I think you find that totalitarians of any political bent are the ones who want "top-down, society-comes-from-the-government policies. " Yes, in America the liberal whackjobs are more likely to call for totalitarianism. However, when it comes to actual government leaders and what it is that they actually do with their power, I think you will find very little difference between "liberal" and "conservative" in the march towards increasing government control. They only differ on the route they take, supposed liberals take the welfare/healthcare/gun-control route while supposed conservatives take the military/DHS/War-on-Drugs route. The "conservative embrace of a constitutional republic's checks and balances" is only embraced by the conservative voters, not the people they elect to represent them. Ron Paul being the exception that proves it. Look to effect of the NDAA 2012 combined with the Enemy Expatriation Act and the level of bi-partisan support for those Constitution destroying bills.
Having a brick and mortar option is important. One of Best Buy's big problems was "showcasing", where people would come in, look and touch the physical products, deciding which they wanted, and then go search the internet for the lowest prices.
This also highlights a big problem with modern capitalism: if a company isn't eternally growing, then they are deemed a failure. Simply providing goods and services and jobs doesn't count as success. It's only if you have ever rising stock prices that you are "successful".
As far as a "clean" internet goes it does have some merit. The real internet is 35% porn.It is defensible to want a cleaner, walled garden version of it. Maybe Iran could just use AOL.
Sorry but white males are never ever allowed to be the victim. It would cause a huge crash in the value of the race card, and that might require people to take responsibility for their own actions and the consequences.
Or do they simply learn that their roles aren't valued by society and take any chance they can to assert dominance
Therein cementing their devaluation by society. The only way that anti-black racism will go away in America is for the vast majority of black people to identify productivity, competence and civility as their cultural hallmarks, and actively separate themselves from the black people who don't uphold those ideals. (in much the same way as average white people actively separate themselves from white trash) As proof of concept, look to the Asian-Americans. Asians are just as visually distinctive, yet very little discrimination comparatively, there is even some preferential treatment in the job market.
In the areas of theft, robbery, and violent crime the demographic break down of convictions is very close to the demographic break down reported to the police by the victims. There is not an inherent racism in the justice system along that line. It would be just as ridiculous to say that there is inherent sexism in the justice system because the vast majority of convicts are male. Even when a crime victim identifies their attacker as a male, the police should look at women as well when searching for the assailant, just to make sure they aren't being sexist.
While it has nothing to do with racial genetics, there is an American sub-culture, largely among urban blacks, that is accepting or even encouraging of criminal activity. Thug Life ideals are just as much a generator of crime and violence as Aryan Nation ideas, yet the they have very different levels of acceptability in general society. The first step towards fixing a problem is admitting that there is a problem.
When did the competition between countries end in your world?
When we realized that the competition only serves to increase the wealth and power of the aristocracy (in what ever form it takes in different countries)
Any rich country will sooner carpet bomb a poor country that lower it's standard of living to reach the average.
Obviously false. The US exported it's entire manufacturing sector to China to do exactly the opposite of that. It raised China towards the average and stagnated the US median, while vastly increasing the wealth of the aristocracy.
The CIA will never ever be able to admit peace, safety, or success. There must always be impending doom to keep the CIA budget high and the oversight low.
Which is why we need a law that requires the claimant to pay for the defense's legal costs if the case is found to be frivolous or abusive. I believe there is such a law in the UK. I shed no tears for textbook publishers getting their well deserved comeuppance.
I believe the physical model will experience gravity in one direction, whereas the simulated model doesn't have to?
Does not the Earth also experience gravity in primarily one direction? I hope they built the model so that gravity pulls at 57.5 degrees off the spinning axis.
"political donations of any type are a form of corruption".
Donations should only be allowed to candidates that the donor is legally allowed to vote for. Corporations, unions, and lobbies could not give any money. Also multi-millionaires could not give outside of their state or district. All donations should be fed through a "Voter Contribution Department" that sends donations to the intended candidate, but anonimizes the donors, not only removing the names, but issuing the moneys daily to the campaign on a rolling one month average.
Advertising "paid for by The Friends of CandidateX" should then be illegal and all contributors to "Friends of CandidateX" should be prosecuted for tampering with the election process. People may only place advertisements on land they own, and speak support from the mouth (and online identities) that they own.
Why on why would they ever send out a Mars mission without spinning the living quarters on a long tether? Counter weight the tether with computers/sensors/batteries and put the weight variable items like fuel at the axis. 2000' tether at 1/2 rpm will give a reasonable gravity and have minimal nausea producing effects.
If ISS did any real experiments, instead of shoebox tests designed by high school classes, centrifugal gravity for space would have most of the kinks worked out by now.
Well, I sure hope all this takes place LONG after I'm old and dead. I happen to love driving my cars and motorcycles. Firing it up, cranking on the tunes and putting the hammer down on the road.
Cayenne you are too intelligent not to realize that lowering the demand for petroleum will only serve to make hig HP low efficiency engines less expensive to operate.
We aren't Socialist because of medi-care or medicaid, with those programs we are Corporatist. We give buy huge amounts of product from big pharma without negotiating prices or refusing to buy over priced products. Look at the business model for "Hover-round":
For nearly 20 years, no other motorized wheel chair manufacturer has provided more Medicare-reimbursed power wheelchairs directly to their customers than Hoveround. There are no “middle-men” involved. If you pre-qualify, Medicare may cover 80 percent of the cost of your Hoveround wheelchair, and your supplemental insurance may cover the remaining 20 percent. In fact, 9 out of 10 Hoveround owners received their HOVEROUND power wheelchair at little or no cost.
The entire business model is selling a product in such a way as to cost the customer little to nothing to buy,and billing the rest to the taxpayer. All the taxes/profits are privatized. That is Corporatism in action.
."The vast majority of voters are not intentionally pro-corporation."
There is a a continual bait-and-switch from both political parties here in the USA. On the Republican side, the voter is sold "freedom and democracy and protecting families" but they receive legislative action that adds to wealth concentration, which then undermines freedom, democracy, and the quality of median family life. On the Democrats side voters are sold something like "health care reform" and then receive legislation written by Wellpoint VP Liz Fowler that requires everyone to buy the product her company sells. We are not free. Our "democracy" is a sham.
You have several options.
1) Get a real internet Service provider..
If only that were an option for most of America. Even in NYC we have only two choices and this is the most densely populated place in the country. Choice and ISP are mutually exclusive concepts.
OK, but suppose your dad isn't a writer, he's a carpenter. And suppose he builds himself a fabulous house, with his own hands. Every nail he hammers himself. This is an awesome house. And then he dies. By your logic, should your mom, you, and the rest of his offspring be allowed to live in a house that they had nothing to do with? Not only that, but your dad didn't even wholly invent the work himself -- the house sits on land, which was here long before your dad ever was. It gets power, water, and sewer from the city services -- so the house is kind of public property, really. It was OK for your dad to live in it for a while why he was alive, but when there are homeless people on the streets, why shouldn't you have to work to put a roof over your own head, the way your dad did?
The family should get to keep the house, but other people should also be able to make houses like it without paying rights to the family.
Imagine if you had to pay IP rights on every piece of technology you buy. Rights on the design of your socks, rights on the concept of socks, rights to the ancestors of the inventor of the zipper, etc etc etc. Obvious IP rights need to have a expiration date. The question is: how long should that last? The answer is: Get a job.
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I am amused by how easily I got a "troll" rating for a post that spoke jokingly in favor of internet censorship.
I think you find that totalitarians of any political bent are the ones who want "top-down, society-comes-from-the-government policies. " Yes, in America the liberal whackjobs are more likely to call for totalitarianism. However, when it comes to actual government leaders and what it is that they actually do with their power, I think you will find very little difference between "liberal" and "conservative" in the march towards increasing government control. They only differ on the route they take, supposed liberals take the welfare/healthcare/gun-control route while supposed conservatives take the military/DHS/War-on-Drugs route. The "conservative embrace of a constitutional republic's checks and balances" is only embraced by the conservative voters, not the people they elect to represent them. Ron Paul being the exception that proves it. Look to effect of the NDAA 2012 combined with the Enemy Expatriation Act and the level of bi-partisan support for those Constitution destroying bills.
Having a brick and mortar option is important. One of Best Buy's big problems was "showcasing", where people would come in, look and touch the physical products, deciding which they wanted, and then go search the internet for the lowest prices. This also highlights a big problem with modern capitalism: if a company isn't eternally growing, then they are deemed a failure. Simply providing goods and services and jobs doesn't count as success. It's only if you have ever rising stock prices that you are "successful".
As far as a "clean" internet goes it does have some merit. The real internet is 35% porn.It is defensible to want a cleaner, walled garden version of it. Maybe Iran could just use AOL.
Sorry but white males are never ever allowed to be the victim. It would cause a huge crash in the value of the race card, and that might require people to take responsibility for their own actions and the consequences.
Therein cementing their devaluation by society. The only way that anti-black racism will go away in America is for the vast majority of black people to identify productivity, competence and civility as their cultural hallmarks, and actively separate themselves from the black people who don't uphold those ideals. (in much the same way as average white people actively separate themselves from white trash) As proof of concept, look to the Asian-Americans. Asians are just as visually distinctive, yet very little discrimination comparatively, there is even some preferential treatment in the job market.
In the areas of theft, robbery, and violent crime the demographic break down of convictions is very close to the demographic break down reported to the police by the victims. There is not an inherent racism in the justice system along that line. It would be just as ridiculous to say that there is inherent sexism in the justice system because the vast majority of convicts are male. Even when a crime victim identifies their attacker as a male, the police should look at women as well when searching for the assailant, just to make sure they aren't being sexist.
While it has nothing to do with racial genetics, there is an American sub-culture, largely among urban blacks, that is accepting or even encouraging of criminal activity. Thug Life ideals are just as much a generator of crime and violence as Aryan Nation ideas, yet the they have very different levels of acceptability in general society. The first step towards fixing a problem is admitting that there is a problem.
How about chasing an unarmed person into their own house and shooting them dead for flushing the joint they were smoking?
When we realized that the competition only serves to increase the wealth and power of the aristocracy (in what ever form it takes in different countries)
Obviously false. The US exported it's entire manufacturing sector to China to do exactly the opposite of that. It raised China towards the average and stagnated the US median, while vastly increasing the wealth of the aristocracy.
The CIA will never ever be able to admit peace, safety, or success. There must always be impending doom to keep the CIA budget high and the oversight low.
The CIA: The cause of, and solution to, all of America's problems.
Which is why we need a law that requires the claimant to pay for the defense's legal costs if the case is found to be frivolous or abusive. I believe there is such a law in the UK. I shed no tears for textbook publishers getting their well deserved comeuppance.
I believe the physical model will experience gravity in one direction, whereas the simulated model doesn't have to?
Does not the Earth also experience gravity in primarily one direction? I hope they built the model so that gravity pulls at 57.5 degrees off the spinning axis.
"political donations of any type are a form of corruption".
Donations should only be allowed to candidates that the donor is legally allowed to vote for. Corporations, unions, and lobbies could not give any money. Also multi-millionaires could not give outside of their state or district. All donations should be fed through a "Voter Contribution Department" that sends donations to the intended candidate, but anonimizes the donors, not only removing the names, but issuing the moneys daily to the campaign on a rolling one month average. Advertising "paid for by The Friends of CandidateX" should then be illegal and all contributors to "Friends of CandidateX" should be prosecuted for tampering with the election process. People may only place advertisements on land they own, and speak support from the mouth (and online identities) that they own.
Why on why would they ever send out a Mars mission without spinning the living quarters on a long tether? Counter weight the tether with computers/sensors/batteries and put the weight variable items like fuel at the axis. 2000' tether at 1/2 rpm will give a reasonable gravity and have minimal nausea producing effects. If ISS did any real experiments, instead of shoebox tests designed by high school classes, centrifugal gravity for space would have most of the kinks worked out by now.
Sadly the service that LulzSec is providing is that of: "Now Feds have reason for totalitarian internet laws and broad ISP log searches."
We do not know what the incidence of methane in the water was in those wells before the gas companies started fracking.
What is the probability that people previously failed to notice flammable water?
eliminate many of the worlds' problems
Which worlds won't be fixed?
It's too late for Alderaan.
Well, I sure hope all this takes place LONG after I'm old and dead. I happen to love driving my cars and motorcycles. Firing it up, cranking on the tunes and putting the hammer down on the road.
Cayenne you are too intelligent not to realize that lowering the demand for petroleum will only serve to make hig HP low efficiency engines less expensive to operate.
Or running a steam generator. Energy recapture with steam is basic industrial revolution stuff.
We give buy huge amounts of product from big pharma without negotiating prices or refusing to buy over priced products. Look at the business model for "Hover-round":
The entire business model is selling a product in such a way as to cost the customer little to nothing to buy,and billing the rest to the taxpayer. All the taxes/profits are privatized. That is Corporatism in action.
."The vast majority of voters are not intentionally pro-corporation."
There is a a continual bait-and-switch from both political parties here in the USA.
On the Republican side, the voter is sold "freedom and democracy and protecting families" but they receive legislative action that adds to wealth concentration, which then undermines freedom, democracy, and the quality of median family life.
On the Democrats side voters are sold something like "health care reform" and then receive legislation written by Wellpoint VP Liz Fowler that requires everyone to buy the product her company sells.
We are not free. Our "democracy" is a sham.
Does the SSA have a database matching names and browsing habits? They do now.
You have several options. 1) Get a real internet Service provider. .
If only that were an option for most of America. Even in NYC we have only two choices and this is the most densely populated place in the country. Choice and ISP are mutually exclusive concepts.
OK, but suppose your dad isn't a writer, he's a carpenter. And suppose he builds himself a fabulous house, with his own hands. Every nail he hammers himself. This is an awesome house. And then he dies. By your logic, should your mom, you, and the rest of his offspring be allowed to live in a house that they had nothing to do with? Not only that, but your dad didn't even wholly invent the work himself -- the house sits on land, which was here long before your dad ever was. It gets power, water, and sewer from the city services -- so the house is kind of public property, really. It was OK for your dad to live in it for a while why he was alive, but when there are homeless people on the streets, why shouldn't you have to work to put a roof over your own head, the way your dad did?
The family should get to keep the house, but other people should also be able to make houses like it without paying rights to the family. Imagine if you had to pay IP rights on every piece of technology you buy. Rights on the design of your socks, rights on the concept of socks, rights to the ancestors of the inventor of the zipper, etc etc etc. Obvious IP rights need to have a expiration date. The question is: how long should that last? The answer is: Get a job.