaged critical nuclear reactions sitting on top of fueled missiles
Note, for the ignorant, that "critical nuclear reaction" means "neutrons are being produced as fast as they are being consumed".
Which is more or less equivalent to "turned on" for a nuclear power plant.
Alas, it is nearly completely meaningless when talking nuclear weapons, since the design goal is to produce a "super-critical" situation (more neutrons are being produced than being consumed).
In my soul, I have to believe that the generation rate of new kiddie porn images is low enough that law enforcement keeps up with it, and investigates when new images start showing up at the dark crevices of the internet that distribute them.
Hmm, could I interest you in some swampland in Florida?
Considering that the definition of "child porn" isn't universal, how is it even possible to think that the production rate is "low enough that law enforcement keeps up with it"?
As far as anything else, you can grow what to want as long as it's not impacting people not on your property and you are using it your self.
If you are transporting food, or selling food across state lines then the feds can regulate it.
The OP is referring to a Supreme Court decision made during the New Deal (Wickard v. Filburn) - a farmer was growing grain to feed his own chickens, and was ordered not to by the Feds, since that violated a new federal law.
The Feds argument to the Supremes was that if this guy grew his own chickenfeed, he would not have to buy chickenfeed, and that thus his homegrown chickenfeed affected interstate commerce (by reducing the need for interstate commerce by this farmer (and the potential horror that others might try to get around the New Deal this way!)).
Long story short, the Supremes agreed with the Feds that growing your own chickenfeed was a matter that could be regulated under the Interstate Commerce Clause, and the farmer had to stop that immediately.
Well, that's a very interesting citation, but I don't see anything binding on either the USA or Brazil in there, since neither Brazil nor the USA are Council of Europe member states.
Note that, whatever your political feelings on the matter are, countries are not bound by Treaties they haven't signed (and ratified, if necessary).
I run into endless cultural problems with texting. All my kids text by preference, even important stuff. I yell - I scream - I jump up and down, they promise to use better judgement. Two weeks later they are back to it. Maybe if I just ignored them they would change, but that just isn't me.
MY kids love to text too.
But they know that daddy is going to ignore their texts until he feels like looking at them (I usually try for once a month or so, usually when I can't sleep).
I get a lot fewer texts from them these days.
Mind you, if I have to go back to working in a secure area, I'll start checking them as soon as I get out of the secure area.
When texts came in from my college age kid I found it hard to ignore them.
Interesting. When my kid was college-age, and she texted me (rarely, since my attitude toward texting was clear), I had no trouble ignoring them - if it was a real problem, she'd call (and I'd answer), if it was trivial enough for texting (to be read anytime (for which read never)), I ignored it.
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Of course, thee only reason Congress has a helium reserve to raid is that helium was once considered essential for the big new thing in long-range aircraft - zeppelins!!!
Yes, we have a Helium Reserve because the Army and Navy (no air force at that time) wanted to hang onto it for the exclusive use of US Army and Navy dirigible airships....
whatever makes you think that the ACA is about "reasonable insurance"?
Depends on whether the Employer Mandate is considered part of that "majority". Obama put that part of the law off a year, remember? You're required to have insurance this year, but your employer isn't required to offer it till next year....
Chill.
The part I quoted was something YOU quoted as well, from some nice government spokesman who would NEVER LIE to us....
Which would be why it was mentioned this past week that at least 12 NSA types were spying on their girlfriends over the last decade, eh?
Did you notice that the 2% figure is 2% of the law enforcement queries that did NOT involve National Security Letters?
It's pretty safe to assume that the NSA uses National Security Letters for all their "requests"...
Note that New Orleans is >10 miles from any coast.
Note also that it is below sea level.
Defining a solution to a problem in terms of "miles from the coast" shows enough ignorance of the subject that anything you suggest can safely be disregarded....
Umm, many of us like to think Katrina was just a bit worse than Sandy....
She's doing this so the NSA owes her a favour - never can tell when you might need some dirt on the person running against you, after all.
If they have "direct and verifiable probably cause", getting a "court-issued warrant" should be easy.
So let's simplify things to "I propose that the NSA be allowed to wiretap phone calls and keep logs of phone calls when they have a court-issued warrant"
No, from the news article I read this AM, she wants to make it easier to spy on some people than current law allows.
Admittedly, the "some people" are "foreigners entering the USA", but last I looked, without diplomatic immunity, "foreigners entering the USA" have the same Rights as anyone else in the USA.
She was hungry?
You could smell the mac'n'cheese she was making?
Note, for the ignorant, that "critical nuclear reaction" means "neutrons are being produced as fast as they are being consumed".
Which is more or less equivalent to "turned on" for a nuclear power plant.
Alas, it is nearly completely meaningless when talking nuclear weapons, since the design goal is to produce a "super-critical" situation (more neutrons are being produced than being consumed).
And here I was thinking this last year was long...
Hmm, could I interest you in some swampland in Florida?
Considering that the definition of "child porn" isn't universal, how is it even possible to think that the production rate is "low enough that law enforcement keeps up with it"?
The OP is referring to a Supreme Court decision made during the New Deal (Wickard v. Filburn) - a farmer was growing grain to feed his own chickens, and was ordered not to by the Feds, since that violated a new federal law.
The Feds argument to the Supremes was that if this guy grew his own chickenfeed, he would not have to buy chickenfeed, and that thus his homegrown chickenfeed affected interstate commerce (by reducing the need for interstate commerce by this farmer (and the potential horror that others might try to get around the New Deal this way!)).
Long story short, the Supremes agreed with the Feds that growing your own chickenfeed was a matter that could be regulated under the Interstate Commerce Clause, and the farmer had to stop that immediately.
"Hordes".
You don't separate yourself well from that "mindless" adjective when you don't know the difference between "hordes" and "hoards".
Well, that's a very interesting citation, but I don't see anything binding on either the USA or Brazil in there, since neither Brazil nor the USA are Council of Europe member states.
Note that, whatever your political feelings on the matter are, countries are not bound by Treaties they haven't signed (and ratified, if necessary).
I'm vaguely curious - what international law was broken?
MY kids love to text too.
But they know that daddy is going to ignore their texts until he feels like looking at them (I usually try for once a month or so, usually when I can't sleep).
I get a lot fewer texts from them these days.
Mind you, if I have to go back to working in a secure area, I'll start checking them as soon as I get out of the secure area.
No, that's not the ONLY possible action. However, it IS one of the totally pointless actions.
Indeed it does. And with only 91 of them for the entire State, there probably won't be one near when you need one anyway.
And yet...
The rate of traffic accidents have been steadily declining during the period when texting has been becoming popular.
He misspelled "grammar".