The fault is with idiotic and greedy politicians that can't run a capitalist economy effectively, combined with the impact of the domino-like economic failures caused by the collapse of socialistic governments in Greece, Portugal, etc.
The first domino stones fell in the U.S., remember?
You mean the "minor" economic trouble the US is having now?
No.
The US hasn't hit the big crash yet. It will soon at the rate the Fed is printing funny-money, countries are moving away from the US dollar for trade, and as China responds by raising rates on further loans dramatically and/or refusing to loan the US any more money, period. This is when George Soros will step in, as he did with Britain and the Pound, and collapse the dollar completely.
The US will be the *final* domino. It will bring on a massive global collapse. This is what the NWO types salivate for, a collapsed US and weakened world where they can seize power.
Oh, and the next time you hear the term "State Capitalism", keep this in mind.
"State Capitalism" is just another term for National Socialism. Now, where have I heard of National Socialism?
Sorry kids, but the world is about to turn *really* ugly, really soon.
Not a thing. Mexico, whose workers are building US cars, car parts, appliances, making our breakfast cereals (bye-bye, Kellogs!), with more and more US businesses leaving the US every day, absolutely *LOVE* US regulation and taxation of US businesses.
You're right, unions have no power in the US to affect anything. Well, except that Andy Stearn of SEIU was the most frequent WH visitor, and Trumka of the AFL-CIO is attached to Obama's hip. Oh, and the AFL-CIO has been given the green light to unionize the TSA...but that's only 60,00 or so. Oh, and the AFL-CIO was given a stake in GM by Obama and the preferred bondholders were left holding the bag which is completely against the law.
Other than that, you're right.
...shall I go on?
Yes, you should, as you missed things such as requiring all small businesses to fill out and send in tax paperwork for every purchase over $600. Oh, and enacting the drilling ban by executive order...while giving Mexico billions to drill in *the exact same area*. I'm sure Mexican oil rigs are much safer and the Mexican oil companies are much more ecologically responsible, though.
Nothing bad will happen if corporate tax rates are raised in Ireland! That's just fear-mongering by the poor-hating conservatives!
The US has been doing that, *and* heaping on all kinds of other taxes, *plus* tons of regulation on manufacturing and business, along with increasingly-heavy emphasis on unionization with incredible pension and healthcare costs for ages now, and our economy, trade balances, and employment levels are just...oh, wait.
Never mind. Carry on.
Strat
Ireland has been the European experiment in being extremely 'conservative' and corporation friendly, extremely low taxes, friendly regulation, etc. Look where it got them. Then take a look at fx Scandinavia.
It "got them" all those corporations into their country and employing people, bringing in cash, and generally improving things for most of the people.
The fault is with idiotic and greedy politicians that can't run a capitalist economy effectively, combined with the impact of the domino-like economic failures caused by the collapse of socialistic governments in Greece, Portugal, etc.
By "Scandinavia", I assume you mean Sweden? Sweden isn't quite the paradise that most think. It suffered mightily in the '90s. Sweden has also started from a great advantage post-WW2 in that it didn't suffer the costs of WW2 in fighting, and also benefited in that it didn't need to rebuild much of it's economy, military, and manufacturing after the war as many countries did.
Sweden is unique in it's economy, society, and place on the world stage as a result of it's history, it's location, it's society, and it's size. The Swedish governmental/economic model only works in Sweden with it's particular history, location, size, & society. It would not and could not work elsewhere. One size does not fit all.
Nothing bad will happen if corporate tax rates are raised in Ireland! That's just fear-mongering by the poor-hating conservatives!
The US has been doing that, *and* heaping on all kinds of other taxes, *plus* tons of regulation on manufacturing and business, along with increasingly-heavy emphasis on unionization with incredible pension and healthcare costs for ages now, and our economy, trade balances, and employment levels are just...oh, wait.
According to the Union-Tribune, when asked if the TSA was set up by Tyner, the local administrator coyly replied, "I don't know that it was an actual set up--but we are concerned that this passenger did have his recording [on] prior to entering the checkpoint so there is some concern that it was an intentional behavior on his part."
The TSA was set up just like the thousands of convenience store robbers are victimized by store owners having the audacity to have surveillance cameras running before the robbers walked into the premises to perpetrate a stick-up.
Just like the set-ups of cops videoed beating handcuffed suspects.
It's getting to where an authoritarian government goon can't even publicly strip a WW2 wounded vet or traumatize an autistic child without worrying about being "set up" by outraged bystanders recording the abuse.
Thank goodness we have Progressives from both parties in control of the government to protect us! I know Obama will be appearing on nationwide TV any second now to announce he's ordered the insanity to stop.
I am not saying that hosting a torrent site, or even linking to a torrent site is criminal.
Would you say that informing the public of what is considered criminal should be part of Due Process?
No... Well... It depends on what you mean by "informing the public". It is the duty of the government to publish the laws somewhere, in some publicly available format. However, it is not the duty of the government to mount an ad campaign to say "Hey-Hey! There's a new law saying we can re-direct DNS queries". It is the responsibility of the citizen to know what the laws are. Ignorance of the law is not an excuse.
Douglas Adams already covered this.
"`...You hadn't exactly gone out of your way to call attention to them had you? I mean like actually telling anyone or anything.' `But the plans were on display...' `On display? I eventually had to go down to the cellar to find them.' `That's the display department.' `With a torch.' `Ah, well the lights had probably gone.' `So had the stairs.' `But look you found the notice didn't you?' `Yes,' said Arthur, `yes I did. It was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying "Beware of The Leopard".'"
Islamic extremist terrorists for whom killing the infidels is a religious mandate in their minds. They are, in their minds, "on a mission from God" to quote the Blues Brothers.
More proof religion sucks. Ever hear of an Atheist suicide-bombing a marketplace in the name of Atheism? Or shooting abortion doctors?
Fanatical & violent religious extremists suck, *not* necessarily religion or the religious in and of it and themselves. All religions have a very small minority of individual extreme nutcases, just as any average sample of the population does.
When that becomes a real problem is when they grow large enough in numbers, organized, in key power positions, and thus powerful enough to start hijacking an entire religion and/or government using fanaticism, violence, and terror on a wide scale. By "large enough in numbers" I don't mean greater than 50% of either the religion or the nation. Seizing power and control over any large group depends not so much on numbers, but on planning and stealth.
As far as your comparison of deaths caused by religion to those of atheism, I would simply point you to with more which also includes other interesting categories to compare against.
The only real alternative is to bring the dispossessed in, and get them invested in our civilization. This kind of selflessness is not generally encouraged by capitalism.
This ignores the 800-lb gorilla in the room: Islamic extremist terrorists for whom killing the infidels is a religious mandate in their minds. They are, in their minds, "on a mission from God" to quote the Blues Brothers. These people reject everything the West stands for. They will not be "invested in our civilization", ever. Their only goal is to kill all the Western infidels.
They only negotiate when they see an opportunity to use the extremely naive belief that they would bargain in good faith with infidels to their advantage and to the infidel's demise.
These backscatter machines do little to nothing to make anyone safer. They are pure security theater. At ~$200,000 each, plus ongoing maintenance and calibration contracts and 2-3 specially-trained operators per machine per shift, the El-Al security model is cheaper in the long run and orders of magnitude more effective.
Unfortunately, the El-Al model doesn't pay off special interests like campaign contributors and labor unions nor allow the government another step down the road to removing our freedoms. It's funny that those who called people teabagger nutcases for saying that scanners/groin checks at the airports was only the first step are now very quiet.
I will not trade my essential liberties for an extremely questionable amount of very temporary security. There are smarter, better, cheaper ways to keep passengers safe that don't require being irradiated with the possibility of the resulting images hitting the internet, or the genital-fondling grandmas, cancer victims, and toddlers.
The USA scares me because they go to war quite easily but their civilians have not been in a war in a long time. All wars since the civilian war fought by the USA were fought on foreign soil. This means the population does not realize how atrocious war is and therefore they could support the decision of going to war without carefully thinking.
Apparently you are unfamiliar with Compton or sections of the city of Washington D.C. You'd be safer and see less carnage while wandering around in the middle of a Sunni-Shiite firefight in Falujah wearing a red-white-and-blue "Pork, The Other White Meat" T-shirt and waving an Israeli flag.
The only valid function of government is to prevent human rights from being violated and to to punish those who attempt to do so.
Unfortunately we don't have governments that do that, we have governments that become an active participant in the violation of human rights.
Throughout history, government has almost always been a tool of oppression. The only thing that changes is who the oppressor is; sometimes it's a single tyrant, sometimes it's "the majority".
The United States was the first government founded on the concept of protecting rather than suppressing freedom. It was a government with limited, clearly defined powers. Unfortunately it's slowly been turning into just another tool of oppression.
This.
That is precisely the case with governments in general, and why the US government was an entirely unique experiment in governance unprecedented in the entire history of humanity. This is what made the US and it's citizens the freest, most generous, least militarily/territorially aggressive, most prosperous nation in the history of man. Nearly the entirety of the problems the US now faces is a result of the federal government departing from it's Constitutionally-limited role and engaging in the expansion of it's scope and powers.
The only citizens of the USA who are likely to find this "blasphemous" are those who favor state control of the means of production.
So basically limited to only Obama and the vast majority of the Democratic Party, George Soros and all his sub-organizations, most of academia, organized labor, and the rest of the US Progressives and various communist/socialist political groups/organizations along with most of the mainstream US media.
Somehow, I don't feel reassured by the inclusion of that "only" in your description.
It's such a batshit insane move that not even the feds could be incompetent enough to pull it off by accident.
And considering all the fuckups the feds have already managed to pull, that's really saying something.
Two words.
Cloward & Piven.
Chaos, an overwhelmed government taking on ever more burdens, and an over-taxed, over-regulated, and under-employed citizenry losing faith in that government and becoming desperate enough to accept a "new world order" to "fix things" are the goals.
Welcome to your "hope and change" and "fundamental transformation".
stupidity and bad engineering to create a long duration space station with no simply ring design for rotation and simulated gravity.
It's a not an easy thing to do. Particularly when viewed in terms of a man-rated piece of space habitat.
Adding a rotating ring/arm/etc presents multiple serious issues, among which are safety (many tons moving experiencing a sudden mechanical lock/freeze-up can tear things apart), engineering challenges both known and yet to be discovered that haven't been developed for as yet, and weight/lift abilities/costs as the structural beams and such strong enough to withstand the stresses they will encounter will have a good bit of mass, depending on the loads.
...they should seriously consider reducing TV commercials to 15 or 20 seconds.
No way. I've seen Max Headroom. No "blipverts" for me, thanks. I have this thing against spontaneously exploding. Besides, the only sponsors that would be interested in blipverts would be Al Qaeda and the Democratic Party/George Soros (aka "spooky dude"), and only for Fox News.
...over time, the more regulatory and statutory hurdles businesses and individuals have to negotiate in order to go online will destroy a lot of the freedom and openness that made the Internet so fertile a place for speech and innovation in the first place.
If you happen to be a Progressive/Fabian Socialist as many on the Left in US politics and the current administration are, this is a desired design-target result/feature.
Now I'm wondering if such comments haven't gotten a tracking device installed on *my* car;)
There are no tracking devices in/on your vehicle(s). You may, however, want to wrap a wet towel around your head. You'll need an auto-guided nasal extraction tool for the one in your sinus cavity. Just shove as hard as you can until you hear a 'crunch'.
Then, get your ass to Mars!.
Be wary of taxi drivers while there. I hear some are government agents, despite many being mutants.
...in some states with really strong castle doctrine (such as Texas) you are completely within the law to shoot first and ask questions later. As far as you were concerned they could have been planting a car bomb. I am curious exactly what would happen then.
Before or after the funeral following your violent death in the hail of police/FBI gunfire that would immediately erupt at your first shot?
Or if you really wanted to be paranoid just use a Linux that can run in RAM like Puppy
Even more hardcore, pull the hard drive and use a locked-down & encrypted/proxied OpenBSD live CD along the lines of AnonymOS plus the other measures mentioned. Then torch and send to a watery grave both the laptop and the live CD in different locations. Be sure to do this all underground because of satellites/drones, avoid store/bank security cameras, don't carry a cellphone, and don't let the tinfoil hat get too tight.
And I don't care how hot that chick at the bar is, you don't brag about it, or...oooo...wait, what am I thinking!?!? This is Slashdot! Never mind, carry on!
If you're so committed to the truth, then you should give them the password and the truth shall set you free.
Erm, maybe not so much Doc, if that collection of Bugs Bunny cartoons on your hard drive, some of which featuring Bugs in "drag", are declared to be "kiddy porn" at some point in the near future.
You'd have to do it in two launches, it won't work with only one.
The first launch needs to terminate with significant mass at many miles per second in Washington D.C. prior to the Jupiter launch in order to prevent the whole Jupiter project being killed halfway through planning.
"I can rent an ADS-B equipped plane from my local FBO for $130. I've been able to do this since about 2006. This way, I can track the 737's flying into BNA, and also have the option of flying into any other object within 300 miles. No iPhone needed (it's probably cheaper than an iPhone, too). Yes it's much ado about nothing, but how would we survive without something to ado about?"
"In other news, the FAA announced new rules for all private aircraft today, among which is a new requirement that all private aircraft seat at least one other person besides the pilot, all purely single-seat aircraft to be labeled as potential weapons of terror and subject to Eminent Domain confiscation with a fixed standard compensation of $5K per aircraft. A companion rule also announced that every private aircraft must now have an armed DHS agent on board to legally fly in the US. National unemployment estimates were also revised downwards today due to an expected surge in public sector hiring. More at 11:00."
Slashdot Mirror
The fault is with idiotic and greedy politicians that can't run a capitalist economy effectively, combined with the impact of the domino-like economic failures caused by the collapse of socialistic governments in Greece, Portugal, etc.
The first domino stones fell in the U.S., remember?
You mean the "minor" economic trouble the US is having now?
No.
The US hasn't hit the big crash yet. It will soon at the rate the Fed is printing funny-money, countries are moving away from the US dollar for trade, and as China responds by raising rates on further loans dramatically and/or refusing to loan the US any more money, period. This is when George Soros will step in, as he did with Britain and the Pound, and collapse the dollar completely.
The US will be the *final* domino. It will bring on a massive global collapse. This is what the NWO types salivate for, a collapsed US and weakened world where they can seize power.
Oh, and the next time you hear the term "State Capitalism", keep this in mind.
"State Capitalism" is just another term for National Socialism. Now, where have I heard of National Socialism?
Sorry kids, but the world is about to turn *really* ugly, really soon.
Strat
What's wrong with regulations anyway?
Not a thing. Mexico, whose workers are building US cars, car parts, appliances, making our breakfast cereals (bye-bye, Kellogs!), with more and more US businesses leaving the US every day, absolutely *LOVE* US regulation and taxation of US businesses.
You're right, unions have no power in the US to affect anything. Well, except that Andy Stearn of SEIU was the most frequent WH visitor, and Trumka of the AFL-CIO is attached to Obama's hip. Oh, and the AFL-CIO has been given the green light to unionize the TSA...but that's only 60,00 or so. Oh, and the AFL-CIO was given a stake in GM by Obama and the preferred bondholders were left holding the bag which is completely against the law.
Other than that, you're right.
...shall I go on?
Yes, you should, as you missed things such as requiring all small businesses to fill out and send in tax paperwork for every purchase over $600. Oh, and enacting the drilling ban by executive order...while giving Mexico billions to drill in *the exact same area*. I'm sure Mexican oil rigs are much safer and the Mexican oil companies are much more ecologically responsible, though.
Gosh, I feel safer already!
Strat
Nothing bad will happen if corporate tax rates are raised in Ireland! That's just fear-mongering by the poor-hating conservatives!
The US has been doing that, *and* heaping on all kinds of other taxes, *plus* tons of regulation on manufacturing and business, along with increasingly-heavy emphasis on unionization with incredible pension and healthcare costs for ages now, and our economy, trade balances, and employment levels are just...oh, wait.
Never mind. Carry on.
Strat
Ireland has been the European experiment in being extremely 'conservative' and corporation friendly, extremely low taxes, friendly regulation, etc. Look where it got them. Then take a look at fx Scandinavia.
It "got them" all those corporations into their country and employing people, bringing in cash, and generally improving things for most of the people.
The fault is with idiotic and greedy politicians that can't run a capitalist economy effectively, combined with the impact of the domino-like economic failures caused by the collapse of socialistic governments in Greece, Portugal, etc.
By "Scandinavia", I assume you mean Sweden? Sweden isn't quite the paradise that most think. It suffered mightily in the '90s. Sweden has also started from a great advantage post-WW2 in that it didn't suffer the costs of WW2 in fighting, and also benefited in that it didn't need to rebuild much of it's economy, military, and manufacturing after the war as many countries did.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Sweden
Sweden is unique in it's economy, society, and place on the world stage as a result of it's history, it's location, it's society, and it's size. The Swedish governmental/economic model only works in Sweden with it's particular history, location, size, & society. It would not and could not work elsewhere. One size does not fit all.
Strat
Where's the "Drunk on the Kool Aid" mod when you need it ...
Oh, my! I totally concede all the ideas & principles in my previous post to your brilliant "refudiation".
I see that the tax money taken from struggling families and used in your education was well-spent.
Strat
Nothing bad will happen if corporate tax rates are raised in Ireland! That's just fear-mongering by the poor-hating conservatives!
The US has been doing that, *and* heaping on all kinds of other taxes, *plus* tons of regulation on manufacturing and business, along with increasingly-heavy emphasis on unionization with incredible pension and healthcare costs for ages now, and our economy, trade balances, and employment levels are just...oh, wait.
Never mind. Carry on.
Strat
According to the Union-Tribune, when asked if the TSA was set up by Tyner, the local administrator coyly replied, "I don't know that it was an actual set up--but we are concerned that this passenger did have his recording [on] prior to entering the checkpoint so there is some concern that it was an intentional behavior on his part."
The TSA was set up just like the thousands of convenience store robbers are victimized by store owners having the audacity to have surveillance cameras running before the robbers walked into the premises to perpetrate a stick-up.
Just like the set-ups of cops videoed beating handcuffed suspects.
It's getting to where an authoritarian government goon can't even publicly strip a WW2 wounded vet or traumatize an autistic child without worrying about being "set up" by outraged bystanders recording the abuse.
Thank goodness we have Progressives from both parties in control of the government to protect us! I know Obama will be appearing on nationwide TV any second now to announce he's ordered the insanity to stop.
Any second now.
Really.
Just any moment.
Stay tuned!
Strat
I am not saying that hosting a torrent site, or even linking to a torrent site is criminal.
Would you say that informing the public of what is considered criminal should be part of Due Process?
No... Well... It depends on what you mean by "informing the public". It is the duty of the government to publish the laws somewhere, in some publicly available format. However, it is not the duty of the government to mount an ad campaign to say "Hey-Hey! There's a new law saying we can re-direct DNS queries". It is the responsibility of the citizen to know what the laws are. Ignorance of the law is not an excuse.
Douglas Adams already covered this.
"`...You hadn't exactly gone out of your way to call attention to them had you? I mean like actually telling anyone or anything.'
`But the plans were on display...'
`On display? I eventually had to go down to the cellar to find them.'
`That's the display department.'
`With a torch.'
`Ah, well the lights had probably gone.'
`So had the stairs.'
`But look you found the notice didn't you?'
`Yes,' said Arthur, `yes I did. It was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying "Beware of The Leopard".'"
Strat
Ack!!
Sorry, I must have screwed up the html.
As far as your comparison of deaths caused by religion to those of atheism, I would simply point you to Communism & Socialism http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/COM.ART.HTM with more here http://users.erols.com/mwhite28/warstat8.htm which also includes other interesting categories to compare against.
Islamic extremist terrorists for whom killing the infidels is a religious mandate in their minds. They are, in their minds, "on a mission from God" to quote the Blues Brothers.
More proof religion sucks. Ever hear of an Atheist suicide-bombing a marketplace in the name of Atheism? Or shooting abortion doctors?
Fanatical & violent religious extremists suck, *not* necessarily religion or the religious in and of it and themselves. All religions have a very small minority of individual extreme nutcases, just as any average sample of the population does.
When that becomes a real problem is when they grow large enough in numbers, organized, in key power positions, and thus powerful enough to start hijacking an entire religion and/or government using fanaticism, violence, and terror on a wide scale. By "large enough in numbers" I don't mean greater than 50% of either the religion or the nation. Seizing power and control over any large group depends not so much on numbers, but on planning and stealth.
As far as your comparison of deaths caused by religion to those of atheism, I would simply point you to with more which also includes other interesting categories to compare against.
Strat
The only real alternative is to bring the dispossessed in, and get them invested in our civilization. This kind of selflessness is not generally encouraged by capitalism.
This ignores the 800-lb gorilla in the room: Islamic extremist terrorists for whom killing the infidels is a religious mandate in their minds. They are, in their minds, "on a mission from God" to quote the Blues Brothers. These people reject everything the West stands for. They will not be "invested in our civilization", ever. Their only goal is to kill all the Western infidels.
They only negotiate when they see an opportunity to use the extremely naive belief that they would bargain in good faith with infidels to their advantage and to the infidel's demise.
These backscatter machines do little to nothing to make anyone safer. They are pure security theater. At ~$200,000 each, plus ongoing maintenance and calibration contracts and 2-3 specially-trained operators per machine per shift, the El-Al security model is cheaper in the long run and orders of magnitude more effective.
Unfortunately, the El-Al model doesn't pay off special interests like campaign contributors and labor unions nor allow the government another step down the road to removing our freedoms. It's funny that those who called people teabagger nutcases for saying that scanners/groin checks at the airports was only the first step are now very quiet.
I will not trade my essential liberties for an extremely questionable amount of very temporary security. There are smarter, better, cheaper ways to keep passengers safe that don't require being irradiated with the possibility of the resulting images hitting the internet, or the genital-fondling grandmas, cancer victims, and toddlers.
Strat
The USA scares me because they go to war quite easily but their civilians have not been in a war in a long time. All wars since the civilian war fought by the USA were fought on foreign soil. This means the population does not realize how atrocious war is and therefore they could support the decision of going to war without carefully thinking.
Apparently you are unfamiliar with Compton or sections of the city of Washington D.C. You'd be safer and see less carnage while wandering around in the middle of a Sunni-Shiite firefight in Falujah wearing a red-white-and-blue "Pork, The Other White Meat" T-shirt and waving an Israeli flag.
Just sayin'
Strat
The only valid function of government is to prevent human rights from being violated and to to punish those who attempt to do so.
Unfortunately we don't have governments that do that, we have governments that become an active participant in the violation of human rights.
Throughout history, government has almost always been a tool of oppression. The only thing that changes is who the oppressor is; sometimes it's a single tyrant, sometimes it's "the majority".
The United States was the first government founded on the concept of protecting rather than suppressing freedom. It was a government with limited, clearly defined powers. Unfortunately it's slowly been turning into just another tool of oppression.
This.
That is precisely the case with governments in general, and why the US government was an entirely unique experiment in governance unprecedented in the entire history of humanity. This is what made the US and it's citizens the freest, most generous, least militarily/territorially aggressive, most prosperous nation in the history of man. Nearly the entirety of the problems the US now faces is a result of the federal government departing from it's Constitutionally-limited role and engaging in the expansion of it's scope and powers.
Strat
The only citizens of the USA who are likely to find this "blasphemous" are those who favor state control of the means of production.
So basically limited to only Obama and the vast majority of the Democratic Party, George Soros and all his sub-organizations, most of academia, organized labor, and the rest of the US Progressives and various communist/socialist political groups/organizations along with most of the mainstream US media.
Somehow, I don't feel reassured by the inclusion of that "only" in your description.
Strat
It's such a batshit insane move that not even the feds could be incompetent enough to pull it off by accident.
And considering all the fuckups the feds have already managed to pull, that's really saying something.
Two words.
Cloward & Piven.
Chaos, an overwhelmed government taking on ever more burdens, and an over-taxed, over-regulated, and under-employed citizenry losing faith in that government and becoming desperate enough to accept a "new world order" to "fix things" are the goals.
Welcome to your "hope and change" and "fundamental transformation".
Strat
Where in the constitution is the federal government authorized to implement a national sales tax?
You talk as if the federal government is or should be somehow limited by the Constitution.
What, are you some kind of radical nutcase?
Strat
stupidity and bad engineering to create a long duration space station with no simply ring design for rotation and simulated gravity.
It's a not an easy thing to do. Particularly when viewed in terms of a man-rated piece of space habitat.
Adding a rotating ring/arm/etc presents multiple serious issues, among which are safety (many tons moving experiencing a sudden mechanical lock/freeze-up can tear things apart), engineering challenges both known and yet to be discovered that haven't been developed for as yet, and weight/lift abilities/costs as the structural beams and such strong enough to withstand the stresses they will encounter will have a good bit of mass, depending on the loads.
Strat
...they should seriously consider reducing TV commercials to 15 or 20 seconds.
No way. I've seen Max Headroom. No "blipverts" for me, thanks. I have this thing against spontaneously exploding. Besides, the only sponsors that would be interested in blipverts would be Al Qaeda and the Democratic Party/George Soros (aka "spooky dude"), and only for Fox News.
Strat
...over time, the more regulatory and statutory hurdles businesses and individuals have to negotiate in order to go online will destroy a lot of the freedom and openness that made the Internet so fertile a place for speech and innovation in the first place.
If you happen to be a Progressive/Fabian Socialist as many on the Left in US politics and the current administration are, this is a desired design-target result/feature.
Strat
Now I'm wondering if such comments haven't gotten a tracking device installed on *my* car ;)
There are no tracking devices in/on your vehicle(s). You may, however, want to wrap a wet towel around your head. You'll need an auto-guided nasal extraction tool for the one in your sinus cavity. Just shove as hard as you can until you hear a 'crunch'.
Then, get your ass to Mars!.
Be wary of taxi drivers while there. I hear some are government agents, despite many being mutants.
Strat
Before or after the funeral following your violent death in the hail of police/FBI gunfire that would immediately erupt at your first shot?
Strat
Or if you really wanted to be paranoid just use a Linux that can run in RAM like Puppy
Even more hardcore, pull the hard drive and use a locked-down & encrypted/proxied OpenBSD live CD along the lines of AnonymOS plus the other measures mentioned. Then torch and send to a watery grave both the laptop and the live CD in different locations. Be sure to do this all underground because of satellites/drones, avoid store/bank security cameras, don't carry a cellphone, and don't let the tinfoil hat get too tight.
And I don't care how hot that chick at the bar is, you don't brag about it, or...oooo...wait, what am I thinking!?!? This is Slashdot! Never mind, carry on!
Strat
If you're so committed to the truth, then you should give them the password and the truth shall set you free.
Erm, maybe not so much Doc, if that collection of Bugs Bunny cartoons on your hard drive, some of which featuring Bugs in "drag", are declared to be "kiddy porn" at some point in the near future.
Th-th-th-that's all, folks!
Strat
While you are at it, ask Obama if we can do it.
Obama: Yes we can! but unfortunately we won't cause the NASA budget is gone!
What we need is a perpetual motion machine.
Perpetual motion?? Great Scot man, *why*!?!?
I'd prefer he *stopped*, so the budget isn't always gone!
Strat
You'd have to do it in two launches, it won't work with only one.
The first launch needs to terminate with significant mass at many miles per second in Washington D.C. prior to the Jupiter launch in order to prevent the whole Jupiter project being killed halfway through planning.
Hey, just sayin'.
Strat
"I can rent an ADS-B equipped plane from my local FBO for $130. I've been able to do this since about 2006. This way, I can track the 737's flying into BNA, and also have the option of flying into any other object within 300 miles. No iPhone needed (it's probably cheaper than an iPhone, too). Yes it's much ado about nothing, but how would we survive without something to ado about?"
"In other news, the FAA announced new rules for all private aircraft today, among which is a new requirement that all private aircraft seat at least one other person besides the pilot, all purely single-seat aircraft to be labeled as potential weapons of terror and subject to Eminent Domain confiscation with a fixed standard compensation of $5K per aircraft. A companion rule also announced that every private aircraft must now have an armed DHS agent on board to legally fly in the US. National unemployment estimates were also revised downwards today due to an expected surge in public sector hiring. More at 11:00."
Isn't security theater fun?
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