The feds requiring consistent documentation standards is not THE issue, but they should let the states work it out.
THE issue is the sharing of data. The feds want to share the DL data with Canada and Mexico. Mexico?!?! Mexican law enforcement is owned by drug dealers for Christ's sake! Who's next... Venezuela or Columbia?
Corporations shouldn't be allowed to give campaign contributions or lobby on health issues.
Candidates for office should only be permitted to receive campaign money from registered voters in the district where the candidate is running. This ensures the politician is answerable to the voters that elect him. It would probably increase voter turnout since voters would feel they have more power.
This would keep corporations, unions and other special interests(NRA,Greenpeace,religions,mpaa,etc) from owning politicians.
Remember when the 55mph speed limit was not the law, but a suggestion, and all states complied? Any state that didn't go along was denied federal highway funds. Same could happen here.
Personally I have no problem with congress appointing non-government experts to define minimum security standards for important documents. But congress is treating RealID as a security end in itself.
It would seem to be a devastating advance for the immigrant community that does so much of the construction in the US. Similar to the automation of agricultural harvesting?
Unfortunately the law of unintended consequences says that any technology that can be abused, will be abused.
Law enforcement and politicians will use cameras(and eventually rfid) for control in the name of protecting children or antiterrorism, business will use them to make a buck.
In a truly free society new technologies must come with laws that require transparency, so the watched can watch the watchers(trust but verify).
Coins suck. I have to carry a wallet, no real choice. Carrying anything else other than a small swiss army knife is annoying. The first thing I do whenever I get home and have coins is to throw them in a jar. They are a nuisance for anybody but kids.
I understand that paper money has a more expensive lifecycle, but it's also more convenient.
It would also help if more things rounded to the dollar in cost.
1: Every politician's number 1 goal is getting reelected
2: The US political system will remain corrupt as long as the politicians are permitted to take these bribes.
3: The people in power do not want the system fixed because it would reduce their chances at reelection.
4: The system can only be fixed by the people who are in power, since they make the laws.
Campaign contributions should be limited to the 12 months before a primary and only from registered voters from a candidate's district.
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Yeah I know ... wishful thinking.
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/04/16/13 51217
Sounds like the US government allowed the Stasi into the US and gave them control of the citizen monitoring project?
The feds requiring consistent documentation standards is not THE issue, but they should let the states work it out. THE issue is the sharing of data. The feds want to share the DL data with Canada and Mexico. Mexico?!?! Mexican law enforcement is owned by drug dealers for Christ's sake! Who's next ... Venezuela or Columbia?
I use McAfee v7.1 because the overhead compared to the newer versions is much lower.
This BS will continue until corporate officers are held criminally liable and can't just buy there way out of trouble.
Manufacturers won't pay, the consumer will. Any costs will get passed on in higher prices.
Casinos would have us think that card counting is cheating.
He is not wrong. Even the limited backup flight control systems are computer controlled. I think the F15 was the last non-FBW fighter.
Candidates for office should only be permitted to receive campaign money from registered voters in the district where the candidate is running. This ensures the politician is answerable to the voters that elect him. It would probably increase voter turnout since voters would feel they have more power.
This would keep corporations, unions and other special interests(NRA,Greenpeace,religions,mpaa,etc) from owning politicians.
After all, it's for the children and to fight terrorism.
And in related news ISPs lobby congress to be able to sell the collected data?
Isn't this the default layout down under?
... and then get the bureaucracy out of the way.
It doesn't have to be highway funds. Every state has a pain point.
Personally I have no problem with congress appointing non-government experts to define minimum security standards for important documents. But congress is treating RealID as a security end in itself.
It would seem to be a devastating advance for the immigrant community that does so much of the construction in the US. Similar to the automation of agricultural harvesting?
Law enforcement and politicians will use cameras(and eventually rfid) for control in the name of protecting children or antiterrorism, business will use them to make a buck.
In a truly free society new technologies must come with laws that require transparency, so the watched can watch the watchers(trust but verify).
Getting the US off of the foreign oil tit should be a national security imperative.
Coins suck. I have to carry a wallet, no real choice. Carrying anything else other than a small swiss army knife is annoying. The first thing I do whenever I get home and have coins is to throw them in a jar. They are a nuisance for anybody but kids. I understand that paper money has a more expensive lifecycle, but it's also more convenient. It would also help if more things rounded to the dollar in cost.
Can you please elaborate on "This guy who is headed for jail ..."?
Other than in nuclear weapons?
Sounds like he's got a goal and a project plan and doesn't want to be personally distracted by those things that can be delegated.
290,000 acers = 453 sq miles = Texas size project area.
1: Every politician's number 1 goal is getting reelected
2: The US political system will remain corrupt as long as the politicians are permitted to take these bribes.
3: The people in power do not want the system fixed because it would reduce their chances at reelection.
4: The system can only be fixed by the people who are in power, since they make the laws.
Campaign contributions should be limited to the 12 months before a primary and only from registered voters from a candidate's district.
Use psexec to protect your system from your browser.
http://download.sysinternals.com/Files/PsExec.zip
C:\utl\psexec.exe -dl "C:\Program Files\firefox\firefox.exe"
or
C:\utl\psexec.exe -dl "C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe"