The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
There are objects and items that, if allowed into the country, could cause damage or injury to people. Because of this, those items are banned from entry into the country. People continually try to sneak these items and objects across borders. Hence, customs and border security were set up with the explicit purpose to ensure that those items and objects do not make it across the border.
There's the probable cause, with the description of the place to be searched. I could put the list of things to be seized, but it would be easier to just go to a website that lists it. There is also a list of the items at border crossings(customs).
Perhaps those p2p users could simply purchase those movies that they wish to have. Or, even, get a Netflix account. But I suppose that 'Fighting the Man' has a better ring to it.
I can see it now. ACTA paragraph 666 - no person shall possess more than 640kb of storage without a license. That, after all, is enough for anybody.
I can only hope you realize that nobody ever said that whole "640k ought to be enough for anybody." As much as people around here love to bash Bill Gates, he never said that.
Unfortunately image is an important part of being human, and I didn't make the rules of human nature.
Um...sorry about that. I've been meaning to get to that, but I've only got a few more lines of code to finish debugging for the Human 1.5 upgrade, and I don't think I'll have time to get it put in in time for the release. Still working on that 2 digit lifespan bug. Sometimes it can get 3 digits, most of the time not. Perhaps the human nature fix will have to wait until the next version...
I prefer logic and reason mixed with evidence and observation.
If you just have logic and reason, then you get religion. Logically, it worked out when it was created. There is no evidence to counter it, so it must be true. Religion was created with logical reasoning. Some may say it was incorrect reasoning, but it was reasoning nonetheless.
On the other hand, if you just have observable evidence, with no logical reasoning, you can have all the data in the world, but you will have nothing to use it with. True, you can see it, but you cannot understand why it is the way it is.
What about the Postal Service? Or the National Weather Service? What about the National Institute of Standards and Technology? What about the Department of Labor? These are a few government services that seem to perform rather well. These aren't the only entities that perform well, either. I just didn't feel like spending hours listing various government services.
Without you providing actual examples, I can only assume you dislike the bureaucracy. The government doesn't have a monopoly on bureaucracy. It is only the most famous environment. It is present in corporations as well(think Office Space). Google has bureaucracy. Anytime large amounts of money are being used on anything, or there is a possibility of fines or jail because of lost paperwork, there will be bureaucracy. If this is the only reason you have for the government not doing something, I say that the government should start today.
I would much rather the FCC be the administrator of it. I know Google is the big player right now, but it is still just a corporation(especially one that profits from data mining/advertising). The government is not for profit. Google is completely for profit. The government is more likely to make access to the database free. As always, as those who know my views can guess, I trust the government more than I do corporations, and this includes corporations like Google.
And you give them the job of murdering tens of thousands of innocent people whos only crime was living in the same apartment complex as as drug user or dealer. source
Did you even read this article? It says, right in it:
since the early 1980s, 40 bystanders have been killed, according to the Cato Institute in Washington, DC.
40. 40 people since the early 1980s. That is nowhere near the 'tens of thousands' you say. I assume that the 50,000 is the number you glanced at. That is the number of no-knock raids that occurred in 2005.
Regarding the wheelchair incident:
The guy wasn't asking for help, he had been arrested on a traffic violation. I can't say whether or not it was proper for them to dump him out of his wheelchair, as there was no sound, and the actual article was incredibly short. I watched the little snippet, but I need more information to be able to form a complete opinion. On the surface, it appears that it wasn't needed. But I have seen many things that on the surface appear innocent, until you actually get down and get the whole story.
As far as the article on the boy:
However, Ozark police say the wounded boy was a threat.
"He refused to comply with the officers and so the officers had to deploy their Tasers in order to subdue him," Capt. Thomas Rousset said. "He is making incoherent statements; he's also making statements such as, 'Shoot cops, kill cops,' things like that. So there was cause for concern to the officers."
Authorities say their use of a Taser weapon should not be questioned, because they were trying to help Hutchinson to safety.
"It's a big concern for the officers to keep this guy out of traffic, to keep him from getting hurt," Rousset said.
There are two sides to every story, and unless you were there, you are in no position to say which is right. Neither am I, for that matter.
You brought two stories of questionable acts. I have no links, because when cops do their jobs, nothing is reported. It is considered 'normal'. It is the oddball 'bad cop' that makes the news, because bad cops are NOT NORMAL in society. In cities and towns all over the country, cops do their jobs responsibly each and every day, with not a single positive word from the media. Yet, you want to give me two questionable stories in order to 'prove' your point that cops are bad?
You, sir, are a horrible person, and represent a major problem in our country.
Governments compile the information about you in order to limit your freedom.
Are you kidding me? Yes. The only reason the government exists is to limit your freedom. That's obviously the only reason that the government has information on you.
It has nothing to do with figuring out how many representatives your area should have in government.
It has nothing to do with figuring out how many police officers, firefighters, and paramedics your area needs in order to provide sufficient coverage.
It has nothing to do with figuring out if the school you went to is providing a good education.
It has nothing to do with figuring out if you are owed veteran benefits if you were in the military and deployed.
It has nothing to do with making sure that the various utilities are sufficient for your area, so that you don't have blackouts all the time.
It has nothing to do with anything that could possibly be good. The only reason the government could possibly have for compiling information about you is because it wants to limit your freedom. Give me a break.
I personally trust the government far more than I trust corporations. The government isn't a for-profit organization. Corporations are. Therein lies the difference. I truly wish that the government would regulate corporations far more, especially how corporations manage information on people.
So I probably should say right now that I do realize how heavy the rovers are, and no, I don't see one person by themselves rolling it back over. It would be a team effort, or they would have machinery sent up that would be able to do the job. The whole point of the statement was that a human would be there to direct the operation on site.
Well, we could always just start sending people to Mars. Work towards setting up a research station there, have the people do two year shifts. Then, when one rolls over, somebody could just roll it back over.
We could also, once we start sending people to Mars, figure out once and for all whether or not there is life there(bacterial or otherwise), and if there is not, we could start the terraforming process.
I wonder whether or not the same thing will happen to phones. As people use their phone for more and more, will the cost rise so much that it will be prohibitively expensive? Does this mean that, at least for the near future, the idea of a phone as a true personal computer is just a device from science fiction stories(just like flying cars)?
So I was going to make a funny and/or sarcastic comment regarding your comment
More realistic violence/damage models would be insanely boring, in fact the more photo realistic games get the less I am enthralled by them.
and how you would probably prefer Combat to today's wargames.
Then I realized that I probably spent more time playing Combat with my brother way back when then I do playing many of today's photorealistic games(although my current obsession with Bioshock could be considered unhealthy by some).
Congrats. You responded to my comment without even hitting the reply. I hope you are happy. Now where did I put that Atari...
It is still interesting. I'm not sure if this is a duplicate, but if it is not, I don't see the problem with it being here. I had not heard anything about this until I saw the story in the rss feed, so for me, although it is old, it is still new to me.
Because it is now the United States of California and New York? I always thought that there were more than 2 states in the country...And to think that I thought I was born in Illinois. Is that on the California side or the New York side?
And brick and mortar carry a great burden in paying for their building(making it customer friendly, as opposed to being a warehouse), and all that comes with having a brick and mortar store. Guess what, it's part of having a business. They already have taxes on top of all of that. Many of the bigger stores have an online store as well, so they have both ends to deal with. Again, it's part of having a business.
Reagan did lower taxes...only to raise them again, a year later. Apparently he saw that the deficit grew too large too quickly. However, this part of the Reagan aura is frequently left out by his devoted followers. Even Reagan realized that Reaganomics didn't work. However, tax cuts are popular, and tax increases are unpopular, and thus we find ourselves in the situation we are in now, with trillions of dollars in debt, and the light at the end of the tunnel growing dimmer and dimmer.
Where are you getting your facts and figures? For one, I have never heard of a teacher getting paid $80,000. Most teachers that I know make half that, if that much. The ones that make more are in the 50,000 dollar range. Also, government jobs generally pay much less than their private sector counterparts. Again, where are you getting your dollar amounts?
I do not understand why you feel that Amazon sales should not be taxed. If you buy a book from the bookstore, you have to pay a sales tax. If you buy a cd from the music shop, you have pay a sales tax. If you buy a movie from the video store, you have to pay a sales tax. Why should it be different if you order it from Amazon, instead?
Cutting the cost of the government still wouldn't be enough, because we still have a debt to pay off. Part of the reason we have all these financial difficulties in the government today is being we, as Americans, don't pay enough in taxes. The government just keeps building a bigger and bigger debt.
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The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
There are objects and items that, if allowed into the country, could cause damage or injury to people. Because of this, those items are banned from entry into the country. People continually try to sneak these items and objects across borders. Hence, customs and border security were set up with the explicit purpose to ensure that those items and objects do not make it across the border.
There's the probable cause, with the description of the place to be searched. I could put the list of things to be seized, but it would be easier to just go to a website that lists it. There is also a list of the items at border crossings(customs).
Obviously, you haven't seen 12 Monkeys. :-)
Perhaps those p2p users could simply purchase those movies that they wish to have. Or, even, get a Netflix account. But I suppose that 'Fighting the Man' has a better ring to it.
I can see it now. ACTA paragraph 666 - no person shall possess more than 640kb of storage without a license. That, after all, is enough for anybody.
I can only hope you realize that nobody ever said that whole "640k ought to be enough for anybody." As much as people around here love to bash Bill Gates, he never said that.
But he did Avatar! Oh, wait, I see your point.
Unfortunately image is an important part of being human, and I didn't make the rules of human nature.
Um...sorry about that. I've been meaning to get to that, but I've only got a few more lines of code to finish debugging for the Human 1.5 upgrade, and I don't think I'll have time to get it put in in time for the release. Still working on that 2 digit lifespan bug. Sometimes it can get 3 digits, most of the time not. Perhaps the human nature fix will have to wait until the next version...
I prefer logic and reason mixed with evidence and observation.
If you just have logic and reason, then you get religion. Logically, it worked out when it was created. There is no evidence to counter it, so it must be true. Religion was created with logical reasoning. Some may say it was incorrect reasoning, but it was reasoning nonetheless.
On the other hand, if you just have observable evidence, with no logical reasoning, you can have all the data in the world, but you will have nothing to use it with. True, you can see it, but you cannot understand why it is the way it is.
Having all of one or the other is useless.
What about the Postal Service? Or the National Weather Service? What about the National Institute of Standards and Technology? What about the Department of Labor? These are a few government services that seem to perform rather well. These aren't the only entities that perform well, either. I just didn't feel like spending hours listing various government services.
Without you providing actual examples, I can only assume you dislike the bureaucracy. The government doesn't have a monopoly on bureaucracy. It is only the most famous environment. It is present in corporations as well(think Office Space). Google has bureaucracy. Anytime large amounts of money are being used on anything, or there is a possibility of fines or jail because of lost paperwork, there will be bureaucracy. If this is the only reason you have for the government not doing something, I say that the government should start today.
I would much rather the FCC be the administrator of it. I know Google is the big player right now, but it is still just a corporation(especially one that profits from data mining/advertising). The government is not for profit. Google is completely for profit. The government is more likely to make access to the database free. As always, as those who know my views can guess, I trust the government more than I do corporations, and this includes corporations like Google.
And you give them the job of murdering tens of thousands of innocent people whos only crime was living in the same apartment complex as as drug user or dealer. source
Did you even read this article? It says, right in it:
since the early 1980s, 40 bystanders have been killed, according to the Cato Institute in Washington, DC.
40. 40 people since the early 1980s. That is nowhere near the 'tens of thousands' you say. I assume that the 50,000 is the number you glanced at. That is the number of no-knock raids that occurred in 2005.
Regarding the wheelchair incident:
The guy wasn't asking for help, he had been arrested on a traffic violation. I can't say whether or not it was proper for them to dump him out of his wheelchair, as there was no sound, and the actual article was incredibly short. I watched the little snippet, but I need more information to be able to form a complete opinion. On the surface, it appears that it wasn't needed. But I have seen many things that on the surface appear innocent, until you actually get down and get the whole story.
As far as the article on the boy:
However, Ozark police say the wounded boy was a threat.
"He refused to comply with the officers and so the officers had to deploy their Tasers in order to subdue him," Capt. Thomas Rousset said. "He is making incoherent statements; he's also making statements such as, 'Shoot cops, kill cops,' things like that. So there was cause for concern to the officers."
Authorities say their use of a Taser weapon should not be questioned, because they were trying to help Hutchinson to safety.
"It's a big concern for the officers to keep this guy out of traffic, to keep him from getting hurt," Rousset said.
There are two sides to every story, and unless you were there, you are in no position to say which is right. Neither am I, for that matter.
You brought two stories of questionable acts. I have no links, because when cops do their jobs, nothing is reported. It is considered 'normal'. It is the oddball 'bad cop' that makes the news, because bad cops are NOT NORMAL in society. In cities and towns all over the country, cops do their jobs responsibly each and every day, with not a single positive word from the media. Yet, you want to give me two questionable stories in order to 'prove' your point that cops are bad?
You, sir, are a horrible person, and represent a major problem in our country.
Governments compile the information about you in order to limit your freedom.
Are you kidding me? Yes. The only reason the government exists is to limit your freedom. That's obviously the only reason that the government has information on you.
It has nothing to do with figuring out how many representatives your area should have in government.
It has nothing to do with figuring out how many police officers, firefighters, and paramedics your area needs in order to provide sufficient coverage.
It has nothing to do with figuring out if the school you went to is providing a good education.
It has nothing to do with figuring out if you are owed veteran benefits if you were in the military and deployed.
It has nothing to do with making sure that the various utilities are sufficient for your area, so that you don't have blackouts all the time.
It has nothing to do with anything that could possibly be good. The only reason the government could possibly have for compiling information about you is because it wants to limit your freedom. Give me a break.
I personally trust the government far more than I trust corporations. The government isn't a for-profit organization. Corporations are. Therein lies the difference. I truly wish that the government would regulate corporations far more, especially how corporations manage information on people.
So I probably should say right now that I do realize how heavy the rovers are, and no, I don't see one person by themselves rolling it back over. It would be a team effort, or they would have machinery sent up that would be able to do the job. The whole point of the statement was that a human would be there to direct the operation on site.
Well, we could always just start sending people to Mars. Work towards setting up a research station there, have the people do two year shifts. Then, when one rolls over, somebody could just roll it back over.
We could also, once we start sending people to Mars, figure out once and for all whether or not there is life there(bacterial or otherwise), and if there is not, we could start the terraforming process.
I wonder whether or not the same thing will happen to phones. As people use their phone for more and more, will the cost rise so much that it will be prohibitively expensive? Does this mean that, at least for the near future, the idea of a phone as a true personal computer is just a device from science fiction stories(just like flying cars)?
can't wait until this meme meets its end.
You obviously haven't heard the awesome reviews of the next game..
Also, I'm surprised that nobody else has linked that yet, considering the topic. (Note: link goes to onion video, sound required)
More realistic violence/damage models would be insanely boring, in fact the more photo realistic games get the less I am enthralled by them.
and how you would probably prefer Combat to today's wargames.
Then I realized that I probably spent more time playing Combat with my brother way back when then I do playing many of today's photorealistic games(although my current obsession with Bioshock could be considered unhealthy by some).
Congrats. You responded to my comment without even hitting the reply. I hope you are happy. Now where did I put that Atari...
Yes, but many choose to do so with virtual paper.
He's already here
It is still interesting. I'm not sure if this is a duplicate, but if it is not, I don't see the problem with it being here. I had not heard anything about this until I saw the story in the rss feed, so for me, although it is old, it is still new to me.
Because it is now the United States of California and New York? I always thought that there were more than 2 states in the country...And to think that I thought I was born in Illinois. Is that on the California side or the New York side?
And brick and mortar carry a great burden in paying for their building(making it customer friendly, as opposed to being a warehouse), and all that comes with having a brick and mortar store. Guess what, it's part of having a business. They already have taxes on top of all of that. Many of the bigger stores have an online store as well, so they have both ends to deal with. Again, it's part of having a business.
Reagan did lower taxes...only to raise them again, a year later. Apparently he saw that the deficit grew too large too quickly. However, this part of the Reagan aura is frequently left out by his devoted followers. Even Reagan realized that Reaganomics didn't work. However, tax cuts are popular, and tax increases are unpopular, and thus we find ourselves in the situation we are in now, with trillions of dollars in debt, and the light at the end of the tunnel growing dimmer and dimmer.
Where are you getting your facts and figures? For one, I have never heard of a teacher getting paid $80,000. Most teachers that I know make half that, if that much. The ones that make more are in the 50,000 dollar range. Also, government jobs generally pay much less than their private sector counterparts. Again, where are you getting your dollar amounts?
I do not understand why you feel that Amazon sales should not be taxed. If you buy a book from the bookstore, you have to pay a sales tax. If you buy a cd from the music shop, you have pay a sales tax. If you buy a movie from the video store, you have to pay a sales tax. Why should it be different if you order it from Amazon, instead?
Cutting the cost of the government still wouldn't be enough, because we still have a debt to pay off. Part of the reason we have all these financial difficulties in the government today is being we, as Americans, don't pay enough in taxes. The government just keeps building a bigger and bigger debt.