I prefer my country not being indebted to other countries, just to keep it running. I prefer my country not spending more than it takes in. I prefer my country being able to afford to keep all those government services that keep it running strong. If that means that I have to pay more in taxes, then I am ready to do so.
Or you could just use a little less Lysol, stop taking antibiotics every time you get the sniffles, and not be overly compulsive about washing your hands every time something is touched. Modern sanitation and medicine is good, but there can be too much of a good thing.
So the guy shot someone, and now must stand trial. There's been a public outcry, and the news has covered it extensively. This is your evidence that a tyrannical police state is growing? If that was true, the guy wouldn't stand trial at all. It would just be business as usual. It wouldn't make the news.
That's because the local district attorney's office has decided to publish the names of those charged with driving while intoxicated (DWI) between Christmas and New Year's Eve.
And then:
The information is already a matter of public record and it is not uncommon for local newspapers in the U.S. to publish the names of those charged with drunk driving or soliciting a prostitute as a kind of public shaming.
It's already on public record. It's probably already in the local paper. The people have been charged. This is just a more technological way of doing the same thing. My comment was correct.
Wow, from twitter to public executions in just a few short years. I'm actually a bit speechless. And to think, this is just a more technological way of doing something that is already done in most towns across America: The Courthouse News section of the local paper. You know, where all the events that went through the courts are written out for the public to see. But, hey, you're right. Twitter feeds are definitely the step just before a tyrannical police dictatorship.
In 1956, a Colorado Springs-based Sears store ran an advertisement encouraging people to call Santa Claus on a special kind of telephone hotline. Due to a printing error, the phone number that was printed was the hotline that was actually for Continental Air Defense Command (CONAD). Then-Colonel Harry Shoup received the first call on Christmas Eve of 1955, from a six-year old boy who began reciting his Christmas list. Shoup then didn't find the call funny, but after asking the mother of the second caller what was happening, then realizing the mistake that had occurred, he told his staff to give Santa's position to any child who called in. Three years on, the government of the United States and Canada combined their respective national domestic air defenses into the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD), but the tradition continued. Now major media outlets as well as children call in to inquire on Santa's location. NORAD relies on volunteers to help make Santa tracking possible. Many employees at Cheyenne Mountain and Peterson Air Force Base spend part of their Christmas Eve with their families and friends at NORAD's Santa Tracking Operations Center, in order to answer phones and provide Santa updates to thousands of callers. In 1997, Canadian Major Jamie Robertson took over the program and expanded it to the Web, where corporation-donated services have given the tradition global accessibility.
You are an idiot. Despite the fact that the Director of the Hawaiian Health Department verified the birth certificate, that all those who have seen it have verified it, that both of Honolulu's major newspapers, the Advertiser and the Star-Bulletin published birth announcements in August, 1961, that the Obama campaign actually released a digitally scanned copy of the birth certificate, that time and again Hawaiian officials have said that it is real, you still think that it is a forgery?
What is wrong with you? There is no conspiracy. Obama was born in the U.S. He is a natural born citizen. Get over it.
Bloggers are idiots. Lumping them in with journalists is like saying that a 5 year who draws a stick picture of his family is in the same group as a Renaissance artist. These are the same people saying that Obama wasn't born in the U.S. and that Bush caused 9/11. Give me a break.
- Journalists study for years, and fight to get a good job with a reputable news agency.
- Bloggers have a computer, and a website(oftentimes only a free account that took 10 minutes to start up).
- Journalists spend their workday following up on leads, researching stories, and fact checking.
- Bloggers do their 'research' by checking other blogs, and occasionally looking stuff up on wikipedia.
- Journalists worry about libel and slander lawsuits constantly, because it could mean their job if they don't have the facts to back up their claims. If a tip turns out to be fraudulent, they could be in deep water, not only with their job, but with the courts.
- If a blogger prints faulty information...I don't know. You never really hear about it, because they don't own up to it. A retraction, on a blog? Fat chance. Whatever the information, they'll just either pass blame, or they'll deny that it is wrong, or they will just delete it and pretend it never happened.
Or the cop being shown that he acted as he should have, because that 'unarmed citizen' wasn't actually unarmed, but had a weapon, and tried to kill the cop. However, that kind of stuff never makes the news, because people like yourself don't want to hear that. You want to hear that cops are bad. You want to hear that cops are out to get you. You don't want to hear that most of the time, cops act responsibly and do their jobs like they should. But that kind of stuff doesn't make the news, because that is not news to people. Have you ever considered the fact that the reason you sometimes hear about bad cops is because a bad cop is out of the ordinary? If it was as commonplace as many people around here seem to believe, you would never hear about it. It wouldn't be news anymore.
Throw in a good chance that if her id is revealed her husband may be able to divorce on grounds of infidelity. Realistically, for her to declare that she is "in closet" and that Netflix did something to jeopardize her status she is effectively stating she is or has committed adultery. Needless to say that would put her on weaker footing should a divorce case come along.
So, protection from self incrimination?
Or she is just trying to avoid the backlash of being a lesbian in a morally conservative area where people talk about homosexuals burning in a pit of fire for eternity.
Maybe she wants to protect her children from the ridicule that comes with having a homosexual parent(kids are cruel).
Perhaps her beliefs don't include divorce
Maybe she loves the person she is married to, but she is just not sexually attracted to them, but she doesn't want to hurt them because of this.
Or maybe she just wants to come out on her terms, and not because some company had the information with a bit too much personally identifiable information.
Just because someone is a homosexual doesn't mean that they are unfaithful.
My zip code has around 4,000 people in it. This includes a town, several townships, and the countryside in a 10 mile diameter circle around the town. A person wouldn't have to do much digging to find out who so and so is based on a zip code and a birthday.
Well, I've mentioned national defense elsewhere in this topic, so forgive me. Part of me thought that the DoD sections included national defense, considering that DoD stands for Department of Defense. But, again, forgive me.
My leaving it out speaks volumes about my worldview? I would love to hear this one. BTW, before you put your foot in your mouth, you should know that I was in the Army (11B), and I was deployed. So, go ahead. What is my worldview?
Do you use the roads(DoT)? Do you have fire protection(Fire Dept)? Can you go to the supermarket and not worry whether you will die from the food(FDA)? Do you use the Internet(DoD)? Have you ever used GPS(DoD)? Do you take regular showers(Water utility)? Have you ever checked your watch against someone else's(NIST)? Have you ever checked the weather(NWS)? Yep, your quality of life has obviously been diminished.
You don't understand. The predatory lending practices that occurred only occurred because the deregulation that had happened only a few years before. It wasn't until the market was deregulated(becoming even more a free market) that businesses started the sub-prime loans and whatnot. The government intervention was taken away.
When the banks started to fall, none of the other banks were wanting to do anything to correct the problem until Greenspan told them to(He was trying to avoid government interference by allowing them to fix it themselves.). And when everything started to crumble, the government had to start bailing the rest of the banks out so that everyday people(even those who had nothing to do with the loans) wouldn't lose everything they had.
A regulated free market is good. An unregulated free market is scary.
Presumably you drive on the roads that the government's evil socialist Department of Transportation maintains using your tax dollars. Or use water from the evil socialist city water utility. Or eat food inspected by the evil socialist FDA. Or use the evil socialist Internet developed by the government's evil socialist Department of Defense(which also maintains an evil socialist military fighting force to ensure one's freedom to spout off comments about socialism being bad).
But I guess that when socialism is only shown as welfare, it is easy to assume that socialism is stealing.
You don't need the Internet. You don't need the newspaper. You don't need to talk to anyone. You don't need mail. You don't need much of anything other than food, water, and air. But it sure is nice, though, isn't it. I mean, what if every five minutes, someone screamed in the street about medication or fast food. Sure, you can run away. Sure, you can hold your ears. But you shouldn't have to. If you got thirty pieces of junk mail in your mailbox every day, you can easily just throw it away. You can easily not open it. But you shouldn't have to. And do I really need to get started on spam in your email? Most filters automatically strip it. But what if you didn't have those filters? That's alot of junk mail to deal with. You can just delete it all yourself. But you shouldn't have to.
Also, technically, all forms of advertising are avoidable. You don't have to look at anything. You can never listen to the radio, or watch TV. You can pay someone to drive you around, so you don't have to see billboards. You can never read the newspaper. You can avoid all magazines. You can grow all your own food, and never leave your property. But should you have to?
Every, single, time that the government does one thing right for its people, five more laws will be passed reducing that victory because of laws to "help" the people "wronged" by that law.
You keep posting this. Citation, please, or quit posting it. Without a real citation, what you are posting is utter nonsense.
You obviously have no idea how the current recession came about. A huge part of it was the deregulation of various markets, coupled with a hands-off approach to markets such as OTC-derivatives, (all in the name of the free market working things out), that allowed the various financial industries to bring us into this mess. Even Greenspan, long a proponent of the hands-off approach, has said(albeit in the aftermath of the meltdown), that he was wrong, and that regulation is needed.
The market will not come up a solution for this, because it is the market that is doing it.
As far as has government regulation ever really worked, enjoy those basic worker's rights, as well as not being forced to work in a factory since you were 3 years old. Enjoy having a choice in a phone company, instead of being tied to Ma Bell. Enjoy having clean air. Enjoy not being banned from a store based on the color of your skin, your last name, your religion, your age, or your sex. Enjoy all those basic rights that you have because the government has stepped in and regulated something in your life.
For every bad law, there are five good laws. Believe it or not, the government is not out to get you through regulation.
Well, I am not a biologist, but I would imagine that, with vastly increased metabolism, comes shorter lifespans, simply because everything in the body happens a bit quicker(or a lot quicker). If your body does all of its tasks in a quicker fashion, cell mitosis and cell death will also happen quicker. Granted, it may not be a lot, but I would definately watch to see how long this kid lives, and how fast he goes through the various phases of life. Hopefully he doesn't turn into a Jack.
I may be completely wrong, but I would definitely want to see the long term effects of something like this before I start injecting myself with water from the wrong cup
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I prefer my country not being indebted to other countries, just to keep it running. I prefer my country not spending more than it takes in. I prefer my country being able to afford to keep all those government services that keep it running strong. If that means that I have to pay more in taxes, then I am ready to do so.
It still is. There are guys there who look like they are in their 60s or 70s, but are actually only in their late 20s or early 30s.
Or you could just use a little less Lysol, stop taking antibiotics every time you get the sniffles, and not be overly compulsive about washing your hands every time something is touched. Modern sanitation and medicine is good, but there can be too much of a good thing.
So the guy shot someone, and now must stand trial. There's been a public outcry, and the news has covered it extensively. This is your evidence that a tyrannical police state is growing? If that was true, the guy wouldn't stand trial at all. It would just be business as usual. It wouldn't make the news.
From the article(emphasis is mine):
That's because the local district attorney's office has decided to publish the names of those charged with driving while intoxicated (DWI) between Christmas and New Year's Eve.
And then:
The information is already a matter of public record and it is not uncommon for local newspapers in the U.S. to publish the names of those charged with drunk driving or soliciting a prostitute as a kind of public shaming.
It's already on public record. It's probably already in the local paper. The people have been charged. This is just a more technological way of doing the same thing. My comment was correct.
Wow, from twitter to public executions in just a few short years. I'm actually a bit speechless. And to think, this is just a more technological way of doing something that is already done in most towns across America: The Courthouse News section of the local paper. You know, where all the events that went through the courts are written out for the public to see. But, hey, you're right. Twitter feeds are definitely the step just before a tyrannical police dictatorship.
From Wikipedia:
In 1956, a Colorado Springs-based Sears store ran an advertisement encouraging people to call Santa Claus on a special kind of telephone hotline. Due to a printing error, the phone number that was printed was the hotline that was actually for Continental Air Defense Command (CONAD). Then-Colonel Harry Shoup received the first call on Christmas Eve of 1955, from a six-year old boy who began reciting his Christmas list. Shoup then didn't find the call funny, but after asking the mother of the second caller what was happening, then realizing the mistake that had occurred, he told his staff to give Santa's position to any child who called in. Three years on, the government of the United States and Canada combined their respective national domestic air defenses into the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD), but the tradition continued. Now major media outlets as well as children call in to inquire on Santa's location. NORAD relies on volunteers to help make Santa tracking possible. Many employees at Cheyenne Mountain and Peterson Air Force Base spend part of their Christmas Eve with their families and friends at NORAD's Santa Tracking Operations Center, in order to answer phones and provide Santa updates to thousands of callers. In 1997, Canadian Major Jamie Robertson took over the program and expanded it to the Web, where corporation-donated services have given the tradition global accessibility.
You are an idiot. Despite the fact that the Director of the Hawaiian Health Department verified the birth certificate, that all those who have seen it have verified it, that both of Honolulu's major newspapers, the Advertiser and the Star-Bulletin published birth announcements in August, 1961, that the Obama campaign actually released a digitally scanned copy of the birth certificate, that time and again Hawaiian officials have said that it is real, you still think that it is a forgery?
What is wrong with you? There is no conspiracy. Obama was born in the U.S. He is a natural born citizen. Get over it.
Bloggers are idiots. Lumping them in with journalists is like saying that a 5 year who draws a stick picture of his family is in the same group as a Renaissance artist. These are the same people saying that Obama wasn't born in the U.S. and that Bush caused 9/11. Give me a break.
- Journalists study for years, and fight to get a good job with a reputable news agency.
- Bloggers have a computer, and a website(oftentimes only a free account that took 10 minutes to start up).
- Journalists spend their workday following up on leads, researching stories, and fact checking.
- Bloggers do their 'research' by checking other blogs, and occasionally looking stuff up on wikipedia.
- Journalists worry about libel and slander lawsuits constantly, because it could mean their job if they don't have the facts to back up their claims. If a tip turns out to be fraudulent, they could be in deep water, not only with their job, but with the courts.
- If a blogger prints faulty information...I don't know. You never really hear about it, because they don't own up to it. A retraction, on a blog? Fat chance. Whatever the information, they'll just either pass blame, or they'll deny that it is wrong, or they will just delete it and pretend it never happened.
I hate bloggers.
Or the cop being shown that he acted as he should have, because that 'unarmed citizen' wasn't actually unarmed, but had a weapon, and tried to kill the cop. However, that kind of stuff never makes the news, because people like yourself don't want to hear that. You want to hear that cops are bad. You want to hear that cops are out to get you. You don't want to hear that most of the time, cops act responsibly and do their jobs like they should. But that kind of stuff doesn't make the news, because that is not news to people. Have you ever considered the fact that the reason you sometimes hear about bad cops is because a bad cop is out of the ordinary? If it was as commonplace as many people around here seem to believe, you would never hear about it. It wouldn't be news anymore.
Throw in a good chance that if her id is revealed her husband may be able to divorce on grounds of infidelity. Realistically, for her to declare that she is "in closet" and that Netflix did something to jeopardize her status she is effectively stating she is or has committed adultery. Needless to say that would put her on weaker footing should a divorce case come along.
So, protection from self incrimination?
Just because someone is a homosexual doesn't mean that they are unfaithful.
My zip code has around 4,000 people in it. This includes a town, several townships, and the countryside in a 10 mile diameter circle around the town. A person wouldn't have to do much digging to find out who so and so is based on a zip code and a birthday.
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In short, marketing kills real capitalism.
Well, I've mentioned national defense elsewhere in this topic, so forgive me. Part of me thought that the DoD sections included national defense, considering that DoD stands for Department of Defense. But, again, forgive me.
My leaving it out speaks volumes about my worldview? I would love to hear this one. BTW, before you put your foot in your mouth, you should know that I was in the Army (11B), and I was deployed. So, go ahead. What is my worldview?
Do you use the roads(DoT)? Do you have fire protection(Fire Dept)? Can you go to the supermarket and not worry whether you will die from the food(FDA)? Do you use the Internet(DoD)? Have you ever used GPS(DoD)? Do you take regular showers(Water utility)? Have you ever checked your watch against someone else's(NIST)? Have you ever checked the weather(NWS)? Yep, your quality of life has obviously been diminished.
You don't understand. The predatory lending practices that occurred only occurred because the deregulation that had happened only a few years before. It wasn't until the market was deregulated(becoming even more a free market) that businesses started the sub-prime loans and whatnot. The government intervention was taken away.
When the banks started to fall, none of the other banks were wanting to do anything to correct the problem until Greenspan told them to(He was trying to avoid government interference by allowing them to fix it themselves.). And when everything started to crumble, the government had to start bailing the rest of the banks out so that everyday people(even those who had nothing to do with the loans) wouldn't lose everything they had.
A regulated free market is good. An unregulated free market is scary.
Presumably you drive on the roads that the government's evil socialist Department of Transportation maintains using your tax dollars. Or use water from the evil socialist city water utility. Or eat food inspected by the evil socialist FDA. Or use the evil socialist Internet developed by the government's evil socialist Department of Defense(which also maintains an evil socialist military fighting force to ensure one's freedom to spout off comments about socialism being bad).
But I guess that when socialism is only shown as welfare, it is easy to assume that socialism is stealing.
Before you dismiss socialism entirely...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwZl2Hyw-sk
How did this get modded up? This is a troll, and people are modding it Informative? Are you kidding me?
You don't need the Internet. You don't need the newspaper. You don't need to talk to anyone. You don't need mail. You don't need much of anything other than food, water, and air. But it sure is nice, though, isn't it. I mean, what if every five minutes, someone screamed in the street about medication or fast food. Sure, you can run away. Sure, you can hold your ears. But you shouldn't have to. If you got thirty pieces of junk mail in your mailbox every day, you can easily just throw it away. You can easily not open it. But you shouldn't have to. And do I really need to get started on spam in your email? Most filters automatically strip it. But what if you didn't have those filters? That's alot of junk mail to deal with. You can just delete it all yourself. But you shouldn't have to.
Also, technically, all forms of advertising are avoidable. You don't have to look at anything. You can never listen to the radio, or watch TV. You can pay someone to drive you around, so you don't have to see billboards. You can never read the newspaper. You can avoid all magazines. You can grow all your own food, and never leave your property. But should you have to?
Every, single, time that the government does one thing right for its people, five more laws will be passed reducing that victory because of laws to "help" the people "wronged" by that law.
You keep posting this. Citation, please, or quit posting it. Without a real citation, what you are posting is utter nonsense.
You obviously have no idea how the current recession came about. A huge part of it was the deregulation of various markets, coupled with a hands-off approach to markets such as OTC-derivatives, (all in the name of the free market working things out), that allowed the various financial industries to bring us into this mess. Even Greenspan, long a proponent of the hands-off approach, has said(albeit in the aftermath of the meltdown), that he was wrong, and that regulation is needed.
The market will not come up a solution for this, because it is the market that is doing it.
As far as has government regulation ever really worked, enjoy those basic worker's rights, as well as not being forced to work in a factory since you were 3 years old. Enjoy having a choice in a phone company, instead of being tied to Ma Bell. Enjoy having clean air. Enjoy not being banned from a store based on the color of your skin, your last name, your religion, your age, or your sex. Enjoy all those basic rights that you have because the government has stepped in and regulated something in your life.
For every bad law, there are five good laws. Believe it or not, the government is not out to get you through regulation.
No guidance systems? Interesting idea...
Well, I am not a biologist, but I would imagine that, with vastly increased metabolism, comes shorter lifespans, simply because everything in the body happens a bit quicker(or a lot quicker). If your body does all of its tasks in a quicker fashion, cell mitosis and cell death will also happen quicker. Granted, it may not be a lot, but I would definately watch to see how long this kid lives, and how fast he goes through the various phases of life. Hopefully he doesn't turn into a Jack.
I may be completely wrong, but I would definitely want to see the long term effects of something like this before I start injecting myself with water from the wrong cup