When people say they don't care about the NSA monitoring them
It's a non-issue because collecting call data is not monitoring. If you want to call it monitoring, then Ma Bell has been monitoring us since private lines were introduced.
Even though the program has received bi-partisan criticism from Congress, it appears that the public values security over privacy.
No, it's because assembling connection data from phone company records (which they already keep for obvious billing and customer service reasons) is data mining and not SPYING. In fact, this sort of data mining already has support in judicial precedent. If you're worried about the government actually LISTENING on your calls, then you're a little late because Echelon was implemented back during the Clinton administration.
Why is that when anyone says "the poor are getting poorer," we believe them? Scroll down to "Increasing Inequality?"
The loss of earned income in the lowest quintile, while gaining huge amounts of income from social services, tells me a lot of people need to be helped (or forced, sadly) to obtain solid employment more than employers need to be straddled with more government regulations and unions.
Nothing like Slashdot's self-declared psychologists to lend Freud new legitimacy.
Unfortuately sex has now become a large part of the political debate in this country and an incompetent power hungry president was re-elected by playing on peoples fears of homosexuals, which is really their fears of their own sexuality.
His campaign slogan, "WE HATE FAGS" definitely put him over the top.
Unfortuately sex has now become a large part of the political debate in this country and an incompetent power hungry president was re-elected by playing on peoples fears of homosexuals, which is really their fears of their own sexuality.
Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar, depending on what your definition of "is", is.
My own opinion is that the Bible Belt territory of the United States is probably in a similar state, thank' to years of repression. Whenever I see images of crowds of "moral crusaders", I'm of the opinion that a large number of them are very depraved in private.
They must be, because southerners are EXACTLY the same demographic as 1930s Irish people!
Besides, what's wrong with them being depraved in private? It's the public behavior that has social conservatives worried.
I think you're misinterpreting me here...I myself am in no way in favor of the.xxx domain proposal, but I'm just pointing out that by opposing it for their own myopic reasons, the fundies shot themselves in the foot.
So what you're saying is that you're happy because you think the "fundies" will suffer. That's not how I choose my opinions.
I've voted in every election (except some of the primaries) since 1998 and I have yet one of the accursed Diebold machines. Perhaps you should focus on the real issues instead of liberal talking points.
But seriously, its kinda sad that Asia's mass media usually puts robots in such a good light (as oppossed to our western "there taking over!" luddite outlook) that we won't be producing anything like this for a while.
Other than the labor-unit driven hysteria against automation since the 1960s (robots, NOT androids), most Americans have no problem with them. I'm not sure where you're getting your information. It seems to be in vogue to impose every knuckle-dragging attribute on Americans lately.
Like when Sasser, or Slammer, so many names I am mixing them up, was runnig wild on the internet, I had a dozen of email containing the trojan paylod and i opened them! thats right I opened them and nothing happen. Why? Because I was smart?
No, because Win32 executables don't run natively on Linux. Once could write a pretty good Linux worm and I'm sure it won't infect any Windows boxes-- even if the user is running as an administrator.
That's the lamest straw-man argument I've heard today. I don't see how a home fission reactor equates to the impact of a gus-guzzler. Common sense would help here.
The only two things they are missing that our trucks have are the ability to tow very heavy trailers and the 100mph top speeds.
Yeah, that would be the problem. You see, some people do actually tow things bigger than a motorboat. Anyone who only needs to tow a small load will get the smaller engine in the first place-- we do have compact and mid-size pickups here.
Incidentally, you don't need a big V8 or V10 truck to tow most boats that most people own. Something like a V6 Toyota Tacoma will do just fine with all but the huge-ass, over-the-top showoff-craft.
Exactly. So why do we need the goofy little euro-vans again?
You're not much of a libertarian. I thought the issue was the high price of fuel. Consumers will use less gasoline once they decide the prices are too high. When demand goes down, the price will follow (assuming no change in demand). I like the side benefit of using a somewhat more ecological fuel like ethanol, but the economical benefit is what we're discussing here. Raising taxes on gasoline would do exactly the opposite of what we're trying to achieve here. Middle and lower-class citizens who can't run out and buy new hybrids or E85 vehicles will be hit the hardest by fuel prices, which will consume a larger portion of their budgets.
The economical impact of the bogus fuel crises of the 1970s drove people to more efficient vehicles over time and the same will happen now.
You're bringing a straw-man sort of argument here, because no one is proposing we replace petroleum yet-- just supplement it to bring fuel prices down. Most automobiles in the USA can only run on 10% ethanol, so we couldn't replace petroleum immediately.
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The loss of earned income in the lowest quintile, while gaining huge amounts of income from social services, tells me a lot of people need to be helped (or forced, sadly) to obtain solid employment more than employers need to be straddled with more government regulations and unions.
You're in no position to critique the posting skills of others, TrollMaster.
Looks like you took the flamebait, chief.
That's got to be better than Federal PoundMeInTheAss Prison.
This would be happening in the U.K., not the U.S.
Not to mention that in Japan, you can show all the tentacle sex you'd like as long as you blot out the female parts.
They must be, because southerners are EXACTLY the same demographic as 1930s Irish people!
Besides, what's wrong with them being depraved in private? It's the public behavior that has social conservatives worried.That's funny... I didn't realize pornography web sites were run by "fundies." RTFA.
I've voted in every election (except some of the primaries) since 1998 and I have yet one of the accursed Diebold machines. Perhaps you should focus on the real issues instead of liberal talking points.
So where's the "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order" guy?
Forget the "Uncanny Valley"... your post just failed my Turing Test.
Hollywood has already explored that scenario.
Your Elise also costs twice as much. Congratulations, moneybags.
That's the lamest straw-man argument I've heard today. I don't see how a home fission reactor equates to the impact of a gus-guzzler. Common sense would help here.
The economical impact of the bogus fuel crises of the 1970s drove people to more efficient vehicles over time and the same will happen now.
You're bringing a straw-man sort of argument here, because no one is proposing we replace petroleum yet-- just supplement it to bring fuel prices down. Most automobiles in the USA can only run on 10% ethanol, so we couldn't replace petroleum immediately.