Unless you want to take away a few guns, then that is all they care about.
Hey, at least some of the citizens are adament about keeping some rights, rather than lose them all to the ever extending hand of the feds.
Maybe instead of bitching about it..build upon support for keeping the 2nd amendment, and then trying to re-strengthen the other amendments and Constitution as a whole and try to gain back the freedoms that are being whittled away...?
You'd be surprised how good the lunch specials can be at your local bar. Children still can't drink, as far as I know.
Actually I often like to dine at the bar....gets me closer to my drinks, and a good tip goes even further at the bar, with the person POURING your beverages of choice.
That, and if you happen to be dining alone, the TV is there, and also, you can generally smoke in a bar.
The absolute worst case scenario for the USA is that we ever elect a congress that can actually get anything accomplished.
And, we saw this brilliantly illustrated when Obama first hit office and Dems had control of both houses. We're feeling the effects now of obamacare which was rammed through.
Thankfully, even with majority in both houses, they didn't do more damage.
Sadly, the only way to overturn this mess, and get it out and maybe revised would be to have the Reps in control of all 3x branches. But, I'm afraid what else they'd do if they had that much control.
So, I'm afraid we're largely screwed on this one...
Replace "talkers" with "crying babies" and your statement is no less true. Shall we ban babies on flights as well?
Yes, please!!
I once had a screamer behind me on an early flight, and I was not feeling that well.
I rang the flight attendent, and when she came to me, I asked her if we could "please put the kid in the overhead compartment".
It was just loud enough for the parent behind to hear, who *finally* started to try to control the kid....and the flight attendant smiled at me and said "I think you need a bloody mary", and went to get me one.
If you can't or won't control your kids, please keep them at home until they can maintain themselves in public.
I actually miss smoking sections in restaurants for this reason, it was much better to eat there as that most parents wouldn't eat in the smoking section. And when I worked in the business back while in school, I found the smoking section folks drank more alcohol and tipped better too, but that's another topic altogether.
Can you provide any examples where the privacy of Youtube/G+ is worse than that of Vimeo? Both want you to provide a Name and an Email address. Both use cookies to track you. And how comes you consider the need for a G+ account a bad thing, but a facebook/Vimeo account is OK?
Interesting.
I do not have a G+ account (nor twitter, nor FB, nor Pinterest, etc), but I have my YouTube account. And, while they do ask for a name or did awhile back ask to join G+, I just ignored that and they let me keep my account that I started with a non-gmail account.
I'd not known that you now had to have a G+ account to have a YouTube acct. Interesting.
It would have to be a pretty poor diet to not include meat, dairy, cereals, or vegetables.
But when foods are highly processes, then those vitamins are greatly degraded or lost period.
With so many people eating highly processed, fast food for so many meals, it is easy to see why even educated, non-poor folks in the US have such health problems, are obese and often have accompanying vitamin/mineral deficiencies.
No, it's because their tax code isn't so bloated and screwed up as ours. Printed on 8.5x11, the US tax code is 74,000 pages long (well, actually 73,954).
You know, I was about to add a reply to the person you replied to, but then I read your post and it could not be more spot on!!
The person above you was apparently only talking about personal tax too, for a country. It's a different story here in the US as that you also have state and sometimes city taxation to deal with too, and if you're a business owner, or working 1099 contracting, well...a whole new kettle of fish there.
No, a national ID wouldn't help this at all. Currently the answer is, if you have tax requirements above the 1099 EZ form for the Feds, just is best to hire a CPA and let them deal with it.
I certainly do wish we had an easier, more straightforward system, some sort of flat tax or national sales tax. But that would relieve the Feds of too much power and hence, we'll likely never get there.
My theory is that they want to charge him for egregiously violating the privacy of those people, but because corporations have managed to weaken privacy laws, they had to dream up something else to charge him with.
Well, it's kinda like how they arrested the grown woman, that harrassed a teen her daughter knew (had a feud with, etc?), on FB, and the said teen ended up killing herself.
They arrested her and desperately wanted to charge her with something, yet there was no law against what she did. They tried stretching breaking the TOS of the FB site into the federal hacking laws and the like.
I believe it (rightly) fell through on them though.
The cops will always try to stretch laws to mean things they didn't originally intend to, in order to try to charge people with crimes that might not actually be a crime on the books.
Its why you always need to be skeptical of new laws, especially ones that are written overly broad.
You do realize you have a license plate at this very moment that can be used to track you right?
For now, I don't live in a place where they use plate readers, so I feel fairly comfortable I'm not being tracked by that, unless I'm doing something wrong while driving...much like it had in the past.
I would posit that we need to regulate the use of plate readers. If they are used, then data should be purged at least daily.
Yeah, and I wanted the Barack Obama we knew in 2007 to be president. Absolute power will ruin any otherwise good person and queens are no exception.
Well, if you'd have listened to any of his critics back then, done any research, read his readings, seen his "voting record", etc...you'd have known you were getting exactly what you were voting for.
One problem was..so many people were enamored with getting the first black president voted in, they (media included) completely ignored much of Obama's teachings, writings and background. But even if you go back today, research a bit, you'll see he wasn't really pretentious.....you got what you voted for.
I am in favor of tougher gun laws and a strong critic of U.S. gun culture. But I understand the desire to defend yourself in rural areas. I don't think I'd ever feel completely comfortable with a gun in my home, but I suppose I would actually prefer owning a gun to being completely helpless, if I lived in an isolated spot out in the country.
I think the gun law dispute in the U.S. is too one dimensional. Urbanized areas would probably be much better off with strict gun controls, whereas owning a gun in a rural area is a legitimate necessity. I wonder why I never hear about this distinction when gun laws are debated.
I think living in a city, with more people, you're more likely to be broken into, etc...at your home.
I like having my guns for my protection wherever I live...and I feel I'd need them more in the more urban areas.
Even though I'm closer to police than in a rural area, doesn't mean the police can respond in time to actually *protect* or save me or my family.
No matter where you live, if someone is breaking into your home you have seconds to make decisions that can save you and your family's life. No time to call and wait on a cop.
Let's face it, in many areas of the US, big cities too..if you order a pizza and call 911, it will be a toss up which reaches your house first.
The problem is that he also followed the advice of the corporate right wing. He was part of what Diane Ravitch called the "billionaire boy's club" of school "reformers" http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2011/sep/29/school-reform-failing-grade/ [nybooks.com] who wanted to privatize public schools, humiliate the teachers, destroy their union...
While I largely agree with most of your post, I don't see what the problem is with this part.
I mean, the current US system, with its overload of money sucking administration and teachers unions that are far more interested in themselves than the kids they are supposed to be teaching, likely does need to be thrown out the window.
What we have now clearly is NOT working...and pretty much any new approach at this point is worth exploring.
But of course, if one listens only on crap earbuds or a crap car stereo, then who cares, right?
Hear, hear (no pun intended).
I get so saddened, by getting remastered classic albums, and finding they sound like shit on my good stereo system....the Rolling Stone recent remasters for example sounds like shit compared to the older versions, due to the extreme compression on them.
I did find one gem recently..the remasters of Jethro Tull Aqualung. They did NOT succumb, it seems, to the loudness wars, and actually made a great recording even better IMHO. I now hear instruments I never really heard in the past, quite nice and doesn't tire the ears out on long listening sessions.
Why not go open source for DAW with Ardour? Combine that with Rosegarden, and maybe some of the other fine applications that all work with Jack Audio Connection Kit.
Pretty cool stuff out there for free, especially if you're just starting out and are a bit of a geek.
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Hey, at least some of the citizens are adament about keeping some rights, rather than lose them all to the ever extending hand of the feds.
Maybe instead of bitching about it..build upon support for keeping the 2nd amendment, and then trying to re-strengthen the other amendments and Constitution as a whole and try to gain back the freedoms that are being whittled away...?
Actually I often like to dine at the bar....gets me closer to my drinks, and a good tip goes even further at the bar, with the person POURING your beverages of choice.
That, and if you happen to be dining alone, the TV is there, and also, you can generally smoke in a bar.
And, we saw this brilliantly illustrated when Obama first hit office and Dems had control of both houses. We're feeling the effects now of obamacare which was rammed through.
Thankfully, even with majority in both houses, they didn't do more damage.
Sadly, the only way to overturn this mess, and get it out and maybe revised would be to have the Reps in control of all 3x branches. But, I'm afraid what else they'd do if they had that much control.
So, I'm afraid we're largely screwed on this one...
Yes, please!!
I once had a screamer behind me on an early flight, and I was not feeling that well.
I rang the flight attendent, and when she came to me, I asked her if we could "please put the kid in the overhead compartment".
It was just loud enough for the parent behind to hear, who *finally* started to try to control the kid....and the flight attendant smiled at me and said "I think you need a bloody mary", and went to get me one.
If you can't or won't control your kids, please keep them at home until they can maintain themselves in public.
I actually miss smoking sections in restaurants for this reason, it was much better to eat there as that most parents wouldn't eat in the smoking section. And when I worked in the business back while in school, I found the smoking section folks drank more alcohol and tipped better too, but that's another topic altogether.
Interesting.
I do not have a G+ account (nor twitter, nor FB, nor Pinterest, etc), but I have my YouTube account. And, while they do ask for a name or did awhile back ask to join G+, I just ignored that and they let me keep my account that I started with a non-gmail account.
I'd not known that you now had to have a G+ account to have a YouTube acct. Interesting.
But when foods are highly processes, then those vitamins are greatly degraded or lost period.
With so many people eating highly processed, fast food for so many meals, it is easy to see why even educated, non-poor folks in the US have such health problems, are obese and often have accompanying vitamin/mineral deficiencies.
I know driver's license and passport, but WTF is a Global Entry ID?
Never heard of that in the US before....
You know, I was about to add a reply to the person you replied to, but then I read your post and it could not be more spot on!!
The person above you was apparently only talking about personal tax too, for a country. It's a different story here in the US as that you also have state and sometimes city taxation to deal with too, and if you're a business owner, or working 1099 contracting, well...a whole new kettle of fish there.
No, a national ID wouldn't help this at all. Currently the answer is, if you have tax requirements above the 1099 EZ form for the Feds, just is best to hire a CPA and let them deal with it.
I certainly do wish we had an easier, more straightforward system, some sort of flat tax or national sales tax. But that would relieve the Feds of too much power and hence, we'll likely never get there.
Well, then, I'll help you.
PLEASE US Feds and State leaders, pass by this idea, don't dwell on it and for God's sake, don't try to implement it.
We can't even get a fucking website working...please don't fuck with a National ID...we'll all be screwed.
It won't work here....just tell us a tax amount, and leave us alone!!
I'm gonna wait till Sheldon confirms it on the Big Bang Theory.
Why can't people be a bit more intelligent and not let people take fucking naked pictures of them??
Geez, when did common sense fly out the window?
The owner of the site didn't actually post the pictures, other folks did.
And, could he not argue that it wasn't extortion for the money, but only a service fee for removing content from a website?
Well, it's kinda like how they arrested the grown woman, that harrassed a teen her daughter knew (had a feud with, etc?), on FB, and the said teen ended up killing herself.
They arrested her and desperately wanted to charge her with something, yet there was no law against what she did. They tried stretching breaking the TOS of the FB site into the federal hacking laws and the like.
I believe it (rightly) fell through on them though.
The cops will always try to stretch laws to mean things they didn't originally intend to, in order to try to charge people with crimes that might not actually be a crime on the books.
Its why you always need to be skeptical of new laws, especially ones that are written overly broad.
Actually, I'm thinking this is just an excuse to set things up for Somali Pirates in Space!!!
For now, I don't live in a place where they use plate readers, so I feel fairly comfortable I'm not being tracked by that, unless I'm doing something wrong while driving...much like it had in the past.
I would posit that we need to regulate the use of plate readers. If they are used, then data should be purged at least daily.
Well, if you'd have listened to any of his critics back then, done any research, read his readings, seen his "voting record", etc...you'd have known you were getting exactly what you were voting for.
One problem was..so many people were enamored with getting the first black president voted in, they (media included) completely ignored much of Obama's teachings, writings and background. But even if you go back today, research a bit, you'll see he wasn't really pretentious.....you got what you voted for.
I think living in a city, with more people, you're more likely to be broken into, etc...at your home.
I like having my guns for my protection wherever I live...and I feel I'd need them more in the more urban areas.
Even though I'm closer to police than in a rural area, doesn't mean the police can respond in time to actually *protect* or save me or my family.
No matter where you live, if someone is breaking into your home you have seconds to make decisions that can save you and your family's life. No time to call and wait on a cop.
Let's face it, in many areas of the US, big cities too..if you order a pizza and call 911, it will be a toss up which reaches your house first.
I suppose you wouldn't advocate "playing Santa" with little kids either...no magic of xmas presents, him knowing if your naughty or nice, etc?
While I largely agree with most of your post, I don't see what the problem is with this part.
I mean, the current US system, with its overload of money sucking administration and teachers unions that are far more interested in themselves than the kids they are supposed to be teaching, likely does need to be thrown out the window.
What we have now clearly is NOT working...and pretty much any new approach at this point is worth exploring.
Maybe this will help slim them back down to "good looking" sizes again.
Hear, hear (no pun intended).
I get so saddened, by getting remastered classic albums, and finding they sound like shit on my good stereo system....the Rolling Stone recent remasters for example sounds like shit compared to the older versions, due to the extreme compression on them.
I did find one gem recently..the remasters of Jethro Tull Aqualung. They did NOT succumb, it seems, to the loudness wars, and actually made a great recording even better IMHO. I now hear instruments I never really heard in the past, quite nice and doesn't tire the ears out on long listening sessions.
Pretty cool stuff out there for free, especially if you're just starting out and are a bit of a geek.
At least they won't have to do time in a mexican prison!!
What about Speedy Gonzales?