Just curious, what parts do others, or well...YOU find objectionable.
I've not read the rest of the bill...this one section caught my eye and I liked it...but what other parts are in there that are objectionable that you've seen?
The success stories for Kickstarter are inspiring, but the potential for ripoffs is enormous. You need to know just what it is you're buying into. The amount of money that can be lost to fraud is comparatively small, but it's still as much as $10,000, and a lot of people can't afford to lose that. Especially the ones most likely to make desperate, ill-informed choices when somebody promises them enormous returns.
So, we should force everyone be limited in what they want to do with their money based on the lowest common denominator of intelligence, wealth or aversion to risk?
Since when did it become the governments mandate to protect people from themselves? Where exactly is this in the constitution?
There are already laws on the books against fraud....and they should be prosecuted, but there's not reason to limit people with the means and ability to research and make critical decisions as to what they can do with their money.
We're becoming over regulated in most all aspects of our lives by the laws trying to protect people from themselves...some people are going to lose in life and fuck up......we should let them rather than limit people on what they want to do that can do the right thing and live with the repercussions of their actions.
People that can't afford to lose $5 can easily buy their paycheck worth of lottery tickets or go to a casino....there are always going to be poor and stupid people, a sucker born every minute, but we shouldn't limit those that have wealth and capabilities to live and take risks within their means because a few idiots out there might lose their shirts.
Yeah it's sad when uneducated persons make unwise investments, and then lose everything. I knew a guy who thought he'd won the lottery, and stupidly mailed-off the money.
First, I'm not making light whatsoever to the tragic events that your friend experienced.
However, I must comment, that I don't believe it the the government's constitutional mandate to protect any individual from their own ignorance or stupidity, or just bad decisions.
I fear too much regulation over what a person does, is basically forcing everyone to adhere to rules to protect the lowest common denominator....
I want more freedom to take fiscal risks like investment in very small businesses....I'm smart enough to read up, research...and even with that, I'm ready to fail and lose money.
That's the risk you take, but you can make money and help startups with really good ideas get going that might not otherwise attract the interests of VC's that have the millions of dollars and lawyers on reserve.
Sure, basic laws against fraud should be in place, but I should be free in this country to make most decisions with most every aspect of my life, and be responsible for the outcomes of said decisions.
Again, I feel for your loss of your friend...but it happens, and I don't feel it is the function of the govt. to protect us from ourselves....which hinders freedom for all.
Whereas you're clearly doing great things with your life.....
Hey brother...anything for a dollar, eh?
That's what its all about....I don't wanna do anything illegal that will put me in jail, but anything above that that earns lots of $$$....well, who wouldn't go for that?
Wouldn't it look bad if a Microsoft employee came to your company to demo a new product, and they whipped-out their Apple Macbook to give the presentation?
Not really...Microsoft is not a hardware company, they are a software company.
I'd see nothing wrong with someone whipping out an Apple Macbook, running VMWare fusion or Parallels...so they could run windows on there....in fact, it might show how well MS stuff runs on 'most any hardware platform on sell'.
I mean, there is not MS branded computer out there....but saying your MS stuff would run on Dell, HP, Apple and any thing else hardware might be a good selling point?
You guys do know there are other countries, right? Stuff happens in them all the time that could arguably be called "news" and doesn't involve America at all.
Yes, but for the most part...that news has virtually no effect on the common American's daily life...so we generally don't care that much what else is happening in the world.
It is a large country, and it is easy to grow up here, and never see the majority of our own country, much less see what's outside our borders. Honestly, unless you want to travel, there's not that much need for it....the US has so many diverse areas that visiting inside can be one and one can still get culture shock.
Americans in the NE are quite different (cuisine, accents, colloquialisms, scenery, etc) from the west coast, and the middle of the US and for damned sure of the South and Southwest. In many ways, often the states are like small countries unto themselves, which isn't a bad thing....
But really....not a lot of news in the rest of the world has much effect on the common US citizen, and hence...we don't go out of our way to look at it.
Heck, there's enough going on HERE...and people here don't seem to really keep up with it much, which is sad.
Well, while there are some things I like to tinker with...it does become a cost/time function with me.
I work all week,and am busy with trying to hit the gym, bike...shop for fresh foods, cook....etc.
Things like appliance repair...are like mowing the lawn or washing and ironing my own shirts.
Can I do those? Sure (if I bought a lawnmower)...but I'd spend my two days a week, filling my very limited free time doing those chores, and having little time to do the things I like to do (I live in New Orleans, and there is ALWAYS some fest or something going on), or to even stay home occasionally, and tinker with the things that interest me.
So, it is worth it to me, to spend $1.99/dress shirt for laundering and ironing....$10.99/5 pairs of pants to dry clean....$30 every couple weeks for the neighborhood kid to mow my yard.....etc.
And with that dishwasher...well, I might look to see if it was something quick.....but if not a quick fix and required me buying a bunch of tools (I don't own many), spending all weekend to research, etc, well, it just isn't worth it to me.
I'd rather pay someone to come fix it quick, or haul it off and bring me a new one.
I guess it just depends on how much your free time is worth to you for many things.
If you have trouble fixing your dishwasher, or fridge, then you have problems. Those are easy and you can get manuals and schematics from the manufacturer most of the time.
Wow...I've never heard of anyone I know..that has ever attempted to fix their own fridge or dishwasher....usually you just call the repairman or get a new one if it is too much to fix it.
Mind you, what are the mandatory practice hours for?
Actually...this is the first time I've ever heard about mandatory practice hours. It isn't a requirement for any state I've ever lived in.
Most states, if you can go in, pass the written and practical driving tests (which are usually very quick and easy)...you get your license.
I've never seen a state with requirements for mandatory practice or driving lessons. I'm sure some do, but I don't think that is the 'norm' for most states in the US.
disguising your number plate is an offence, and rightly so.
As long as it is human readable...what's the problem.
I'm wanting to experiment with putting a bunch of hi powered infrared LEDs all around my license plate, and see if that will blind out the stupid cameras...while leaving it nicely readable to the human eye.
The core problem is that it appears that people who are black in the US are more likely to be in poverty than the national average.
True...but I think a lot of this, in this day in age, is a problem the black community has with their value system. You don't see blacks (largely) trying to promote someone getting an education, and trying to get a job and have good family life.
The careers they often glorify are:
1. Athlete
2. Rapper / Thug
Well, #1, just doesn't happen to the majority of people, and well, #2 doesn't happen that often either, and strangely enough, #2 has glorified connections with music to gang life...and that's another dead end street.
What can be done about it? You can't legislate it...it has to come from the black community themselves. I've heard leaders, and successful black people extoll the same....Bill Cosby for example, stands up and has said it like it is, for blacks to take responsibility for their own lives and success, for fathers to be responsible to their children.
Sadly, often, other blacks put them down for telling the truth that many out there see.
Back when I was in school...I saw this in action. I saw fellow black students, who WERE head of the class, involved in the school (student govt., student body president), in the honors classes.....yet, they were openly put down by the majority of blacks in the school....actually telling him to "stop acting white". I mean....with that kind of attitude and culture that perpetuates itself....sure, you see blacks stay in poverty. You also see the ones that DO get an education and work and succeed...move the fuck out of the black community, so that their kids don't get caught up in that 'culture', which often leads nowhere, and at its worst...prison and/or death.
Sure, there is still racism. For that matter, you see it on BOTH sides of the black and white line....lots of hatred towards whites from blacks, I see that too. But it isn't the impediment to success that it was decades ago. Somehow, the culture of victimhood for blacks, needs to be tossed out and have a culture of success and hard work and family values embraced.
But, like I said before, you can't legislate that. It somehow has to be generated from within....but only the black community can do that themselves, and well.....that certainly doesn't seem to be working, at least from someone like myself looking in from the outside.
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Caveat Emptor......
I've not read the rest of the bill...this one section caught my eye and I liked it...but what other parts are in there that are objectionable that you've seen?
But, there are already laws on the books against fraud.....
So, we should force everyone be limited in what they want to do with their money based on the lowest common denominator of intelligence, wealth or aversion to risk?
Since when did it become the governments mandate to protect people from themselves? Where exactly is this in the constitution?
There are already laws on the books against fraud....and they should be prosecuted, but there's not reason to limit people with the means and ability to research and make critical decisions as to what they can do with their money.
We're becoming over regulated in most all aspects of our lives by the laws trying to protect people from themselves...some people are going to lose in life and fuck up......we should let them rather than limit people on what they want to do that can do the right thing and live with the repercussions of their actions.
People that can't afford to lose $5 can easily buy their paycheck worth of lottery tickets or go to a casino....there are always going to be poor and stupid people, a sucker born every minute, but we shouldn't limit those that have wealth and capabilities to live and take risks within their means because a few idiots out there might lose their shirts.
First, I'm not making light whatsoever to the tragic events that your friend experienced.
However, I must comment, that I don't believe it the the government's constitutional mandate to protect any individual from their own ignorance or stupidity, or just bad decisions.
I fear too much regulation over what a person does, is basically forcing everyone to adhere to rules to protect the lowest common denominator....
I want more freedom to take fiscal risks like investment in very small businesses....I'm smart enough to read up, research...and even with that, I'm ready to fail and lose money.
That's the risk you take, but you can make money and help startups with really good ideas get going that might not otherwise attract the interests of VC's that have the millions of dollars and lawyers on reserve.
Sure, basic laws against fraud should be in place, but I should be free in this country to make most decisions with most every aspect of my life, and be responsible for the outcomes of said decisions.
Again, I feel for your loss of your friend...but it happens, and I don't feel it is the function of the govt. to protect us from ourselves....which hinders freedom for all.
Political correctness has so infiltrated society that you can no longer make fun of a cripple or retard?
Sheesh...
Who?
What?
There's a social site specializing in mullets in wife-beater t-shirts out there that try to influence the show COPS?
Here I was, thinking they were just unwitting participants/stars in the show...
Hey brother...anything for a dollar, eh?
That's what its all about....I don't wanna do anything illegal that will put me in jail, but anything above that that earns lots of $$$....well, who wouldn't go for that?
Not really...Microsoft is not a hardware company, they are a software company.
I'd see nothing wrong with someone whipping out an Apple Macbook, running VMWare fusion or Parallels...so they could run windows on there....in fact, it might show how well MS stuff runs on 'most any hardware platform on sell'.
I mean, there is not MS branded computer out there....but saying your MS stuff would run on Dell, HP, Apple and any thing else hardware might be a good selling point?
The question is...how do "I" get into that??!?
Hacking stuff, and protected by 'NATO' government paying you handsomely for the 'service'.
sweet...
Yes, but for the most part...that news has virtually no effect on the common American's daily life...so we generally don't care that much what else is happening in the world.
It is a large country, and it is easy to grow up here, and never see the majority of our own country, much less see what's outside our borders. Honestly, unless you want to travel, there's not that much need for it....the US has so many diverse areas that visiting inside can be one and one can still get culture shock.
Americans in the NE are quite different (cuisine, accents, colloquialisms, scenery, etc) from the west coast, and the middle of the US and for damned sure of the South and Southwest. In many ways, often the states are like small countries unto themselves, which isn't a bad thing....
But really....not a lot of news in the rest of the world has much effect on the common US citizen, and hence...we don't go out of our way to look at it.
Heck, there's enough going on HERE...and people here don't seem to really keep up with it much, which is sad.
I too find myself using cash as often as I can.
It keeps me more on thought of how much I'm actually spending.
I take out a couple of hundred or so once or twice a week and that covers me for most things for the week (mostly groceries, odds and ends)...
But, that would confuse Barbie too much....
I work all week,and am busy with trying to hit the gym, bike...shop for fresh foods, cook....etc.
Things like appliance repair...are like mowing the lawn or washing and ironing my own shirts.
Can I do those? Sure (if I bought a lawnmower)...but I'd spend my two days a week, filling my very limited free time doing those chores, and having little time to do the things I like to do (I live in New Orleans, and there is ALWAYS some fest or something going on), or to even stay home occasionally, and tinker with the things that interest me.
So, it is worth it to me, to spend $1.99/dress shirt for laundering and ironing....$10.99/5 pairs of pants to dry clean....$30 every couple weeks for the neighborhood kid to mow my yard.....etc.
And with that dishwasher...well, I might look to see if it was something quick.....but if not a quick fix and required me buying a bunch of tools (I don't own many), spending all weekend to research, etc, well, it just isn't worth it to me.
I'd rather pay someone to come fix it quick, or haul it off and bring me a new one.
I guess it just depends on how much your free time is worth to you for many things.
Are there that many people in the first world, that really even care one way or the other about things like this?
Err, I'm not sure how they connect or track me with the cash I use for local purchases.
That's the point...if you use cash, it makes it very difficult for the govt. or private industry to track your expenditures.
Wow...I've never heard of anyone I know..that has ever attempted to fix their own fridge or dishwasher....usually you just call the repairman or get a new one if it is too much to fix it.
I was talking more in terms of the US...with speed cameras....thoughts and conversation wandered on me there....
Actually...this is the first time I've ever heard about mandatory practice hours. It isn't a requirement for any state I've ever lived in.
Most states, if you can go in, pass the written and practical driving tests (which are usually very quick and easy)...you get your license.
I've never seen a state with requirements for mandatory practice or driving lessons. I'm sure some do, but I don't think that is the 'norm' for most states in the US.
I know it happens here in the US some, but it isn't such a large problem that we need a majory govt system to deter it....
As long as it is human readable...what's the problem.
I'm wanting to experiment with putting a bunch of hi powered infrared LEDs all around my license plate, and see if that will blind out the stupid cameras...while leaving it nicely readable to the human eye.
So, you're saying you actually like the taste of coffee?
True...but I think a lot of this, in this day in age, is a problem the black community has with their value system. You don't see blacks (largely) trying to promote someone getting an education, and trying to get a job and have good family life.
The careers they often glorify are:
1. Athlete
2. Rapper / Thug
Well, #1, just doesn't happen to the majority of people, and well, #2 doesn't happen that often either, and strangely enough, #2 has glorified connections with music to gang life...and that's another dead end street.
What can be done about it? You can't legislate it...it has to come from the black community themselves. I've heard leaders, and successful black people extoll the same....Bill Cosby for example, stands up and has said it like it is, for blacks to take responsibility for their own lives and success, for fathers to be responsible to their children.
Sadly, often, other blacks put them down for telling the truth that many out there see.
Back when I was in school...I saw this in action. I saw fellow black students, who WERE head of the class, involved in the school (student govt., student body president), in the honors classes.....yet, they were openly put down by the majority of blacks in the school....actually telling him to "stop acting white". I mean....with that kind of attitude and culture that perpetuates itself....sure, you see blacks stay in poverty. You also see the ones that DO get an education and work and succeed...move the fuck out of the black community, so that their kids don't get caught up in that 'culture', which often leads nowhere, and at its worst...prison and/or death.
Sure, there is still racism. For that matter, you see it on BOTH sides of the black and white line....lots of hatred towards whites from blacks, I see that too. But it isn't the impediment to success that it was decades ago. Somehow, the culture of victimhood for blacks, needs to be tossed out and have a culture of success and hard work and family values embraced.
But, like I said before, you can't legislate that. It somehow has to be generated from within....but only the black community can do that themselves, and well.....that certainly doesn't seem to be working, at least from someone like myself looking in from the outside.
Yeah...couldn't figure how to do that on a slashdot forum....