It will happen and it will be considered moral to some group of people somewhere. It can not be stopped.
Look at food. You bash GM food and related tampering and people take a whole different position as if you are some anti-science flat earth religious nutcase. It shouldn't take much money from some megacorp to get government and the public on their side as they've done with the huge amount of GM stuff out there today. We knew a lot less in the science when we started putting those frankenfoods out to pasture-- and today relative to the problem space we still know nothing!! Even religious people are for sale with today's advanced marketing and numerous corrupt religious "leaders".
Humans are not evolving. We've evolved long ago to the point where we alter (more like hinder) our own evolutionary process so anything we do to cause it to change would be bringing back evolution to the human species. Yes, it would be more conscious than the reality based chaos of natural selection and that is bound to have stupid decisions --because humans are involved. Where is the evolutionary pressure on humans today?? We protect, cure, save just about any creature to come out the womb... to the point where impossible abominations can't even be aborted to save the mother's life without a ton of BS. Sickly children with amazingly bad conditions are kept alive to procreate at HUGE expenses and Darwin Award contenders are saved from the brink of death... See the 1st 10 minutes of the film "Idiocracy."
The way to approach this is to allow any genetic tampering parents want; this would stop widespread policy BS from making HUGE mistakes and instead create somewhat more random and diverse changes where the impact would be less damaging. The reality is, without global government this is the way it will be with each nation making different kinds of blunders -- likely bigger than just leaving it wide open. Even if illegal, there will be people working around it because parents can be quite crazy about their ego extensions (offspring.) Somewhere it'll be legal or easy to circumvent. Peer pressure is about all one can do.
Eugenics is not as bad as people make it up to be; since Hitler embraced it the whole thing is instant taboo even to intellectuals; doesn't help that we had arcane unscientific views during its heyday either. I grew up with a kid who was normal but had MANY problems resulting from BAD parenting which could have been avoided but we as a society now refuse to deal with the issue of mentally retarded people having children. BOTH his parents were quite retarded and his mom went from one retarded husband to another --- literally, which also doesn't help the children. His siblings were genetically retarded as well; worse than the parents, either genetically or worse due to improper care. It was bad for all the children to have retarded parents; they should have been given to competent parents but if you want to avoid hurting the feelings of the parents (who may be retarded but they do have fully functioning emotions) it would be better all around to simply not allow them to have children in the first place. My friend needed parents above a 3rd grade IQ.
Should we be spending crazy amounts of money to keep some people alive so they can have children?? If you think we should all spend any amount of money and effort to prolong everybody to the last possible miserable moment then at least can you consider if we should allow these people to have children? Is it really THAT big of a deal to have children? There are always plenty needing adoption besides the fact we are like 7x over max population. Many issues will be used to legitimize GM humans as ETHICAL, gradually it'll expand from the accepted excuses. Your mutant kid running off a machine can have offspring thanks to Monsanto's personalize superman where you insert only the (unimportant) DNA from yourself and pay a low initial fee! Your grandchild and future generations pay patent rights for any children they may have for eternity (because p
I thought you could create your own sandbox files and apple merely provides default ones. They bothered to make a whole file format and command line tools a little some documentation that got me started playing around with it at least a year ago. I'm running my firefox in a sandbox I built right now - I had to do a ton of tweaking as firefox ran into errors. I'm not upgraded the OS yet. I might never...
I like the sandbox system its what OpenBSD needed many many years ago when they were the first ones to put in hooks to mess around with access to system calls. I didn't play around with theirs because it was too messy at the time. Somebody needs to push developers into the sandbox...
Is Apple forcing a default sandbox onto everybody? that seems rather foolish if you can't use your own after all that work to make it configurable per app...
A science EXAM is for SCIENCE. One doesn't have to believe what is taught.
It is like getting an Microsoft certification, you don't have to believe all that stuff will secure Windows to earn the certification.
Religious accommodation has nothing to do with. If you can't handle the exam you don't belong in college. This is Kentucky, they live in an argument against evolution!
Let them leave and become the 3rd world nation they want to be (and nearly are even with federal welfare.)
You all give them the power, duh! You got "Insightful" for that? Insightful to a moron maybe.
Things required to be a functional human anywhere: water. food. proper temp (clothes/shelter.) sanitation. mobility..... reading?...education...?
So I suppose you normally spend your time fighting for those important rights for everybody?? Just because "nearly everyone" has something does not make it a right.
When I say right in this context I mean the universal unalienable kind of right... kind of like a RITE in that it is not merely a legal construct produced by some political system. If you find laws inhibiting your "rite of driving" then you are also in a similar context. In which case I disagree that driving rises to that level and is therefore an earned privilege.
It also fits privilege since you must pass a test to earn it; pay for it, have a car, pay for insurance.
Politicians can't do anything bad without conspiring; that is just how it works, duh! Even dictators often must conspire to get anything done. You do not understand conspiracy or have some Pavlovian response against actual conspiracies. (BTW, the FBI primarily deals in criminal conspiracy.)
Government conspiracy was a fundamental part of EVERY leak and yet despite that you find it objectionable that vindictive government conspiracies against the figurehead to discredit and deter repeated leaks?? One of the leaks was a conspiracy to destroy wikileaks!
I could bring up the word IRONY but I will not...
As has been already shown many times, the USA can make other nations ignore their own laws! Your country can host the PirateBay but regardless of your laws you will be invaded by storm troopers who will take your servers away and arrest you. Secret kidnappings, flights, torture, etc. and officials looked the other way; played ignorant. One way to appease the public over disrespect for their laws & culture is to dehumanize the victims "it doesn't matter because THOSE people are X" so they allow such transgressions.
It is common in US law to unfairly discriminate against new kinds of criminals "to set an example" and you don't expect that culture to feel totally good about applying that fallacy in more dire circumstances? A war of attrition will be used against Assange for the rest of his life, making a public figurehead into a martyr would be unwise... if they can ruin him they will have 90% of what they'd like. Even dictators often realize this which is why they'll jail, banish, or tarnish symbols instead of just openly execute them (accidents do work extremely well with a public who dismisses anything resembling a "conspiracy.")
They can require a great many things of you for being allowed to drive on the public road system. Car insurance for example; you don't have to buy it but then you do not have to drive.
You could be required to have unique IDs on your car for easy identification (aka license plates) and you have no recourse unless you get a huge number of voters together to change that requirement.
If you do not want to be tracked, you will have to use another means of transportation - you have the right to primitive mobility.
THIS HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH "RAPE". Purely political and it continues to show just how much of a farce our systems are. Rich bankers are untouchable but if you mess with the powerful no law will protect you.
This incompetent Congress can't do anything beneficial. Does anybody think that a Congress where a huge faction are only 1 step away from flat earthers SHOULD reform anything at NASA? As reasonable as some of these ideas sound they can't get past this Congress without idiocy.
Stop watching TV shit; it makes you stupid no matter what your initial condition. Especially idiotic sitcoms who never get anything correct and give the public bad ideas. Getting along with normals is ok to a degree but they need to learn to get along with true diversity more than you need to adapt to them. The only benefit idiotic tv shows seem to have is in making people more tolerant of "odd" characters -- which seems to be a fad in recent years from the look of it. (not that I have a TV but from what I've read and seen it seems there is a trend going on.)
Parent post: It is nice to know there are some conscious people out there.
2020 is the expected downfall. Rome didn't fall in 1 day but it'll be undeniable around that point and surely some big event will be used to symbolize the fall (it will not necessarily the same symbol everywhere.)
The level of insanity continues to rise each year in the USA. I've been wondering who will become the scapegoats when things get really bad; just blaming the tiny short bursts of weak Democratic control of some branch is not going to be enough anymore (especially thanks in part to many "reforms" and rulings that make them more dependent on the SAME sources of money... but the charade will continue if anything just to appease the religious believers in the party their parents raised them to be in. )
I don't care about the technical excuse, it is being put into court more than 1 time for the same crime and possibly being punished more than once. The state exists within the federal - like a hierarchy and should not be the same as two different states. I have no problem if the crime differs but for the SAME crime the federal case should prevent the state case. Given how many laws there are I'm sure they can find other charges and string them out to keep him on trial for decades... at least that is not as cheap.
OJ: If you are NOT convicted on a criminal case you should not be open to civil cases on the SAME crime even if they rename "murder' to "wrongful death." If he was convicted then maybe he could be sued in civil court for damages such as lost income etc. although I think the criminal case should handle such issues as well. Simply for the family to sue for blood money (makes me think of Sharia law) is not reasonable. Revenge is not justice.
Aside from the typical over diagnosis that comes with something "new" not everybody in the same group as you will act the same way you do. Autism may have no connection; right now some traits are in common so it appears that most are lumping them together and thinking of it as various degrees of autism. The two have their own DSM entries. More research will decide if the two are actually related.
How the study sets up the experiment is crucial; you could be placed into a situation where you come out no different than the other test subjects - its not like you are that different than the normals; you just think a little differently or a lot differently but the primary thing used in the labeling today is how "poorly" your social development is.
Oh you DID have a choice. You didn't have to attend that war. Some years in jail should seem like a better deal than an agonizing death. OR you could have done what some other people did and sign up early for the NAVY or peace corps or other things. Not that we should expect much from teenagers being pressured... most wouldn't stand a chance in that situation.
MORE IMPORTANTLY their nation's partnership with the USA going forward has economic interests so they do come first. Capitalism above everything. Even god these days needs your money! Hurry! Act now, salvation and good health are a phone call "prayer" away!
Democracy is not slavery. Serfdom is living in debt to the banks. Unless you are Amish, you are delusional thinking you are living all on your own sweat. Get off my government created internet you AOL user!
Silly. there is no profit in Mars. robots are cheaper slaves and better workers. housing would have to cost soooo much....and energy would have to be soooo cheap....
Stupid lawyer talk. Any functioning HUMAN can see a childish work around hack like this. Why do we treat the law as if it were computer software? The intent of the law is being circumvented by a trivial technicality and if you allow these kind of simple minded hacks (the implementation complexity doesn't matter) then you undermine the legal system itself making any solution easily susceptible to hacking.
As a child, surely you can remember some rule set by your parents where you tested the boundaries using a technical loophole in what they said (or got the other parent to say) -- did that fool your parents? NO. If they rewarded you for it, one could arguably say they were bad parents in raising a modern lawyer/politician.
Virtual boy/girl friends. It'll happen. blabbing to somebody who is actually interested. Eliza is probably enough for many teens already. We've had the SIMs and virtual pets -- some progression and integration is going to happen with this stuff.
When a dictator takes over your nation and takes most your money, that is a zero sum game. Same amount of money except shifted ownership. Long term, that zero sum game becomes apparent to the masses as the fraud that it is. What we have here is the wealthy sucking money out from the economy at the expense of everybody else; it should be obvious but there are still a lot of people drinking the cool aid.
WE PAY TAX ON OUR TRANSACTIONS. A business pays tax on ALL its transactions needed to make a profit. Yet these financial services and stock traders do not pay tax on their transactions in their market.... because the bankers have all the power.
The purpose for this "market" is not to be a distributed casino it is to openly raise capital for businesses under a unified set of regulations to make it easier, but NOT too easy where we end up not only losing the reason for it's existence but it can HARM business and society. The market is a place to buy into the future of businesses not to gamble off some "system." This has been underway for some time; it will continue to get worse just how far depends on how susceptible people are to modern propaganda.
The old Tea Party people are not so bad, I know a few. The new Tea Baggers are either astro turf or hoards of crazy morons who give the sex act a bad name.
Notice the Tea Baggers are all about destroying anything useful and proven while not touching nearly any worthwhile issue - all while saying they want to reduce government! As if privatizing social security would be better (it wasn't and that is why it was created, duh!)
The old group picked their name and had a big issue with how our politicians do not represent us -- something in common with the occupy movement -- both groups faced attempts to have their image stolen by establishment political forces and the Tea Party lost theirs; occupy has not. (yet, but I don't think they will.)
I want police, fire, libraries, free schooling, roads, highways, social security, public unemployment insurance, NASA, national labratories (before "reforms",) public health insurance (medicare is as good as we can get so far). Democracy is supposed to let the majority collaborate to create universal services many of which provide infrastructure necessary for a successful modern economy... The Tea Baggers are too stupid (or corrupt) to see the differences between Social Security and the police state - they'll kill civil society in response to the creation of Big Brother-- effectively doing half the job of for despots!!
The Wild West Frontier SUCKED which is why it all became civilized with huge majorities in support
Monetary penalties should be PERCENTAGE of income.
In other nations they have this concept in commonly known laws (speeding tickets;) Americans do not so they never think of applying it to anything.
We have people who think nothing of the fine pay it and continue to break the law so then we have to create more complex laws to attempt to deal with these special cases --- IF it ever gets noticed at all.
Bill Gates should pay $100,000 dollars for a speeding ticket. Corporations are well known for making far more profit than their settlements and then continuing to do evil things; just look at Monsanto... even our political conventions prepay the city with insurance against lawsuits for violating civil rights! It is so bad that our ruling parties "bribe" exceptions!
Corporations do whatever the management want, if there are shareholders, they can do plenty before enough shareholders push their weight around. Corporations can take sides on any issue they want in almost any way they want and do it with a HUGE voice. If they do not mind a minor decrease in earnings they can ignore boycotts, especially if they sell common goods everybody buys they are basically untouchable. Private companies can do just about anything. If any break laws they are not subject to punishments like a human--- that is, if they even are convicted of something in the 1st place... which is far less likely as well.
Legal marriage should never have been called marriage because too many stupid people can't tell the differences between legal definitions and traditional/religious ones.
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It will happen and it will be considered moral to some group of people somewhere. It can not be stopped.
Look at food. You bash GM food and related tampering and people take a whole different position as if you are some anti-science flat earth religious nutcase. It shouldn't take much money from some megacorp to get government and the public on their side as they've done with the huge amount of GM stuff out there today. We knew a lot less in the science when we started putting those frankenfoods out to pasture-- and today relative to the problem space we still know nothing!! Even religious people are for sale with today's advanced marketing and numerous corrupt religious "leaders".
Humans are not evolving. We've evolved long ago to the point where we alter (more like hinder) our own evolutionary process so anything we do to cause it to change would be bringing back evolution to the human species. Yes, it would be more conscious than the reality based chaos of natural selection and that is bound to have stupid decisions --because humans are involved. Where is the evolutionary pressure on humans today?? We protect, cure, save just about any creature to come out the womb... to the point where impossible abominations can't even be aborted to save the mother's life without a ton of BS. Sickly children with amazingly bad conditions are kept alive to procreate at HUGE expenses and Darwin Award contenders are saved from the brink of death... See the 1st 10 minutes of the film "Idiocracy."
The way to approach this is to allow any genetic tampering parents want; this would stop widespread policy BS from making HUGE mistakes and instead create somewhat more random and diverse changes where the impact would be less damaging. The reality is, without global government this is the way it will be with each nation making different kinds of blunders -- likely bigger than just leaving it wide open. Even if illegal, there will be people working around it because parents can be quite crazy about their ego extensions (offspring.) Somewhere it'll be legal or easy to circumvent. Peer pressure is about all one can do.
Eugenics is not as bad as people make it up to be; since Hitler embraced it the whole thing is instant taboo even to intellectuals; doesn't help that we had arcane unscientific views during its heyday either. I grew up with a kid who was normal but had MANY problems resulting from BAD parenting which could have been avoided but we as a society now refuse to deal with the issue of mentally retarded people having children. BOTH his parents were quite retarded and his mom went from one retarded husband to another --- literally, which also doesn't help the children. His siblings were genetically retarded as well; worse than the parents, either genetically or worse due to improper care. It was bad for all the children to have retarded parents; they should have been given to competent parents but if you want to avoid hurting the feelings of the parents (who may be retarded but they do have fully functioning emotions) it would be better all around to simply not allow them to have children in the first place. My friend needed parents above a 3rd grade IQ.
Should we be spending crazy amounts of money to keep some people alive so they can have children?? If you think we should all spend any amount of money and effort to prolong everybody to the last possible miserable moment then at least can you consider if we should allow these people to have children? Is it really THAT big of a deal to have children? There are always plenty needing adoption besides the fact we are like 7x over max population. Many issues will be used to legitimize GM humans as ETHICAL, gradually it'll expand from the accepted excuses. Your mutant kid running off a machine can have offspring thanks to Monsanto's personalize superman where you insert only the (unimportant) DNA from yourself and pay a low initial fee! Your grandchild and future generations pay patent rights for any children they may have for eternity (because p
I thought you could create your own sandbox files and apple merely provides default ones. They bothered to make a whole file format and command line tools a little some documentation that got me started playing around with it at least a year ago. I'm running my firefox in a sandbox I built right now - I had to do a ton of tweaking as firefox ran into errors. I'm not upgraded the OS yet. I might never...
I like the sandbox system its what OpenBSD needed many many years ago when they were the first ones to put in hooks to mess around with access to system calls. I didn't play around with theirs because it was too messy at the time. Somebody needs to push developers into the sandbox...
Is Apple forcing a default sandbox onto everybody? that seems rather foolish if you can't use your own after all that work to make it configurable per app...
Based upon force or threat of violence along popular acknowledgement. Although none of those are logically valid arguments they do force compliance.
A science EXAM is for SCIENCE. One doesn't have to believe what is taught.
It is like getting an Microsoft certification, you don't have to believe all that stuff will secure Windows to earn the certification.
Religious accommodation has nothing to do with. If you can't handle the exam you don't belong in college. This is Kentucky, they live in an argument against evolution!
Let them leave and become the 3rd world nation they want to be (and nearly are even with federal welfare.)
TRON rules RT. The only reason to use RTLinux is if you want or need something that linux has and are able to waste the time, RAM, and storage.
In 1984 they couldn't read brains and yet they had thought crimes. We already have lesser forms of thought crime today.
You all give them the power, duh! You got "Insightful" for that? Insightful to a moron maybe.
Things required to be a functional human anywhere:
water. food. proper temp (clothes/shelter.) sanitation. mobility..... reading?...education...?
So I suppose you normally spend your time fighting for those important rights for everybody??
Just because "nearly everyone" has something does not make it a right.
When I say right in this context I mean the universal unalienable kind of right... kind of like a RITE in that it is not merely a legal construct produced by some political system. If you find laws inhibiting your "rite of driving" then you are also in a similar context. In which case I disagree that driving rises to that level and is therefore an earned privilege.
It also fits privilege since you must pass a test to earn it; pay for it, have a car, pay for insurance.
Politicians can't do anything bad without conspiring; that is just how it works, duh! Even dictators often must conspire to get anything done. You do not understand conspiracy or have some Pavlovian response against actual conspiracies. (BTW, the FBI primarily deals in criminal conspiracy.)
Government conspiracy was a fundamental part of EVERY leak and yet despite that you find it objectionable that vindictive government conspiracies against the figurehead to discredit and deter repeated leaks?? One of the leaks was a conspiracy to destroy wikileaks!
I could bring up the word IRONY but I will not...
As has been already shown many times, the USA can make other nations ignore their own laws! Your country can host the PirateBay but regardless of your laws you will be invaded by storm troopers who will take your servers away and arrest you. Secret kidnappings, flights, torture, etc. and officials looked the other way; played ignorant. One way to appease the public over disrespect for their laws & culture is to dehumanize the victims "it doesn't matter because THOSE people are X" so they allow such transgressions.
It is common in US law to unfairly discriminate against new kinds of criminals "to set an example" and you don't expect that culture to feel totally good about applying that fallacy in more dire circumstances? A war of attrition will be used against Assange for the rest of his life, making a public figurehead into a martyr would be unwise... if they can ruin him they will have 90% of what they'd like. Even dictators often realize this which is why they'll jail, banish, or tarnish symbols instead of just openly execute them (accidents do work extremely well with a public who dismisses anything resembling a "conspiracy.")
They can require a great many things of you for being allowed to drive on the public road system. Car insurance for example; you don't have to buy it but then you do not have to drive.
You could be required to have unique IDs on your car for easy identification (aka license plates) and you have no recourse unless you get a huge number of voters together to change that requirement.
If you do not want to be tracked, you will have to use another means of transportation - you have the right to primitive mobility.
THIS HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH "RAPE". Purely political and it continues to show just how much of a farce our systems are. Rich bankers are untouchable but if you mess with the powerful no law will protect you.
He needs something for Steve Ballmer will use instead of throwing his feces at people.
This incompetent Congress can't do anything beneficial. Does anybody think that a Congress where a huge faction are only 1 step away from flat earthers SHOULD reform anything at NASA? As reasonable as some of these ideas sound they can't get past this Congress without idiocy.
Stop watching TV shit; it makes you stupid no matter what your initial condition. Especially idiotic sitcoms who never get anything correct and give the public bad ideas. Getting along with normals is ok to a degree but they need to learn to get along with true diversity more than you need to adapt to them. The only benefit idiotic tv shows seem to have is in making people more tolerant of "odd" characters -- which seems to be a fad in recent years from the look of it. (not that I have a TV but from what I've read and seen it seems there is a trend going on.)
"Two Cars in Every Garage and Three Eyes on Every Fish"
Parent post: It is nice to know there are some conscious people out there.
2020 is the expected downfall. Rome didn't fall in 1 day but it'll be undeniable around that point and surely some big event will be used to symbolize the fall (it will not necessarily the same symbol everywhere.)
The level of insanity continues to rise each year in the USA. I've been wondering who will become the scapegoats when things get really bad; just blaming the tiny short bursts of weak Democratic control of some branch is not going to be enough anymore (especially thanks in part to many "reforms" and rulings that make them more dependent on the SAME sources of money... but the charade will continue if anything just to appease the religious believers in the party their parents raised them to be in. )
I don't care about the technical excuse, it is being put into court more than 1 time for the same crime and possibly being punished more than once. The state exists within the federal - like a hierarchy and should not be the same as two different states. I have no problem if the crime differs but for the SAME crime the federal case should prevent the state case. Given how many laws there are I'm sure they can find other charges and string them out to keep him on trial for decades... at least that is not as cheap.
OJ: If you are NOT convicted on a criminal case you should not be open to civil cases on the SAME crime even if they rename "murder' to "wrongful death." If he was convicted then maybe he could be sued in civil court for damages such as lost income etc. although I think the criminal case should handle such issues as well. Simply for the family to sue for blood money (makes me think of Sharia law) is not reasonable. Revenge is not justice.
The real story is how Goldman is untouchable.
Aside from the typical over diagnosis that comes with something "new" not everybody in the same group as you will act the same way you do. Autism may have no connection; right now some traits are in common so it appears that most are lumping them together and thinking of it as various degrees of autism. The two have their own DSM entries. More research will decide if the two are actually related.
How the study sets up the experiment is crucial; you could be placed into a situation where you come out no different than the other test subjects - its not like you are that different than the normals; you just think a little differently or a lot differently but the primary thing used in the labeling today is how "poorly" your social development is.
Oh you DID have a choice. You didn't have to attend that war. Some years in jail should seem like a better deal than an agonizing death. OR you could have done what some other people did and sign up early for the NAVY or peace corps or other things. Not that we should expect much from teenagers being pressured... most wouldn't stand a chance in that situation.
MORE IMPORTANTLY their nation's partnership with the USA going forward has economic interests so they do come first. Capitalism above everything. Even god these days needs your money! Hurry! Act now, salvation and good health are a phone call "prayer" away!
Democracy is not slavery. Serfdom is living in debt to the banks. Unless you are Amish, you are delusional thinking you are living all on your own sweat. Get off my government created internet you AOL user!
Silly. there is no profit in Mars. robots are cheaper slaves and better workers. housing would have to cost soooo much....and energy would have to be soooo cheap....
Stupid lawyer talk.
Any functioning HUMAN can see a childish work around hack like this. Why do we treat the law as if it were computer software? The intent of the law is being circumvented by a trivial technicality and if you allow these kind of simple minded hacks (the implementation complexity doesn't matter) then you undermine the legal system itself making any solution easily susceptible to hacking.
As a child, surely you can remember some rule set by your parents where you tested the boundaries using a technical loophole in what they said (or got the other parent to say) -- did that fool your parents? NO. If they rewarded you for it, one could arguably say they were bad parents in raising a modern lawyer/politician.
Virtual boy/girl friends. It'll happen. blabbing to somebody who is actually interested. Eliza is probably enough for many teens already. We've had the SIMs and virtual pets -- some progression and integration is going to happen with this stuff.
When a dictator takes over your nation and takes most your money, that is a zero sum game. Same amount of money except shifted ownership. Long term, that zero sum game becomes apparent to the masses as the fraud that it is. What we have here is the wealthy sucking money out from the economy at the expense of everybody else; it should be obvious but there are still a lot of people drinking the cool aid.
WE PAY TAX ON OUR TRANSACTIONS. A business pays tax on ALL its transactions needed to make a profit. Yet these financial services and stock traders do not pay tax on their transactions in their market.... because the bankers have all the power.
The purpose for this "market" is not to be a distributed casino it is to openly raise capital for businesses under a unified set of regulations to make it easier, but NOT too easy where we end up not only losing the reason for it's existence but it can HARM business and society. The market is a place to buy into the future of businesses not to gamble off some "system." This has been underway for some time; it will continue to get worse just how far depends on how susceptible people are to modern propaganda.
The old Tea Party people are not so bad, I know a few. The new Tea Baggers are either astro turf or hoards of crazy morons who give the sex act a bad name.
Notice the Tea Baggers are all about destroying anything useful and proven while not touching nearly any worthwhile issue - all while saying they want to reduce government! As if privatizing social security would be better (it wasn't and that is why it was created, duh!)
The old group picked their name and had a big issue with how our politicians do not represent us -- something in common with the occupy movement -- both groups faced attempts to have their image stolen by establishment political forces and the Tea Party lost theirs; occupy has not. (yet, but I don't think they will.)
I want police, fire, libraries, free schooling, roads, highways, social security, public unemployment insurance, NASA, national labratories (before "reforms",) public health insurance (medicare is as good as we can get so far). Democracy is supposed to let the majority collaborate to create universal services many of which provide infrastructure necessary for a successful modern economy... The Tea Baggers are too stupid (or corrupt) to see the differences between Social Security and the police state - they'll kill civil society in response to the creation of Big Brother-- effectively doing half the job of for despots!!
The Wild West Frontier SUCKED which is why it all became civilized with huge majorities in support
Monetary penalties should be PERCENTAGE of income.
In other nations they have this concept in commonly known laws (speeding tickets;) Americans do not so they never think of applying it to anything.
We have people who think nothing of the fine pay it and continue to break the law so then we have to create more complex laws to attempt to deal with these special cases --- IF it ever gets noticed at all.
Bill Gates should pay $100,000 dollars for a speeding ticket. Corporations are well known for making far more profit than their settlements and then continuing to do evil things; just look at Monsanto... even our political conventions prepay the city with insurance against lawsuits for violating civil rights! It is so bad that our ruling parties "bribe" exceptions!
Corporations do whatever the management want, if there are shareholders, they can do plenty before enough shareholders push their weight around. Corporations can take sides on any issue they want in almost any way they want and do it with a HUGE voice. If they do not mind a minor decrease in earnings they can ignore boycotts, especially if they sell common goods everybody buys they are basically untouchable. Private companies can do just about anything. If any break laws they are not subject to punishments like a human--- that is, if they even are convicted of something in the 1st place... which is far less likely as well.
Legal marriage should never have been called marriage because too many stupid people can't tell the differences between legal definitions and traditional/religious ones.