'I just want you to know that we are working on [gun control]. We have to go through a few processes, but under the radar,' President Obama told Sarah Brady, the former president of the Brady Campaign, this past spring.
And his judge appointments, many of whom are anti-gun like Justice Sonia Sotomayor has signed on to a Supreme Court opinion stating that there is no individual right to "private self-defense" with guns.
Sorry, Dennis Kucinich always looks that way. He's just a goofy looking guy. I like a lot of what he stands for and admire his integrity, but he's not electable for POTUS.
You know, I completely disagree with pretty much everything I've heard Dennis Kucinich say he's for, BUT....he is one of the very FEW politicians I truly respect. Dennis never seems to flip flop around or try to say what the current audience wants to hear.
He states his beliefs, and policies and sticks by them. I happen to believe the polar opposite on most of his views, but I at least admire him as one of the few politicians that says what he means, and sticks to it.
I at least feel I know exactly how he stands on all issues...even the controversial ones.
Right. Because state governments are *so* much more responsive to the electorate and *much* less corrupt that the federal government. Please!
Well, that *is* the thought process. Your local govt is MUCH more answerable to you in your community...next would be your state govt...as that they are more closely elected by you, and they are closest to representing your and those of your fellow state citizens.
The federal govt..is even MORE abstracted from the needs of you and those in your state.
Remember, you are first a citizen of your state, and THEN a citizen of the United States....or, at least, that's how it used to work and supposed to work.
That's what we need to strive for again. That way, if you like how things are being done in another state than yours, you can move and become a citizen of that state.
I think that most of the silent majority in the US, are fairly centrist overall (by US definitions).
I think many are like me...slightly liberal on the social side, and slightly conservative on the fiscal side.
I'm not sure how many are with me on shrinking the Federal govt both in power and money...but I get the feeling I'm far from being alone on that one too.
I'd be good with anything that at least changes the primary bullshit.
For instance....WHY is the first primary always held in Iowa...and then all the next ones go in same order every time?
First...I don't see Iowa as being representative of much of the mindset of the US, hell, NO state is.
Why don't they pull state names from a hat each year and go in random order??? Seem it would be more fair....it shouldn't always be the same states that have the nominee picked way before any other states people get to vote.
The reason rich people don't want equity in society is because they want to keep all of their stuff. That's it. There's no shining moral justification for it: they want their third and fourth vacation homes, their exotic luxury cars, their private jets and million dollar birthday parties, and you and your whole community can burn in hell for all they care.
Err...what's wrong with this? People work and figure out how to do things...you seem to have an objection to them keeping what they earned through whatever actions they (legally) took to aquire such wealth and possessions?
Who is to decide what is enough? You? Me? The Federal Govt? And what does morality have to do with whatever a person attains as long as it is acquired in a legal manner?
I can't afford 2x new Porsche Turbos...but I have no problem with someone that can and does. Heck, if I do things right and am a bit lucky...I KNOW I can someday own two of them too.
These are the ideas that our nation was founded on: you are no better than me, nor is the King, nor is the Pope, nor is the Banker. We play by the same rules, because all men are created equal, and we deserve equal treatment in front of the Law.
I agree 100%. We are all equal under the law, and should be. However, this is not mutually exclusive of someone doing better than someone else and attaining wealth.
The US was built on giving everyone equal opportunity and freedom to go out and try to succeed. It isn't about equal outcomes however. If you are free to succeed, you are also free to fuck up, fail and even die in a Darwin Awards type fashion by your own actions.
choose whether or not to smoke - around people who don't want to breathe your second hand smoke
If it is a public building...one that people HAVE to go to, ie. state or federal buildings, I agree.
However, for private establishments...a bar or restaurant, then no I disagree. NO ONE forces anyone to patronize or work at a bar or restaurant which allows smoking. That is choice.
If a proprietor wishes to cater to only non-smoking people, then he will open a place and establish those rules.
This should not be something enforced by penalty of the law by the local/state/federal govt..
Choose your own light bulbs? I'm so sick of this idiocy. Making light bulbs more efficient is not tyranny.
Making them more efficient, is not a bad thing.
But having the Federal Govt. overstep their enumerated powers granted by the Constitution to mandate what types private companies can make and sell is tyrannical.
If someone can make more efficient light bulbs, market them and find a market for them...fine. But it isn't the governments job to make their market for them at the expense of others.
That's all those occupunks really want. Let the hypocrisy fests begin!
I hear ya....I keep thinking, hey couldn't all this time doing facebook pages and tweets...be better spent trying to get a fscking job...or create your own business??
Don't get me wrong..there injustices in the world, and it is good to protest, but most of what I saw after about day x3 of the Occupy thing...was people bitching about "Banks got a bailout..where is MY bailout"? And shit like that. The protest message I got more and more was that it was a bunch of kids there with expensive macbooks and iphones with a sense of entitlement bitching about not having life handed to them on a silver plate.
I'm sorry, but in real life for 99% of us...we don't get the easy way in, we have to work for what we want...not everyone gets a fucking trophy for just participating, and no one gives a shit about your self esteem.
Sadly, we've raised a couple of generations of kids that have been raised this way...and now they're seeing that the real world just ain't that way. In the real world, people throw the dodgeball at you and try to knock your retainer out of your face...
Well, I'm also looking to use the exceptionally high quality HD video capabilities of the 5D and full frame sensor....so, I figure I'll save and shoot for the big purchase. I hope to actually maybe make a little money with the Canon 5D.....
It will be a couple months before I pay off the xmas gifts (and loaded macbook pro I treated myself to this year)....I'm hoping by then, Cannon might make an announcement if there is going to be a 5D Mark III.
Get a nook color (they're going pretty cheap now, even new).
Root it, put cyanogenmod7 on it...and voila!! You have a quite functional Android tablet for pennies on the dollar of a store bought 'tablet'.
Drawbacks? Yes, no camera, no GPS and no 3G.
I find that pretty much anywhere I want to use a tablet, there are free wifi there....I just traveled with mine over the holidays, and it was great for flying, watching videos (I watched the Led Zeppelin DVD set, and some rifftrax of movies). I have a decent set of in-ear phones (Shure SE530's, great sound, and isolation even on a plane)...paired with my rooted nook color, it was great.
I have pretty much full access to the Android mkt with it, so I can get most any games or apps I want...there are ssh ones, GPG ones as well as email client ones that work with GPG...
I've been very happy with the rooted nook color...good size, quality screen, sounds is good, battery life is good.
And hey, if you *DO* want to use it as an ereader...pretty good at that too, I just put both the kindle and nook ereader on it from the android mkt.
It is only living on credit...if you don't pay it off in full at the end of each month!!
Which I do.
Also, over here in the US...the bank transfer thing, if between different banks, they usually charge you to do this.
I pay most of my bills from my bank, they do have things set up to pay many bills directly to some utilities, but many are not. In the cases of them not being, they cut a check and mail it out, which usually takes 5 days to get there.
But just electronically moving money from bank to anyone, isn't usually nearly as convenient as giving a charge number...and like I mentioned, there is often a fee involved in direct money transfers.
For day to day stuff, I just do cash 99% of the time. The rest of it, I charge online purchases...and pay off the credit card in full at the end of each pay period, so, no interest fees, etc.
In researching the link for the above, I recalled that Coca Cola makes a yellow-topped 2-liter during Passover; I bought a few of these last year, and thought they should sell it year-round. I also found a wiki page for OpenCola, [wikipedia.org] which had Cory Doctorow involved. 1.0 was 2001-01-27; it's up to 1.1.3 now. I think I'll see if I can find this drink somewhere nearby; if not, I'll order some. Thanks, geekmux, for helping to bring this to my attention.
I don't know where you live, but around here, at Sam's Club, I find they are bringing in by the case, mexican Coke..which is made from sugar, not HFCS...
I have weened myself largely off of any soda...but I do for a treat, enjoy on occasion a REAL Coke in a glass bottle that is ice cold, especially during the summers. I buy a case of the MX coke, and keep them for this occasional treat.
The MX ones are available year round, so, no need to wait for the jewish holidays for them to put out the yellow topped ones.
Can you have broadband without a land line? All the countries I've been in (mostly Europe) require you to have a land line for broadband Internet. Otherwise you are stuck with lousy (and quite expensive) mobile Internet alternatives
Yes...with my cable company...or also with ATT Uverse..which I use for TV.
I do the local cable company for my ISP...I did a business account so I could have no limits, no caps and run servers on it if I wanted.
Same here, it's the cost of the plans that's kept me cell-phone-free this whole time. It's only a mere $50 + connection fees + ass raping fee + fake government fee + access fee + taxes + CEO wants a jet fee, how can I fuckin' lose?
One way I justify it...is that I cut the landline and only do cell phone.
I factor in the $33/mo or so I used to pay for a landline into what I pay for cell phone with data plan. That covers a lot of the voice portion so I feel I'm only paying extra for the data, and to me it is worth it.
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I believe they were voicing their opposition to the last Supreme Court decision on how states could ban guns.
They've supported trying to the Ammunition Accountability legislation.
I found this quote from an article:
'I just want you to know that we are working on [gun control]. We have to go through a few processes, but under the radar,' President Obama told Sarah Brady, the former president of the Brady Campaign, this past spring.
Some others:
Trying to ban shooters off public lands.
Banning import of historic guns into the US.
Defining high powered guns as those being over .22 cal?
And his judge appointments, many of whom are anti-gun like Justice Sonia Sotomayor has signed on to a Supreme Court opinion stating that there is no individual right to "private self-defense" with guns.
You know, I completely disagree with pretty much everything I've heard Dennis Kucinich say he's for, BUT....he is one of the very FEW politicians I truly respect. Dennis never seems to flip flop around or try to say what the current audience wants to hear.
He states his beliefs, and policies and sticks by them. I happen to believe the polar opposite on most of his views, but I at least admire him as one of the few politicians that says what he means, and sticks to it.
I at least feel I know exactly how he stands on all issues...even the controversial ones.
Well, that *is* the thought process. Your local govt is MUCH more answerable to you in your community...next would be your state govt...as that they are more closely elected by you, and they are closest to representing your and those of your fellow state citizens.
The federal govt..is even MORE abstracted from the needs of you and those in your state.
Remember, you are first a citizen of your state, and THEN a citizen of the United States....or, at least, that's how it used to work and supposed to work.
That's what we need to strive for again. That way, if you like how things are being done in another state than yours, you can move and become a citizen of that state.
Well stated...!!!
I think many are like me...slightly liberal on the social side, and slightly conservative on the fiscal side.
I'm not sure how many are with me on shrinking the Federal govt both in power and money...but I get the feeling I'm far from being alone on that one too.
For instance....WHY is the first primary always held in Iowa...and then all the next ones go in same order every time?
First...I don't see Iowa as being representative of much of the mindset of the US, hell, NO state is.
Why don't they pull state names from a hat each year and go in random order??? Seem it would be more fair....it shouldn't always be the same states that have the nominee picked way before any other states people get to vote.
I've never had such working conditions....I would stay for a job that did.
You DO have to be mobile and willing to move to where the better jobs are...that's just the way it is today.
I certainly hope I never have to deal with any type union in my business...
Well...being that Slashdot is a US centric forum, it can always be assumed that we're using the US definition of "liberal".
We don't care what the European version is...that is your governance and none of our business really.
Err...what's wrong with this? People work and figure out how to do things...you seem to have an objection to them keeping what they earned through whatever actions they (legally) took to aquire such wealth and possessions?
Who is to decide what is enough? You? Me? The Federal Govt? And what does morality have to do with whatever a person attains as long as it is acquired in a legal manner?
I can't afford 2x new Porsche Turbos...but I have no problem with someone that can and does. Heck, if I do things right and am a bit lucky...I KNOW I can someday own two of them too.
I agree 100%. We are all equal under the law, and should be. However, this is not mutually exclusive of someone doing better than someone else and attaining wealth.
The US was built on giving everyone equal opportunity and freedom to go out and try to succeed. It isn't about equal outcomes however. If you are free to succeed, you are also free to fuck up, fail and even die in a Darwin Awards type fashion by your own actions.
If it is a public building...one that people HAVE to go to, ie. state or federal buildings, I agree.
However, for private establishments...a bar or restaurant, then no I disagree. NO ONE forces anyone to patronize or work at a bar or restaurant which allows smoking. That is choice.
If a proprietor wishes to cater to only non-smoking people, then he will open a place and establish those rules.
This should not be something enforced by penalty of the law by the local/state/federal govt..
Making them more efficient, is not a bad thing.
But having the Federal Govt. overstep their enumerated powers granted by the Constitution to mandate what types private companies can make and sell is tyrannical.
If someone can make more efficient light bulbs, market them and find a market for them...fine. But it isn't the governments job to make their market for them at the expense of others.
Err...you got me on this one.
Are you confusing Liberals/Progressives with Libertarians??
Those are polar opposites.
Correct for $200 dollars...next category please?
I hear ya....I keep thinking, hey couldn't all this time doing facebook pages and tweets...be better spent trying to get a fscking job...or create your own business??
Don't get me wrong..there injustices in the world, and it is good to protest, but most of what I saw after about day x3 of the Occupy thing...was people bitching about "Banks got a bailout..where is MY bailout"? And shit like that. The protest message I got more and more was that it was a bunch of kids there with expensive macbooks and iphones with a sense of entitlement bitching about not having life handed to them on a silver plate.
I'm sorry, but in real life for 99% of us...we don't get the easy way in, we have to work for what we want...not everyone gets a fucking trophy for just participating, and no one gives a shit about your self esteem.
Sadly, we've raised a couple of generations of kids that have been raised this way...and now they're seeing that the real world just ain't that way. In the real world, people throw the dodgeball at you and try to knock your retainer out of your face...
Well, I'm also looking to use the exceptionally high quality HD video capabilities of the 5D and full frame sensor....so, I figure I'll save and shoot for the big purchase. I hope to actually maybe make a little money with the Canon 5D.....
Yep...I'm saving now for a Cannon 5D.
It will be a couple months before I pay off the xmas gifts (and loaded macbook pro I treated myself to this year)....I'm hoping by then, Cannon might make an announcement if there is going to be a 5D Mark III.
Root it, put cyanogenmod7 on it...and voila!! You have a quite functional Android tablet for pennies on the dollar of a store bought 'tablet'.
Drawbacks? Yes, no camera, no GPS and no 3G.
I find that pretty much anywhere I want to use a tablet, there are free wifi there....I just traveled with mine over the holidays, and it was great for flying, watching videos (I watched the Led Zeppelin DVD set, and some rifftrax of movies). I have a decent set of in-ear phones (Shure SE530's, great sound, and isolation even on a plane)...paired with my rooted nook color, it was great.
I have pretty much full access to the Android mkt with it, so I can get most any games or apps I want...there are ssh ones, GPG ones as well as email client ones that work with GPG...
I've been very happy with the rooted nook color...good size, quality screen, sounds is good, battery life is good.
And hey, if you *DO* want to use it as an ereader...pretty good at that too, I just put both the kindle and nook ereader on it from the android mkt.
What fees?
You know you can find cards with no annual fee....and if you pay in full each billing period, no fees there....plus you get the rewards....etc.
It is only living on credit...if you don't pay it off in full at the end of each month!!
Which I do.
Also, over here in the US...the bank transfer thing, if between different banks, they usually charge you to do this.
I pay most of my bills from my bank, they do have things set up to pay many bills directly to some utilities, but many are not. In the cases of them not being, they cut a check and mail it out, which usually takes 5 days to get there.
But just electronically moving money from bank to anyone, isn't usually nearly as convenient as giving a charge number...and like I mentioned, there is often a fee involved in direct money transfers.
For day to day stuff, I just do cash 99% of the time. The rest of it, I charge online purchases...and pay off the credit card in full at the end of each pay period, so, no interest fees, etc.
I don't know where you live, but around here, at Sam's Club, I find they are bringing in by the case, mexican Coke..which is made from sugar, not HFCS...
I have weened myself largely off of any soda...but I do for a treat, enjoy on occasion a REAL Coke in a glass bottle that is ice cold, especially during the summers. I buy a case of the MX coke, and keep them for this occasional treat.
The MX ones are available year round, so, no need to wait for the jewish holidays for them to put out the yellow topped ones.
Well, while I am hitting that age where I'm trying to eat more veggies, etc.
I still feel that I didn't get to the top of the whole food chain to only eat rabbit food.
I like to have grilled, roasted, braised or fried dead animals too....
Yes...with my cable company...or also with ATT Uverse..which I use for TV.
I do the local cable company for my ISP...I did a business account so I could have no limits, no caps and run servers on it if I wanted.
No need for a landline...not using DSL.
One way I justify it...is that I cut the landline and only do cell phone.
I factor in the $33/mo or so I used to pay for a landline into what I pay for cell phone with data plan. That covers a lot of the voice portion so I feel I'm only paying extra for the data, and to me it is worth it.
Yes....it has more that 2 seats. It is a family truckster by definition.
A sports car is a two seater!
Who actually 'lusts' after a freakin' family car...?