Not anymore. Several court cases completely shot this down. Some cops in isolated areas might not have gotten the message yet. About a half dozen people have been "charged" with it, but no one that I know was convicted. From your own link:
“Cell phones are so pervasive,” the prosecutor said, “that recording something that occurs in public raises a question of whether or not it’s unlawful. If I’m convinced this was a public encounter that just happened to be recorded, I probably will not proceed with the prosecution. The facts will probably bear out that it was not a private one-on-one conversation.”
Remember back in the good ole' days when it was not only the right, but the responsibility of every individual to police the community in which they lived. Then there used to be stacks of rifles at the end of the church pews. Going a mile from your home without carrying a rifle was shirking your responsibilities to the rest of the community...
i want to see this for fast food to. What you get out of the bag is no where CLOSE to what you get served. Discovery channel did a great show about it. It takes several days to put together a picture of a big mac and fries. Airbrushed, bun molds, glue....
I love milestone billing.. The project is $10. I'll give you $2 when you accomplish this, $2 when you finish that... Don't care if it takes 20 minutes or 5 years...
I'm confused.. Can you recheck my post and show me where I said which group was doing what? Why did you assume I was talking about OWS on student loans?
How do you lower middle class tax rates? You would have to go to zero. Check the forms. $50,000/year 2 kids. ZERO FEDERAL TAX LIABILITY. I'll do you one better, they actually GET A REFUND OF $48. Now, let's go to extremes.. Go ahead, tax the millionairs as suggested.. I'm okay with that. Let's go really rediculous and tax them at 100% of thier total income and take all thier property, you come up with about 700 billion dollars. Now what? You need twice that to break even.
Here is a clue that most people miss as well. Companies don't pay taxes, never have, never will. Raise the tax rate on a company, they raise prices to the consumer. Okay, now we've delt with those evil rich people and the evil companies. How should be cover the other 700 billion? Wait, did you actually believe that raising the tax rate on the rich would even the deficit? Really? Have you ever looked at what raising the tax rate to 50% would actually bring in? Do you think that's air your breathing now? And on the subject of Rush.. He's on in the afternoons. I'm at work during that time, don't get a chance to listen.
Let me hit on the oil company subsidies... Since you obviously haven't done any homework, let me help you out. Often times those CEO's are sitting in front of congress and have repeatedly stated they no longer need ethenol subsidies. They are perfectly fine with removing any subsidies as long as it's removed from ALL oil companies in the United States. Betcha didn't know that there are hundreds of oil companies, not just three. Democrats want to remove subsidies from SPECIFIC COMPANIES, not the "oil industry". Tell me one thing you NEED that isn't/can't be provided. I would bet all you come up with is WANTS. In that spirit, how would you define spoiled little bitch?
Half the country pays no taxes. so yes, it's free as in beer. Go to the emergency room on any given day.. people in there with the sniffles while my daughter with a broken collar bone has to wait two hours. Reasonable price for reasonable service? This is well after the fact that you signed a piece of paper agreeing to $60k in debt in exchange for a diploma. You got your diploma, what are you complaning about?
I agree that college tuition is way to high and frankly not worth it. I also have a significant income with zero time in college. Didn't see any protests against colleges. I did see people with Abercrombie clothes, Northface jackets, hitting Facebook and twitter on thier IPADS protesting businesses...
OWS really had something in the beginning, then they were drowned out with all the spoiled little bitches. They forgot that everyone is willing to cover thier needs, not thier wants.
Did you typo that? Seems completely backwards. One group is for smaller, less intrusive government, period. Another group want someone else to pay thier student loans, free healthcare, not willing to start at the bottom and work thier way up. Generally want somone else to support them. Probably recieved "participation trophies" at sporting events where scores are not recorded. One group booked/paid for venues. They actually applied for, and recieved permits. The areas they used were cleaned and maintained aftewards. The other group had rapes, death toll, clashes will police officers, hundreds, perhaps thousand of arrest. Significant drug usage, seriously dangerous sanitary conditions, outbreaks of disease and illegally occupying private property (including bolt cutting thier way into houses/churches/parkinglots and disrupting business. Causing several million dollars in damage and police overtime. All that time asking for corperate sponsership.
Notice I didnt say which group was which.. I'll let you folks decide. Can help me out though, you said destructive.. Can't remember, which group was throwing malatov cocktails at police?
You get food, shelter, clothing, heating/cooling, an Xbox, a car and a little discretion cash.. In return, you are required to vote for your slave owner...
I served on a aircraft carrier pulling into Italy when Greenpeace showed up. There is nothing, I mean nothing more gratifying than watching a Greenpeace guy in his little rubber raft, coming at your carrier with a spray paint can. watching the look on his face as the 2.5" hose actually lifts him out of the raft.. He went up before he went down into the water.. Man that was fun. I only got to watch though.. sigh.
My brother did something similar. The company he contracted to kept 20% of his pay in reserve. If he stayed for 1 year, he got all that money back. If he left before, he forfiet...
He was pulling $140,000 as opposed to $90 in the states. Not bad for construction.
The US hasn't been planning in quite some time. Right now it's triage. If a non-breathing patient has a broken leg, setting the leg is not the priority. Doesn't mean the leg is not something that needs tended to. You really want torked off? You just paid (providing you pay taxes) $1,000,000 for a broadband soap opera.
Stick this in your liberal calculator and tell me the good part.
National Debt: $15,036,314,111,245. Debt per citizen: 48,091. Federal tax revenue:2,301,711,482,223. Interest owed on the money we've borrowed: 3,707,333,123,767. US unfunded liabilities, $116,504,482,873,453. No, wait for it.. that's not the scary number..
US total debt: $54.5 TRILLION DOLLARS for a nice little sum of $174,252 for each and everyone of us. The debt went up 7 million dollars while i typed this... Good luck hippie, your gonna need it.
The funny, and yet sad part of your thought process is that you do not even understand your own argument: Scan through wikipedia on the word "inflation".
"Economists generally agree that high rates of inflation and hyperinflation are caused by an excessive growth of the money supply.[6] "
In other words, printing money to pay for something you can't afford leads to inflation. Let me help you with that math. Spending more than you take in is bad. X-Y=Z If Z is a negative number, it's bad. If you use your 7% visa to pay off your 7% mastercard, you haven't actually paid any of your debt, AND your still down 7%.
Math isn't socialism. it's just easy to point out socialism with math. Before this post, where did you think inflation came from? Go one step further and lookup hyper inflation. Most government entitlements are automatically adjusted for inflation (social security, etc).. If the economy goes to shit, people won't be getting $1,200 checks, they will be getting $30,000 checks. Check out germany, inflation went into the THOUSANDS of percent in days.... Now, go hug your tree and tell everyone "it's impossible in the United States".
While what your saying is true, you missed the context. 1. The purpose. In the event of an economic, or other major disaster, most forms of communication will go offline in a just a few days, 3 weeks tops. I can't run down to the pawn shop and buy a phone to talk to someone else. It needs an infrastructure, which won't be available. Compare HAM to any other form of communication and the regulations pale in comparison. Again, the biggest point, in the context of the subject line, is no infrastructure required... Anyone in the HAM for Survival midset has power covered...
Perhaps reading the news and realizing that the world is pretty much skrewed... That even if we elect the most qualified and selfless leaders that it may be too late to "fix things"? The number of folks planning for the worst is increasing at an exponetial level..
It's a problem with defenition: They(defense) are slated for an 8% increase in funding. A 6% cut as suggested means that the defense spending only *goes up* 2%... No plan out there actually REDUCES spending, it just reduces the increase in spending. Same with medicare/medicade.
Understand that most of what they are talking about is reductions in spending INCREASES, not cuts, ala Military. In the current lingo: You spend $100 in 2011, you planned to spend $125 in 2012. If you only spend $100 in 2012, it's called a 25% cut in the military... In most cases (by default), government spending goes up by 8% per year. If it only increase 4%, every screams "cut my program by 4%". Again, all of this rests on the ASSUMPTION that we have a budget, which we do not. The United States has not passed a budget in about 3 years...
And there it is... ISP: We don't provide access to this area because they can't afford it. Congress: You are against minorities. ISP: We can't afford it. Congress: Here is a subsidy. Americans (looking at w-2): WTF? Congress: We need to cut defense.
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It's not like I have the option to pay it or not...
Thanks for that, I'm going to have to slaughter a pig to get that visual out of my head. As a matter of fact, I now hate you.
Not anymore. Several court cases completely shot this down. Some cops in isolated areas might not have gotten the message yet. About a half dozen people have been "charged" with it, but no one that I know was convicted. From your own link: “Cell phones are so pervasive,” the prosecutor said, “that recording something that occurs in public raises a question of whether or not it’s unlawful. If I’m convinced this was a public encounter that just happened to be recorded, I probably will not proceed with the prosecution. The facts will probably bear out that it was not a private one-on-one conversation.”
Remember back in the good ole' days when it was not only the right, but the responsibility of every individual to police the community in which they lived. Then there used to be stacks of rifles at the end of the church pews. Going a mile from your home without carrying a rifle was shirking your responsibilities to the rest of the community...
i want to see this for fast food to. What you get out of the bag is no where CLOSE to what you get served. Discovery channel did a great show about it. It takes several days to put together a picture of a big mac and fries. Airbrushed, bun molds, glue....
oowwww, does someone have more than you? You poor thing.
I love milestone billing.. The project is $10. I'll give you $2 when you accomplish this, $2 when you finish that... Don't care if it takes 20 minutes or 5 years...
I'm confused.. Can you recheck my post and show me where I said which group was doing what? Why did you assume I was talking about OWS on student loans? How do you lower middle class tax rates? You would have to go to zero. Check the forms. $50,000/year 2 kids. ZERO FEDERAL TAX LIABILITY. I'll do you one better, they actually GET A REFUND OF $48. Now, let's go to extremes.. Go ahead, tax the millionairs as suggested.. I'm okay with that. Let's go really rediculous and tax them at 100% of thier total income and take all thier property, you come up with about 700 billion dollars. Now what? You need twice that to break even. Here is a clue that most people miss as well. Companies don't pay taxes, never have, never will. Raise the tax rate on a company, they raise prices to the consumer. Okay, now we've delt with those evil rich people and the evil companies. How should be cover the other 700 billion? Wait, did you actually believe that raising the tax rate on the rich would even the deficit? Really? Have you ever looked at what raising the tax rate to 50% would actually bring in? Do you think that's air your breathing now? And on the subject of Rush.. He's on in the afternoons. I'm at work during that time, don't get a chance to listen. Let me hit on the oil company subsidies... Since you obviously haven't done any homework, let me help you out. Often times those CEO's are sitting in front of congress and have repeatedly stated they no longer need ethenol subsidies. They are perfectly fine with removing any subsidies as long as it's removed from ALL oil companies in the United States. Betcha didn't know that there are hundreds of oil companies, not just three. Democrats want to remove subsidies from SPECIFIC COMPANIES, not the "oil industry". Tell me one thing you NEED that isn't/can't be provided. I would bet all you come up with is WANTS. In that spirit, how would you define spoiled little bitch?
Half the country pays no taxes. so yes, it's free as in beer. Go to the emergency room on any given day.. people in there with the sniffles while my daughter with a broken collar bone has to wait two hours. Reasonable price for reasonable service? This is well after the fact that you signed a piece of paper agreeing to $60k in debt in exchange for a diploma. You got your diploma, what are you complaning about? I agree that college tuition is way to high and frankly not worth it. I also have a significant income with zero time in college. Didn't see any protests against colleges. I did see people with Abercrombie clothes, Northface jackets, hitting Facebook and twitter on thier IPADS protesting businesses... OWS really had something in the beginning, then they were drowned out with all the spoiled little bitches. They forgot that everyone is willing to cover thier needs, not thier wants.
That's republicans, not tea party... Good try though, sometimes folks that don't do thier homework miss that.
Did you typo that? Seems completely backwards. One group is for smaller, less intrusive government, period. Another group want someone else to pay thier student loans, free healthcare, not willing to start at the bottom and work thier way up. Generally want somone else to support them. Probably recieved "participation trophies" at sporting events where scores are not recorded. One group booked/paid for venues. They actually applied for, and recieved permits. The areas they used were cleaned and maintained aftewards. The other group had rapes, death toll, clashes will police officers, hundreds, perhaps thousand of arrest. Significant drug usage, seriously dangerous sanitary conditions, outbreaks of disease and illegally occupying private property (including bolt cutting thier way into houses/churches/parkinglots and disrupting business. Causing several million dollars in damage and police overtime. All that time asking for corperate sponsership. Notice I didnt say which group was which.. I'll let you folks decide. Can help me out though, you said destructive.. Can't remember, which group was throwing malatov cocktails at police?
You get food, shelter, clothing, heating/cooling, an Xbox, a car and a little discretion cash.. In return, you are required to vote for your slave owner...
I served on a aircraft carrier pulling into Italy when Greenpeace showed up. There is nothing, I mean nothing more gratifying than watching a Greenpeace guy in his little rubber raft, coming at your carrier with a spray paint can. watching the look on his face as the 2.5" hose actually lifts him out of the raft.. He went up before he went down into the water.. Man that was fun. I only got to watch though.. sigh.
My brother did something similar. The company he contracted to kept 20% of his pay in reserve. If he stayed for 1 year, he got all that money back. If he left before, he forfiet... He was pulling $140,000 as opposed to $90 in the states. Not bad for construction.
The US hasn't been planning in quite some time. Right now it's triage. If a non-breathing patient has a broken leg, setting the leg is not the priority. Doesn't mean the leg is not something that needs tended to. You really want torked off? You just paid (providing you pay taxes) $1,000,000 for a broadband soap opera.
Assuming the EU exists.... Hope your talking about Germany...
Watch the attempted connections to any machine on a public IP. Probably takes about 20 minutes to get an IP from every country in the world.
Not when you have to pay compounded interest on the money you borrowed to pay for it.
Stick this in your liberal calculator and tell me the good part. National Debt: $15,036,314,111,245. Debt per citizen: 48,091. Federal tax revenue:2,301,711,482,223. Interest owed on the money we've borrowed: 3,707,333,123,767. US unfunded liabilities, $116,504,482,873,453. No, wait for it.. that's not the scary number.. US total debt: $54.5 TRILLION DOLLARS for a nice little sum of $174,252 for each and everyone of us. The debt went up 7 million dollars while i typed this... Good luck hippie, your gonna need it.
The funny, and yet sad part of your thought process is that you do not even understand your own argument: Scan through wikipedia on the word "inflation". "Economists generally agree that high rates of inflation and hyperinflation are caused by an excessive growth of the money supply.[6] " In other words, printing money to pay for something you can't afford leads to inflation. Let me help you with that math. Spending more than you take in is bad. X-Y=Z If Z is a negative number, it's bad. If you use your 7% visa to pay off your 7% mastercard, you haven't actually paid any of your debt, AND your still down 7%. Math isn't socialism. it's just easy to point out socialism with math. Before this post, where did you think inflation came from? Go one step further and lookup hyper inflation. Most government entitlements are automatically adjusted for inflation (social security, etc).. If the economy goes to shit, people won't be getting $1,200 checks, they will be getting $30,000 checks. Check out germany, inflation went into the THOUSANDS of percent in days.... Now, go hug your tree and tell everyone "it's impossible in the United States".
While what your saying is true, you missed the context. 1. The purpose. In the event of an economic, or other major disaster, most forms of communication will go offline in a just a few days, 3 weeks tops. I can't run down to the pawn shop and buy a phone to talk to someone else. It needs an infrastructure, which won't be available. Compare HAM to any other form of communication and the regulations pale in comparison. Again, the biggest point, in the context of the subject line, is no infrastructure required... Anyone in the HAM for Survival midset has power covered...
Perhaps reading the news and realizing that the world is pretty much skrewed... That even if we elect the most qualified and selfless leaders that it may be too late to "fix things"? The number of folks planning for the worst is increasing at an exponetial level..
It's a problem with defenition: They(defense) are slated for an 8% increase in funding. A 6% cut as suggested means that the defense spending only *goes up* 2%... No plan out there actually REDUCES spending, it just reduces the increase in spending. Same with medicare/medicade.
Understand that most of what they are talking about is reductions in spending INCREASES, not cuts, ala Military. In the current lingo: You spend $100 in 2011, you planned to spend $125 in 2012. If you only spend $100 in 2012, it's called a 25% cut in the military... In most cases (by default), government spending goes up by 8% per year. If it only increase 4%, every screams "cut my program by 4%". Again, all of this rests on the ASSUMPTION that we have a budget, which we do not. The United States has not passed a budget in about 3 years...
And there it is... ISP: We don't provide access to this area because they can't afford it. Congress: You are against minorities. ISP: We can't afford it. Congress: Here is a subsidy. Americans (looking at w-2): WTF? Congress: We need to cut defense.