Who created the climate of fear that the scientists are operating under? The terrorists? No, because 16 year-old drivers killed more people in 2001 than terrorists. The answer is that the Bush Administration (Ashcroft, Poindexter and company) is behind the climate of fear.
All of the problems you mentioned also pertain to lawyers. In case you haven't noticed, on a scale of one to ten, lawyers range from one to ten.
The notion that a "tiny error can invalidate the whole thing" is not accurate with respect to most US states nor to Canada for that matter. I'm a lawyer and suspect that you are not.
You're making the assumption that we the citizens should not have easy access to the finding out the law. Fair enough. Next time you're on a road trip driving through Virginia and the cop charges you with having an illegal radar detector, don't go complaining that you didn't know VA has outlawed radar detectors!
And the ABA doesn't try to limit the number of lawyers?! If you think they don't, then try opening a business in which you sell inexpensive legal advice, and then see how long it takes until you're brought up on criminal charges.
Not all law is complicated, however, which you seem to be basing your assumptions on. For example, if you become an expert at writing wills (which is not difficult), it is ILLEGAL for me to pay you to write my will if you're not a Bar Association member. Why? Simply because lawyers want to keep pocketing the easy.
I don't know why you're having trouble understaind this. Having to schlep to the library every time you want to shepardize a case is extremely time-consuming and inconvenient for a lawyer. So you sign up with Westlaw and use it from your office.
And you can't yell fire in a theatre despite having "free speech". Personally I'm in favour of not being able to say "blacks go home" . ... The law came into force, because racial minorities were being harrassed with verbal abuse morning noon and night by British racists. Your right to free speech ends when it is designed to harm me, just as yelling fire in a theatre is illegal.
Well, in the USA you cannot verbally harass anybody. That in itself is a crime. The difference is that in Britain, if you say "blacks go home" even when there are no black people around, you still go to jail. The government is acting as thought police. If you think the wrong thoughts, you are considered a criminal. If that's not fascism, I don't know what is.
"Jews faked the holocaust and are all money obssessed thieves"
While I agree that Holocaust denial is deeply ignorant and cruel, I find it ironic that Europeans are engaging in Nazi and fascist tactics when it comes to dealing with Holocaust denial. The government is defining what the "correct" history is, and anyone who strays from the official version gets labelled a criminal and locked up.
I guess the point comes down to whether getting the card is voluntary vs. mandatory. If you don't have a problem with being required by law to have a biometrically-verified identification card, then you're definitely a good citizen, from the government's perspective. I, however, am a bad citizen and proud of it.:)
You're totally missing the point. South Africa under minority white rule was a perfect example of a government out of control. If you combine a government out of control with a government that has total informtion awareness on its citizens, you have a scary scenario indeed.
History has proven that no government--NONE--can be trusted with such knowledge over its citizens. Even here in the USA, during WW2 the federal government used data from the 1940 Census in order to identify citizen of Japanese descent so they could be sent to internment camps. Imagine what such a government could do if it had even more personal information.
Did you file a bug report about this problem that you found? If not, please do so. It won't take but a second. Basically just copy and paste your/. post. Thanks. Hopefully they can get it fixed for the next version.
The US in 1989 invaded Panama simply because of that country's strong bank secrecy laws. Panama was 100% libertarian with its banks. Anyone could deposit money into a completely anonymous account. This made Panama far more pro-privacy than Switzerland.
That of course was a thorn in the side of the Bush Administration, since the "War on Drugs" has the objective of being able to spy on every aspect of a citizen's life. Therefore, Panama got invaded, and a US-puppet government was installed. Invading Panama because of its strong banking secrecy was a blatant violation of its sovereignty.
By the way, the stated reason for the invasion, the crimes of Manuel Noriega, were pure BS. This is because every one of Noriega's crimes were done while he was on the CIA's payroll.
I'm a bit concerned with the last sentence in the article about eBay being forced to collect sales tax in CA. If this person wins, that last part could open a kettle of fish that is better left alone for the time being. I don't live in CA but I also don't know the details of what they are talking about here. I do a lot of Half.com business in CA. Could it affect me? There is a lot we don't know here.
Basically what I gleaned from the articles was that the resources are: the ice itself (since fresh water can be valuable in some parts of the world); coal (ain't that wonderful? a few more decades of coal burning!); possibly oil; and various valuable metals such as uranium and platinum.
According to this, from a website geared toward students, Antarctica has the following natural resources:
- Ice(!). Yes indeed, in many part of the world, fresh water is so rare that it's now a valued commodity.
- Coal.
- Petroleum. Antarctica has never been explored for oil, but it's assumed that where there's coal, there might also be oil.
- Metallic minerals such as cobalt, chromium, nickel, vanadium, copper, iron, uranium, lead and platinum.
The main problem thusfar has been that despite Antarctica's mineral weath, it's been too expensive to mine those minerals. But a road to the South Pole would make it much more economical to explore for and exploit the resources.
. . . an already-ongoing policy. Ford's "Model T of the 21st century" is evolutionary, not revolutionary. So while I salute Ford, don't take the corporate press releases at complete face value.:)
For decades the automobile has been the most recycled consumer product. First a discarded automobile is stripped of its vauable parts. Ever attend a 'all-you-can-carry' day at an automotive salvage yard? A huge crowd of people disassembling
autos for the parts they need. Doors, hoods, dashboards, engines, alternators, seats, anything....
Also note, that the majority of stolen cars are stolen for their parts.
After striping, depending on the car and its arrival condition it can be anything from a stripped shell to pretty much intact. At this point the car is crushed.
The crushed car is then put through a shredder, then through various processes the metals are separated and depending how advanced the facility, the plastics and other materials.
BTW, under consideration in europe for auto recycling has beena dismantling approach. Where the automaker takes the car back and actually diassembles it, rather than using a crusher and shreadder.
Even if one is displeased with the actual amount of automotive recycling, the fact remains, it is higher than other consumer products.
For most people, cost is the determining factor in what software they run. Micro$oft had better take heed. There is very little inherent loyalty to Windoze if a computer user can cut his costs in half by simply using Linux instead. Newer markets like Europe have even less loyalty to M$ than here in the USA.
This bodes well for a prosperous, M$-free future.:)
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Who created the climate of fear that the scientists are operating under? The terrorists? No, because 16 year-old drivers killed more people in 2001 than terrorists. The answer is that the Bush Administration (Ashcroft, Poindexter and company) is behind the climate of fear.
Get several years of real world experience, and then you'll understand how much of a money-making scam the whole legal system is.
Even Micro$oft is now admitting that open source has a bright future.
But I didn't know that about Kazaa's search engine being very limited, so I stand corrected.
The notion that a "tiny error can invalidate the whole thing" is not accurate with respect to most US states nor to Canada for that matter. I'm a lawyer and suspect that you are not.
Go to http://www.kazaalite.com if you haven't already. Download & install it. Then offer the files on Kazaa.
You're making the assumption that we the citizens should not have easy access to the finding out the law. Fair enough. Next time you're on a road trip driving through Virginia and the cop charges you with having an illegal radar detector, don't go complaining that you didn't know VA has outlawed radar detectors!
And the ABA doesn't try to limit the number of lawyers?! If you think they don't, then try opening a business in which you sell inexpensive legal advice, and then see how long it takes until you're brought up on criminal charges.
Not all law is complicated, however, which you seem to be basing your assumptions on. For example, if you become an expert at writing wills (which is not difficult), it is ILLEGAL for me to pay you to write my will if you're not a Bar Association member. Why? Simply because lawyers want to keep pocketing the easy.
I don't know why you're having trouble understaind this. Having to schlep to the library every time you want to shepardize a case is extremely time-consuming and inconvenient for a lawyer. So you sign up with Westlaw and use it from your office.
Well, in the USA you cannot verbally harass anybody. That in itself is a crime. The difference is that in Britain, if you say "blacks go home" even when there are no black people around, you still go to jail. The government is acting as thought police. If you think the wrong thoughts, you are considered a criminal. If that's not fascism, I don't know what is.
"Jews faked the holocaust and are all money obssessed thieves"
While I agree that Holocaust denial is deeply ignorant and cruel, I find it ironic that Europeans are engaging in Nazi and fascist tactics when it comes to dealing with Holocaust denial. The government is defining what the "correct" history is, and anyone who strays from the official version gets labelled a criminal and locked up.
We won't have a civilized world until the military stops interfering with Wi-Fi, not the other way around.
I guess the point comes down to whether getting the card is voluntary vs. mandatory. If you don't have a problem with being required by law to have a biometrically-verified identification card, then you're definitely a good citizen, from the government's perspective. I, however, am a bad citizen and proud of it. :)
History has proven that no government--NONE--can be trusted with such knowledge over its citizens. Even here in the USA, during WW2 the federal government used data from the 1940 Census in order to identify citizen of Japanese descent so they could be sent to internment camps. Imagine what such a government could do if it had even more personal information.
Did you file a bug report about this problem that you found? If not, please do so. It won't take but a second. Basically just copy and paste your /. post. Thanks. Hopefully they can get it fixed for the next version.
That of course was a thorn in the side of the Bush Administration, since the "War on Drugs" has the objective of being able to spy on every aspect of a citizen's life. Therefore, Panama got invaded, and a US-puppet government was installed. Invading Panama because of its strong banking secrecy was a blatant violation of its sovereignty.
By the way, the stated reason for the invasion, the crimes of Manuel Noriega, were pure BS. This is because every one of Noriega's crimes were done while he was on the CIA's payroll.
I'm a bit concerned with the last sentence in the article about eBay being forced to collect sales tax in CA. If this person wins, that last part could open a kettle of fish that is better left alone for the time being. I don't live in CA but I also don't know the details of what they are talking about here. I do a lot of Half.com business in CA. Could it affect me? There is a lot we don't know here.
Somebody should give that fucktard a serious beatdown.
Basically what I gleaned from the articles was that the resources are: the ice itself (since fresh water can be valuable in some parts of the world); coal (ain't that wonderful? a few more decades of coal burning!); possibly oil; and various valuable metals such as uranium and platinum.
- Ice(!). Yes indeed, in many part of the world, fresh water is so rare that it's now a valued commodity.
- Coal.
- Petroleum. Antarctica has never been explored for oil, but it's assumed that where there's coal, there might also be oil.
- Metallic minerals such as cobalt, chromium, nickel, vanadium, copper, iron, uranium, lead and platinum.
The main problem thusfar has been that despite Antarctica's mineral weath, it's been too expensive to mine those minerals. But a road to the South Pole would make it much more economical to explore for and exploit the resources.
I agree. Is nothing sacred? Why can't Antartica remain pristine? This planet is so fucking doomed it's pathetic.
Instead of restricting fake violence, why don't we restrict real violence? Stop the Bush Administration from invading Iraq; give peace a chance. Fact: 28 percent of American troops sent to the Persian Gulf region during 1990-91 ended up becoming caualites.
For decades the automobile has been the most recycled consumer product. First a discarded automobile is stripped of its vauable parts. Ever attend a 'all-you-can-carry' day at an automotive salvage yard? A huge crowd of people disassembling autos for the parts they need. Doors, hoods, dashboards, engines, alternators, seats, anything....
Also note, that the majority of stolen cars are stolen for their parts.
After striping, depending on the car and its arrival condition it can be anything from a stripped shell to pretty much intact. At this point the car is crushed.
The crushed car is then put through a shredder, then through various processes the metals are separated and depending how advanced the facility, the plastics and other materials.
BTW, under consideration in europe for auto recycling has beena dismantling approach. Where the automaker takes the car back and actually diassembles it, rather than using a crusher and shreadder.
Even if one is displeased with the actual amount of automotive recycling, the fact remains, it is higher than other consumer products.
This bodes well for a prosperous, M$-free future. :)
It's more money in the military and less for the American people!