Better hope and pray that you are not required to follow the same maintenance schedules and procedures like aircraft are, else you likely couldn't afford to own a car. There is a world of difference in what you can get by with when owning a car compared to what a plane has to comply with.
At this point i'd like to recommend you practicing basic reading comprehension. No, pretty sure i don't confuse engine braking with the handbrake. Me not mentioning handbrakes at all gives a slight clue regarding this matter. My point is, you won't even be able to get the 1st gear engaged at any considerable speed (and if your do manage it, you destroy the engine (as you point out, supporting my point), likely destroying whatever was dissipating the energy before.
I'd like to point out that damaging the engine is not a big concern when it is you risking life and limb because of brake failure verses trying to slow down. There is a high probability that in order to come to a stop, you will end up crashing into something in either case. The difference will be how fast and how much energy is involved in the crash to minimize your risk of serious injury or death. I would say it would be even better if it caused the engine to blow a rod and locked up because then you could feather the clutch in order to stop the car without sliding the drive tires. That is the most likely event if you ever drop from 4th or 5th into 1st gear- the driven tires will skid and you likely would lose control. If they are the front tires, you lose steering, if the rear, they try to swing around in front of you.
As for the car doors, I agree the windows are the best options. I keep a spark plug in the glove box specifically just in case something like that might happen. It will shatter a window with little effort. they actually make devices designed to do the same. I think they come with a razor sharp knife for cutting a seat belt too.
I guess the PPACA is too then right? You are seeming like you are inventing things and treating them as if they were real. Have you seen a doctor or anything for this condition? I know it will require an ID, but I hear this Obamacare stuff is supposed to be affordable- if that helps.
Lol.. It doesn't matter if voter fraud is non-existant or not. The claim that it disenfranchises minorities still hasn't been answered to how or why it does that.
As for voter ID, if the voter registration process accurately validated addresses and other information and was checked between districts or states, I could agree with you. But it doesn't and I don't really care about any empirical evidence you think you need to see first. There is a case for it, there might be a case against it. So far your position seems to be it's a hassle but it is no more of a hassle (actually quite less of one) then opening a bank account, applying for government assistance, buying fingernail polish remover in some states, even the Obamacare will require an ID in order to get coverage and treatment which nullifies the entire racist arguments.
Apart from the fact that I don't have an account, making the "need" to post AC fairly trivial, your attempt to redefine terms is still missing one important piece: evidence of your proposition.
Whether intelligent people are more likely liberal because they're "not smart", and "smart" people regardless of "intelligence"
Well, isn't that conveinient- especially when it is free to join..lol
Anyways, I do not believe I said anyone is not smart, I said something starts happening when they get smarter. What happens if they often start using the logic of tried and true instead of emotion to validate their positions. That is the key different between liberal conservative. Or should I have put that progressive verses conservative as most political labels seem to cross now. Almost all left political positions stem from emotion.
Who said anything about racism? It's established by data that election tampering is more prevalent in the Republican party. You're the one ascribing motive to that and making the unsupported claim that there's a legitimate fear of fraudulent votes, "always" for Democratic candidates, that somehow undermine the results of elections. There's no evidence of any kind that election fraud is an actual problem on any meaningful scale, let alone that your crackpot theory is justified in pinning it on Democrats.
I want to see data on that. Or more specifically, the data you claim established that fact. Anyways, you are right, you didn't say anything about racism, it just seems to be the entire mem when voter ID comes about and I did post that is what the republicans are afraid of.
Whether you're mean or not is irrelevant. What you are is intellectually dishonest and devoid of evidence for your claims.
Incorrect and completely twisted. I guess if you say it enough though, you will start believing it yourself right?
The scientific consensus on the matter is that higher educational and intellectual achievement is associated with two trends: higher incidence of liberalism and secondarily, a higher incidence of centrism (likely due to the mixed perspectives on economic regulation). Basically, every trend direction except what you proposed.
Bullshit..lol. As I said, neither study you linked to is relevant to what I posted. And talk about intellectually dishonest and devoid of evidence for your claims, you are making a lot more out of what the articles you linked to actually say.
If you want to craft a definition of "smart" that positively correlates with an increase in "Republican" sentiment, we're all ears for your data, but both parts of that assertion are not backed by any evidence. In fact, even among conservatives, trends toward identifying as Republican is problematic.
Ok, listen, words have meaning. Smart is one word with a specific meaning, smarter is another word with a specific meaning. While smarter lines up with smart, the er portion makes it more then just smart. Now, if you ask who is smart, then we have to look at the original sentence, "the smarter a person gets". So if we look at a person getting smarter, we are actually looking at a person competing with themselves. Lets through a wild ball here and assume it is over time too. I mean that would only be logical because someone cannot be smart and smarter then themselves at the same time can they? So we look at what happens when someone ages and gets smarter then they used to be, well, we see the old white man party AKA the republicans.
But hey, feel free to take crap out of context and make it sound however you want. It really isn't that important.
hmm... So one encompasses the other therefore the other is equal to the one. I think you lost yourself. If smart is more then intelligence, then intelligence alone would fall short of smart.
Read what you wrote and think about it. You are saying X+1=y therefore y=X.
Anyone who thinks logically about something before inserting emotion, tend to come to conclusions that don't favor anything but reality (even if it is slightly distorted). It isn't until emotion is put into the arguments that your observations can even be made. You see, your statement is almost entirely reliant upon emotion which is more of a description then any fact. Ashamed, greedy, self interest, poor and needy, disenfranchised are all examples of emotion that doesn't come into play when you are just processing facts. So lets look at your statement with the emotion removed a bit.
"that the more wealth someone acquires, the more they are about voting to keep their ability to acquire wealth, and the less they are to vote against it."
Now does that sound like something logical a person would do or tend to want to do before letting emotion override facts? If you are making $60k a year, you certainly are not going to directly vote for anything that causes you to be fired or take a pay cut, you may even vote for something that would encourage your job security. But once you put emotion into the mix, you might sacrifice your job and position to help out someone with less than you. I suggest you donate to a charity and help that person become as successful as you instead but to each their own. It's the old hand up verses hand out question.
They want you to have ID so that the masses who for some reason don't have ID can't vote.
And who are these masses and why cannot they produce an ID? I mean every voter ID laws I have seen allows bank statements with addressed on them, credit card statements, utility and electric bills, cable bills, and so on as the ID required. I mean some of the states even went as far as to offer free state IDs that you need in those states to get welfare benefits and similar things.
So what specific is inherent in these people you claim are targeted for disenfranchisement that they cannot produce something to prove their identity and residency?
Wow.. Just wow. I understand your need to post AC after all that. Smart does not equal intelligence. They are not the same things. Intelligence is the ability to learn new things and concepts and smart is the ability to use or apply what you already learned. Answering a comment about someone or something being smart with a post about intelligence is the opposite of smart.
And for your attempt to link racism with voter ID laws, you fail big time there too. Unless you can show that voter ID is racists in that somehow minorities are not capable of getting IDs or something and the republicans know this, all you are doing is mud slinging in hopes that it distracts enough from the issue presented that your concept wins out. I don't even think it qualifies as a straw man tactic either because it relies on a complete fallacy that you failed to connect to the concept presented in order to exaggerate the concept out. In short, you just applied the equivalent of "nuh uh, your mean so I win". This is something I would say lacks both intelligence and smarts.
New voters are a democratic conspiracy to undermine stone age republican thought (lol). You have time yet to mature.
You should stick to what was said and ignore what wasn't said. I never said anything of this sort- I said they want to make sure the people voting- whether new voters or existing voters, it doesn't matter- are in fact who they claim they are when casting a vote. It really is that simple and has nothing to do with being a new or existing voter, it has everything to do with being the voter you claim you are.
Going to college doesn't make you smart or stupid. It allows you to learn and you can become smart or remain just as stupid. You are a fool if you think you know it all when you leave college or that just by showing up, you are somehow smarter. When it teaches liberalism, the people will end up being more liberal, when those fresh out of college kids end up learning something in the real world, they gravitate back- even if they remain identifying as liberal or democrat.
What is racist about ID laws? As far as I know, you need ID in some state to purchase fingernail polish remover (due to it's use in making meth) and no one seems to think that is designed to stop minorities from getting it.
So what is it about a minority that they cannot produce an ID to prove they are who they claim they are when casting a vote in an election? I mean seriously, in order for it to be racists, there would have to be some inherent flaw in minorities getting IDs in the first place. And as far as I know, the voter ID laws allow bills like utility and electric or credit cards and bank statements that have your current address on it to act as ID for the purposes of voting so it isn't even a matter of needing to go to some government office with specific paperwork and pay $5 or something.
As for Gerrymandered districts, they will never be fixed. They cannot be fixed. It is a flaw in the entire redistricting system that says only X amount of people in each district. It will either be one party or the other with an advantage- even if you set out to keep the districts politically similar as what was before.
Your biggest problem is in counting on a strong federal government in order to implement your will. That is never likely to happen because you will be competing with over 250 million others in at least 50 other states (depending on if you want to count DC's honorary representatives or not). This is why the federal government was originally limited in it's roles and everything else was left up to the states. You are competing with a fraction of the same amount of people in order to get your ideals and policy wishes recognized and chances are that people around you will have similar goals and concepts. You can control the state and local legislation much easier then the federal and you can whip enough people into a frenzy in order to replace your representatives on a state and local level if they do wrong.
Instead, for some odd reason, people think the federal government is the end all and they are the ones who have to do anything and everything but when they do not, it is because they aren't listening to anyone- even if the only ones thinking the way you do are around you and not in the rest of the country.
Nah, it isn't that at all. Many people who would vote for republicans frequent the interweb and even this site. Generally, the smarter a person gets, the more republican they tend to lean in ideology even if they insist on remaining democrats or liberals. And before anyone marks that down, I said lean as in their positions tend towards but doesn't necessarily hit. Many people will find their natural position on any given topic will lean in a direction they don't consider to be the democratic or republican and will correct their initial assessment once they find out what others in their favored side state.
What they fear is- and why they won't allow it is that the people who don't vote will end up casting a vote anyways and it will always be for the democrats running. That is why they want ID of some sort to be presented when you cast your vote- to prove you are who you say you are and not the guy who got you to register knowing you would be too stoned to get off the couch and go vote on election day.
I see. That sucks big time too. I heard NY's library system is a good one too. You probably already tried, but maybe if you contact the right person high enough in the governing board of the library, you can find a way to work around it. Perhaps with a criminal background abstract or something, the police will have a real address on it, even if they send it to a PO Box as one of their favorite things is trying to keep records on people's addresses if they ever need to find them.
I'm assuming you can get a card with some sort of mail to your regular address in order to prove you live there. The answer is somewhat simple, just ask the utility company to send you something directly to your house. If your mail doesn't go there because the postal service refuses to deliver, then have something sent to a friends house in your name like a magazine subscription. They will send a bill in your name to the friends house and you should receive it if the post office doesn't refuse to deliver it (they have refused to deliver mail in my area with different last names going to the same address unless you put in an address correction or call and bitch enough first).
One other thing you could try is to have a friend mail a letter to your street address, it will get post marked and likely returned to sender, then have them place that in another envelope and mail it to your PO Box or just give it to you. I ran into a similar problem in the 90s and the magazine trick worked for me.
It's likely due to people not having e-readers, computers, internet and the likes. Also, if the books are on their devices, they can implement DRM controls and disable content if it is checked out too long without renewing it.
But it might be interesting to see if frequent users couldn't purchase an E reader from the library and update content from the internet. That might be something that if it isn't already possible, the future might hold.
Also, a bona fide library (traditionally requiring a building) enjoys certain exemptions from copyright law in the pursuit of lending books. Some of them can be found here. There may be some books that are reference by nature and aren't allowed to be lent out like regular books might be. In my area, you can copy the portions of the books you need for reference and take the copy with you or you can take notes and return it to the shelves. repair manuals, how too books, encyclopedias and other nonfiction reference materials come to mind. For about 2 years in the late 80's, I think the only time I went to the library was to look up how to fix a junker car I owned and photo copies of the repair manuals cost me 5 cents a copy. It is easier with the internet and tablets now, but then again, I ruined a kindle fire by smearing grease all over the touch screen while trying to turn the page.
start building a mine and China drops the price of rare earths until you give up. They can even sell below cost knowing that they can ratchet up the price later to make back any losses.
I think that is one of the purposes behind laws saying supplies must be sourced in America or specific close allies. It is to guarantee a supply to some extent by mandating a buyer when it isn't profitable for on the open market. In a closed system like that, even if it costs 10 times as much, they can charge 10 times as much simply because the cheaper alternatives are supposed to be off limits.
As for a kill switch, what if the magnet was configured in a way that allows a certain high frequency radio transmission of a certain strength to either cause it to shatter or emit a background noise that makes the component it is used in useless (sort of like an RFID works). I don't know exactly how practical that would be in operation but I doubt it is completely impossible.
Heh.. imagine magnets with RFIDs built into them and sending a strong enough signal generates enough frequency inside the shielded parts to cause enough interference that the parts no longer work properly.
I know that sounds insane, but think about it. It could effectively achieve a back door of sorts if it was possible. Just attach a strong microwave transmitter to your surface to air missile and boom. It would be like having the VT fuses on anti aircraft guns in WWII.
I used to make fun of a neighbor who had steel plates and compressed fiberglass panels installed around the doors on the interior of his home. I've put aluminum plates on doors before to stop the dogs from scratching them to hell when we have to lock them in a room or when leaving and they want to follow but I figured the guy was just paranoid or something.
It wasn't until his passing from natural causes that I learned his job dealt with buying and selling jewels and he often brought them home with him. I guess it was common for him to have close to a million dollars in various diamonds, rings, gold, and other things in the house at any time. He never told anyone about his job or why he installed the stuff but the plates and fiberglass panels was to stop bullets being fired through the doors from hitting him while making it to a panic room. He also had a panic room with a safe inside it. The interesting thing is that his home was in a moderate income neighborhood. Not to many people in our neighborhood made more then 80k or so a year household income. Most of them were 60k or less. I guess his security was in part looking as if he didn't have anything of value.
The interesting thing is that congress actually controls the courts to a degree. So if there ever was a threat that made domestic resources critical or likely critical, congress can simply pass a law forbiding the courts from taking lawsuits up concerning any aspects with recovering those resources.
This was done with the NSA spying back in the Bush years when it was revealed that the telecoms were helping the NSA intercept phone calls. The interesting part is that the lawsuits being brought against the telecoms and government were over constitutional violations and congress simply said no court can hold a case pertaining to the operation.
Of course it would take some sort of clairvoyance in order for congress to act and actually have the ability to recover the resources when needed as the operations usually take years to get recovering usable amounts.
While Slashdot-tards might be annoying, they do not have the power of law over your life. If you are trying to equate the two (slashdot readers commenting without reading and lawmakers passing laws they didn't read), you couldn't be more wrong. Your kid not doing their homework doesn't affect me. You getting a news paper only because you need lining for your birdcages and never reading anything doesn't affect me. By default, every single law passed does affect me because in the US, we are presumed to be allowed to do anything as long as a law doesn't disallow it. That is what is known as freedom- you can act unless a law prevents you from doing so. So by default, any law passed takes freedom from you -even if you didn't or never would use it, even if it gives you something you couldn't otherwise afford, it takes some freedom away.
Not reading the laws before passing them is orders of magnitude worse then some random stranger making snark remarks about something they are completely clueless about due to their own intellectual laziness and not reading the story.
Well, actually, saying he was from America is a lie. He is either from the US, North America, Central America, or South America. The continents aren't just America, they are North, South and Central with central being a geographic region instead of a continent.
As for coming from the United States, that is almost a lie because it is the United Mexican States in the English translations but in a raw Spanish to English, it is literally the states united Mexico (Estados Unidos Mexicanos). So the United and States portion is completely out of order in either way you attempt to look at it. It is like getting pulled over for drinking and driving and telling the officer you only had 1 or 2 beers a few hours ago and completely ignoring the 3 or 4 you had a few minutes ago. It is purposely misleading which sort of does make it a lie since he knows full well about how it misleads.
That being said, I'm glad he is having fun with it. It's just that when you actually examine the situation, you realize that is all he is doing- having fun with other people's ignorance.
I think work sinilar to this has already started/been done. Except they were studying the effects of dreaming about activities. I saw something on pbs about it. Supposedly there was a game or several games, a group played them while another group read about playing them. In both groups, above average scores were achived when played again if the participant reported dreaming about playing the games. Their brain scans showed changs jn the brain too.
Perhaps it has to engage the imagination to make the changes. Maybe the study i'm thinking of was looking at something else. Their conclusions were that dreams amounted to mental practice or something like that.
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Better hope and pray that you are not required to follow the same maintenance schedules and procedures like aircraft are, else you likely couldn't afford to own a car. There is a world of difference in what you can get by with when owning a car compared to what a plane has to comply with.
I'd like to point out that damaging the engine is not a big concern when it is you risking life and limb because of brake failure verses trying to slow down. There is a high probability that in order to come to a stop, you will end up crashing into something in either case. The difference will be how fast and how much energy is involved in the crash to minimize your risk of serious injury or death. I would say it would be even better if it caused the engine to blow a rod and locked up because then you could feather the clutch in order to stop the car without sliding the drive tires. That is the most likely event if you ever drop from 4th or 5th into 1st gear- the driven tires will skid and you likely would lose control. If they are the front tires, you lose steering, if the rear, they try to swing around in front of you.
As for the car doors, I agree the windows are the best options. I keep a spark plug in the glove box specifically just in case something like that might happen. It will shatter a window with little effort. they actually make devices designed to do the same. I think they come with a razor sharp knife for cutting a seat belt too.
http://dailycaller.com/2013/10/15/obamacares-id-restrictions-and-liberal-voting-rights-hypocrisy/
I guess the PPACA is too then right? You are seeming like you are inventing things and treating them as if they were real. Have you seen a doctor or anything for this condition? I know it will require an ID, but I hear this Obamacare stuff is supposed to be affordable- if that helps.
Lol.. It doesn't matter if voter fraud is non-existant or not. The claim that it disenfranchises minorities still hasn't been answered to how or why it does that.
As for voter ID, if the voter registration process accurately validated addresses and other information and was checked between districts or states, I could agree with you. But it doesn't and I don't really care about any empirical evidence you think you need to see first. There is a case for it, there might be a case against it. So far your position seems to be it's a hassle but it is no more of a hassle (actually quite less of one) then opening a bank account, applying for government assistance, buying fingernail polish remover in some states, even the Obamacare will require an ID in order to get coverage and treatment which nullifies the entire racist arguments.
Well, isn't that conveinient- especially when it is free to join..lol
Anyways, I do not believe I said anyone is not smart, I said something starts happening when they get smarter. What happens if they often start using the logic of tried and true instead of emotion to validate their positions. That is the key different between liberal conservative. Or should I have put that progressive verses conservative as most political labels seem to cross now. Almost all left political positions stem from emotion.
I want to see data on that. Or more specifically, the data you claim established that fact. Anyways, you are right, you didn't say anything about racism, it just seems to be the entire mem when voter ID comes about and I did post that is what the republicans are afraid of.
Incorrect and completely twisted. I guess if you say it enough though, you will start believing it yourself right?
Bullshit..lol. As I said, neither study you linked to is relevant to what I posted. And talk about intellectually dishonest and devoid of evidence for your claims, you are making a lot more out of what the articles you linked to actually say.
Ok, listen, words have meaning. Smart is one word with a specific meaning, smarter is another word with a specific meaning. While smarter lines up with smart, the er portion makes it more then just smart. Now, if you ask who is smart, then we have to look at the original sentence, "the smarter a person gets". So if we look at a person getting smarter, we are actually looking at a person competing with themselves. Lets through a wild ball here and assume it is over time too. I mean that would only be logical because someone cannot be smart and smarter then themselves at the same time can they? So we look at what happens when someone ages and gets smarter then they used to be, well, we see the old white man party AKA the republicans.
But hey, feel free to take crap out of context and make it sound however you want. It really isn't that important.
hmm... So one encompasses the other therefore the other is equal to the one. I think you lost yourself. If smart is more then intelligence, then intelligence alone would fall short of smart.
Read what you wrote and think about it. You are saying X+1=y therefore y=X.
Anyone who thinks logically about something before inserting emotion, tend to come to conclusions that don't favor anything but reality (even if it is slightly distorted). It isn't until emotion is put into the arguments that your observations can even be made. You see, your statement is almost entirely reliant upon emotion which is more of a description then any fact. Ashamed, greedy, self interest, poor and needy, disenfranchised are all examples of emotion that doesn't come into play when you are just processing facts. So lets look at your statement with the emotion removed a bit.
"that the more wealth someone acquires, the more they are about voting to keep their ability to acquire wealth, and the less they are to vote against it."
Now does that sound like something logical a person would do or tend to want to do before letting emotion override facts? If you are making $60k a year, you certainly are not going to directly vote for anything that causes you to be fired or take a pay cut, you may even vote for something that would encourage your job security. But once you put emotion into the mix, you might sacrifice your job and position to help out someone with less than you. I suggest you donate to a charity and help that person become as successful as you instead but to each their own. It's the old hand up verses hand out question.
And who are these masses and why cannot they produce an ID? I mean every voter ID laws I have seen allows bank statements with addressed on them, credit card statements, utility and electric bills, cable bills, and so on as the ID required. I mean some of the states even went as far as to offer free state IDs that you need in those states to get welfare benefits and similar things.
So what specific is inherent in these people you claim are targeted for disenfranchisement that they cannot produce something to prove their identity and residency?
Wow.. Just wow. I understand your need to post AC after all that. Smart does not equal intelligence. They are not the same things. Intelligence is the ability to learn new things and concepts and smart is the ability to use or apply what you already learned. Answering a comment about someone or something being smart with a post about intelligence is the opposite of smart.
And for your attempt to link racism with voter ID laws, you fail big time there too. Unless you can show that voter ID is racists in that somehow minorities are not capable of getting IDs or something and the republicans know this, all you are doing is mud slinging in hopes that it distracts enough from the issue presented that your concept wins out. I don't even think it qualifies as a straw man tactic either because it relies on a complete fallacy that you failed to connect to the concept presented in order to exaggerate the concept out. In short, you just applied the equivalent of "nuh uh, your mean so I win". This is something I would say lacks both intelligence and smarts.
New voters are a democratic conspiracy to undermine stone age republican thought (lol). You have time yet to mature.
You should stick to what was said and ignore what wasn't said. I never said anything of this sort- I said they want to make sure the people voting- whether new voters or existing voters, it doesn't matter- are in fact who they claim they are when casting a vote. It really is that simple and has nothing to do with being a new or existing voter, it has everything to do with being the voter you claim you are.
Going to college doesn't make you smart or stupid. It allows you to learn and you can become smart or remain just as stupid. You are a fool if you think you know it all when you leave college or that just by showing up, you are somehow smarter. When it teaches liberalism, the people will end up being more liberal, when those fresh out of college kids end up learning something in the real world, they gravitate back- even if they remain identifying as liberal or democrat.
What is racist about ID laws? As far as I know, you need ID in some state to purchase fingernail polish remover (due to it's use in making meth) and no one seems to think that is designed to stop minorities from getting it.
So what is it about a minority that they cannot produce an ID to prove they are who they claim they are when casting a vote in an election? I mean seriously, in order for it to be racists, there would have to be some inherent flaw in minorities getting IDs in the first place. And as far as I know, the voter ID laws allow bills like utility and electric or credit cards and bank statements that have your current address on it to act as ID for the purposes of voting so it isn't even a matter of needing to go to some government office with specific paperwork and pay $5 or something.
As for Gerrymandered districts, they will never be fixed. They cannot be fixed. It is a flaw in the entire redistricting system that says only X amount of people in each district. It will either be one party or the other with an advantage- even if you set out to keep the districts politically similar as what was before.
Your biggest problem is in counting on a strong federal government in order to implement your will. That is never likely to happen because you will be competing with over 250 million others in at least 50 other states (depending on if you want to count DC's honorary representatives or not). This is why the federal government was originally limited in it's roles and everything else was left up to the states. You are competing with a fraction of the same amount of people in order to get your ideals and policy wishes recognized and chances are that people around you will have similar goals and concepts. You can control the state and local legislation much easier then the federal and you can whip enough people into a frenzy in order to replace your representatives on a state and local level if they do wrong.
Instead, for some odd reason, people think the federal government is the end all and they are the ones who have to do anything and everything but when they do not, it is because they aren't listening to anyone- even if the only ones thinking the way you do are around you and not in the rest of the country.
Nah, it isn't that at all. Many people who would vote for republicans frequent the interweb and even this site. Generally, the smarter a person gets, the more republican they tend to lean in ideology even if they insist on remaining democrats or liberals. And before anyone marks that down, I said lean as in their positions tend towards but doesn't necessarily hit. Many people will find their natural position on any given topic will lean in a direction they don't consider to be the democratic or republican and will correct their initial assessment once they find out what others in their favored side state.
What they fear is- and why they won't allow it is that the people who don't vote will end up casting a vote anyways and it will always be for the democrats running. That is why they want ID of some sort to be presented when you cast your vote- to prove you are who you say you are and not the guy who got you to register knowing you would be too stoned to get off the couch and go vote on election day.
I see. That sucks big time too. I heard NY's library system is a good one too. You probably already tried, but maybe if you contact the right person high enough in the governing board of the library, you can find a way to work around it. Perhaps with a criminal background abstract or something, the police will have a real address on it, even if they send it to a PO Box as one of their favorite things is trying to keep records on people's addresses if they ever need to find them.
I'm assuming you can get a card with some sort of mail to your regular address in order to prove you live there. The answer is somewhat simple, just ask the utility company to send you something directly to your house. If your mail doesn't go there because the postal service refuses to deliver, then have something sent to a friends house in your name like a magazine subscription. They will send a bill in your name to the friends house and you should receive it if the post office doesn't refuse to deliver it (they have refused to deliver mail in my area with different last names going to the same address unless you put in an address correction or call and bitch enough first).
One other thing you could try is to have a friend mail a letter to your street address, it will get post marked and likely returned to sender, then have them place that in another envelope and mail it to your PO Box or just give it to you. I ran into a similar problem in the 90s and the magazine trick worked for me.
It's likely due to people not having e-readers, computers, internet and the likes. Also, if the books are on their devices, they can implement DRM controls and disable content if it is checked out too long without renewing it.
But it might be interesting to see if frequent users couldn't purchase an E reader from the library and update content from the internet. That might be something that if it isn't already possible, the future might hold.
Also, a bona fide library (traditionally requiring a building) enjoys certain exemptions from copyright law in the pursuit of lending books. Some of them can be found here. There may be some books that are reference by nature and aren't allowed to be lent out like regular books might be. In my area, you can copy the portions of the books you need for reference and take the copy with you or you can take notes and return it to the shelves. repair manuals, how too books, encyclopedias and other nonfiction reference materials come to mind. For about 2 years in the late 80's, I think the only time I went to the library was to look up how to fix a junker car I owned and photo copies of the repair manuals cost me 5 cents a copy. It is easier with the internet and tablets now, but then again, I ruined a kindle fire by smearing grease all over the touch screen while trying to turn the page.
I think that is one of the purposes behind laws saying supplies must be sourced in America or specific close allies. It is to guarantee a supply to some extent by mandating a buyer when it isn't profitable for on the open market. In a closed system like that, even if it costs 10 times as much, they can charge 10 times as much simply because the cheaper alternatives are supposed to be off limits.
As for a kill switch, what if the magnet was configured in a way that allows a certain high frequency radio transmission of a certain strength to either cause it to shatter or emit a background noise that makes the component it is used in useless (sort of like an RFID works). I don't know exactly how practical that would be in operation but I doubt it is completely impossible.
Heh.. imagine magnets with RFIDs built into them and sending a strong enough signal generates enough frequency inside the shielded parts to cause enough interference that the parts no longer work properly.
I know that sounds insane, but think about it. It could effectively achieve a back door of sorts if it was possible. Just attach a strong microwave transmitter to your surface to air missile and boom. It would be like having the VT fuses on anti aircraft guns in WWII.
There have been many other opportunities to impeach the Commander in Chief should congress actually have the stones to do so.
They haven't so they will not. I understand you are trying to be derisory, but at least think a bit to make the troll work.
I used to make fun of a neighbor who had steel plates and compressed fiberglass panels installed around the doors on the interior of his home. I've put aluminum plates on doors before to stop the dogs from scratching them to hell when we have to lock them in a room or when leaving and they want to follow but I figured the guy was just paranoid or something.
It wasn't until his passing from natural causes that I learned his job dealt with buying and selling jewels and he often brought them home with him. I guess it was common for him to have close to a million dollars in various diamonds, rings, gold, and other things in the house at any time. He never told anyone about his job or why he installed the stuff but the plates and fiberglass panels was to stop bullets being fired through the doors from hitting him while making it to a panic room. He also had a panic room with a safe inside it. The interesting thing is that his home was in a moderate income neighborhood. Not to many people in our neighborhood made more then 80k or so a year household income. Most of them were 60k or less. I guess his security was in part looking as if he didn't have anything of value.
The interesting thing is that congress actually controls the courts to a degree. So if there ever was a threat that made domestic resources critical or likely critical, congress can simply pass a law forbiding the courts from taking lawsuits up concerning any aspects with recovering those resources.
This was done with the NSA spying back in the Bush years when it was revealed that the telecoms were helping the NSA intercept phone calls. The interesting part is that the lawsuits being brought against the telecoms and government were over constitutional violations and congress simply said no court can hold a case pertaining to the operation.
Of course it would take some sort of clairvoyance in order for congress to act and actually have the ability to recover the resources when needed as the operations usually take years to get recovering usable amounts.
While Slashdot-tards might be annoying, they do not have the power of law over your life. If you are trying to equate the two (slashdot readers commenting without reading and lawmakers passing laws they didn't read), you couldn't be more wrong. Your kid not doing their homework doesn't affect me. You getting a news paper only because you need lining for your birdcages and never reading anything doesn't affect me. By default, every single law passed does affect me because in the US, we are presumed to be allowed to do anything as long as a law doesn't disallow it. That is what is known as freedom- you can act unless a law prevents you from doing so. So by default, any law passed takes freedom from you -even if you didn't or never would use it, even if it gives you something you couldn't otherwise afford, it takes some freedom away.
Not reading the laws before passing them is orders of magnitude worse then some random stranger making snark remarks about something they are completely clueless about due to their own intellectual laziness and not reading the story.
Well, actually, saying he was from America is a lie. He is either from the US, North America, Central America, or South America. The continents aren't just America, they are North, South and Central with central being a geographic region instead of a continent.
As for coming from the United States, that is almost a lie because it is the United Mexican States in the English translations but in a raw Spanish to English, it is literally the states united Mexico (Estados Unidos Mexicanos). So the United and States portion is completely out of order in either way you attempt to look at it. It is like getting pulled over for drinking and driving and telling the officer you only had 1 or 2 beers a few hours ago and completely ignoring the 3 or 4 you had a few minutes ago. It is purposely misleading which sort of does make it a lie since he knows full well about how it misleads.
That being said, I'm glad he is having fun with it. It's just that when you actually examine the situation, you realize that is all he is doing- having fun with other people's ignorance.
I think work sinilar to this has already started/been done. Except they were studying the effects of dreaming about activities. I saw something on pbs about it. Supposedly there was a game or several games, a group played them while another group read about playing them. In both groups, above average scores were achived when played again if the participant reported dreaming about playing the games. Their brain scans showed changs jn the brain too.
Perhaps it has to engage the imagination to make the changes. Maybe the study i'm thinking of was looking at something else. Their conclusions were that dreams amounted to mental practice or something like that.