I spent four years in the Air force, disliked it immensely, but nevertheless consider it to have been a valuable use of my time. In terms of conscription, I believe this nation could benefit from mandatory conscription for a number of years along the lines of what, say, Israel or Switzerland does.
Even still, I honestly didn't get that out of the quote. I got a blanket statement of Life > Freedom in terms of values and priorities, something I strongly disagree with. If you were enslaved, would you kill your slavemaster to win your freedom?
Medical Marijuana has been a pissing match between the Feds and the States for a while now. It's the fed's position that a significant number of "Medical Marijuana" growers are simply drug traffickers hiding behind state laws.
Whenever a legitimate medical marijuana grower is raided, and the evidence doesn't support the idea that drug trafficking is going on, the Fed nevertheless refuses to drop charges, and we're left with bad precedents.
Nevertheless, the States are already winning this paticular 'war' - Americans are already waking up, as you've put it. Honestly, we just need to keep on this path, and it'll get legalized for good.
The Case you're referring to was a commercial wheat farmer growing wheat for his own consumption IN ADDITION to the commercial wheat. Dude swore up and down that his commercial plot was in accordance with federal standards (it was) and his private plot was for his own consumption (so far as anyone ever proved, that too was true). - He still got fined because the privately grown wheat still affected his commercial sales.
This has been used as precedent to allow the Fed to regulate entirely non-commercial agriculture across the States, but the legal status of doing so is still disputed. See, Fed vs. States battling about home-grown Marijuana.
Generally, stuff grown for personal use is regulated by state laws. The Feds will take interest if you make a nuisance of yourself, but otherwise you don't have to worry.
With the internet, the amount of information publically available is amazing. If we could find a way to convince kids to educate themselves, it would do more good than most of the educational programs I've ever been a part of.
I sure as hell expect the police to not pull me over and impound my car if I'm going 70 miles per hour, no matter if I'm travelling for 3 hours, or 300 hours.
Thing is, that Uranium could be used in civilian power plants, rather than sitting around uselessly in Nuclear weapons.
The metalworking could have produced cars, airplanes, spacecraft, etc. Rather than Nuclear weapons.
Nuclear technicians are not stupid people, and could have easily specialized in professions that provide value to society, rather than maintaining weapons that, AT BEST, will never be used.
While I was Stationed at Ramstein AFB, Germany - Once a year a Russian Nuclear inspection team came by to verify that there were no Nukes on base. It was something of a big deal because we had to open up all our facilities to the inspectors if they wanted to come in and snoop around.
Dudes always seemed to just do a once-over with what I assume was a radiation detector in a van driving around base, and then break for vodka around noon.
I did a little searching for relevant non e-mail equivalents.
Sending Junk snail-mail doesn't seem to be against the law in most jurisdictions.
The closest equivalent I could find is laws against sending junk faxes, which can result in damages of several thousand dollars per page in most jurisdictions.
So yes, $1000 per e-mail is not without precedent.
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With the file-sharing thing, suppose you're in trouble for 10 songs. You could have stolen a CD, get caught, charged with Petty theft, and let off with community service...
Or you could have used a file-sharing program, and had your life ruined in the ensuing lawsuit. The punishment is not only completely out of proportion to the crime, it flies in the face of all precedents for dealing with similar crimes offline.
- The article posits a sample size of ~20,000 people (judging from his "1 in 166, expecting 130 autistic" comment), not 200,000 - and a journalist out asking questions is not the same as a detailed study.
- The Amish are famously insular. It's entirely possible that there are many more autistic Amish individuals, they're just not telling anyone. Also, as mentioned above, anything other than very severe autism wouldn't be much of an impediment to, say, plowing fields.
- What happened around 1930 (again, mentioned in the article) is, for the first time in history, people started paying attention to people with psychological disorders, rather than just locking them up in an asylum, or the attic, or something.
I was living in Germany a few years back, and used Skype, first as just a way to call people back home, and later as my primary phone. It was pretty terrible back when I started using it (~2005?) but has became much more reliable towards the end(I came back to America in 2009). I still use it to call friends in other countries without incident.
I can't imagine vonage being much different of a story.
We've been dicks to Latin America over the past century or so. The people of Latin America have very specific, valid gripes against the United States too.
We didn't play nice with Japan, China, or the rest of southwest Asia either. We've raped and pillaged across Africa too! I don't think there's a single nation on earth that can't point to a specific incident in their history which qualifies as a valid gripe.
The people of the Middle East are just being babies about it.
You seem to be confused. Either you're very gullible, and have been lied to by very convincing people.
Or you're intentionally lying to get that coveted -1 Troll moderation stamp.
- Your account of the flood directly contradicts the bible.
- Your understanding of the fossil record is simply incorrect. There's no way I can help you out here.
- Your understanding of genetics is similarly incorrect.
- The research in your link doesn't imply what you seem to think it implies.
Overall, you seem to be very confused, and looking at whatever research you've done as a means to prove your pre-existing viewpoint, rather than allowing new evidence to reshape your view of the world.
This is exactly why we're so terrible at fighting a Guerilla war. Our political objectives (occupy the country, win hearts and minds, avoid losing face with the international community) don't mesh with our military objectives (putting down the insurgency).
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I spent four years in the Air force, disliked it immensely, but nevertheless consider it to have been a valuable use of my time. In terms of conscription, I believe this nation could benefit from mandatory conscription for a number of years along the lines of what, say, Israel or Switzerland does.
Even still, I honestly didn't get that out of the quote. I got a blanket statement of Life > Freedom in terms of values and priorities, something I strongly disagree with. If you were enslaved, would you kill your slavemaster to win your freedom?
your sig makes me hate you as a person.
Medical Marijuana has been a pissing match between the Feds and the States for a while now. It's the fed's position that a significant number of "Medical Marijuana" growers are simply drug traffickers hiding behind state laws.
Whenever a legitimate medical marijuana grower is raided, and the evidence doesn't support the idea that drug trafficking is going on, the Fed nevertheless refuses to drop charges, and we're left with bad precedents.
Nevertheless, the States are already winning this paticular 'war' - Americans are already waking up, as you've put it. Honestly, we just need to keep on this path, and it'll get legalized for good.
The Case you're referring to was a commercial wheat farmer growing wheat for his own consumption IN ADDITION to the commercial wheat. Dude swore up and down that his commercial plot was in accordance with federal standards (it was) and his private plot was for his own consumption (so far as anyone ever proved, that too was true). - He still got fined because the privately grown wheat still affected his commercial sales.
This has been used as precedent to allow the Fed to regulate entirely non-commercial agriculture across the States, but the legal status of doing so is still disputed. See, Fed vs. States battling about home-grown Marijuana.
Generally, stuff grown for personal use is regulated by state laws. The Feds will take interest if you make a nuisance of yourself, but otherwise you don't have to worry.
This is entirely unrelated to flashing a scanner in someone's eyes.
With the internet, the amount of information publically available is amazing. If we could find a way to convince kids to educate themselves, it would do more good than most of the educational programs I've ever been a part of.
I sure as hell expect the police to not pull me over and impound my car if I'm going 70 miles per hour, no matter if I'm travelling for 3 hours, or 300 hours.
They were phasing out this new PDA thing when I got out two years ago. It's probably pretty standard by now.
2005-2008, fairly recently. I imagine it was much different back in the day.
Thing is, that Uranium could be used in civilian power plants, rather than sitting around uselessly in Nuclear weapons.
The metalworking could have produced cars, airplanes, spacecraft, etc. Rather than Nuclear weapons.
Nuclear technicians are not stupid people, and could have easily specialized in professions that provide value to society, rather than maintaining weapons that, AT BEST, will never be used.
mod parent up, he's factually correct, not a troll.
While I was Stationed at Ramstein AFB, Germany - Once a year a Russian Nuclear inspection team came by to verify that there were no Nukes on base. It was something of a big deal because we had to open up all our facilities to the inspectors if they wanted to come in and snoop around.
Dudes always seemed to just do a once-over with what I assume was a radiation detector in a van driving around base, and then break for vodka around noon.
I did a little searching for relevant non e-mail equivalents.
Sending Junk snail-mail doesn't seem to be against the law in most jurisdictions.
The closest equivalent I could find is laws against sending junk faxes, which can result in damages of several thousand dollars per page in most jurisdictions.
So yes, $1000 per e-mail is not without precedent.
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With the file-sharing thing, suppose you're in trouble for 10 songs. You could have stolen a CD, get caught, charged with Petty theft, and let off with community service...
Or you could have used a file-sharing program, and had your life ruined in the ensuing lawsuit. The punishment is not only completely out of proportion to the crime, it flies in the face of all precedents for dealing with similar crimes offline.
- The article posits a sample size of ~20,000 people (judging from his "1 in 166, expecting 130 autistic" comment), not 200,000 - and a journalist out asking questions is not the same as a detailed study.
- The Amish are famously insular. It's entirely possible that there are many more autistic Amish individuals, they're just not telling anyone. Also, as mentioned above, anything other than very severe autism wouldn't be much of an impediment to, say, plowing fields.
- What happened around 1930 (again, mentioned in the article) is, for the first time in history, people started paying attention to people with psychological disorders, rather than just locking them up in an asylum, or the attic, or something.
Small pox vaccines are no longer useful for the majority of Americans, and thus not given.
The Vaccine still exists. I got it a couple years ago while I was in the Military.
I was living in Germany a few years back, and used Skype, first as just a way to call people back home, and later as my primary phone. It was pretty terrible back when I started using it (~2005?) but has became much more reliable towards the end(I came back to America in 2009). I still use it to call friends in other countries without incident.
I can't imagine vonage being much different of a story.
What? Our orwellian Overlords have BEARS now?! Shit, we're fucked now!
He's snarky yeah, but not a troll. WTF mods?
We've been dicks to Latin America over the past century or so. The people of Latin America have very specific, valid gripes against the United States too.
We didn't play nice with Japan, China, or the rest of southwest Asia either. We've raped and pillaged across Africa too! I don't think there's a single nation on earth that can't point to a specific incident in their history which qualifies as a valid gripe.
The people of the Middle East are just being babies about it.
You seem to be confused. Either you're very gullible, and have been lied to by very convincing people.
Or you're intentionally lying to get that coveted -1 Troll moderation stamp.
- Your account of the flood directly contradicts the bible.
- Your understanding of the fossil record is simply incorrect. There's no way I can help you out here.
- Your understanding of genetics is similarly incorrect.
- The research in your link doesn't imply what you seem to think it implies.
Overall, you seem to be very confused, and looking at whatever research you've done as a means to prove your pre-existing viewpoint, rather than allowing new evidence to reshape your view of the world.
Who's pretending?
Your explaination isn't as valid as his.
something goes wrong
Omnipotent designer says what?
You WERE going for the +5 funny vote, right?
This is exactly why we're so terrible at fighting a Guerilla war. Our political objectives (occupy the country, win hearts and minds, avoid losing face with the international community) don't mesh with our military objectives (putting down the insurgency).
Then why are we there?
I hear this a lot, there might even be something to it, but most other given reasons for the War in Iraq can be dismissed just as easily!