In all fairness this falls more into the category of freedom as applied to business than as applied to citizens. And virtually all business processes are regulated to some extent. I?m completely at loss why so many Americans seem to feel that McBurger?s/Macrostiff?s/Truckarito_Inc?s/?s business model deserve the same the same civil rights as they do.
Personally I think the long haul trucking industry should be revised down to near non-existence anyway. I?m more concerned with its innate tendency to function as a form of domestic terrorism (look Ma? I used ?terrorism? in a sentence. Now I?m a patriot, too!) than with a person with actual intent to harm getting a hold of a vehicle. The additional burden of cost and endangerment that it puts on the general public (you know, the people said freedoms are supposed to apply to) is completely unacceptable. Especially when factoring in the existence of an underutilized national rail systems and flailing short haul trucking industry.
But then my take is somewhat skewed anyway. As someone foolish enough to live in the Midwest I?ve had to deal with more than my fair share of these monstrosity?s sucking up my money and jeopardizing the lives of me and mine. Every east coast port delivered Taiwanese MP3 player or Virginia based pack of cigarettes destine for the West coast crosses our roads. The west coast produced p0rn that?s so popular on Capital Hill? across us again.
And now that winter is kicking in we?ll be entering into a time of the year where you?ll be lucky to go more than two days without hearing about a semi jack knifing on the interstate. As often as not a car gets tangled up in the mess.
Fun little story. A couple days after my 13th birthday my family was caught driving in a blizzard that came in quicker than expected. Not a problem since we weren?t too far away from the relatives we were visiting. While finishing the trip we came across an accident in which a car had become stuck in a snow bank on the side of the road and while the father was trying to dig it out a semi came up behind it and, at full speed, ran over the car.
Well the weather was bad enough that the two local volunteer fire department workers that were on site were taking any help they could get. Since it could take anywhere from half an hour (if the weather was good? which it wasn?t) to several hours for an emergency crew to get there the car had to be dug out of it?s cocoon of packed snow. If only to assure that anyone left in the now ball of a car wasn?t bleeding and/or freezing to death.
Anyway 13 is plenty old enough to dig snow. So I dug.
Long story short. That was the birthday that I witnessed a woman screaming in agony from her back being broken? by being bent backwards. Any also from hearing (she didn?t see? although I did) that her three children were dead due to their heads now looking like someone tried to make pancakes by bashing a pile of tomatoes with a mallet.
Had they been hit by comparable sized car. Whiplash all around.
Since it involved a long haul? a destroyed family, quadriplegia? oh, and the semi needed to have a front tire replaced.
Pretty much every winter on top of the individual people who are maimed or killed in such accidents there?ll also be at least one comparable to, if not worse, than the one I saw.
Businesses are economic devices? nothing more. If people have issues with something as a simple as a tracking/shutdown mechanism argue it from the economic side. But from the side of a diminished personal freedom? PO-LEZE.
Now I'm not debating the erosion of rights under _Regan_, but let's not pretend that he started the ball rolling.
Have any historians managed to come up with exactly how many mixed blood illegitimate children Jefferson had? I'm guessing at least one of his slave girls might have opted for a dental plan over being tapped by their massah.
And as I understand it Washington had some pretty draconian attitudes toward cherry trees.
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In all fairness this falls more into the category of freedom as applied to business than as applied to citizens. And virtually all business processes are regulated to some extent. I?m completely at loss why so many Americans seem to feel that McBurger?s/Macrostiff?s/Truckarito_Inc?s/?s business model deserve the same the same civil rights as they do.
Personally I think the long haul trucking industry should be revised down to near non-existence anyway. I?m more concerned with its innate tendency to function as a form of domestic terrorism (look Ma? I used ?terrorism? in a sentence. Now I?m a patriot, too!) than with a person with actual intent to harm getting a hold of a vehicle. The additional burden of cost and endangerment that it puts on the general public (you know, the people said freedoms are supposed to apply to) is completely unacceptable. Especially when factoring in the existence of an underutilized national rail systems and flailing short haul trucking industry.
But then my take is somewhat skewed anyway. As someone foolish enough to live in the Midwest I?ve had to deal with more than my fair share of these monstrosity?s sucking up my money and jeopardizing the lives of me and mine. Every east coast port delivered Taiwanese MP3 player or Virginia based pack of cigarettes destine for the West coast crosses our roads. The west coast produced p0rn that?s so popular on Capital Hill? across us again.
And now that winter is kicking in we?ll be entering into a time of the year where you?ll be lucky to go more than two days without hearing about a semi jack knifing on the interstate. As often as not a car gets tangled up in the mess.
Fun little story. A couple days after my 13th birthday my family was caught driving in a blizzard that came in quicker than expected. Not a problem since we weren?t too far away from the relatives we were visiting. While finishing the trip we came across an accident in which a car had become stuck in a snow bank on the side of the road and while the father was trying to dig it out a semi came up behind it and, at full speed, ran over the car.
Well the weather was bad enough that the two local volunteer fire department workers that were on site were taking any help they could get. Since it could take anywhere from half an hour (if the weather was good? which it wasn?t) to several hours for an emergency crew to get there the car had to be dug out of it?s cocoon of packed snow. If only to assure that anyone left in the now ball of a car wasn?t bleeding and/or freezing to death.
Anyway 13 is plenty old enough to dig snow. So I dug.
Long story short. That was the birthday that I witnessed a woman screaming in agony from her back being broken? by being bent backwards. Any also from hearing (she didn?t see? although I did) that her three children were dead due to their heads now looking like someone tried to make pancakes by bashing a pile of tomatoes with a mallet.
Had they been hit by comparable sized car. Whiplash all around.
Since it involved a long haul? a destroyed family, quadriplegia? oh, and the semi needed to have a front tire replaced.
Pretty much every winter on top of the individual people who are maimed or killed in such accidents there?ll also be at least one comparable to, if not worse, than the one I saw.
Businesses are economic devices? nothing more. If people have issues with something as a simple as a tracking/shutdown mechanism argue it from the economic side. But from the side of a diminished personal freedom? PO-LEZE.
Now I'm not debating the erosion of rights under _Regan_, but let's not pretend that he started the ball rolling. Have any historians managed to come up with exactly how many mixed blood illegitimate children Jefferson had? I'm guessing at least one of his slave girls might have opted for a dental plan over being tapped by their massah. And as I understand it Washington had some pretty draconian attitudes toward cherry trees.