An air force is debatable; it could be provided at either the state or federal level.
Let me guess, because it's not explicitly mentioned in the Constitution.
You know, you will hate me for pointing this out, but you live in the twenty-first century and not the eighteenth. It would behove you to notice that.
Apparently it has caught on pretty well locally, and with a small population it's not particularly difficult to get such legislation passed on short notice.
Third Way? Trickle down? All that is is the rich people calling the shots. That's what's happening in the West too, but in the early to middle twentieth century, some poor people in some places got to call some shots, and it was most definitely right for them. Multiparty democracy really just clouds the issue, it's a tool to ensure the most egregious abuses of other systems of government, but it is unfortunately a poor tool for protecting the poor from the rich. Poor people may have parties, but in the long run, they are taken over by rich people. (That's the proletariat and the bourgeoisie in Marx terms.)
That section doesn't pertain to anything we're discussing here. Congrats for being part of the FUD.
I know it's a little complicated, but basically in 1983 Reagan signed an executive order granting Interpol international organization status, which just means they get certain (mostly tax- and customs-related) protections and privileges. Section 2(b) of the act defining those privileges is what you quoted above, and is what Reagan gave them. Now, Reagan excepted Interpol from certain protections, viz Section 2(c), Section 3, Section 4, Section 5, and Section 6. These exceptions are what Obama has just withdrawn. Go ahead and read them, they pertain partly to taxes and social security, and also protect the property of international organizations (all of them, not just Interpol) from seizure and search.
So either you don't really understand what's going on or you're just fearmongering. As to the whoever started this, well, that was pure FUD.
You are an idiot. Do you seriously think that the Western countries stand to benefit from the flooding of London, New York, Tokyo, San Francisco (the Silicon Valley), and Miami?
People always bring this quote up. Bullshit. All you need for good people to do evil things is for more than one good person to act together -- organisation, in a word. Or is Microsoft a religion? Yet I'm sure that if you took each person there alone, you would consider them quite average. Is Wall Street a religion? Are credit card companies religions? Was Communism a religion? Was Pol Pot a Pope?
This Steven Weinberg obviously spent 1 minute thinking about the problem, but not a further minute once he had come up with a good soundbite.
If it only takes 45 minutes to free the propeller, it seems like a veritable boon to the pirates. Fire one at the vessel, it slows down nice and easy for you. Then you board her, free her, and you're off before reinforcements can get there.
That is the scariest thing I've read all year. I don't live anywhere even near Britain, but I get most of my news from the BBC, and I really admire their news-gathering and the quality of their stories.
I think the Pax Romana and the Pax Britannia were nicer. They actually developed their colonial areas. Hell, the British Empire was a net loss for most of its existence; only the freedom of markets and Britain being ahead of the curve in industry propped it up. Once that was gone, the Empire was gone. Anyway, today it's all about exploitation.
Incidentally, Pax is a relative term and applies only to the allies of Top Nation, for whichever of the three you look at.
Sadly anything useful from academia (not implying that this is) is spun off into private companies, 9 times out of 10. This despite the fact that it's mostly developed on public money.
I'm Hungarian, it's definitely a Hungarian thing too. Palinka is actually the Hungarian name, but it's a Slavic loanword with us, from the Rumanian Palinca. We usually drink apricot palinka, but plum and pear are almost as popular. Elderberry is the one to die for (and elderberry juice).
In that respect, there were "good old days"; I distinctly remember Bobby Sands, who was elected as an MP while actually at Her Majesty's pleasure (in prison). Of course, Thatcher was a spoilsport and had a law passed that you couldn't get elected if you were in prison, and I thought that a great pity. Of course, here in America there are more restrictions like having to be thirty-five to be a president. (Where's energy and youth going to come, then? The White House is named after the average colour of its occupants' hair.)
(Stuff and nonsense.) The majority have always been voting for themselves at the expense of the minority, or to put it quite truthfully, the poor have always been trying to vote themselves more money from the rich. The brakes on this process are that the people who make up government are the rich (largely). This is hardly surprising, as wealth correlates with education. In America, the number of politicians from poor backgrounds is very small compared to the number of rich ones compared to other Western countries, and they never went under (I'm talking about times after the war.) In the UK, the proportion used to be quite high and in fact they went through a very left-wing patch in the 70s, which had its ups and downs, though it didn't help their economy. By comparison, America is quite definitely a plutocracy, and that's before you count bribes (politely called donations or lobbying), which have paid for all the Representatives and Senators and Presidents several times over. In fact, it's a wonder the poor get any say at all -- well, they rarely ever do.
It never was -- there aren't good old days. Transparency and openness only became possible with mass media, mass literacy and cheap papers a century to a century and a half ago, depending on how you look at it. Before then, you had to be a wealthy landowner just to [i]vote[/i] -- you think there was transparency and openness?
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An air force is debatable; it could be provided at either the state or federal level.
Let me guess, because it's not explicitly mentioned in the Constitution.
You know, you will hate me for pointing this out, but you live in the twenty-first century and not the eighteenth. It would behove you to notice that.
Apparently it has caught on pretty well locally, and with a small population it's not particularly difficult to get such legislation passed on short notice.
Nor hard to reverse it when things go south.
Propaganda? I may be wrong, but at least I'm wrong on my own.
Third Way? Trickle down? All that is is the rich people calling the shots. That's what's happening in the West too, but in the early to middle twentieth century, some poor people in some places got to call some shots, and it was most definitely right for them. Multiparty democracy really just clouds the issue, it's a tool to ensure the most egregious abuses of other systems of government, but it is unfortunately a poor tool for protecting the poor from the rich. Poor people may have parties, but in the long run, they are taken over by rich people. (That's the proletariat and the bourgeoisie in Marx terms.)
Bit of a self-fulfilling prophecy then, don't you think? :)
That section doesn't pertain to anything we're discussing here. Congrats for being part of the FUD.
I know it's a little complicated, but basically in 1983 Reagan signed an executive order granting Interpol international organization status, which just means they get certain (mostly tax- and customs-related) protections and privileges. Section 2(b) of the act defining those privileges is what you quoted above, and is what Reagan gave them. Now, Reagan excepted Interpol from certain protections, viz Section 2(c), Section 3, Section 4, Section 5, and Section 6. These exceptions are what Obama has just withdrawn. Go ahead and read them, they pertain partly to taxes and social security, and also protect the property of international organizations (all of them, not just Interpol) from seizure and search.
So either you don't really understand what's going on or you're just fearmongering. As to the whoever started this, well, that was pure FUD.
You are an idiot. Do you seriously think that the Western countries stand to benefit from the flooding of London, New York, Tokyo, San Francisco (the Silicon Valley), and Miami?
$ apropos burning
brasero (1) - Simple and easy to use CD/DVD burning application for the Gnome Desktop
(i) generate excessive amounts of email or other Internet traffic
That's the worst clause. So now you can be cut off for merely using your pipe to its maximum.
People always bring this quote up. Bullshit. All you need for good people to do evil things is for more than one good person to act together -- organisation, in a word. Or is Microsoft a religion? Yet I'm sure that if you took each person there alone, you would consider them quite average. Is Wall Street a religion? Are credit card companies religions? Was Communism a religion? Was Pol Pot a Pope?
This Steven Weinberg obviously spent 1 minute thinking about the problem, but not a further minute once he had come up with a good soundbite.
Bugger all. But hey, if you would, I've got some linoleum here Richard Stallman once trod on, if you're interested in buying...
There isn't a central government in Somalia.
If it only takes 45 minutes to free the propeller, it seems like a veritable boon to the pirates. Fire one at the vessel, it slows down nice and easy for you. Then you board her, free her, and you're off before reinforcements can get there.
What do you mean? The devaluation of the dollar has meant a devaluation of debt on a grand scale. I call that a reasonably shrewd move.
That is the scariest thing I've read all year. I don't live anywhere even near Britain, but I get most of my news from the BBC, and I really admire their news-gathering and the quality of their stories.
I think the Pax Romana and the Pax Britannia were nicer. They actually developed their colonial areas. Hell, the British Empire was a net loss for most of its existence; only the freedom of markets and Britain being ahead of the curve in industry propped it up. Once that was gone, the Empire was gone. Anyway, today it's all about exploitation.
Incidentally, Pax is a relative term and applies only to the allies of Top Nation, for whichever of the three you look at.
Sadly anything useful from academia (not implying that this is) is spun off into private companies, 9 times out of 10. This despite the fact that it's mostly developed on public money.
I'm Hungarian, it's definitely a Hungarian thing too. Palinka is actually the Hungarian name, but it's a Slavic loanword with us, from the Rumanian Palinca. We usually drink apricot palinka, but plum and pear are almost as popular. Elderberry is the one to die for (and elderberry juice).
Is that kind of like next year is always the year of Linux on the Desktop, or the next 5 years will Herald the Breakthrough of Strong AI?
Plum brandy -- slivovitz, palinka? Your parents weren't Eastern European by any chance?
Just using long foreign words won't make you good editors or submitters. ;) (In fact, it just clouds your meaning.)
In that respect, there were "good old days"; I distinctly remember Bobby Sands, who was elected as an MP while actually at Her Majesty's pleasure (in prison). Of course, Thatcher was a spoilsport and had a law passed that you couldn't get elected if you were in prison, and I thought that a great pity. Of course, here in America there are more restrictions like having to be thirty-five to be a president. (Where's energy and youth going to come, then? The White House is named after the average colour of its occupants' hair.)
(Stuff and nonsense.) The majority have always been voting for themselves at the expense of the minority, or to put it quite truthfully, the poor have always been trying to vote themselves more money from the rich. The brakes on this process are that the people who make up government are the rich (largely). This is hardly surprising, as wealth correlates with education. In America, the number of politicians from poor backgrounds is very small compared to the number of rich ones compared to other Western countries, and they never went under (I'm talking about times after the war.) In the UK, the proportion used to be quite high and in fact they went through a very left-wing patch in the 70s, which had its ups and downs, though it didn't help their economy. By comparison, America is quite definitely a plutocracy, and that's before you count bribes (politely called donations or lobbying), which have paid for all the Representatives and Senators and Presidents several times over. In fact, it's a wonder the poor get any say at all -- well, they rarely ever do.
It never was -- there aren't good old days. Transparency and openness only became possible with mass media, mass literacy and cheap papers a century to a century and a half ago, depending on how you look at it. Before then, you had to be a wealthy landowner just to [i]vote[/i] -- you think there was transparency and openness?
Just checked and Drupal has a reasonably good Piwik module. Good news for me! I'll be switching a site I admin (120k users) to it in the next week. I already disallow google analytics because I've never enabled it via NoScript, but my visitors don't. When I got started, there wasn't really a good alternative to GA for what we were doing short of rolling our own.