You can pay cash in Costco, and you don't need proof of legal residency or a credit card to get membership, just $50 per year of cash or whatever it costs.
Well, if it has the side effect of preserving privacy, that's a benefit. Besides, a lot of tax money is being wasted on military murder sprees and mass incarceration. Who gives a fuck if DC gets a few shekels less?
Low-income Americans and illegal immigrants keep the good, old-fashioned, cold, hard cash economy rolling along. We should bow down, kiss their feet, and thank them for preserving payment options that are private and not subject to bankster tracking.
No. End property seizure unless it's after a criminal conviction and part of a criminal penalty. If the property is illegal to own, destroy it. If it's legal, raffle it off in some sort of public lottery game.
The poor get a break, but the middle class also gets a break compared to the rich Wall Street types in their Bentleys who have to pay $50,000 for a speeding ticket. Couch it as making the richies pay their fair share...
This just means the incentive structure of private prisons is wrong. What if you paid private prisons a bonus for every ex-con that got a gainful job, gained an HS equivalency, and didn't re-offend for x years after release?
Don't curtail personal visits. Reduce prison sentencing, get rid of victimless crimes and excessive fines for profit. Jails are only so expensive to run because they're over-crowded with people who shouldn't be locked up in the first place!
Like Skype except run by a rapacious firm that charges more per minute than international calls cost in the 90s. Progress, baby! The worst part about it? We're talking about jails, where people are held before trial. i.e. many people in jails are legally innocent of a crime.
Know what would save money? Not locking up almost 1% of your adult population, often for victimless crimes or for being unable to pay excessive fines. Start treating addiction as a disease. If it doesn't pose a danger to yourself or others, it shouldn't be the government's business what you put into your body. If it endangers yourself or others, then you should be committed for treatment, same as any other psych illness. Same goes for criminalization of sex workers (instead of going after pimps or customers). End excessive fines and policing for profit. Require fines to be proportional to income. For someone who's a poor working Joe or Jane, a $500 speeding ticket can be a week's income. For a rich person, it's pocket change, and they can probably take a few hours off of work to fight it as well.
And R's want to disenfranchise urban populations and give rural people MORE of a vote. In Presidential elections, it should be one vote/one person, not one vote/one acre.
Texas requires providing name, DOB, and address to a cop, not carrying an ID unless driving. Anyway, if a state is going to require ID for basic democratic functions like voting, then create a fuckin' infrastructure to provide the cards.
There's no reason why a DMV has to provide the ID. Every county probably has a sheriff's office or a few offices. Digital cameras are cheap. Empower local sheriff's offices to accept documents for non-driver state ID cards, take photos for the same, and send the info to the state for processing and mailing out an ID card. Not fucking hard unless the goal is to disenfranchise people by requiring ID and making it difficult to obtain.
Not all public transportation, only airlines. Amtrak doesn't check ID often if at all (they do often when buying tickets for cash, but you can use a prepaid card in one of their automated machines or print a ticket online). I've never seen a commuter railroad check ID unless you have a discount (senior/child) fare either. I can't say that buses are all that strict either.
On airlines, there's still a nice big loophole -- foreign passports are legal ID, and TSA isn't allowed to check visa status.
You can get round-trip tickets, NY to CA, for about $300 now, which is cheaper (adjusted for inflation) than they were in the 90s. If you fly Spirit and upgrade to an exit-row seat, you can even be decently comfortable for the price.
Maybe we should be rolling back the "papers please" requirements that are destroying the right to privacy in the US since 9/11. You shouldn't need to show your papers to travel on public transportation. Nor to load prepaid credit cards or buy allergy pills. Better to ditch the ID requirements than make new ones for our stinking pigs in uniform to enforce.
Obviously, but the filth don't get to have this data unless there's an accident or your car is impounded. With a wireless license-checking system, the filth would have continuous access.
Fuck self-driving cars. Fuck having to scan your papers every time you drive a car, and have it phone home for validation, probably sending your location. Leave things as they are as far as driving. Concentrate on getting alcoholics the treatment they need (health care). Use compassion, not intrusive technology that rapes everyone's privacy rights.
Actually, some liberals are proposing reducing the voting age to 16. No one has proposed increasing it to 21. As far as age of consent, "Romeo & Juliet" aka safe-harbor laws are becoming more common, where if someone is under 18 but the age difference is small, they're not liable.
Drinking, smoking, and pot being at 21 just speaks to both parties in the US having a lot of Puritanical shitstains in them.
Here's the thing about your examples... (1) Cell phones can be turned off or even left at home while going somewhere. (2) You don't have to use a crap card for most transactions -- you can pay good, old-fashioned dead-tree cash. (3) The "black boxes" generally record locally and need physical access to the car to retrieve data. Intrusive shit like OnStar isn't (at least presently) mandatory.
I guess scanners run by pig departments are an issue, but they're not as common outside of big cities as you'd think.
As far as your idea of a cryptographically signed ID, the car would know it was a signed ID. But how would it know whether the ID was stolen or revoked without phoning home to some agency or other?
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You can pay cash in Costco, and you don't need proof of legal residency or a credit card to get membership, just $50 per year of cash or whatever it costs.
Well, if it has the side effect of preserving privacy, that's a benefit. Besides, a lot of tax money is being wasted on military murder sprees and mass incarceration. Who gives a fuck if DC gets a few shekels less?
Low-income Americans and illegal immigrants keep the good, old-fashioned, cold, hard cash economy rolling along. We should bow down, kiss their feet, and thank them for preserving payment options that are private and not subject to bankster tracking.
Real cordcutters eventually all sail into the Pirate Bay. YAAAAAAAAAR!
The Pirate Bay is free -- $50 is almost basic cable pricing territory. What a joke.
"Growth" and "consumption" were historical names for serious illnesses. Stability should be prioritized over growth, and Europe is doing that well.
iTunes is ... not great. I just hope the replacement will keep the ability to play/download local music, not be chained to the "clown."
No. End property seizure unless it's after a criminal conviction and part of a criminal penalty. If the property is illegal to own, destroy it. If it's legal, raffle it off in some sort of public lottery game.
Sometimes, the law is wrong and the people who made the law are the ones who deserve prison or simply flogging to death.
The poor get a break, but the middle class also gets a break compared to the rich Wall Street types in their Bentleys who have to pay $50,000 for a speeding ticket. Couch it as making the richies pay their fair share...
This just means the incentive structure of private prisons is wrong. What if you paid private prisons a bonus for every ex-con that got a gainful job, gained an HS equivalency, and didn't re-offend for x years after release?
Not in America, anyway.
Don't curtail personal visits. Reduce prison sentencing, get rid of victimless crimes and excessive fines for profit. Jails are only so expensive to run because they're over-crowded with people who shouldn't be locked up in the first place!
And remember to degrade and humiliate them in jail, before trial, because all people merely accused of a crime are guilty as sin.
Like Skype except run by a rapacious firm that charges more per minute than international calls cost in the 90s. Progress, baby! The worst part about it? We're talking about jails, where people are held before trial. i.e. many people in jails are legally innocent of a crime.
Know what would save money? Not locking up almost 1% of your adult population, often for victimless crimes or for being unable to pay excessive fines. Start treating addiction as a disease. If it doesn't pose a danger to yourself or others, it shouldn't be the government's business what you put into your body. If it endangers yourself or others, then you should be committed for treatment, same as any other psych illness. Same goes for criminalization of sex workers (instead of going after pimps or customers). End excessive fines and policing for profit. Require fines to be proportional to income. For someone who's a poor working Joe or Jane, a $500 speeding ticket can be a week's income. For a rich person, it's pocket change, and they can probably take a few hours off of work to fight it as well.
It's not actually true, though you have to provide name/DOB/address to a cop if asked verbally.
And R's want to disenfranchise urban populations and give rural people MORE of a vote. In Presidential elections, it should be one vote/one person, not one vote/one acre.
Texas requires providing name, DOB, and address to a cop, not carrying an ID unless driving. Anyway, if a state is going to require ID for basic democratic functions like voting, then create a fuckin' infrastructure to provide the cards.
There's no reason why a DMV has to provide the ID. Every county probably has a sheriff's office or a few offices. Digital cameras are cheap. Empower local sheriff's offices to accept documents for non-driver state ID cards, take photos for the same, and send the info to the state for processing and mailing out an ID card. Not fucking hard unless the goal is to disenfranchise people by requiring ID and making it difficult to obtain.
Not all public transportation, only airlines. Amtrak doesn't check ID often if at all (they do often when buying tickets for cash, but you can use a prepaid card in one of their automated machines or print a ticket online). I've never seen a commuter railroad check ID unless you have a discount (senior/child) fare either. I can't say that buses are all that strict either. On airlines, there's still a nice big loophole -- foreign passports are legal ID, and TSA isn't allowed to check visa status.
You can get round-trip tickets, NY to CA, for about $300 now, which is cheaper (adjusted for inflation) than they were in the 90s. If you fly Spirit and upgrade to an exit-row seat, you can even be decently comfortable for the price.
Maybe we should be rolling back the "papers please" requirements that are destroying the right to privacy in the US since 9/11. You shouldn't need to show your papers to travel on public transportation. Nor to load prepaid credit cards or buy allergy pills. Better to ditch the ID requirements than make new ones for our stinking pigs in uniform to enforce.
Obviously, but the filth don't get to have this data unless there's an accident or your car is impounded. With a wireless license-checking system, the filth would have continuous access.
Fuck self-driving cars. Fuck having to scan your papers every time you drive a car, and have it phone home for validation, probably sending your location. Leave things as they are as far as driving. Concentrate on getting alcoholics the treatment they need (health care). Use compassion, not intrusive technology that rapes everyone's privacy rights.
Actually, some liberals are proposing reducing the voting age to 16. No one has proposed increasing it to 21. As far as age of consent, "Romeo & Juliet" aka safe-harbor laws are becoming more common, where if someone is under 18 but the age difference is small, they're not liable.
Drinking, smoking, and pot being at 21 just speaks to both parties in the US having a lot of Puritanical shitstains in them.
Here's the thing about your examples...
(1) Cell phones can be turned off or even left at home while going somewhere.
(2) You don't have to use a crap card for most transactions -- you can pay good, old-fashioned dead-tree cash.
(3) The "black boxes" generally record locally and need physical access to the car to retrieve data. Intrusive shit like OnStar isn't (at least presently) mandatory.
I guess scanners run by pig departments are an issue, but they're not as common outside of big cities as you'd think.
As far as your idea of a cryptographically signed ID, the car would know it was a signed ID. But how would it know whether the ID was stolen or revoked without phoning home to some agency or other?