"Give me a break, its not a burden to be asked to show ID when boarding an airplane."
It would be even easier to wear arm bands that show your religous affiliation (to identify the Islamics so we can "question" them), or better yet a barcode on your head so they can just scan you and make sure your "ok" to fly.
"You go someplace like Skip Barber racing school and train intensively for a week. If everyone were trained to that level, there'd be a lot less stupidity on the roads."
I always thought that the current reason that these arcane and rediculous drug laws still exist is because you can't patent a naturally occuring substance (opium, marjihuana, mushrooms, etc...) but you can patent an artifically created one...
If you look at it from the pharmecutical side, every illegal drug has a legal, although patented, alternative...
so since you would you be killing thousands of jobs and structures of wealth by legalization of drugs (through the "war on drugs", prision systems, pharm companies' profits), you can probably see why these drugs, though mainly harmless compared to just alcohol and smoking (which are legal and patentable btw), are still illegal.
Legalize drugs and destroy the monopoly pharmecutical companies have as well as all of the violence, destruction, and crime perpetuated by the black drug market.
Then you can use that 300+ billion a year spent on the war on drug for treatment programs (hell even half that would help quite a bit).
"I think the point being made is that laws which citizens are expected to obey should be public. How can you enforce a law that doesn't (for all intents and purposes) exist?"
This is a good point as most judges/police will tell you that "ignorance of the law is not an excuse", so how can you abide by rules you are not ALLOWED to see?
you said: "You do not have to have a valid ID card to fly. You will just be marked for additional searches."
I RTFA, he didn't give an ID so they DID additional searches, after he was on the boarding ramp a security card pulled him off because he didn't show his ID initially.
Turns out there IS a law/rule saying you HAVE to provide ID or you are not allowed to fly.. this is what the article is all about and is definately about personal freedoms...
Whats funny is that most of the people who are posting who support come kind of conspiracy are using their real names and most of the ones who call everyone "nuts" are ACs...
And told him at length why I didn't like the bill he was purposing and how adequate measures already exist and are in place to help parents make buying decisions.
His reply was "and what district are you in?"
So he has bad grammar AND doesn't care about what people think unless it will possibly effect his possible re-election. (I do live in california though)
One time I had the opportunity to stop a young man who had beat up an older Asian man to steal his wallet (I heard the crys for help in front of my house and saw the young man running away from the old man lying on the ground crying out) I ran after him and cuaght up to him down the street a bit counting the money with some of his buddies.
I picked the young man off of his feet and carried him back to the old man, and made him give the money back (he was about 5'10" 160 pounds and i am 6'2" 275 pounds, turns out he beat up an old man for 5 bucks).
Long story short, after the cops came by and had me identify the guy (I let go of him as he became violent and didn't want to go to jail myself for beating the crap out of the kid) they told me that when performing a citizens arrest you can employ any force neccessary to detain a suspect, when i asked him what he meant by this he said it means appropriate force equal to that of the resistance, so the more the suspect resists the more liberty you have to "restrain" them.
"I'm surprised they haven't blamed McDonalds new Salad menu on global Warming."
I recently saw a notice at JITB that said that due to low crop yields in Florida (due to either frost or high heat (both can be contributed to GW right?), tomatos may not be available for all items that normaly have tomatos... does this count?
""Oh No. The Climate is changing. Just like it always has and always will. The sky is falling, the sky. BTW, shouldn't NASA be working on rockets instead of meteorology."
"Nice to see NASA go the political rather than the scientic way. Maybe they are hoping to cash in on the political well founded and scientifically less so global warming hypothesis."
wow even NASA is trying to lie to get additional funding from who, what? oh never mind the bad-science blinders are making my head hurt...
"Lizards take turn pretending to be the "male" and stimulate the "female" to induce egg laying."
We should make a constitutional amendment now that defines marriage and the resulting sexual acts to only be valid between a male and female lizard exclusively, before this whole "same sex" reproduction issue gets out of hand.
Quote from the article: ""There has been a strong warming trend over the past 30 years, a trend that has been shown to be due primarily to increasing greenhouse gases in the atmosphere," said James Hansen of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, based in New York."
Since NASa obviously believes there is a link between recently warming trends and greenhouse gas emissions, can we expect to see less postings about how "the earth is always going through warming and cooling treands that expand over 1000s of years so these scientists don't know wtf they are talking about"?
The realy funny thing about the parent is that quicktime acts just like spyware, it adds itself to your startup items, reassociates all of your files to use quicktime as the preferred player, reinstalls itself if you try to disable it (instead of removing the entry with hijackthis/regedit) and pops up windows asking you to "upgrade" everytime you actually run it...
Well if we are going to look at what he bible says, jesus says something about "if you had belief even as small as a mustard seed, you could say move and the mountain would obey" (paraphrasing) so if this is true it would explain the "10 people thinking hard about a 1 or a 0" effecting the outcome of the random number generator int he article...
"By your logic, Hitler was blameless for any deaths in WWII unless he personally pulled the trigger."
I would say in a Military organization there is a difference in the way speech is interpreted as it is more than speaking, it is conveying orders from the state that are expected to be followed (as if they were printed out on an official letter head from the state) and it is the duty of soliders to follow those orders given by the state, in that respect Hitler would neeed to take responsibility for the orders he gave acting as a state representative.
Now on the other hand if I walked up to you and said "Shoot that guy in the face" and you went and shot a guy in the face, then I should be held blameless as you have a choice in regards to the actions you decide to perform on your own in a "free" society.
"Are death threats free speech? What you are really allowed to say is already a matter of law. "Hate" speech is already illegal in some instances, and I think it is illegal in Canada to deny the Holocaust happened. Regardless of the overwhelming physical evidence, isn't that just free speech? If I can incite a bunch of racists or homophobes to the point of murder, should I be held unaccountable if all I did was talk? "
I think all speech should be free and allowed, people should be allowed to say whatever they want, people should be held accountable by their actions not what sounds are made from their mouths...
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"Give me a break, its not a burden to be asked to show ID when boarding an airplane."
It would be even easier to wear arm bands that show your religous affiliation (to identify the Islamics so we can "question" them), or better yet a barcode on your head so they can just scan you and make sure your "ok" to fly.
"You go someplace like Skip Barber racing school and train intensively for a week. If everyone were trained to that level, there'd be a lot less stupidity on the roads."
Stop teasing me with dreams of driving nirvana...
I always thought that the current reason that these arcane and rediculous drug laws still exist is because you can't patent a naturally occuring substance (opium, marjihuana, mushrooms, etc...) but you can patent an artifically created one...
If you look at it from the pharmecutical side, every illegal drug has a legal, although patented, alternative...
so since you would you be killing thousands of jobs and structures of wealth by legalization of drugs (through the "war on drugs", prision systems, pharm companies' profits), you can probably see why these drugs, though mainly harmless compared to just alcohol and smoking (which are legal and patentable btw), are still illegal.
Legalize drugs and destroy the monopoly pharmecutical companies have as well as all of the violence, destruction, and crime perpetuated by the black drug market.
Then you can use that 300+ billion a year spent on the war on drug for treatment programs (hell even half that would help quite a bit).
Sorry for the offtopicness.
"I think the point being made is that laws which citizens are expected to obey should be public. How can you enforce a law that doesn't (for all intents and purposes) exist?"
This is a good point as most judges/police will tell you that "ignorance of the law is not an excuse", so how can you abide by rules you are not ALLOWED to see?
you said:
"You do not have to have a valid ID card to fly. You will just be marked for additional searches."
I RTFA, he didn't give an ID so they DID additional searches, after he was on the boarding ramp a security card pulled him off because he didn't show his ID initially.
Turns out there IS a law/rule saying you HAVE to provide ID or you are not allowed to fly.. this is what the article is all about and is definately about personal freedoms...
Whats funny is that most of the people who are posting who support come kind of conspiracy are using their real names and most of the ones who call everyone "nuts" are ACs...
now they have to replace all of their current scales and distribution models since kilos will be getting larger or smaller...
And told him at length why I didn't like the bill he was purposing and how adequate measures already exist and are in place to help parents make buying decisions.
His reply was "and what district are you in?"
So he has bad grammar AND doesn't care about what people think unless it will possibly effect his possible re-election. (I do live in california though)
One time I had the opportunity to stop a young man who had beat up an older Asian man to steal his wallet (I heard the crys for help in front of my house and saw the young man running away from the old man lying on the ground crying out) I ran after him and cuaght up to him down the street a bit counting the money with some of his buddies.
I picked the young man off of his feet and carried him back to the old man, and made him give the money back (he was about 5'10" 160 pounds and i am 6'2" 275 pounds, turns out he beat up an old man for 5 bucks).
Long story short, after the cops came by and had me identify the guy (I let go of him as he became violent and didn't want to go to jail myself for beating the crap out of the kid) they told me that when performing a citizens arrest you can employ any force neccessary to detain a suspect, when i asked him what he meant by this he said it means appropriate force equal to that of the resistance, so the more the suspect resists the more liberty you have to "restrain" them.
This was in San JOse CA USA so YMMV...
"Wait a minute, wait a minute...
Rong's chip produces laser light when it is 'pumped' with another laser.
So, two lights make a Rong?"
No it means it will Lase you rong time...
"Not to mention the potential implications for breast implants!"
:))
Is that supposed to be another Austin Powers referrence? (fembots, anyone? just me? ok nvm
dood, chef's love shack rocks... have you ever played that game?
"I'm surprised they haven't blamed McDonalds new Salad menu on global Warming."
I recently saw a notice at JITB that said that due to low crop yields in Florida (due to either frost or high heat (both can be contributed to GW right?), tomatos may not be available for all items that normaly have tomatos... does this count?
*looks at recent postings*
:-/
Guess not
""Oh No. The Climate is changing. Just like it always has and always will. The sky is falling, the sky. BTW, shouldn't NASA be working on rockets instead of meteorology."
"Nice to see NASA go the political rather than the scientic way.
Maybe they are hoping to cash in on the political well founded and scientifically less so global warming hypothesis."
wow even NASA is trying to lie to get additional funding from who, what? oh never mind the bad-science blinders are making my head hurt...
" I find it amazing that when it comes to global warming, however, too many simply accept what their told by the media as true."
Why are you referring to NASA as "the media"?
4, famine, plague, death and war. :)
"Lizards take turn pretending to be the "male" and stimulate the "female" to induce egg laying."
We should make a constitutional amendment now that defines marriage and the resulting sexual acts to only be valid between a male and female lizard exclusively, before this whole "same sex" reproduction issue gets out of hand.
Quote from the article:
""There has been a strong warming trend over the past 30 years, a trend that has been shown to be due primarily to increasing greenhouse gases in the atmosphere," said James Hansen of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, based in New York."
Since NASa obviously believes there is a link between recently warming trends and greenhouse gas emissions, can we expect to see less postings about how "the earth is always going through warming and cooling treands that expand over 1000s of years so these scientists don't know wtf they are talking about"?
I'm caucasian you insensitive clod!!
The realy funny thing about the parent is that quicktime acts just like spyware, it adds itself to your startup items, reassociates all of your files to use quicktime as the preferred player, reinstalls itself if you try to disable it (instead of removing the entry with hijackthis/regedit) and pops up windows asking you to "upgrade" everytime you actually run it...
UGH!
I think they did consult the books but it said "Answer not clear, ask again later..."
Well if we are going to look at what he bible says, jesus says something about "if you had belief even as small as a mustard seed, you could say move and the mountain would obey" (paraphrasing) so if this is true it would explain the "10 people thinking hard about a 1 or a 0" effecting the outcome of the random number generator int he article...
Wouldn't that be the ADN?
"By your logic, Hitler was blameless for any deaths in WWII unless he personally pulled the trigger."
I would say in a Military organization there is a difference in the way speech is interpreted as it is more than speaking, it is conveying orders from the state that are expected to be followed (as if they were printed out on an official letter head from the state) and it is the duty of soliders to follow those orders given by the state, in that respect Hitler would neeed to take responsibility for the orders he gave acting as a state representative.
Now on the other hand if I walked up to you and said "Shoot that guy in the face" and you went and shot a guy in the face, then I should be held blameless as you have a choice in regards to the actions you decide to perform on your own in a "free" society.
"Are death threats free speech? What you are really allowed to say is already a matter of law. "Hate" speech is already illegal in some instances, and I think it is illegal in Canada to deny the Holocaust happened. Regardless of the overwhelming physical evidence, isn't that just free speech? If I can incite a bunch of racists or homophobes to the point of murder, should I be held unaccountable if all I did was talk? "
I think all speech should be free and allowed, people should be allowed to say whatever they want, people should be held accountable by their actions not what sounds are made from their mouths...