Yeah, someone needs to tell the "powers that be", that Orwells' novel 1984 was supposed to be an interesting work of fiction....not a fucking Guidline/Playbook/Manual for going forward in the future!!!
And if they can't they will limit gas tank capacity, axle width, and armor piercing bumpers as then require that you pass a background check every time you refill at a gas station.
Well, come on..lets be *reasonable*..I mean, who needs 30 gallons of gas JUST to go hunting, you know?
What we need are Common Sense Truck Laws...at this point, even 80% of truck owning Americans agree with this.
Next week, we also need to take up knife and folding chair safety legislation, you just never know what one of these terrorist bastards will pick up next to kill with....
'm not a Democrat. I'm a gun owner. I refuse to support any gun control whatsoever as I believe they are all infringements. That said, do you think you could go FIVE MINUTES without turning a tragedy into an opportunity for political grandstanding? Dozens of people are dead and your comment was the very first one posted.
It was a joke for the most part...you know..gallows humor?
Like the old Space Shuttle Challenger jokes that came out minutes after the explosion (mind you, this was before the internet too)....
From the Wikipedia article: "Cooper boarded the aircraft.. and took seat 18C in the rear of the passenger cabin. He lit a cigarette and ordered a bourbon and soda".
Yep, back in the good old days, when you had more freedom.
It isn't been that long since I've still seen planes with ashtrays on the arm rests....
You know that's not true. Nobody wants to take your gun away from you.
I do actually firmly believe, that if Obama had his way and could do it legally with the stroke of a pen, he would disarm the general public immediately.
Yes, I do believe that from listening to his rhetoric, both current and in earlier years in his writings, etc...
if Obama became president...and that he'd take away all of our guns,
Well, to give him credit he deserves, Obama is STILL constantly trying to ban them and would like take them away if he could (per his consistent examples and admiration of the Australian model where there was essentially weapon confiscaton)...
Yet it was the Republican Party that made Obama one of the most powerful presidents in U.S. history by not doing their jobs and abandoning the power of the purse.
I agree!!
They've been pussies as far as this is concerned, this is supposed to be one of their "checks" against presidental overreach.
That and they for some reason, have NO CLUE how to handle the optics on it and let Obama blame congress for the govt shutdown, rather than blame the president and make it stick.
Hell, Billy Clinton tried shutting down the Federal Govt, and then had to back off that back then.....
You do realize that "Socialist" is an empty label that doesn't mean anything?
Ok..then lets be a little more specific...he'd like the US to be more like something between much of Europe (even Greece) and Venezuela.....and, a basic philosophy that the larger Federal Govt should be the supreme authority of the land (wearing the states' rights even further), and that all money should flow to them because they know best how to spend the citizens' money across the country and set all social policies as well as business policies and regulations.
Disagree - don't want Trump, but Hillary with a strong republican congress might repeat the Bill Clinton era. Hillary with a strong democrat congress is going to railroad a lot of garbage through... the best years have traditionally been with opposing parties in the legislative and executive branches.
That's a BIG problem though....Hillary is NOT Bill.
She has NONE of his political acumen, none of his charm, and she's much more militant and hardheaded than Bill. She also has a much more sense of entitlement and a feeling that the rules don't apply to her.
If she gets in, I'd have you watch for her to try to take Executive Orders to a new level even above and beyond what Obama has done with EO's and the Executive Memo's (pretty much the same thing)...
No...she's not likely to work with anyone....and you think Trump is unstable? Wait till you piss that bitch off and she'll take your head off....
I've known of her for a LONG time..back when she was wife in the Gov.'s office in Little Rock. She was a horrid person then and has only gotten worse with age.
If you still deny that the fundamental reason for Repubs blocking Obama is racism, you're just a lost cause.
It has nothing to do with his race...it has to do with his radical policies that he wants to enact to fundamentally change the US from what has worked well for the history of the country, into a more European socialist model with the Federal Govt in charge of all our lives....
It is his radical policies that were blocked.
That and his complete refusal to work with congress and try to at least come to some meaningful compromise.
Hell, Bill Clinton faced a Republican majority...and he was able to work with them and actually get some meaningful stuff done.....
I just hope that enough seats flip in Congress to prevent Republicans from obstructing Hillary for the next eight years the same way they obstructed Obama for the last eight years.
God, I hope NOT....
The congress has been the only thing standing in the way of letting Obama ruin us further and fundamentally change everything that made the US great to begin with....
That really bad thing if Hillary gets in...is the Supreme Court replacement...we'll never see someone who actually reads and tries to judge based on the actual constitution.
Its sad the Reps couldn't do any better than Trump. Clinton is so flawed, most anyone but him could handily beat her in the general election.
Hell, look how much a challenge a self proclaimed Socialist did in the primaries??!?!? That's something unheard of in the US till now....
Can you say "rent-seeking," ladies and gentlemen? MS knows they're out of ideas, so their next step is to "Office-ize" their entire vertical stack, from hardware to OS to applications. Predictable, and ultimately a very dangerous move for ordinary consumers.
Hmm....I'm not sure how well received this will be in the private corp world, but I'm pretty sure in the Federal Govt world, especially DoD and maybe VA with sensitive, classified or privacy patient data, this isn't going to go over too well, especially the potentially always external connected part.
The first thing on that site, a "seal" on the top right says "Children Deserver some Unsupervised time".
Aside from the extremely young (infants, etc)...I would think kids need MOST of their time unsupervised, to allow them to learn to play, use imagination, etc...
Is this really what parenting has come to in this modern day?!?! Is every single activity planned out, organized and supervised!?!?
Look, I was a free range kid so I'm just as astounded as many here with the kid overprotection these days.
Is that what they call being a normal kid these days...."free range", like a freakin' chicken?!?!
So...I'm guessing my parents if raising me today would be arrested for child endangerment? I mean, especially during summer vacation, I would eat breakfast and at times leave out and not come back home till about 4:30pm or so to make it in time for dinner. I would roam the neighborhood, and early on before the housing division was finished, I'd run wild in the woods, building forts, shooting BB guns...skateboarding all over creation, with my friends.
Kids don't do that anymore? I can understand if you live in the hood, but in regular suburban neighborhoods don't allow this anymore...?
After all, the US government also benefits if Iran just _thinks_ they're pwned. If they rip out perfectly fine infrastructure that could not be infected, and replace it with new stuff, that creates a chance for the CIA to smuggle in new malware. It also costs them money and distracts them from other efforts.
Well, it appears that once Stux got out in the open and it was discovered and analyzed and tested on the same controllers that Iran used...it seems to have been proven successful.
The problem, it seems...is that Israel fucked up and on their own, made it much more aggressive and Stuxnet (aka Olympic Games, or OG) then jumped out an infected on a global scale, calling attention to itself, whereas it has earlier been successful, but still covert and confined it appears to only the Iranian targets.
I think this act by Israel explains a LOT about why obama has been so cold towards them....
And..I'm guessing the Iranian retaliation on the US infrastructure led to the crappy deal the US took with regard to the nuclear deal with Iran. I'm thinking Iran scared the US enough to take this horrible deal which will essentially let Iran become a weaponized nuclear power in about 8+ years....
2015 was a good year (but only if you consider pure *jets* as you do - you miss the several turbo prop crashes that occurred last year), but we are already past that in 2016, just barely more than halfway through the year.
That's the reason I pretty much refuse to fly on a smaller plane that I feel I will have to help with "peddling" while riding to keep the props going.
I fly larger jets or I do not fly....with only exceptions being like in the caribbean when occasionally there is an island that is too small for a regular jet airliner....and on those, I see if I can fly regular jet to a close island, and then take a boat/ferry over to final destination.
Man...seems like claustrophobia would be a HUGE problem for this type thing...?
I mean, I"m not bad about it, but even I prefer and always try for the aisle seat so as to have one shoulder more 'open'...and have a sense of more room.
Even better I always try too, for the seat in the center near the wing evacuation door..as that it has the most leg room of any other seat on the plane....can stretch out there.
I'd not like getting into what would have to be a tiny bubble type thing and be stuck in that for hours and hours...?
Don't you understand. To Trump's loyal followers, what Trump does is irrelevant. It doesn't matter. His actions, his behavior, his history, they have no bearing on his fitness and suitability. All that counts is that he hates Mexicans and Muslims, and will do some vague things that will somehow make everything better.
It isn't with many...so much as being Trump supporters, but more of "Anything but Hillary".
For me, I'm getting more and more to be one of those single issue voters, and if for nothing else, Hillary scares the living shit out of me with the prospects of not only replacing Scalia, but potentially 2+ other Supreme Court justices.
I think Trump would put more constitutionally leaning justices forward as candidates, then "H"....I want more strict constitutionalists in there rather than liberal or even politically right leaning justices. I want the constitution interpreted as close as possible to the founding fathers' intentions.
I'm not a trump fan really....but at this point I see it as the lessor of two evils.
I'm familiar with Hillary, I grew up with her being first lady in AR, and she was a cunt back then....all this you see now is NOTHING new. This is personality that has been with her as long as I've known her, and it has only gotten worse.
I'd love to have a beer with Bill...but I'd not touch hillary with a 40-foot stick if my life depended upon it.
If they really wanted to save money and empty out the jails.
Rather than spend money a new boondoggle of a computer system that will likely not work, be over budget and way past schedule....
Just legalize weed, or at least on the Federal level, remove it from Schedule 1 drugs, and let the states do as they wish with it.
We could quit sending TONS of money to DEA war on drugs personnel and equipment, we could empty many folks out of jails (leaving room for the violent offenders), and again...NOT spend more money on a boondoggle computer program for auto-sentencing.
I think we could do just dandy sentencing if just ONLY for truly violent crimes that actually harm people.
Set up a new MythTV box again...server loaded up with drives, etc....to serve media to the smaller satellite boxes around the house near TVs and stereo systems....
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You don't have to have a license to BUY a car.....you don't even have to have one if you use it on private property.
Yeah, someone needs to tell the "powers that be", that Orwells' novel 1984 was supposed to be an interesting work of fiction....not a fucking Guidline/Playbook/Manual for going forward in the future!!!
Well, come on..lets be *reasonable*..I mean, who needs 30 gallons of gas JUST to go hunting, you know?
What we need are Common Sense Truck Laws...at this point, even 80% of truck owning Americans agree with this.
Next week, we also need to take up knife and folding chair safety legislation, you just never know what one of these terrorist bastards will pick up next to kill with....
It was a joke for the most part...you know..gallows humor?
Like the old Space Shuttle Challenger jokes that came out minutes after the explosion (mind you, this was before the internet too)....
NASA: Need Another Seven Astronauts.....
That type thing.
Yep, back in the good old days, when you had more freedom.
It isn't been that long since I've still seen planes with ashtrays on the arm rests....
I do actually firmly believe, that if Obama had his way and could do it legally with the stroke of a pen, he would disarm the general public immediately.
Yes, I do believe that from listening to his rhetoric, both current and in earlier years in his writings, etc...
Well, pretty much the SAME thing the Democrats do when they had congress and Reps had presidency?
Well, to give him credit he deserves, Obama is STILL constantly trying to ban them and would like take them away if he could (per his consistent examples and admiration of the Australian model where there was essentially weapon confiscaton)...
I agree!!
They've been pussies as far as this is concerned, this is supposed to be one of their "checks" against presidental overreach.
That and they for some reason, have NO CLUE how to handle the optics on it and let Obama blame congress for the govt shutdown, rather than blame the president and make it stick.
Hell, Billy Clinton tried shutting down the Federal Govt, and then had to back off that back then.....
Ok..then lets be a little more specific...he'd like the US to be more like something between much of Europe (even Greece) and Venezuela.....and, a basic philosophy that the larger Federal Govt should be the supreme authority of the land (wearing the states' rights even further), and that all money should flow to them because they know best how to spend the citizens' money across the country and set all social policies as well as business policies and regulations.
That's a BIG problem though....Hillary is NOT Bill.
She has NONE of his political acumen, none of his charm, and she's much more militant and hardheaded than Bill. She also has a much more sense of entitlement and a feeling that the rules don't apply to her.
If she gets in, I'd have you watch for her to try to take Executive Orders to a new level even above and beyond what Obama has done with EO's and the Executive Memo's (pretty much the same thing)...
No...she's not likely to work with anyone....and you think Trump is unstable? Wait till you piss that bitch off and she'll take your head off....
I've known of her for a LONG time..back when she was wife in the Gov.'s office in Little Rock. She was a horrid person then and has only gotten worse with age.
It has nothing to do with his race...it has to do with his radical policies that he wants to enact to fundamentally change the US from what has worked well for the history of the country, into a more European socialist model with the Federal Govt in charge of all our lives....
It is his radical policies that were blocked.
That and his complete refusal to work with congress and try to at least come to some meaningful compromise.
Hell, Bill Clinton faced a Republican majority...and he was able to work with them and actually get some meaningful stuff done.....
God, I hope NOT....
The congress has been the only thing standing in the way of letting Obama ruin us further and fundamentally change everything that made the US great to begin with....
That really bad thing if Hillary gets in...is the Supreme Court replacement...we'll never see someone who actually reads and tries to judge based on the actual constitution.
Its sad the Reps couldn't do any better than Trump. Clinton is so flawed, most anyone but him could handily beat her in the general election.
Hell, look how much a challenge a self proclaimed Socialist did in the primaries??!?!? That's something unheard of in the US till now....
Hmm....I'm not sure how well received this will be in the private corp world, but I'm pretty sure in the Federal Govt world, especially DoD and maybe VA with sensitive, classified or privacy patient data, this isn't going to go over too well, especially the potentially always external connected part.
WTF aren't they doing things like this HERE in the US for our own citizens? At least have the courtesy to do it in your native land FIRST!!!
Wow..that's just freaking scary!!
The first thing on that site, a "seal" on the top right says "Children Deserver some Unsupervised time".
Aside from the extremely young (infants, etc)...I would think kids need MOST of their time unsupervised, to allow them to learn to play, use imagination, etc...
Is this really what parenting has come to in this modern day?!?! Is every single activity planned out, organized and supervised!?!?
If so...sheesh...glad I'm not a kid today!!
Is that what they call being a normal kid these days...."free range", like a freakin' chicken?!?!
So...I'm guessing my parents if raising me today would be arrested for child endangerment? I mean, especially during summer vacation, I would eat breakfast and at times leave out and not come back home till about 4:30pm or so to make it in time for dinner. I would roam the neighborhood, and early on before the housing division was finished, I'd run wild in the woods, building forts, shooting BB guns...skateboarding all over creation, with my friends.
Kids don't do that anymore? I can understand if you live in the hood, but in regular suburban neighborhoods don't allow this anymore...?
Well, it appears that once Stux got out in the open and it was discovered and analyzed and tested on the same controllers that Iran used...it seems to have been proven successful.
The problem, it seems...is that Israel fucked up and on their own, made it much more aggressive and Stuxnet (aka Olympic Games, or OG) then jumped out an infected on a global scale, calling attention to itself, whereas it has earlier been successful, but still covert and confined it appears to only the Iranian targets.
I think this act by Israel explains a LOT about why obama has been so cold towards them....
And..I'm guessing the Iranian retaliation on the US infrastructure led to the crappy deal the US took with regard to the nuclear deal with Iran. I'm thinking Iran scared the US enough to take this horrible deal which will essentially let Iran become a weaponized nuclear power in about 8+ years....
That's the reason I pretty much refuse to fly on a smaller plane that I feel I will have to help with "peddling" while riding to keep the props going.
I fly larger jets or I do not fly....with only exceptions being like in the caribbean when occasionally there is an island that is too small for a regular jet airliner....and on those, I see if I can fly regular jet to a close island, and then take a boat/ferry over to final destination.
I mean, I"m not bad about it, but even I prefer and always try for the aisle seat so as to have one shoulder more 'open'...and have a sense of more room.
Even better I always try too, for the seat in the center near the wing evacuation door..as that it has the most leg room of any other seat on the plane....can stretch out there.
I'd not like getting into what would have to be a tiny bubble type thing and be stuck in that for hours and hours...?
However, ALL sovereign nations have a RIGHT to let in, or reject anyone they do now wish to migrate that are not legal citizens of their country.
If you want to apply, and follow the legal means, then sure, they should consider you, but it isn't a given you should/will be accepted.....
Its even easier to tell if Hillary is lying...
She doesn't have to even open her mouth....
It isn't with many...so much as being Trump supporters, but more of "Anything but Hillary".
For me, I'm getting more and more to be one of those single issue voters, and if for nothing else, Hillary scares the living shit out of me with the prospects of not only replacing Scalia, but potentially 2+ other Supreme Court justices.
I think Trump would put more constitutionally leaning justices forward as candidates, then "H"....I want more strict constitutionalists in there rather than liberal or even politically right leaning justices. I want the constitution interpreted as close as possible to the founding fathers' intentions.
I'm not a trump fan really....but at this point I see it as the lessor of two evils.
I'm familiar with Hillary, I grew up with her being first lady in AR, and she was a cunt back then....all this you see now is NOTHING new. This is personality that has been with her as long as I've known her, and it has only gotten worse.
I'd love to have a beer with Bill...but I'd not touch hillary with a 40-foot stick if my life depended upon it.
Rather than spend money a new boondoggle of a computer system that will likely not work, be over budget and way past schedule....
Just legalize weed, or at least on the Federal level, remove it from Schedule 1 drugs, and let the states do as they wish with it.
We could quit sending TONS of money to DEA war on drugs personnel and equipment, we could empty many folks out of jails (leaving room for the violent offenders), and again...NOT spend more money on a boondoggle computer program for auto-sentencing.
I think we could do just dandy sentencing if just ONLY for truly violent crimes that actually harm people.
Set up a new MythTV box again...server loaded up with drives, etc....to serve media to the smaller satellite boxes around the house near TVs and stereo systems....