I understand that freedom is not free. But why should I allow the widespread and mindless acceptance of new ease of use technologies, if opting out will harm me? Why not just fight them from the beginning?
Case in point, I work and live in a cash economy. I am, like most living in poverty, without a bank account. I do not have a credit card. If I wish to travel by air, because I pay in cash I am subjected to being pulled and run through the security apparatus.
What you are saying is that it is a personal choice for me, not joining in modernity means strangers are allowed to fondle my prostate.
Which is something I consider every time I must travel. This is a choice that the rest of America made for me, I dont like it. I dont like anything that even vaguely smells as if it may be similar 20 years from now.
BTW before you attack my economic status, I am speaking of cheap flights, Specifically Independence air. I realize that even with that price I 'could' get a bank account. If my credit and income had not placed me in a state of debt slavery. I grew up working class in D.C. Try paying your bills on a minimum wage job there now. I stupidly tried to fight basic market economics, I.E. not be forced out of the neighborhood I grew up in. I lost, badly. I am slowly paying my way out of debt, but still owe the next two years of my life to the forces of gentrifuckingcation.
China is surprisingly flexible and responsive to actual U.S. pressure, reference the status that Taiwan has maintained, reference the recent re-evaluation of the Yuan. If the U.S. seriously demands this China will stealthily cave. Eventually.
Titor was an obvious phony, I mean shotguns, John Updike thought we should be using them in Vietnam, but their range sucks, shotgun militias will never be a defensive army, only a police force. His timeline is seemingly unneringly accurate though.:Exhales Paranoia: It's been a long week.
"Were there no actors or musicians in the centuries and millenia before then?"
Until quite recently artists were purely the bitches of the wealthy, they depended on aristocratic patrons to survive and their art was not readily available to the public (reference everything Mozart ever produced)
This is already done. A couple of friends of mine were hired by a protest for hire group to go into bank of america's and protest their use of Wackenhut security.
Paid $10 an hour.
Isay this entire thread is quickly becoming irrelevant.
Hr1268 sec 102 http://www.theorator.com/bills109/hr1268.html
Congress legislated the judiciary powerless. If it works this once there is nothing to stop it from working on everything.
The supreme court is the only body that has been keeping this good old U.S. of A. constitutional for some time at this point.
When The SCOTUS is powerless the U.S. turns into one of those crappy south american republics with a great constitution and a horrible government that regularly craps on it.
Game over.
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I understand that freedom is not free.
But why should I allow the widespread and mindless acceptance of new ease of use technologies, if opting out will harm me? Why not just fight them from the beginning?
Case in point, I work and live in a cash economy. I am, like most living in poverty, without a bank account. I do not have a credit card. If I wish to travel by air, because I pay in cash I am subjected to being pulled and run through the security apparatus.
What you are saying is that it is a personal choice for me, not joining in modernity means strangers are allowed to fondle my prostate.
Which is something I consider every time I must travel. This is a choice that the rest of America made for me, I dont like it. I dont like anything that even vaguely smells as if it may be similar 20 years from now.
BTW before you attack my economic status, I am speaking of cheap flights, Specifically Independence air. I realize that even with that price I 'could' get a bank account. If my credit and income had not placed me in a state of debt slavery.
I grew up working class in D.C. Try paying your bills on a minimum wage job there now. I stupidly tried to fight basic market economics, I.E. not be forced out of the neighborhood I grew up in. I lost, badly. I am slowly paying my way out of debt, but still owe the next two years of my life to the forces of gentrifuckingcation.
China is surprisingly flexible and responsive to actual U.S. pressure, reference the status that Taiwan has maintained, reference the recent re-evaluation of the Yuan. If the U.S. seriously demands this China will stealthily cave. Eventually.
Titor was an obvious phony, I mean shotguns, John Updike thought we should be using them in Vietnam, but their range sucks, shotgun militias will never be a defensive army, only a police force. His timeline is seemingly unneringly accurate though. :Exhales Paranoia: It's been a long week.
"Were there no actors or musicians in the centuries and millenia before then?" Until quite recently artists were purely the bitches of the wealthy, they depended on aristocratic patrons to survive and their art was not readily available to the public (reference everything Mozart ever produced)
This is already done. A couple of friends of mine were hired by a protest for hire group to go into bank of america's and protest their use of Wackenhut security. Paid $10 an hour.
Isay this entire thread is quickly becoming irrelevant. Hr1268 sec 102 http://www.theorator.com/bills109/hr1268.html Congress legislated the judiciary powerless. If it works this once there is nothing to stop it from working on everything. The supreme court is the only body that has been keeping this good old U.S. of A. constitutional for some time at this point. When The SCOTUS is powerless the U.S. turns into one of those crappy south american republics with a great constitution and a horrible government that regularly craps on it. Game over.