And I don't think you've noiticed, but free speech is a whole lot less free in the present USA.
We still have a greater degree of free speech than most of the world. If you live in Germany, try denying that the holocaust happened and see what happens.
You have obviously never served in any branch of the United States military. There is distinction between legal and illegal orders, and it is illegal to follow an illegal order.
The problem is that you never know if the article you are looking at is wrong and is going to be corrected 3 minutes later. How are you suppose to list Wikipedia as a source? You would have to list the date and exact time you accessed it.
I think a better system would be having a "public" version of Wikipedia that changes at the begining of every month. Also have a "private" system where controversy is discussed until concesus is achieved. By "private", I mean somehting that anyone can get to, but is not what the general public would see at first look. Maybe a link on the page label "early access".
I think HOV was originally designed to reduce traffic congestion, not promote conservation. Not that it doesn't promote conservation, it just wasn't the reason for it.
If no one had to show ID to get on the 9/11 planes, then we would not know who the victims or the hijackers were. How does that help us? Well a suicide bomber normally has help. By knowing who they were, the FBI can go talk to there associates and try to determine who actually master minded the event.
The government is not trying to take your papers, they are requiring that you show them if you want to do something. People don't complain that you need to show ID to get a drivers license. Same thing here. A privac violation is if they come into your home and require you to show them ID.
Thats a great idea, lets have politicians control the banking system. If Bush was controlling the banking system, I am sure he would care about the long term stability of the system and not do things to improve the economy before election at the expense of the future. You need to be able to trust the central bank and you can't trust poloticians.
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And I don't think you've noiticed, but free speech is a whole lot less free in the present USA.
We still have a greater degree of free speech than most of the world. If you live in Germany, try denying that the holocaust happened and see what happens.
You have obviously never served in any branch of the United States military. There is distinction between legal and illegal orders, and it is illegal to follow an illegal order.
So if it goes to court, how do you determine which of the two documents was the one signed by the employee?
You really do deserve the rights we Europeans take for granted. Unfortunately you now need to fight for these.
Europe does similar things. Try denying the holocaust in Germany.
No, those restrictions are federal laws. Individual states can't put those types of restrictions on commerce.
Using your logic, being forced to put a license plate on your car is an invasion of your privacy.
If one country can make international law meaningless, then it was meaningless to begin with.
a navy program using open source software becomes classified?
The problem is that you never know if the article you are looking at is wrong and is going to be corrected 3 minutes later. How are you suppose to list Wikipedia as a source? You would have to list the date and exact time you accessed it.
I think a better system would be having a "public" version of Wikipedia that changes at the begining of every month. Also have a "private" system where controversy is discussed until concesus is achieved. By "private", I mean somehting that anyone can get to, but is not what the general public would see at first look. Maybe a link on the page label "early access".
I don't think it would be illegal for you to download it. However, it would be illegal for someone besides microsoft to distribute it to you.
Yes, semilegal unilateral action is the way to go. I am sure you would also agree with the US war in Iraq.
Actually, employement has been going up for the past 12 months. Unfortinately, the country still has less jobs than it did 4 years ago.
I know, because the Department Of Justice has to report to congress every 6 months how it has used certain parts of the patriot act.
You obviously dislike america, but you do have some valid complaints. But living in the real world, what country does it better?
Your post indicates thats you think wars should be a fair fight. Personally, I want any war the US is in to be very unfair. The point is it win.
Yah, beacuse the reusable shuttle sysem is so much cheaper than the one time use rockets it replaces.
If it only has to work once, then it is a lot simpler and a lot cheaper to build.
I think HOV was originally designed to reduce traffic congestion, not promote conservation. Not that it doesn't promote conservation, it just wasn't the reason for it.
I agree.
If no one had to show ID to get on the 9/11 planes, then we would not know who the victims or the hijackers were. How does that help us? Well a suicide bomber normally has help. By knowing who they were, the FBI can go talk to there associates and try to determine who actually master minded the event.
The government is not trying to take your papers, they are requiring that you show them if you want to do something. People don't complain that you need to show ID to get a drivers license. Same thing here. A privac violation is if they come into your home and require you to show them ID.
Could you please explain to me where your consitutional right to privacy comes from? I don't remember the word privacy anywhere in the constitution.
Thats a great idea, lets have politicians control the banking system. If Bush was controlling the banking system, I am sure he would care about the long term stability of the system and not do things to improve the economy before election at the expense of the future. You need to be able to trust the central bank and you can't trust poloticians.