I have a legitimate argument to make -- if people aren't micro-managed "for their own good", they end up being happier, less stressed, and healthier as a result. Look at outcomes (life expectancy, general health) in the US vs most of Europe, and you'll see this is the case. Should we also ban things like bicycling or skiing under 21 because under-21s "aren't fully mature" and might be hurt?
A "criminal" is what a bunch of old fucks who managed to con their way into office or onto a judge's bench say is a criminal. You're a good citizen today, but you might become a criminal tomorrow. Thus, I'm all for making the job of the government harder and more onerous. The more cracks in the system there are, the harder it is for them to become completely overbearing.
Honestly, it's idiocy to want to control every fucking iota of people's lives, you little statist snit. Outcomes (life expectancies and other measures of health) are generally better in Europe than the US. Why? Because a controlled society is a stressed society, and a stressed society is an unhealthy one. Let people have their vices, don't try to micro-manage.
How does this "solve" anything of that type? Plastic ID can already be "verified" with the appropriate agency, but generally requires appearance in person to obtain. This doesn't require a personal appearance, just obtaining the appropriate credentials to log in to the app, nor is it biometric.
This is actually LESS secure than a paper ID. This being said, with the US justice and immigration systems being as fucked up and harsh as they are, I actually support criminals being able to escape justice and illegal immigrants being able to forge an identity. So maybe this is a good thing.
No, it went up to 21 in the 80s -- Mothers Against Drunk Driving campaigned for it "for the cheeeeeeeeldren" until they got what they wanted. And the Feds were more than happy to oblige by cutting off highway funding to states that didn't toe the line.
It's worse -- it's arguably easier to clone, since it doesn't have security features of a plastic license. As far as phoning home to DMV to verify, a plastic license can also have a scannable barcode.
Then again, anything that weakens security is a good thing IMHO. US drinking age laws are a stupid joke. Too much time, money, and effort are spent in enforcing them. May as well turn them into a COMPLETE joke while we're at it.
Good part is that it will become a lot easier to "clone" the license of your 21-year old friend who looks almost like you. No biometrics required:D Maybe this will finally be the death rattle of the idiotic drinking age in the US.
Instead of spending a lot of time and effort creating a system to enforce Puritanical drinking age regulations, lower the drinking age to 18 and don't require people "show their papers" just to be able to buy a pint of beer. It works like this in most of the non-Islamic world, and the world outside the US mostly gets by just fine. Governments spend a lot more time than is sane trying to enforce rules against victimless crimes.
Polish uses the Latin alphabet with diacritical marks optional on some letters and without the letters Q. V. and X. W is pronounced like V in English, a crossed L is pronounced like W in English. "Ph" would not be a valid letter combination for generating an F sound. i.e. "Physics" is spelled "Fizyka" not "Phisyca" in Polish.
Copper radiators used to be soldered -- the solder joints leaked or blew out fairly frequently. Dissimilar metal corrosion is a stone bitch.
I've also had cars that were still on their original plastic/aluminium radiators at 200,000 miles.
That's fine. You should be able to, as long as you pay the full price of oil, including cost of future environmental mitigation, the cost of Middle Eastern military operations (oil is a global market, remember?). Better yet, drive an electric SUV and have the best of all worlds. Low oil usage, great acceleration, AND awesome off-road performance with lower complexity -- an electric motor on each wheel means it can drive like a truck with Torsen differentials without the complexity.
More sovereign than US states, where Federal subsidies can be taken away for trivial things like setting the drinking age at age 19 vs age 21. But, you say, they're subsidies, not mandates. Well, where do you think the money from the subsidies comes from? Direct taxation of state residents/citizens, that's where. "We'll steal your money, and we may return some or all of it if you play nice."
PS, if you're going to talk about Polish laundry girls, at least spell their names right. It's "Zofia", "Pani Zofia", or "Zosia" to you...
There can be a happy medium. Most ground transport (cars, trains, buses) can be electric from nuclear or renewables. Plastics? Yeah, we need them. But does a tiny electronic device really need to be packed in plastic packaging that's 5x its size? There's a lot of oil usage that can be cut without changing our lives all that much.
The EU isn't like US states -- EU countries are still sovereign, have their own foreign policy, some even have their own currencies that float against the Euro. This is closer to North America and Central America becoming one bloc for the purposes of immigration, work permits, and residence permits.
They have basically open immigration within the EU, which has 512 million people. This would be equivalent to Canada (36 million), the US (325 million), Mexico (129 million), and Central America (41 million) not requiring work, residency, and settlement visas to move to any country within the bloc.
France, Sweden, and the Netherlands are actually more open to immigration than the US.
"Anonymous COWARD" is about right. They should build a coal-belching plant up the street from you. Fukushima was a badly-designed 1960s-era nuclear power plant -- new plants have much better engineering than v. 1.0.
The marches in France aren't only angry about the fuel tax. The fuel tax was the straw that broke the camel's back. The real issues are tax cuts for the very rich and corporations combined with service cuts in areas that aren't Paris or the coastal South. The protests in France are actually LEFTIST in nature.
Netherlands, Sweden, and France are leftist by US standards, and the average resident is quite happy with that fact. Look at France -- people are taking to the streets because Emanuel "Bankster" Macron wants to take the country to the right economically. The anger isn't about fuel taxes, it's about tax cuts for the rich and service cuts in rural areas.
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So strictly enforce drunk driving laws for new drivers: 0.01% BAC = license loss till 21. Or just require self-driving cars.
I have a legitimate argument to make -- if people aren't micro-managed "for their own good", they end up being happier, less stressed, and healthier as a result. Look at outcomes (life expectancy, general health) in the US vs most of Europe, and you'll see this is the case. Should we also ban things like bicycling or skiing under 21 because under-21s "aren't fully mature" and might be hurt?
A "criminal" is what a bunch of old fucks who managed to con their way into office or onto a judge's bench say is a criminal. You're a good citizen today, but you might become a criminal tomorrow. Thus, I'm all for making the job of the government harder and more onerous. The more cracks in the system there are, the harder it is for them to become completely overbearing.
There are always "good reasons" for wanting to micro-manage people's lives. It doesn't make it right or acceptable to do so. Fuck off, statist.
So you're against protecting US citizens' privacy. Nice to know -- are the Russians or the Chinese paying you to troll on here?
Honestly, it's idiocy to want to control every fucking iota of people's lives, you little statist snit. Outcomes (life expectancies and other measures of health) are generally better in Europe than the US. Why? Because a controlled society is a stressed society, and a stressed society is an unhealthy one. Let people have their vices, don't try to micro-manage.
Everything old is new again. Paternalistic corporate thieves like Satan Nerdella want us to go back to the "dumb terminal" era, 1970s style.
'guess I'll be sticking with Windows 7 or some variant of Linux indefinitely if M$ wants to ram a monthly subscription to Win 10 down my raw gullet.
How does this "solve" anything of that type? Plastic ID can already be "verified" with the appropriate agency, but generally requires appearance in person to obtain. This doesn't require a personal appearance, just obtaining the appropriate credentials to log in to the app, nor is it biometric.
This is actually LESS secure than a paper ID. This being said, with the US justice and immigration systems being as fucked up and harsh as they are, I actually support criminals being able to escape justice and illegal immigrants being able to forge an identity. So maybe this is a good thing.
No, it went up to 21 in the 80s -- Mothers Against Drunk Driving campaigned for it "for the cheeeeeeeeldren" until they got what they wanted. And the Feds were more than happy to oblige by cutting off highway funding to states that didn't toe the line.
It's worse -- it's arguably easier to clone, since it doesn't have security features of a plastic license. As far as phoning home to DMV to verify, a plastic license can also have a scannable barcode.
Then again, anything that weakens security is a good thing IMHO. US drinking age laws are a stupid joke. Too much time, money, and effort are spent in enforcing them. May as well turn them into a COMPLETE joke while we're at it.
The more holes in the system, the better.
Good part is that it will become a lot easier to "clone" the license of your 21-year old friend who looks almost like you. No biometrics required :D Maybe this will finally be the death rattle of the idiotic drinking age in the US.
Instead of spending a lot of time and effort creating a system to enforce Puritanical drinking age regulations, lower the drinking age to 18 and don't require people "show their papers" just to be able to buy a pint of beer. It works like this in most of the non-Islamic world, and the world outside the US mostly gets by just fine. Governments spend a lot more time than is sane trying to enforce rules against victimless crimes.
Polish uses the Latin alphabet with diacritical marks optional on some letters and without the letters Q. V. and X. W is pronounced like V in English, a crossed L is pronounced like W in English. "Ph" would not be a valid letter combination for generating an F sound. i.e. "Physics" is spelled "Fizyka" not "Phisyca" in Polish.
Copper radiators used to be soldered -- the solder joints leaked or blew out fairly frequently. Dissimilar metal corrosion is a stone bitch. I've also had cars that were still on their original plastic/aluminium radiators at 200,000 miles.
That's fine. You should be able to, as long as you pay the full price of oil, including cost of future environmental mitigation, the cost of Middle Eastern military operations (oil is a global market, remember?). Better yet, drive an electric SUV and have the best of all worlds. Low oil usage, great acceleration, AND awesome off-road performance with lower complexity -- an electric motor on each wheel means it can drive like a truck with Torsen differentials without the complexity.
More sovereign than US states, where Federal subsidies can be taken away for trivial things like setting the drinking age at age 19 vs age 21. But, you say, they're subsidies, not mandates. Well, where do you think the money from the subsidies comes from? Direct taxation of state residents/citizens, that's where. "We'll steal your money, and we may return some or all of it if you play nice."
PS, if you're going to talk about Polish laundry girls, at least spell their names right. It's "Zofia", "Pani Zofia", or "Zosia" to you...
There can be a happy medium. Most ground transport (cars, trains, buses) can be electric from nuclear or renewables. Plastics? Yeah, we need them. But does a tiny electronic device really need to be packed in plastic packaging that's 5x its size? There's a lot of oil usage that can be cut without changing our lives all that much.
The EU isn't like US states -- EU countries are still sovereign, have their own foreign policy, some even have their own currencies that float against the Euro. This is closer to North America and Central America becoming one bloc for the purposes of immigration, work permits, and residence permits.
They have basically open immigration within the EU, which has 512 million people. This would be equivalent to Canada (36 million), the US (325 million), Mexico (129 million), and Central America (41 million) not requiring work, residency, and settlement visas to move to any country within the bloc.
France, Sweden, and the Netherlands are actually more open to immigration than the US.
Overturn Jimmy "Peanutboy" Carter's edict about reprocessing. Waste = new fuel. Store what remains underground.
The future should be renewables AND nuclear. It's the fossil fools and fossil farts (coal, natural gas) that need to be phased out.
"Anonymous COWARD" is about right. They should build a coal-belching plant up the street from you. Fukushima was a badly-designed 1960s-era nuclear power plant -- new plants have much better engineering than v. 1.0.
The marches in France aren't only angry about the fuel tax. The fuel tax was the straw that broke the camel's back. The real issues are tax cuts for the very rich and corporations combined with service cuts in areas that aren't Paris or the coastal South. The protests in France are actually LEFTIST in nature.
Netherlands, Sweden, and France are leftist by US standards, and the average resident is quite happy with that fact. Look at France -- people are taking to the streets because Emanuel "Bankster" Macron wants to take the country to the right economically. The anger isn't about fuel taxes, it's about tax cuts for the rich and service cuts in rural areas.