If we have another "war" or "military action" we need to demand the draft. Perhaps when the 1%'s and the politicians children are being maimed and killed, they might pause before committing us to more warmongering.
Not likely. More likely, the kids of the 1% will just go to school in Europe and stay there at the European subsidary's office until they pass draft age. Back in the day, during Vietnam, the only 1% kids we saw in uniform were officers. The 'enlisteds' were all middle class & lower class kids.
Yes. As they put it during Project Mercury, "No Bucks, no Buck Rogers." Well, the reverse is true, as well.
It's also nice to have a mechanic onhand to fix minor breakdowns. Sure beats having to send 250,000 miles for parts. We got a lot of mileage out of the Mars rovers. We could have gotten even more from them if there was a mechanic onsite to fix the glitches that showed up right after deployment.
Otherwise, why haven't we covered the Moon in rover tracks by now? It is much easier than controlling them on Mars, after all, and probably easier to land them (although no aerobraking might compensate for the lighter gravity). Likewise, they could have dispersed a wide net of sensors around it, instead of depending on the few left from the Apollo landings.
We gave up our high orbital capability with the Shuttle program. Everything else in NASA was pared back to feed the military's white elephant. If you'd ask a scientist at JPL during the Shuttle's heyday if they wanted to send probes to the Moon or to Mars, but not both, they'd tell you, send it someplace other than the Moon, we've already been there, we need probes places we've never been. Thus the Mars Rovers and our chunk of the Cassini mission, et al. It's a question of funding. When the funding comes in dribbles, you prioritize. When the Congresscritters cut your funding back, you cut missions. And the Congresscritters think going back to the Moon is a waste of time.
And, of course, the real expense is getting to High Earth Orbit. After that, as some hard SF writer put it, you are half way to anywhere. At least in delta-V terms.
Your recourse, of course, if their terms are unsatisfying to you, is to take your business elsewhere. This creates a system of checks and balances that keeps it from spiraling hopelessly out of control.
Another great idea in theory, not so great in practice. In my apartment building, I'm stuck with Time-Warner. Nobody else will even come by once I tell them the address.
Don't get me wrong, this is bad too as there's no accountability for sending faulty C&D letters, and I doubt there's going to be much of an appeals process.
There is no 'appeal' from corporate actions. This isn't a legal action in that there are no judges or courts involved. This is vigilante injustice on the wild wild internet, where the corporados are trying to make the internet safe for profitibility and paid content delivery.
I should also point out that my cable contract contains none of these provisions. Maybe it's fine for new accounts, but I will hold them to my existing contract.
What, no 'Terms and conditions are subject to change without notice or warning' in your contract? Your ISP must be slipping, every ISP contract I've seen has such a clause.
Back in the day, when BSA was first started, Microsoft had the largest market share and market cap of all tech companies. This was back before the dot-com bubble even thought about getting started.
Because the images of even cartoon kids having sex will so enflame any reader, they'll want to go have sex with kids. It's kind of like that one episode of Penn & Teller Bullshit! where they had this supposed anthropologist, Dr Gail Dynes, giving lectures on porn with the slant that porn will cause rapes. She made a statement on camera condemning porn of women who shave, claiming that men who prefer shaved women 'better not have daughters or there'll be hell to pay', even though she admitted she had no evidence, studies, or even rumors to sustantiate her claims. This in spite of both the 1968 report of the President's Commision on Pornography and Obscenity and the Meese Commission report that said there is no link between porn and any deviant or criminal sexual behaviour.
Insider trading is fraud. Most of the time, when insiders trade, is that somebody on the 'outside' gets skinned and cleaned of their hard earned savings. It's a way to scam the market, just like those 'pump and dump' emails we get spammed with, just another way to find more suckers to finance your 3rd yacht and 5th vacation house. It's illegal for a reason, and if 'nobody gets hurt', it wouldn't be, not with the kind of money they're talking about.
You can argue semantics all you want, but the base argument is very simple and straight forward: Should you be allowed to take another person's efforts and do whatever you want with them?
If I buy a DVD and rip it to my computer, I'm a pirate. No matter that I bought the disc and now 'own' it. Doesn't matter if my digital copy ever leaves my computer even if I keep my physical copy locked up in my house next to my computer. I'm now considered a pirate, subject to that $250,000 fine and 5 years in prison. At least the older DVDs with the warning label it as 'copyright infringement' rather than 'theft'. The studios want this cut and dried. No format shifting without paying an additional fee for that digital copy. That means you can't save a tv show on your DVR then transfer it to your computer to clean it up and save it til you get the DVDs to rip. Not legal. 'Fair use' for them means you save it to your DVR, watch ONCE with commercials intact, then erase the copy.
It's easier and safer to track down and prosecute file sharers than it is terrorists. For one thing, the file sharers rarely shoot back. They also tend to have fixed permenant addresses easy to look up through their ISP's records. You can easily bust a couple hundred a day without breaking a sweat, whereas finding, tracking, and arresting Real Live Terrorrorrorrorrists is a whole 'nuther parable. And the Terrorrorrorrorrists tend to shoot back.
The problem is, the Federal Reserve isn't a government organisation, it's a private bank that only caters to other banks. What the US needs to do, first and foremost, is take back control of its money again.
Being a kid of the 50's, I didn't get a Social Security card until I enlisted in the Army. I was 17. 10 years later, my kids got issued Social Security numbers at birth. When I asked why, I was told 'Oh, that's in case their mom wants to go on welfare or something'.
It's been 10 years since we've had this bumper-sticker in Canada: "War on terror or war of terror?"... and you're just figuring it out?
Pretty much, yeah. But keep in mind that most 'foreign' news or thoughts we hear about are things that tend to prop up the regime. On 9/11, the media was all about whipping up the American public to go 'kill some camel jockeys', but only ONE mention of the 100,000 people who gathered together in a park in downtown Tehran to pray for the American victims of the bombings.
More like, I toss some cardboard away and somebody makes a sign out of it to carry at a protest rally condemning $RANDOM_GOVERNMENT_POLICY and they come and arrest me for facilitating tresspassing.
I'm in more danger of the cops busting down my door and shooting me than I ever was of some random terrorist busting down my door and blowing me up. Kinda puts it into perspective, doesn't it?
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Not likely. More likely, the kids of the 1% will just go to school in Europe and stay there at the European subsidary's office until they pass draft age. Back in the day, during Vietnam, the only 1% kids we saw in uniform were officers. The 'enlisteds' were all middle class & lower class kids.
Sounds like they've revived an old Chicago tradition - vote early, vote often.
Heh. Moscow drivers have nothing on Cleveland drivers. Their cars are probably in better shape as well.
It's also nice to have a mechanic onhand to fix minor breakdowns. Sure beats having to send 250,000 miles for parts. We got a lot of mileage out of the Mars rovers. We could have gotten even more from them if there was a mechanic onsite to fix the glitches that showed up right after deployment.
We gave up our high orbital capability with the Shuttle program. Everything else in NASA was pared back to feed the military's white elephant. If you'd ask a scientist at JPL during the Shuttle's heyday if they wanted to send probes to the Moon or to Mars, but not both, they'd tell you, send it someplace other than the Moon, we've already been there, we need probes places we've never been. Thus the Mars Rovers and our chunk of the Cassini mission, et al. It's a question of funding. When the funding comes in dribbles, you prioritize. When the Congresscritters cut your funding back, you cut missions. And the Congresscritters think going back to the Moon is a waste of time.
Heinlein.
Another great idea in theory, not so great in practice. In my apartment building, I'm stuck with Time-Warner. Nobody else will even come by once I tell them the address.
There is no 'appeal' from corporate actions. This isn't a legal action in that there are no judges or courts involved. This is vigilante injustice on the wild wild internet, where the corporados are trying to make the internet safe for profitibility and paid content delivery.
What, no 'Terms and conditions are subject to change without notice or warning' in your contract? Your ISP must be slipping, every ISP contract I've seen has such a clause.
I'd kill for some mod points right now.
Hell, I'd buy Disney DVDs for mod points right now...
More like, masturbation without the payoff.
Back in the day, when BSA was first started, Microsoft had the largest market share and market cap of all tech companies. This was back before the dot-com bubble even thought about getting started.
Because the images of even cartoon kids having sex will so enflame any reader, they'll want to go have sex with kids. It's kind of like that one episode of Penn & Teller Bullshit! where they had this supposed anthropologist, Dr Gail Dynes, giving lectures on porn with the slant that porn will cause rapes. She made a statement on camera condemning porn of women who shave, claiming that men who prefer shaved women 'better not have daughters or there'll be hell to pay', even though she admitted she had no evidence, studies, or even rumors to sustantiate her claims. This in spite of both the 1968 report of the President's Commision on Pornography and Obscenity and the Meese Commission report that said there is no link between porn and any deviant or criminal sexual behaviour.
Microsoft is the big player in BSA.
That 'image' you're holding? It's a balloon animal with a Groucho Marx face drawn on it with magic marker.
The link between /. commenters and intelligent human beings?
Insider trading is fraud. Most of the time, when insiders trade, is that somebody on the 'outside' gets skinned and cleaned of their hard earned savings. It's a way to scam the market, just like those 'pump and dump' emails we get spammed with, just another way to find more suckers to finance your 3rd yacht and 5th vacation house. It's illegal for a reason, and if 'nobody gets hurt', it wouldn't be, not with the kind of money they're talking about.
It's easier and safer to track down and prosecute file sharers than it is terrorists. For one thing, the file sharers rarely shoot back. They also tend to have fixed permenant addresses easy to look up through their ISP's records. You can easily bust a couple hundred a day without breaking a sweat, whereas finding, tracking, and arresting Real Live Terrorrorrorrorrists is a whole 'nuther parable. And the Terrorrorrorrorrists tend to shoot back.
The Federal Reserve Act was passed in 1913. All but Kennedy were killed years before it was enacted.
The problem is, the Federal Reserve isn't a government organisation, it's a private bank that only caters to other banks. What the US needs to do, first and foremost, is take back control of its money again.
Being a kid of the 50's, I didn't get a Social Security card until I enlisted in the Army. I was 17. 10 years later, my kids got issued Social Security numbers at birth. When I asked why, I was told 'Oh, that's in case their mom wants to go on welfare or something'.
Pretty much, yeah. But keep in mind that most 'foreign' news or thoughts we hear about are things that tend to prop up the regime. On 9/11, the media was all about whipping up the American public to go 'kill some camel jockeys', but only ONE mention of the 100,000 people who gathered together in a park in downtown Tehran to pray for the American victims of the bombings.
More like, I toss some cardboard away and somebody makes a sign out of it to carry at a protest rally condemning $RANDOM_GOVERNMENT_POLICY and they come and arrest me for facilitating tresspassing.
I'm in more danger of the cops busting down my door and shooting me than I ever was of some random terrorist busting down my door and blowing me up. Kinda puts it into perspective, doesn't it?
As Walt Kelly of 'Pogo' fame once wrote, 'We have met the enemy, and it is us.'
Waiting for the copyright police to arrest me for that...
'The Time Machine'. Are you Eloi or Morlock?