Yeah. I noticed that too. I didn't think it was very representative.. for a number of reasons. Normally when use the phone in the car I'm stuck in traffic not dodging cones. If I do end up dodging cones I end up having to ask the person the other end to repeat after aforementioned cone dodging is done.
Their manifesto reads like a laundry list of liberal platitudes.
Rather than advocating liberty by the likes of our founding fathers, Acton, Hayek, Paine, and others, they chant mindless Marxist quotes. This movement is creepy. They think they are fighting for "Freedom for the %99" but all they are doing advocating their own oppression. Their chants for "fairness" are nothing but hallow. They don't want fairness, they want a handout.
Read their manifesto. Covered up Inactive Ingredients? Are you kidding me? Education is a human right.. that no body should pay for? Undermined farmland through monopolization? Nonhuman animals?
And their solution to this.. is to give the government more power? Yeah. Great idea, there kids. They deny reality.
To meet any of their objectives means using force to coerce people to behave a way they other wise wouldn't (education mandates, different pay schemes, less free work laws, stronger privacy laws, etc) and if they are appeased it would only end up with even greater cronyism. They frame every problem entirely incorrectly.
The goal needs to be strip away power from government. That is the solution to cronyism. To give them more laws and regulation WILL just result in more cronyism and more "corporate and state" power.
In other news, the bottom %99 decide the top %1 should pay for their government services. This is the downfall of democracy.
I can only imagine the shock and awe when it only generates %1 of the revenue they expect as the flood of shell companies and offshore activity spikes.
Did you know that already the united state and north korea are the only two countries that take based on citizenship and not residency? Argh.
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
How in the world does a law forbidding teachers from being friends with students meet that criteria?
You can thank your politicians for that. They love to do trade-protection by standards. So many special rules for cars coming into Australia. It is just stupid.
I'm in an odd spot on this one. I'm against any net neutrality legislation or regulation by the FCC, but I don't want to see congress acting on net neutrality either (even to prevent future regulation). I'd rather the government just stop and wait and see if any big problems arise. Don't legislate to prevent a future problem. I have trouble believing players like Comcast have dramatically more power than players like Netflix and Google. People won't be happy if their Netflix streaming doesn't work right on Comcast/FiOS/whatever.
Actually.. if you actually read Ayn there plenty of the rich scum-sucking leeches in Atlas Shrugged. In Atlas Shrugged the rich scum sucking leeches were the ones who wants to use gamesmanship in Washington to make their fortunes. While the scum suckers don't get as much attention, you get the feeling in the book they out number the non-scum sucking.
That's not to say I don't disagree with Ayn Rand about MANY, MANY things because wow -- I do. But I really think she did nail the way Washington corporate gamesmanship leads to poverty and loss of freedom. Read Atlas Shrugged and I think you'll be surprised.
I do hate the way she conflates money as some sort of store of happiness, but she certainly has some good points if you can get through the bad.
You must never buy tickets from reseller sites. If the scalpers over purchase (and they often do) you can buy the tickets REALLY cheap right before the game/show. If you wait to the last second, you can often find them for 1/5th the list price.
Let's suppose virtually no one was drinking prior to the year 2000. Now let's say you have %50+ of the population drinking and driving. The total number of traffic fatalities over that period of time fall dramatically. Can you seriously make an argument for banning drinking and driving? No. Yet this is exactly what has happened with talking/texting with driving.
I would be sympathetic to the experiments showing it be dangerous if the huge experiment of "texting and driving on a large scale" hadn't already been done and been found to be "eh, not that big of a deal." Thats not to say its not dangerous. But so is changing the radio, A/C settings, looking at the distracting billboard, etc...
Lot wasn't saved from the destruction by the angel. He was saved by grace. The angel was sent to get him out so that the Lord could judge Sodom. Remember Abraham going before the Lord, "What if there were 50 righteous? 25? 10?" Eventually Abraham stops at 10. However, the angel is sent to get Lot and his family out of Sodom so God could judge Sodom. The point being God will not punish the righteous, even one, but will deliver them.
Ohh.. playing with electricity... Reminds me of around 11 when I got a used neon sign transformer.. 30,000 volts of zapping power.. I was melting anything I could find. When you would turn the thing on all of the dust in the room would go zooming. Sometimes I seriously can't believe I played with that thing.. I'm not sure I want to know what 500 watts or so at 30 or 40kV would have done to me had I accidentally touched the live wires.. Man that was awesome though...
Having lived in Australia, I think I can provide some insight into their political culture from an American perspective. Remember there was no war for independence in Australia. It was a cordial departure from the UK empire.
I think our violent departure from England, caused us to forge a philosophical basis in freedom codified in our constitution. This does not exist in Australia. They are not hostile about their government. They want their government to respond to everything. They are much more open to wealth redistribution schemes. They also have immense natural resources that help fund the welfare state. I also believe their parliamentary system which is based very strongly on party compliance (and there is no independent executive branch) encourages a nanny-state. Don't even get me started on the tyrannical and petty dictators that are the local councils. They all seem to have used Chicago as a template for governance.
That being said, I love Australia. It is an absolutely beautiful place. The mountains, the rain forests, the beaches, and sun-scorched outback -- all amazing. They are also some really fun people. Much more laid back than the US. I do hope they get a more libertarian streak before their freedoms are permanently eroded, though:)
I wonder why BP doesn't offer a bounty for the leaking oil. $500/bbl. My guess if you did that, you'd see an awful lot of creative ways to retrieve that oil.
Just FYI.. these laws are typically known as "liars law" because they do not allow lying politicians, sales men, or anyone else under any circumstances (even for hidden camera stings the press might want to pursue).
You don't think corporations will find ways to support their causes? Through lobbyists, PACs, etc? Or do you want to crack down on that too? Such that, then will have just a black market of lobbyists.
You don't think they don't already give unlimited sums of money through PACs and lobbyists? The only change is now it will be more above board and we'll know who is supporting what.
Of course it might have... But if everything is staying about the same.. it can't be as "zomg scary" as the media makes it out to be. I think its highly likely people would just find other ways to drive less safely to achieve the same amount of risk on the road ways.
I think we have enough useless laws as it stands. Prohibition of communication should be low on the priority list, in my not so humble opinion.
The number of cell phones in use as exponentially increased in the last decade. Where is the graph showing fatalities going through the roof due to this? Oh whats that? They've actually slightly went down?
Maybe its not such a big deal after all. Maybe the government should just.. ya know.. do nothing.
I didn't think the FCC had much authority over the internet. It's not like its radio waves here. The FCC can't regulate mail or bulletin boards. What statute gives them authority to do this?
Can I suggest you contact your local ACORN office? They can help you set up a tax dodge for the island and probably arrange women through their contacts in Tijuana...
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Yeah. I noticed that too. I didn't think it was very representative.. for a number of reasons. Normally when use the phone in the car I'm stuck in traffic not dodging cones. If I do end up dodging cones I end up having to ask the person the other end to repeat after aforementioned cone dodging is done.
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Their manifesto reads like a laundry list of liberal platitudes.
Rather than advocating liberty by the likes of our founding fathers, Acton, Hayek, Paine, and others, they chant mindless Marxist quotes. This movement is creepy. They think they are fighting for "Freedom for the %99" but all they are doing advocating their own oppression. Their chants for "fairness" are nothing but hallow. They don't want fairness, they want a handout.
Read their manifesto. Covered up Inactive Ingredients? Are you kidding me? Education is a human right.. that no body should pay for? Undermined farmland through monopolization? Nonhuman animals?
And their solution to this.. is to give the government more power? Yeah. Great idea, there kids. They deny reality.
To meet any of their objectives means using force to coerce people to behave a way they other wise wouldn't (education mandates, different pay schemes, less free work laws, stronger privacy laws, etc) and if they are appeased it would only end up with even greater cronyism. They frame every problem entirely incorrectly.
The goal needs to be strip away power from government. That is the solution to cronyism. To give them more laws and regulation WILL just result in more cronyism and more "corporate and state" power.
In other news, the bottom %99 decide the top %1 should pay for their government services. This is the downfall of democracy.
I can only imagine the shock and awe when it only generates %1 of the revenue they expect as the flood of shell companies and offshore activity spikes.
Did you know that already the united state and north korea are the only two countries that take based on citizenship and not residency? Argh.
It seems like no one cares about freedom anymore.
I wish I had mod points for once. :/ Someone mod this up. The only comment I've seen in this thread with actual logic and data behind it.
The Supreme Court has always ruled that the first amendment also applies to the states (rightly or wrongly).
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
How in the world does a law forbidding teachers from being friends with students meet that criteria?
You can thank your politicians for that. They love to do trade-protection by standards. So many special rules for cars coming into Australia. It is just stupid.
I'm in an odd spot on this one. I'm against any net neutrality legislation or regulation by the FCC, but I don't want to see congress acting on net neutrality either (even to prevent future regulation). I'd rather the government just stop and wait and see if any big problems arise. Don't legislate to prevent a future problem. I have trouble believing players like Comcast have dramatically more power than players like Netflix and Google. People won't be happy if their Netflix streaming doesn't work right on Comcast/FiOS/whatever.
Actually.. if you actually read Ayn there plenty of the rich scum-sucking leeches in Atlas Shrugged. In Atlas Shrugged the rich scum sucking leeches were the ones who wants to use gamesmanship in Washington to make their fortunes. While the scum suckers don't get as much attention, you get the feeling in the book they out number the non-scum sucking.
That's not to say I don't disagree with Ayn Rand about MANY, MANY things because wow -- I do. But I really think she did nail the way Washington corporate gamesmanship leads to poverty and loss of freedom. Read Atlas Shrugged and I think you'll be surprised.
I do hate the way she conflates money as some sort of store of happiness, but she certainly has some good points if you can get through the bad.
You must never buy tickets from reseller sites. If the scalpers over purchase (and they often do) you can buy the tickets REALLY cheap right before the game/show. If you wait to the last second, you can often find them for 1/5th the list price.
Let's suppose virtually no one was drinking prior to the year 2000. Now let's say you have %50+ of the population drinking and driving. The total number of traffic fatalities over that period of time fall dramatically. Can you seriously make an argument for banning drinking and driving? No. Yet this is exactly what has happened with talking/texting with driving.
I would be sympathetic to the experiments showing it be dangerous if the huge experiment of "texting and driving on a large scale" hadn't already been done and been found to be "eh, not that big of a deal." Thats not to say its not dangerous. But so is changing the radio, A/C settings, looking at the distracting billboard, etc...
You can use the command line switches of chrome (--proxy-server), which is kind of awkward but not too bad. http://www.chromeplugins.org/tips-tricks/chrome-command-line-switches/
Lot wasn't saved from the destruction by the angel. He was saved by grace. The angel was sent to get him out so that the Lord could judge Sodom. Remember Abraham going before the Lord, "What if there were 50 righteous? 25? 10?" Eventually Abraham stops at 10. However, the angel is sent to get Lot and his family out of Sodom so God could judge Sodom. The point being God will not punish the righteous, even one, but will deliver them.
Ohh.. playing with electricity... Reminds me of around 11 when I got a used neon sign transformer.. 30,000 volts of zapping power.. I was melting anything I could find. When you would turn the thing on all of the dust in the room would go zooming. Sometimes I seriously can't believe I played with that thing.. I'm not sure I want to know what 500 watts or so at 30 or 40kV would have done to me had I accidentally touched the live wires.. Man that was awesome though...
Having lived in Australia, I think I can provide some insight into their political culture from an American perspective. Remember there was no war for independence in Australia. It was a cordial departure from the UK empire.
I think our violent departure from England, caused us to forge a philosophical basis in freedom codified in our constitution. This does not exist in Australia. They are not hostile about their government. They want their government to respond to everything. They are much more open to wealth redistribution schemes. They also have immense natural resources that help fund the welfare state. I also believe their parliamentary system which is based very strongly on party compliance (and there is no independent executive branch) encourages a nanny-state. Don't even get me started on the tyrannical and petty dictators that are the local councils. They all seem to have used Chicago as a template for governance.
That being said, I love Australia. It is an absolutely beautiful place. The mountains, the rain forests, the beaches, and sun-scorched outback -- all amazing. They are also some really fun people. Much more laid back than the US. I do hope they get a more libertarian streak before their freedoms are permanently eroded, though :)
I wonder why BP doesn't offer a bounty for the leaking oil. $500/bbl. My guess if you did that, you'd see an awful lot of creative ways to retrieve that oil.
Just FYI.. these laws are typically known as "liars law" because they do not allow lying politicians, sales men, or anyone else under any circumstances (even for hidden camera stings the press might want to pursue).
So what happens when you make it a crime to give political donations? Only criminals make political donations :P Its so true its sad.
You don't think corporations will find ways to support their causes? Through lobbyists, PACs, etc? Or do you want to crack down on that too? Such that, then will have just a black market of lobbyists.
It's like the "War on Political Speech"
You don't think they don't already give unlimited sums of money through PACs and lobbyists? The only change is now it will be more above board and we'll know who is supporting what.
Of course it might have... But if everything is staying about the same.. it can't be as "zomg scary" as the media makes it out to be. I think its highly likely people would just find other ways to drive less safely to achieve the same amount of risk on the road ways.
I think we have enough useless laws as it stands. Prohibition of communication should be low on the priority list, in my not so humble opinion.
The number of cell phones in use as exponentially increased in the last decade. Where is the graph showing fatalities going through the roof due to this? Oh whats that? They've actually slightly went down?
Maybe its not such a big deal after all. Maybe the government should just.. ya know.. do nothing.
I didn't think the FCC had much authority over the internet. It's not like its radio waves here. The FCC can't regulate mail or bulletin boards. What statute gives them authority to do this?
Can I suggest you contact your local ACORN office? They can help you set up a tax dodge for the island and probably arrange women through their contacts in Tijuana...