Oh, great. They'll genetically create Reavers while the rest of us get turned into passive vegetarian targets. Sounds to me more like the dicotomy between the Morlocks and the Eloi. We're so screwed.
When I retire, I'll probably grow and use. Lot healthier than booze which is my current option. And you don't have to smoke, you can cook with pot butter, make chocolate candy, etc. Right now random work drug tests prevent the possibility.
I remember hearing a few years back, can't remember where or when, but it was WAY pre-9/11, that the largest growing segment of crack addicts were retired males because their 'girlfriends' were cracked up and got them strung out, too. Dunno if there's any truth to it, but I wouldn't be surprised to see random drug testing to qualify you for your Social Security check someday, considering the government is bitching so much about having to pay out all that money they collected over all those years when they have a couple perfectly good wars to burn it on...
The walls of your house create an expectation of privacy,
True.
and that privacy is protected by the constitution.
Um, no it's not. Please re-read Amendment 9 again. There is nothing in the Constitution that specifically guarantees a right to privacy. It's implied of course (Amendment 9), but the cops & the courts have been ignoring the hell out of 'implied rights' lately. By this theory, I have the 'right' to demand the government support me from cradle to the grave on the grounds that my 'inalienable rights' include, life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. So far, the government has been pretty good at ignoring them in my case.
It's not connected to the internet is it? And btw, RIAA considers format shifting to be copyright infringement. You're supposed to rebuy your digital copies.
Police forces are getting more militarized by the day. Drones are just the next step. Financing is through the Feds, or by confiscation.
Of course, confiscation works better in a reasonably working economy. These days, auctioning off a siezed 'drug house' is almost useless. Nobody has the money to buy it, unless they can turn it into a strip mall.
65K for some state university, maybe. Try looking at tuition for an Ivy League school. It sure as hell is a lot more than 65K/8 years. 4 years of Harvard Medical is around half a million. You won't get the networking you'd get at an Ivy League school at some state university. And student loans tend to have higher interest rates than any other loans. You can't bankrupt out of them, either.
Also, Earth-based solar power reception is extremely inefficient. There's this thing called 'night' that means the cells won't generate a lick of power for periods between 8 and 23 hours, depending on where the array is set up. (In the subarctic, for example, you get plenty of sunlight during the summer, practically none during the winters when you need it). Better to put the cells on a satellite where you can get sunlight 23+ hours a day and microwave the power down.
Hell, hang a couple good-sized SPSes and beam the power to a laser launching system in Baja for shipping cargo to orbit.
Oh, there are jobs in the US. About 150 million of them, from flipping burgers part time to CEO of General Motors.
Problem is, there are over 300 million people in the US. Also, the jobs you really want take an advanced degree that takes 5-8 years to get plus will put you in hock to the system for the rest of your life, if you're not connected (part of the 'educational process' of that advanced degree is networking with your fellow elites to keep the Good Ol Boys network alive and kicking) or 'elite'. And unless you're connected, ethnic, or visibly disabled (companies get bonus tax breaks for disabled people), you'll not get that job you want.
Um, they were in place under Reagan as well. Look up their careers prior to Dubya and you'll find a lot of the same Usual Suspects back under Ronnie RayGun and Herbie.
The problem is, if you have no enemies, you have no reason to spend like a madman on defense. No worries, though, if the US doesn't have an enemy, they'll invent one. Fidel? Retired. Raul? Should be retired. Khadaffi? Out of power. bin Laden? Dead. Saddam? Also dead. Kim? Dead. Mao? Dead. Stalin? Dead. Hitler? Dead. Tojo? Dead. Khruschev? Dead. Kholmeni? Dead. And yeah, they even killed Che. All we have now is a bunch of third-stringers the media whips up to be 'the most evil man since $TAKEYOURPICK'. Funny how nobody ever heard of them in the US until their second-string frontman died.
Current NeoCon theory is, we can hold the terrorrorrorrists at bay only as long as we maintain constant vigilance. They'll attack the instant we let down our guard. They said it about the Soviets. Then the Soviets fell. Now the $EVILENEMY are the fundy Islamics. We must never let down our guard or we'll have to worship God at a mosque. So goes the litany. So say we all. Now get out there with the rest of the sheeple and chant 'America!! FUCK YEAH!! ' for the next 6 hours at the rally.
I need a cane to walk with. It's solid wood, except for the rubber crutch tip on it. Every time I need to fly, they tell me to surrender my cane & walk thru the metal detector. I keep tellin them, just xray the damned cane & give it back, I can't walk without it. Half the time, they handwand me afterwards and give me a patdown for good measure.
Millimeter wave I don't have a prob with. Xrays I have a prob with. Millimeter wave is just radar. No ionizing radiation. Xrays, on the other tentacle, can seriously fuck you up.
Don't they sue people anymore for false advertising?
The longer this goes on, the more I'm getting convinced that it's not about making 'us' safe from the terrorists, it's about making the terrorists safe from us.
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Oh, great. They'll genetically create Reavers while the rest of us get turned into passive vegetarian targets. Sounds to me more like the dicotomy between the Morlocks and the Eloi. We're so screwed.
I remember hearing a few years back, can't remember where or when, but it was WAY pre-9/11, that the largest growing segment of crack addicts were retired males because their 'girlfriends' were cracked up and got them strung out, too. Dunno if there's any truth to it, but I wouldn't be surprised to see random drug testing to qualify you for your Social Security check someday, considering the government is bitching so much about having to pay out all that money they collected over all those years when they have a couple perfectly good wars to burn it on...
True.
Um, no it's not. Please re-read Amendment 9 again. There is nothing in the Constitution that specifically guarantees a right to privacy. It's implied of course (Amendment 9), but the cops & the courts have been ignoring the hell out of 'implied rights' lately. By this theory, I have the 'right' to demand the government support me from cradle to the grave on the grounds that my 'inalienable rights' include, life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. So far, the government has been pretty good at ignoring them in my case.
OK, so I surfed to WSJ and looked the article over. I saw the picture of Richard Garriott with two women.
Remind me which one is the robot?
It's not so much in the US. Expect to be deported shortly.
It's not connected to the internet is it? And btw, RIAA considers format shifting to be copyright infringement. You're supposed to rebuy your digital copies.
They've been in place for years.
Be glad you're in the UK. If the cops had found a server farm in your attic in the US, they would have arrested you for illegally sharing files.
I'm surprised the cartels don't import coke and heroin with drones or RC planes.
Police forces are getting more militarized by the day. Drones are just the next step. Financing is through the Feds, or by confiscation.
Of course, confiscation works better in a reasonably working economy. These days, auctioning off a siezed 'drug house' is almost useless. Nobody has the money to buy it, unless they can turn it into a strip mall.
Dude, if you remember the 60's, you weren't there.
65K for some state university, maybe. Try looking at tuition for an Ivy League school. It sure as hell is a lot more than 65K/8 years. 4 years of Harvard Medical is around half a million. You won't get the networking you'd get at an Ivy League school at some state university. And student loans tend to have higher interest rates than any other loans. You can't bankrupt out of them, either.
They stopped believing in the TSA?
Dude, I'm still waiting for those flashbacks they promised me in the 60's.
Also, Earth-based solar power reception is extremely inefficient. There's this thing called 'night' that means the cells won't generate a lick of power for periods between 8 and 23 hours, depending on where the array is set up. (In the subarctic, for example, you get plenty of sunlight during the summer, practically none during the winters when you need it). Better to put the cells on a satellite where you can get sunlight 23+ hours a day and microwave the power down.
Hell, hang a couple good-sized SPSes and beam the power to a laser launching system in Baja for shipping cargo to orbit.
Oh, there are jobs in the US. About 150 million of them, from flipping burgers part time to CEO of General Motors.
Problem is, there are over 300 million people in the US. Also, the jobs you really want take an advanced degree that takes 5-8 years to get plus will put you in hock to the system for the rest of your life, if you're not connected (part of the 'educational process' of that advanced degree is networking with your fellow elites to keep the Good Ol Boys network alive and kicking) or 'elite'. And unless you're connected, ethnic, or visibly disabled (companies get bonus tax breaks for disabled people), you'll not get that job you want.
Um, they were in place under Reagan as well. Look up their careers prior to Dubya and you'll find a lot of the same Usual Suspects back under Ronnie RayGun and Herbie.
The problem is, if you have no enemies, you have no reason to spend like a madman on defense. No worries, though, if the US doesn't have an enemy, they'll invent one. Fidel? Retired. Raul? Should be retired. Khadaffi? Out of power. bin Laden? Dead. Saddam? Also dead. Kim? Dead. Mao? Dead. Stalin? Dead. Hitler? Dead. Tojo? Dead. Khruschev? Dead. Kholmeni? Dead. And yeah, they even killed Che. All we have now is a bunch of third-stringers the media whips up to be 'the most evil man since $TAKEYOURPICK'. Funny how nobody ever heard of them in the US until their second-string frontman died.
Current NeoCon theory is, we can hold the terrorrorrorrists at bay only as long as we maintain constant vigilance. They'll attack the instant we let down our guard. They said it about the Soviets. Then the Soviets fell. Now the $EVILENEMY are the fundy Islamics. We must never let down our guard or we'll have to worship God at a mosque. So goes the litany. So say we all. Now get out there with the rest of the sheeple and chant 'America!! FUCK YEAH!! ' for the next 6 hours at the rally.
Actually, all Osama did was write a few checks to the guys who pulled off 9-11.
Surprisingly, his checks didn't bounce for a change like they did when he was trying to help finance the Mujahadeem.
SR 93, going from Kingman AZ to Vegas, already has checkpoints on each side of Hoover Dam. And they're manned by real cops, not TSA wannabes.
I need a cane to walk with. It's solid wood, except for the rubber crutch tip on it. Every time I need to fly, they tell me to surrender my cane & walk thru the metal detector. I keep tellin them, just xray the damned cane & give it back, I can't walk without it. Half the time, they handwand me afterwards and give me a patdown for good measure.
Lead and antimony alloys. Some are jacketted with steel.
Millimeter wave I don't have a prob with. Xrays I have a prob with. Millimeter wave is just radar. No ionizing radiation. Xrays, on the other tentacle, can seriously fuck you up.
Don't they sue people anymore for false advertising?
The longer this goes on, the more I'm getting convinced that it's not about making 'us' safe from the terrorists, it's about making the terrorists safe from us.
Except that plane will never take off until you're removed by the air marshals.