I was thirteen and was more into star trek (watched it when I was four) so star wars didn't affect me much either. Good story (read the book first) and the effects were cool but that's about it.
The main reason I read/. You can actually learn something from the few(and seems to be getting fewer) intelligent people here. Beats falling asleep reading an over-detailed history book especially since it often has counter arguments in the next response. Posters often put the knowledge in clearer language and describe relative potentials in a more concise manner consistent with current interests.
Forget schools, you learn more information here and get better directions for new interests.
And what about the adults rights? You know the person or persons who have guaranteed rights under the constitution whose life is over the moment they are accused. Not guilty just accused under laws that are definitely rights violations. The possessing the image and doing the act are two different things, one doesn't harm anyone and the other does, that separation exist in law and using the possession of one to link to the other is extremely dangerous. What's next regular porn or guns or maybe common sense(too late). Just because the rest disagree with something you don't doesn't make it illegal, that's the point of the various constitutional amendments otherwise they're just words and its time to get out the guns. And codifying it into law doesn't make it any more right, just harder to get rid off. I don't care about porn, I'm just worried about how far this can be taken and how twisted it can become. Linking one thing to another in this manner is actually illegal by innocent until proven guilty definition and law having to be broken by action, possession isn't it("safety in our possessions and effects" loose quote 4th ammend, doesn't say 'legal possessions and effects'). Of course with the way the courts interpret constitutional gun law, the rest of the constitution is probably little more than a compromised joke as well. Anything to keep power and at the same time avoid getting lynched.
then maybe we need to send these congressman? to jail for misappropriating the publics money and time. Ah hell, how about a simple necktie party for each one on national tv.
Kind of reminds me of driving is a privilege, like you can walk 50 miles to work in 20 degree weather and still have a job. We have less choice in jobs and living spaces than internet behavior. So why is everyone bitching that just the internet should be a right? After all we paid for the creation for the internet and we paid and are still paying for the roads, vehicles, and enforcement. What part of it doesn't belong to us to use as we see fit?
We tried that in the 1800s, to protect from disloyal/abusive individuals, officials, and lawyers. Congress, largely a group of lawyers, just refused to acknowledge the amendment passed and continues to do so.
Just remember the only time the public will hear about it is right before the vote or just after when their arresting you. Either way you won't be able to do anything about it. The only way is to nail the bastards early before anyone powerful has a chance to get behind it and sneak it through.
I don't think any of those people really exist. If they do and you're one of them then WHY AREN'T YOU RUNNING? Stop asking everyone else and do it yourself!!
Only if they could have psychological profiles done and those particular profiles(shysters, desports, shills, etc) are banned from serving in any commanding capacity in government. I read about it in a fifties sci-fi story. You do realize the reason is that the people who should have the job are smart enough to know better than go through the back-biting hell that is current politics. They often have better jobs somewhere else and I don't blame them one bit for not stepping up.
Golly gee, what are we teaching these kids? Think about it and you won't have to wonder why the world will be going downhill into the next generation. They learn by example and we're sure giving them one. By the way, kids do have full rights, given at birth by the constitution, just because we don't acknowledge it doesn't make it true. Just more proof that we're hypocrites and are happy to teach it to the youngest of us.
It is as long as get tax breaks which make them taxpayer supported and hence government connected. Besides anti-competitive practices is illegal by a monopoly and lets not forget altering privately owned machines without permission.
"I wish people on both sides of the divide would stop treating this as a religious issue and start applying braincells..."
Braincells is boring. The passion of religious fervor is where the fun is. After all it's not like we have girls to waste it on so it might as well be on our other interest.
How about defining who is attacking whom? When a cop sticks his nose in someones else's business, justification is irrelevant, you will defend yourself against the intimidating, self-authorized intrusion. Is it the cop defending himself against an aggressive citizen or a citizen defending himself against a heavily armed, unwanted, pushy-cop? Tasers are just a glorified cattle prod and we're the cattle, the ethics of this is horrifying. How about the cops just waiting the suspect out instead of taking him down in the name of efficiency or what ever control game is going on? I know some situations don't always permit waiting but many more do that aren't acknowledged. Less people would definitely get hurt by waiting for the suspect/situation to cool down than agitating it by attacking/interfering.
Cops are there to keep us from killing each other, not to pacify the population or dictate how we otherwise interact. They are the constitution's army now if they could just read and understand the intent and meaning of the thing.
Personally, I think we've already reached Mussolini's fascism in this country anyway. The constitution is little more than dead. And the police/federal forces becoming little more than the modern gestapo, with the rest of their powers on the way. We're corporate controlled, government owned, want an example, I hope you paid your property taxes(rent).
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Thanks for describing the difference between Star Trek: TOS and TNG. TOS - gritty, basic, almost raw. TNG - you could eat off the deck plates.
I was thirteen and was more into star trek (watched it when I was four) so star wars didn't affect me much either. Good story (read the book first) and the effects were cool but that's about it.
Forget schools, you learn more information here and get better directions for new interests.
So in other words we're born guilty and manipulated on that point, what a system.
You forgot one, Mao's cultural revolution was a bigger killer than stalin.
I think you interchanged star wars with star trek.
Unethical behavior is bad regardless of political system.
"You have the right to be tarred and feathered and dumped in acid or just dumped in acid?"
"There's a difference? After all the end result is the same."
And what about the adults rights? You know the person or persons who have guaranteed rights under the constitution whose life is over the moment they are accused. Not guilty just accused under laws that are definitely rights violations. The possessing the image and doing the act are two different things, one doesn't harm anyone and the other does, that separation exist in law and using the possession of one to link to the other is extremely dangerous. What's next regular porn or guns or maybe common sense(too late). Just because the rest disagree with something you don't doesn't make it illegal, that's the point of the various constitutional amendments otherwise they're just words and its time to get out the guns. And codifying it into law doesn't make it any more right, just harder to get rid off. I don't care about porn, I'm just worried about how far this can be taken and how twisted it can become. Linking one thing to another in this manner is actually illegal by innocent until proven guilty definition and law having to be broken by action, possession isn't it("safety in our possessions and effects" loose quote 4th ammend, doesn't say 'legal possessions and effects'). Of course with the way the courts interpret constitutional gun law, the rest of the constitution is probably little more than a compromised joke as well. Anything to keep power and at the same time avoid getting lynched.
then maybe we need to send these congressman? to jail for misappropriating the publics money and time. Ah hell, how about a simple necktie party for each one on national tv.
It's more like every guy that owns playboy or penthouse is a rapist. Correlate that.
Depends on your definition of a witch, how about a sanctimonious law abiding zealot.
Kind of reminds me of driving is a privilege, like you can walk 50 miles to work in 20 degree weather and still have a job. We have less choice in jobs and living spaces than internet behavior. So why is everyone bitching that just the internet should be a right? After all we paid for the creation for the internet and we paid and are still paying for the roads, vehicles, and enforcement. What part of it doesn't belong to us to use as we see fit?
We tried that in the 1800s, to protect from disloyal/abusive individuals, officials, and lawyers. Congress, largely a group of lawyers, just refused to acknowledge the amendment passed and continues to do so.
Just remember the only time the public will hear about it is right before the vote or just after when their arresting you. Either way you won't be able to do anything about it. The only way is to nail the bastards early before anyone powerful has a chance to get behind it and sneak it through.
I don't think any of those people really exist. If they do and you're one of them then WHY AREN'T YOU RUNNING? Stop asking everyone else and do it yourself!!
Only if they could have psychological profiles done and those particular profiles(shysters, desports, shills, etc) are banned from serving in any commanding capacity in government. I read about it in a fifties sci-fi story. You do realize the reason is that the people who should have the job are smart enough to know better than go through the back-biting hell that is current politics. They often have better jobs somewhere else and I don't blame them one bit for not stepping up.
Golly gee, what are we teaching these kids? Think about it and you won't have to wonder why the world will be going downhill into the next generation. They learn by example and we're sure giving them one. By the way, kids do have full rights, given at birth by the constitution, just because we don't acknowledge it doesn't make it true. Just more proof that we're hypocrites and are happy to teach it to the youngest of us.
As opposed to the assholes that do participate and screw up everything anyway, right jackass!
Censorship is the end result, not how you get there.
It is as long as get tax breaks which make them taxpayer supported and hence government connected. Besides anti-competitive practices is illegal by a monopoly and lets not forget altering privately owned machines without permission.
Braincells is boring. The passion of religious fervor is where the fun is. After all it's not like we have girls to waste it on so it might as well be on our other interest.
Corruption!!
Remember what Ben Franklin said about security to protect freedom.
Cops are there to keep us from killing each other, not to pacify the population or dictate how we otherwise interact. They are the constitution's army now if they could just read and understand the intent and meaning of the thing.
Personally, I think we've already reached Mussolini's fascism in this country anyway. The constitution is little more than dead. And the police/federal forces becoming little more than the modern gestapo, with the rest of their powers on the way. We're corporate controlled, government owned, want an example, I hope you paid your property taxes(rent).