I like you you clipped out the part of your post I was actually addressing: that Utah is somehow "sovereign", and can do whatever it wants. It cannot do whatever it wants, and for you to pretend otherwise is a reflection of your own personal lack of education and neocon-culture-induced allergy to the public acting in its own collective self-interest.
Your original comment dismissed the article's news, calling it naive, pointing out other things you think equally obvious, and in general diminishing the importance of what was said. In effect: "this is no big deal". This says to me that you don't think the practice noteworthy, much less objectionable.
If that was not the effect intended, you may wish to review your writing technique.
The State of Utah can ban playboy from bookstores (and they have), but they are not any obligation to inform the other 49 states or the U.S. Congress about this change in law. It's called sovereignty - Utah does whatever it pleases within its own boundaries.
Absolutely wrong. They can pass whatever laws they want, but if those laws are superseded by federal law, federal law overrides their state laws.
Besides that, this sounds pretty promising to me -- at work, I even use a mouse pad and still end up with the cursor flying off across the screen for no reason at least once every ten minutes.
In fact, increasingly, the point of prison is about making profits for the private entity that owns and runs the prison. The very fact that there is a phrase, prison industry, should send chills down everyone's spine.
How soon we forget. The government has already given loads of money for broadband to get caught up with other countries, and the recipients have just taken the money and not done a thing. Wow, some "strings" there, huh?
Oh yes, because I want my internet connection tapped 24/7
As others have pointed out, they already did this with a more-than-willing corporate helping hand.
and all my comments that criticize the US government to be flagged (or did you forget flag@whitehouse.gov?).
Spreading FUD is not the same thing as criticizing. And it's the content of the FUD they're asking for. (And speaking of spreading FUD, your post seems a shining example...)
And just look at the crappy service you get from other government agencies like medicare
You ask anyone who's on Medicare if they want it abolished. Go on, ask. Your odds are about 50/50 between being looked at like you have three heads and being called an idiot.
Annoyances like being able to send a letter for a negligible amount of money?
the general greed of the IRS
Greed?? The IRS collects and passes on the money they're told to collect and pass on. It's not like they get to keep it.
Yah, I really want the US government to provide broadband.
Yah, fer sher, y'betcha. I do. I want as many players in the market as I can get, public, private, or otherwise. It'd be a damn sight better than the local monopolies we're screwed with now.
Chrome is still showing HTML pages in tabs that you navigate trough with the virtual interface of links, a history to move through, etc, and a physical interface of the mouse and keyboard. In a window.
Ha! So true! Those hidebound sheep, still using HTML (instead of XIEJD), tabs (instead of buckets), links (instead of jellybeans), history (instead of triple-reverse history), a physical mouse/keyboard interface (instead of magnetic-induction frontal-cortex implants). In windows (instead of architectural glass blocks)! They really should get with the times.
Class action suits are not intended to make you rich. They're intended to punish the target of the suit. And what lawyer would pursue such a thing if there were nothing in it for her?
No now the question is: did people mod you up because:
A. They were completely suckered by the copy-n-paste B. They thought it was insightful of you to point out how easy it is to karma-whore C. They were amused by the idea of fulfilling your little "experiment" -- a.k.a, sheer cussedness
Yes, extremely high unemployment tends to produce that kind of thing. Don't go assuming they're doing it because they're gung-ho supertroopers who eat bullets and shit grenades. A lot of them don't have much of a realistic choice.
Good luck making intent illegal without trampling all over everyone's rights.
Intent is a standard differentiator between crimes. Example: murder and manslaughter. One means you intended to kill and the other means you didn't. Each has its own legal implications and sentencing guidelines, and are properly considered different crimes.
Taking intent into account is long-standing and unexceptionable.
You said what I've been formulating in my mind for some time: the actual driving performance is what matters, not arbitrary levels of some particular chemical in one's bloodstream. I know guys who can drive so well, that even fairly impaired, they're easily better than other guys I know stone cold sober. Not to mention the cops should actually be noticing something wrong with one's driving rather than "papers please"ing everyone who is dumb enough to drive on an arbitrary street at an arbitrary time.
The whole DUI hysteria in this country is out of control and has been for some time. The very fact that we have "checkpoints" for any purpose should set off alarm bells in everyone's Police State detector. But here we are, allowing it to continue for decade after decade, saying "oh well, the Supreme Court decided to disregard the Bill Of Rights, so I guess we're stuck with them" when the "nice" office hands us the pamphlet explaining that the very wrong thing you are seeing is all perfectly legal.
And all that's not even to mention that the technology being presented in TFA is undermined by things like the fact that US currency shows traces of lots of drugs anyway. So much for the wonders of police using devices intended to incriminate you for possession of a particular molecule.
I think you're inventing ways not to understand. The quality of being "pricy" depends entirely on one thing -- the price. Something that has a price of $200 is therefore twice as pricy as something that has a price of $100. I don't know how anyone could interpret this any other way.
Well, if you like, they could do it the other way around: put a tax of some sort on the extraction. Then use the money to set up local public goods (facilities, improvements, services, whatever).
Correction: they love to track technology as long as it doesn't help an ordinary citizen. My wife was a victim in an armed holdup of a shop and its customers (of which she was one). Among the stolen items was her cell phone. I tried with the cops, the cell service provider, and the cell 911 people to get someone to track her phone while they still probably had it. No one gave a crap nor lifted a finger to help.
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I like you you clipped out the part of your post I was actually addressing: that Utah is somehow "sovereign", and can do whatever it wants. It cannot do whatever it wants, and for you to pretend otherwise is a reflection of your own personal lack of education and neocon-culture-induced allergy to the public acting in its own collective self-interest.
Your original comment dismissed the article's news, calling it naive, pointing out other things you think equally obvious, and in general diminishing the importance of what was said. In effect: "this is no big deal". This says to me that you don't think the practice noteworthy, much less objectionable.
If that was not the effect intended, you may wish to review your writing technique.
Absolutely wrong. They can pass whatever laws they want, but if those laws are superseded by federal law, federal law overrides their state laws.
1865 called, and it's mad that you didn't learn anything from it.
You seem to think that because something has a name, it must be acceptable.
Besides that, this sounds pretty promising to me -- at work, I even use a mouse pad and still end up with the cursor flying off across the screen for no reason at least once every ten minutes.
You lucky bastard. I had to get to University of California before I got classes like that...
In fact, increasingly, the point of prison is about making profits for the private entity that owns and runs the prison. The very fact that there is a phrase, prison industry, should send chills down everyone's spine.
I think it would be a terrific vote-getter, as long as you did it nice and loudly and publicly. People hate their cable/phone/etc. companies.
How soon we forget. The government has already given loads of money for broadband to get caught up with other countries, and the recipients have just taken the money and not done a thing. Wow, some "strings" there, huh?
As others have pointed out, they already did this with a more-than-willing corporate helping hand.
Spreading FUD is not the same thing as criticizing. And it's the content of the FUD they're asking for. (And speaking of spreading FUD, your post seems a shining example...)
You ask anyone who's on Medicare if they want it abolished. Go on, ask. Your odds are about 50/50 between being looked at like you have three heads and being called an idiot.
How Veterans' Hospitals Became the Best in Health Care
Annoyances like being able to send a letter for a negligible amount of money?
Greed?? The IRS collects and passes on the money they're told to collect and pass on. It's not like they get to keep it.
Yah, fer sher, y'betcha. I do. I want as many players in the market as I can get, public, private, or otherwise. It'd be a damn sight better than the local monopolies we're screwed with now.
Ha! So true! Those hidebound sheep, still using HTML (instead of XIEJD), tabs (instead of buckets), links (instead of jellybeans), history (instead of triple-reverse history), a physical mouse/keyboard interface (instead of magnetic-induction frontal-cortex implants). In windows (instead of architectural glass blocks)! They really should get with the times.
Shouldn't this be done in the birthplace of video arcade games -- Sunnyvale, CA?
An automatic email responder that sends you the app in an attachment?
Class action suits are not intended to make you rich. They're intended to punish the target of the suit. And what lawyer would pursue such a thing if there were nothing in it for her?
No now the question is: did people mod you up because:
A. They were completely suckered by the copy-n-paste
B. They thought it was insightful of you to point out how easy it is to karma-whore
C. They were amused by the idea of fulfilling your little "experiment" -- a.k.a, sheer cussedness
Scramjets?
And, conversely, fnord is a meme.
Yes, extremely high unemployment tends to produce that kind of thing. Don't go assuming they're doing it because they're gung-ho supertroopers who eat bullets and shit grenades. A lot of them don't have much of a realistic choice.
Intent is a standard differentiator between crimes. Example: murder and manslaughter. One means you intended to kill and the other means you didn't. Each has its own legal implications and sentencing guidelines, and are properly considered different crimes.
Taking intent into account is long-standing and unexceptionable.
You said what I've been formulating in my mind for some time: the actual driving performance is what matters, not arbitrary levels of some particular chemical in one's bloodstream. I know guys who can drive so well, that even fairly impaired, they're easily better than other guys I know stone cold sober. Not to mention the cops should actually be noticing something wrong with one's driving rather than "papers please"ing everyone who is dumb enough to drive on an arbitrary street at an arbitrary time.
The whole DUI hysteria in this country is out of control and has been for some time. The very fact that we have "checkpoints" for any purpose should set off alarm bells in everyone's Police State detector. But here we are, allowing it to continue for decade after decade, saying "oh well, the Supreme Court decided to disregard the Bill Of Rights, so I guess we're stuck with them" when the "nice" office hands us the pamphlet explaining that the very wrong thing you are seeing is all perfectly legal.
And all that's not even to mention that the technology being presented in TFA is undermined by things like the fact that US currency shows traces of lots of drugs anyway. So much for the wonders of police using devices intended to incriminate you for possession of a particular molecule.
I think you're inventing ways not to understand. The quality of being "pricy" depends entirely on one thing -- the price. Something that has a price of $200 is therefore twice as pricy as something that has a price of $100. I don't know how anyone could interpret this any other way.
Well, if you like, they could do it the other way around: put a tax of some sort on the extraction. Then use the money to set up local public goods (facilities, improvements, services, whatever).
Correction: they love to track technology as long as it doesn't help an ordinary citizen. My wife was a victim in an armed holdup of a shop and its customers (of which she was one). Among the stolen items was her cell phone. I tried with the cops, the cell service provider, and the cell 911 people to get someone to track her phone while they still probably had it. No one gave a crap nor lifted a finger to help.
I was going to say that my reader weighs 11g and do the math, but I like your idea better.