The poster is only saying that our policies around the world create terrorists. It may be the case that our foreign policy is right and should be continued, but that it still does create terrorists.
Ron Paul makes this very point in his recent book. These unintended consequences are called "blowback". Right or wrong, our interventionist foreign policy creates ill will toward us.
An outside observer might wonder why this is such a big deal since the tax is going to be paid as use tax rather than sales tax. The difference here is that sales tax is charge at the point of sale while the use tax is charged on state tax returns.
Use tax is notoriously hard to enforce because the state necessarily doesn't know about any items you bought in a different state. Many people lie about their use tax liability on their state tax returns because the state usually doesn't have any evidence to the contrary.
They're trying to cause what seems like a shutdown of Congress, and then blame the Dems for it -- and the public is completely buying it. I tried to argue this same point to someone else, and was only met with the response "no, it's because the Democrats are a bunch of useless idiots."
Those are not mutually exclusive. The Democrats are a bunch of useless idiots and the Republicans are filibustering everything under the sun.
If Harry Reid had the slightest amount of testicular fortitude, he'd have the Senate in session 24/7 demanding the Republicans actually stand up and filibuster these bills (and having the Sergent-at-Arms kindly bring Senators trying to get some shuteye to the chambers) rather than quietly shelving them away after a cloture motion fails.
there's no way in hell I would voted for him if I lived in a battleground state.
Why? If you lived in Florida in 2000 and voted for Nader instead of Gore, Gore would have still lost by 537 votes. If you would have decided to Gore over Nader, Gore would have lost by 536 votes.
I'm probably voting for Nader and I'm an Ohioan. The only way my vote will end up changing the election is if Obama loses by exactly one vote in Ohio and Ohio's electors put McCain over the top. I've mentioned to others that the odds of that happening are insignificant to the point of disregarding it. It is quite a bit more likely that I'll die before then, thereby negating my vote than my vote actually changing the outcome of the election.
In essence, I'm "wasting" my vote on Nader precisely because it is worthless.
I've read that RMS doesn't have a problem recommending Debian to someone who he knows will not use proprietary software, but since not everyone who reads his writings is such a person, he cannot fully endorse such distros. In the same passage I recall him saying that contrib/non-free tempts you to give up your freedom.
To me, he goes a little too far on that note. That's getting dangerously close to "I know whats better for you than you do". Not only that, but the fact that Debian/Ubuntu exists would create the same temptations. Granted that changing a few lines in sources.list is a bit less challenging than installing a new distro, but that "temptation" is still there.
That is the reason why the distro makes little sense to me (outside of the "stress testing" argument made up the page).
If I don't like proprietary software, I can just install Debian or Ubuntu and take out contrib/non-free or restricted/multiverse. This seems to be for the ultra-orthodox GNU/FSF activists who don't even want proprietary software on the same server as their FOSS.
One could make the argument as you did, that this is for people who don't want to worry about non-free sections of a distro, but anyone who knows enough about licensing to this degree can do it themselves.
My definition of marketing is "the art of getting people to buy stuff they don't need".
Joking aside, marketing itself is close to outright deception. Any reasonably moral businessman would not only provide reasons why his product is better than the competition's, but let the customer know the shortcomings of his product. A moral person will give people all the information they need to make an informed decision. Anything else is essentially a lie by omission.
And yes they do seem to care because they make you take an oath under penalty of law.
AFAIK, not a single person has been arrested for lying about their partisan preference.
In fact, there was a court case that made a point that a candidate should have known that the poll workers weren't actually doing their jobs and checking people's partisan affiliations.
Those are "election monitors," not "poll workers."
Right. Any party** is allowed to have an observer present, but they can't do anything other than observe.
I'm talking about the people who actually do the counting, canvassing, etc.
Really, just about anybody is allowed to hang around and watch the process, so long as they stay out of the way and don't violate any electioneering laws.
The fact that you can lie and no one cares seems to negate any state interest in having equal members of the major parties present to tally votes.
Here's the kicker: recently the courts compelled the state to give ballot access to the Libertarian and Socialist parties. Those parties now legally exist in the state of Ohio. Can Libertarians and/or Socialists be poll workers? Only if they lie and say they are Democrats or Republicans.
[...] The judges shall constitute the election officers of the precinct. Not more than one-half of the total number of judges shall be members of the same political party. The term of such precinct officers shall be for one year. The board may, at any time, designate any number of election officers, not more than one-half of whom shall be members of the same political party, to perform their duties at any precinct in any election. The board may appoint additional officials, equally divided between the two major political parties, when necessary to expedite voting.
I've tried on several occasions and have been turned away each time because I refuse to register as either a Democrat or Republican.
You should also read the brochure. It has a space for party affiliation. As I said previously, the "oath requirement" enforcement is incredibly lax, so incredibly lax that the SoS didn't even bother to point out that it is one of the qualifications under law.
I'd be more than happy to be a poll worker (I'd even forfeit my salary to be one), except for the simple fact that one has to be a registered Democrat or Republican to be a poll worker in Ohio, which requires a statement made under penalty of election falsification (a felony) that you do indeed agree with the principles of the party and desire to be affiliated with them.
As I do not support the principles of either major party nor do I wish to be affiliated with either one, I cannot be a poll worker unless I commit a felony (which would probably bar me from being a poll worker).
Now, I'm obviously going a bit overboard here. No one really cares if you lie about your partisan identification. Republicans crossed over like crazy in the primary to vote for Clinton, but no one ever got arrested for it. In any case, I take such oaths seriously, so I can't be a poll worker.
Okay, so other than Flash (or any other proprietary browser plug in such as Quicktime or Real), how do you propose to get that multimedia on the web?
I prefer the browser plug-in myself. Flash is a pretty shitty medium for video.
Really the only reason quite a few places use flash is because its easier to hide the source of the video within a flash environment (to stop those pesky kids from saving the video locally). Flash is a sort of poor man's DRM. Good thing clive and other flash downloaders exist.
Usually cable access is a natural monopoly. Sometimes its an actual one. What do we do with natural monopolies? Regulate them as public utilities.
Rest assured that if yours is the latter, its probably still the former absent any laws to that effect.
I prefer that the government buy the infrastructure via eminent domain and allow access to any cable company who wishes to provide services over the infrastructure. That'd create competition overnight.
Since the IOC had no intention to pursue any legal action, I'd say they filed in bad faith.
Technically, filing in bad faith isn't illegal. That's what's wrong with DMCA laws. Along with the "under penalty of perjury" stuff they should add that the group in question must agree to pursue their claim if a counter-notice is filed.
They should put the GPL in the license agreement spot, but allow the "next" button to be clicked even if the agreement is not read or agreed to.
A small blurb saying acceptance is not required to use the software, but is required to distribute copies (modified or otherwise) would be an extra perk.
That's another problem. Crazy high rent. The cost of living in California is insane. Here in the rust belt you don't have too hard of a time finding a studio apartment for $300/mo. Of course, $30,000/yr salary is doing pretty well.
Another thing is the craziness in your cities. Us Midwesterners are used to white flight and suburban living. Our downtown areas are dirt cheap. You can easily buy decent, livable housing in downtown Dayton for $30,000. It's been this way for years.
I always took it for granted that housing expenses decrease the closer you are to downtown. Imagine my surprise when I was looking outside the rust belt for a job and an apartment.
Personally, I don't see how anyone could take more than a 20 minute commute. I'd take a significant pay cut (well right now I'm jobless, but in theory... work with me here) to work within a short bus/bike ride from home. Here's to hoping that people will start building commercial properties in Riverside County.
We know they're all 16, though, because, according to the broadcast, their passports confirm it. What's the point of the new "16 and over" rule if the only way they check ages is by looking at government issued passports?
Seems to me that we need Netcraft to confirm it. Who would doubt their ages then?
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Thankfully the only thing he's going to be doing is showing up in the Senate once every blue moon to break a tie.
But that isn't what the poster is claiming.
The poster is only saying that our policies around the world create terrorists. It may be the case that our foreign policy is right and should be continued, but that it still does create terrorists.
Ron Paul makes this very point in his recent book. These unintended consequences are called "blowback". Right or wrong, our interventionist foreign policy creates ill will toward us.
An outside observer might wonder why this is such a big deal since the tax is going to be paid as use tax rather than sales tax. The difference here is that sales tax is charge at the point of sale while the use tax is charged on state tax returns.
Use tax is notoriously hard to enforce because the state necessarily doesn't know about any items you bought in a different state. Many people lie about their use tax liability on their state tax returns because the state usually doesn't have any evidence to the contrary.
Well there's Nader, Barr, McKinney, and quite a few others (depending where you live).
Shit! His middle name is Hussein? Looks like I'm not voting for him no matter what policy positions he holds.
John McCain's middle name is Sidney. That makes me think he's a sissy. And he's John Sidney McCain, III. Does he think he's royalty or something?
My middle name is Alan. What does that say about me?
Be nice. He did say "most".
Those are not mutually exclusive. The Democrats are a bunch of useless idiots and the Republicans are filibustering everything under the sun.
If Harry Reid had the slightest amount of testicular fortitude, he'd have the Senate in session 24/7 demanding the Republicans actually stand up and filibuster these bills (and having the Sergent-at-Arms kindly bring Senators trying to get some shuteye to the chambers) rather than quietly shelving them away after a cloture motion fails.
Why? If you lived in Florida in 2000 and voted for Nader instead of Gore, Gore would have still lost by 537 votes. If you would have decided to Gore over Nader, Gore would have lost by 536 votes.
I'm probably voting for Nader and I'm an Ohioan. The only way my vote will end up changing the election is if Obama loses by exactly one vote in Ohio and Ohio's electors put McCain over the top. I've mentioned to others that the odds of that happening are insignificant to the point of disregarding it. It is quite a bit more likely that I'll die before then, thereby negating my vote than my vote actually changing the outcome of the election.
In essence, I'm "wasting" my vote on Nader precisely because it is worthless.
I've read that RMS doesn't have a problem recommending Debian to someone who he knows will not use proprietary software, but since not everyone who reads his writings is such a person, he cannot fully endorse such distros. In the same passage I recall him saying that contrib/non-free tempts you to give up your freedom.
To me, he goes a little too far on that note. That's getting dangerously close to "I know whats better for you than you do". Not only that, but the fact that Debian/Ubuntu exists would create the same temptations. Granted that changing a few lines in sources.list is a bit less challenging than installing a new distro, but that "temptation" is still there.
That is the reason why the distro makes little sense to me (outside of the "stress testing" argument made up the page).
If I don't like proprietary software, I can just install Debian or Ubuntu and take out contrib/non-free or restricted/multiverse. This seems to be for the ultra-orthodox GNU/FSF activists who don't even want proprietary software on the same server as their FOSS.
One could make the argument as you did, that this is for people who don't want to worry about non-free sections of a distro, but anyone who knows enough about licensing to this degree can do it themselves.
My definition of marketing is "the art of getting people to buy stuff they don't need".
Joking aside, marketing itself is close to outright deception. Any reasonably moral businessman would not only provide reasons why his product is better than the competition's, but let the customer know the shortcomings of his product. A moral person will give people all the information they need to make an informed decision. Anything else is essentially a lie by omission.
I've made exactly the same case to the boards of election. They see how the law could be interpreted that way, but they don't interpret it that way.
I suppose if I wanted to be a poll worker, I'd have to sue to do so. I like to be a worker, but not so bad that I take the state to court.
AFAIK, not a single person has been arrested for lying about their partisan preference.
In fact, there was a court case that made a point that a candidate should have known that the poll workers weren't actually doing their jobs and checking people's partisan affiliations.
Right. Any party** is allowed to have an observer present, but they can't do anything other than observe.
I'm talking about the people who actually do the counting, canvassing, etc.
No. In Ohio, you may not loiter at the polling place. So you can't just stand there and watch.
**Oddly enough, if you're an independent candidate you don't. Only a group of 5 or more independent candidates can appoint 1 observer. (ORC 3505.21)
In case the thread gets long, I'll link to my rebuttal.
The fact that you can lie and no one cares seems to negate any state interest in having equal members of the major parties present to tally votes.
Here's the kicker: recently the courts compelled the state to give ballot access to the Libertarian and Socialist parties. Those parties now legally exist in the state of Ohio. Can Libertarians and/or Socialists be poll workers? Only if they lie and say they are Democrats or Republicans.
No.
ORC 3501.22(A), to wit:
[...] The judges shall constitute the election officers of the precinct. Not more than one-half of the total number of judges shall be members of the same political party. The term of such precinct officers shall be for one year. The board may, at any time, designate any number of election officers, not more than one-half of whom shall be members of the same political party, to perform their duties at any precinct in any election. The board may appoint additional officials, equally divided between the two major political parties, when necessary to expedite voting.
I've tried on several occasions and have been turned away each time because I refuse to register as either a Democrat or Republican.
You should also read the brochure. It has a space for party affiliation. As I said previously, the "oath requirement" enforcement is incredibly lax, so incredibly lax that the SoS didn't even bother to point out that it is one of the qualifications under law.
I'd be more than happy to be a poll worker (I'd even forfeit my salary to be one), except for the simple fact that one has to be a registered Democrat or Republican to be a poll worker in Ohio, which requires a statement made under penalty of election falsification (a felony) that you do indeed agree with the principles of the party and desire to be affiliated with them.
As I do not support the principles of either major party nor do I wish to be affiliated with either one, I cannot be a poll worker unless I commit a felony (which would probably bar me from being a poll worker).
Now, I'm obviously going a bit overboard here. No one really cares if you lie about your partisan identification. Republicans crossed over like crazy in the primary to vote for Clinton, but no one ever got arrested for it. In any case, I take such oaths seriously, so I can't be a poll worker.
I prefer the browser plug-in myself. Flash is a pretty shitty medium for video.
Really the only reason quite a few places use flash is because its easier to hide the source of the video within a flash environment (to stop those pesky kids from saving the video locally). Flash is a sort of poor man's DRM. Good thing clive and other flash downloaders exist.
Usually cable access is a natural monopoly. Sometimes its an actual one. What do we do with natural monopolies? Regulate them as public utilities.
Rest assured that if yours is the latter, its probably still the former absent any laws to that effect.
I prefer that the government buy the infrastructure via eminent domain and allow access to any cable company who wishes to provide services over the infrastructure. That'd create competition overnight.
Since the IOC had no intention to pursue any legal action, I'd say they filed in bad faith.
Technically, filing in bad faith isn't illegal. That's what's wrong with DMCA laws. Along with the "under penalty of perjury" stuff they should add that the group in question must agree to pursue their claim if a counter-notice is filed.
They should put the GPL in the license agreement spot, but allow the "next" button to be clicked even if the agreement is not read or agreed to.
A small blurb saying acceptance is not required to use the software, but is required to distribute copies (modified or otherwise) would be an extra perk.
To each his own, I suppose.
Work is a means to an end, not an end in and of itself.
That's another problem. Crazy high rent. The cost of living in California is insane. Here in the rust belt you don't have too hard of a time finding a studio apartment for $300/mo. Of course, $30,000/yr salary is doing pretty well.
Another thing is the craziness in your cities. Us Midwesterners are used to white flight and suburban living. Our downtown areas are dirt cheap. You can easily buy decent, livable housing in downtown Dayton for $30,000. It's been this way for years.
I always took it for granted that housing expenses decrease the closer you are to downtown. Imagine my surprise when I was looking outside the rust belt for a job and an apartment.
Personally, I don't see how anyone could take more than a 20 minute commute. I'd take a significant pay cut (well right now I'm jobless, but in theory ... work with me here) to work within a short bus/bike ride from home. Here's to hoping that people will start building commercial properties in Riverside County.
Seems to me that we need Netcraft to confirm it. Who would doubt their ages then?