I live in the county but in a different gated community where this happened. Gated Community means they have a car gate at the entrance and the residents are given a remote control to open the gates. The gates are not guarded. Usually there is a little keypad outside the gate to call a resident to be buzzed in. Also there is nothing to prevent pedestrians or bike riders from entering. It is really just a status symbol, nothing more.
If it was my kid my wife would go over and kick the crap out of her. Then when we were taken to trial we would present all of the information and count on a jury of our peers to let us go.
If you read the article it says the "device" was left near the cockpit which most likely meant that as they walked out they left it behind by accident in an area that was very obvious. So if a terrorist left a "device" there they would know it would be found before boarding and fueling. If you managed to get a bomb that far why not just blow it up mid flight? It's not like they ran out of suicide bombers.
So let me get this straight. Terrorists would leave a "device" on a plane so that it detonates once the plane is on the ground, there is little fuel left, and all the passengers were off?
I'll relate a story to contrast how far we've come. When I was about 10 years old I built a "device". We played manhunt which was really just hide and seek in the woods. I made a device to act as a detector. I got a foot of copper pipe, two AA batteries, a switch, a mercury switch, and a siren. You would stick it in the ground and tie a string between it and a tree. If someone ran by and knocked it over the alarm would go off. I lost one and it turned up in the street as a copper pipe with wires sticking out of it. A frantic mother called the bomb squad. They came and my friends ratted me out. The cop came to my house and asked me if I built it. I told him yes and what it was. He had me go out and identify it and that was it. No cuffs, no big deal.
That reminds me of a story. I was working as a government contractors. It took the IT department about 3 weeks to get a new hire a computer access since they had to go through all of the required IT training. We had an extra machine so my boss would log on for him every morning. Well 2 week later he was called into a management meeting. They asked what the hell was going on. Apparently the new guy was pretty much watching porn from 9-5 at work on the bosses account. They went back and figured out what machine it was from and that it was the new guy so they walked him out immediately.
That was 10 years ago and every time I see him I ask if I can log on to some computer for me.
The reason behind this law is because even though in Florida you have a right to defend yourself with lethal force if necessarily there were cases where peoples lives were destroyed by a prosecutor or judge that didn't agree with this law. The would keep the person in court so long they would bankrupt them and ruin their lives just for protecting themselves or family. So this law was passed to protect people from anti-gun and anti-self defense prosecutors. So while it might not be a great law if there weren't prosecutors that thought they were above the law and used the legal system as an assault weapon it wouldn't have been needed.
I found this great new site you may be unaware of. It's called Wikipedia. It is kinda of like an online encyclopedia that has brief summaries of almost anything. Check it out I'm sure you will like it.
It's not only the $50k for the test. Most likely there will millions in cuts and this test happened to be in the mix. It would be nice if you only had to pay for the tests that showed problems. It would make engineering much easier. Unfortunately you have to test for everything even the stuff that works fine.
Your problem is one of perspective. There are four main actors. The Chinese government (elite), American government (elite), Chinese people, and American people. Both governments inflate their currency to give them more purchasing power to buy goodies to keep them in power. This inflation hurts the Chinese and American people who can't save for the future. China is able to inflate faster because it's people started out in crappier conditions. Their standard of living is increasing slowly and their government is retarding this by stealing wealth through inflation. The American government is also inflating but since the US had a decent standard of living there wasn't massive growth to hide the inflation theft.
What pisses me off the most is the people who wring their hands and say we should end Nuclear Power based on a first generation commercial design 20 years past it's design life in the most seismically active place in the world on the coast of the country that has such bad Tsunamis that they actually got the world to use their language in naming it. At the same time there have been near zero coverage of the tens of thousands of people and billions of dollars in property destroyed by the quake and Tsunami.
This is all a result of preventing the industry from advancing. Imagine if we were stuck with first generation airplanes? Sure there were accidents as the technology developed and many were killed on the planes and on the ground. But the only way to get better is to do it. We could be sitting here with near limitless energy and zero CO2 emissions if breeders were pursued.
Juries are the last line of defense against government abuse. It is your job to determine if the law applies or not. You don't have to listen to anybody. The only purpose of a judge is to act like a moderator and make sure things proceed in an orderly fashion.
I used to play lots of craps back when there was always a $5 table with a 5x odds which gets the house bug down to around.3%.
My money management was to accept small wins. I'd go with a $2k bankroll and be happy to win $100. Also if I got ahead at all in a session I never gave back the money. Play with the house money and keep pocketing a portion of your wins until you are done.
Imagine flipping a coin. What are the odds you will be ahead at some point before you are down 15? If you are happy with a 5% gain in a night you will keep in the game long enough for the big wins.
Wish I had some mod points. You hit the nail on the head. Sales does not equal profits. Everything about creating and distributing a song has gotten cheaper over the years. A person can create and distribute their own album for thousands of dollars.
Comparing sales when they had a natural monopoly to now when the only have a legal monopoly is absurd. When you have a natural monopoly you can get away with charging high prices and margins. Once technology destroys your natural monopoly you are left competing in a market and prices and costs both come down.
What you don't understand is there is a natural interest rate that is the price given to time preference. Just like when you go to the super market and decide that you could rather have a pound of apples vs the $2 the store charges there is a rate given to how much you prefer present good to future goods.
Deflation in a free market hard currency system would be minimized because as the price of goods drops people tend to buy more. Also as the commodities that would be most likely used for money become more valuable more people would spend their time and energy producing money which would cause inflation. But unlike a fiat currency inflation it requires actual work and the money is first put into use by those that put the work in creating the money.
It's not like I came up with precious metals as money. Those have been agreed upon as money by billions of people making free choices. This is mostly because money is more efficient than barter. Most things have value because people make free choices in exchange. Fiat currency only has value because of legal tender laws. Fractional reserve banking only exists because of things like the FDIC and other laws that lull people into keeping their money in insolvent banks. Without those laws it would be considered fraud.
This is really a symptom of our monetary system. With the federal reserve and fiat fractional reserve banking system you can make more money in finance because you can literally create money. It's no wonder the people given the privilege of making money by flipping bits on a computer are rich. In a hard money 100% reserve system the miners and mints would create the money. These are engineers and techs.
The system we have now is designed to steal wealth from productive people and transfer it to the privileged class. Tax rates don't matter when you allow people to create money out of thin air. They will always be rich.
My Dad worked at Bell Labs Homdel, NJ. He knew exactly when it was over. They used to encourage home projects. You could take as many electrical components home from inventory as you wanted. The assumption was that while working on your projects you would learn. One day they put someone in charge of monitoring the components and he knew it was over since the bean counters were in charge.
I found this site and it has made all of the difference. The main idea is that most brew recopies are for pros that have expensive equipment and are trying to make the most beer for the grain they have. It's an efficiency thing.
This site shows how to easily make an all grain brew with pretty simple equipment with the idea that you aren't going to get perfect extraction from the grain but who cares just use more grain since it's cheaper than a pro setup.
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It wasn't his neighborhood. He was from Miami and just moved in to stay with his dad.
I live in the county but in a different gated community where this happened. Gated Community means they have a car gate at the entrance and the residents are given a remote control to open the gates. The gates are not guarded. Usually there is a little keypad outside the gate to call a resident to be buzzed in. Also there is nothing to prevent pedestrians or bike riders from entering. It is really just a status symbol, nothing more.
Sometimes when someone is being an ass you have to take matters into your own hands.
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If it was my kid my wife would go over and kick the crap out of her. Then when we were taken to trial we would present all of the information and count on a jury of our peers to let us go.
If you read the article it says the "device" was left near the cockpit which most likely meant that as they walked out they left it behind by accident in an area that was very obvious. So if a terrorist left a "device" there they would know it would be found before boarding and fueling. If you managed to get a bomb that far why not just blow it up mid flight? It's not like they ran out of suicide bombers.
So let me get this straight. Terrorists would leave a "device" on a plane so that it detonates once the plane is on the ground, there is little fuel left, and all the passengers were off?
I'll relate a story to contrast how far we've come. When I was about 10 years old I built a "device". We played manhunt which was really just hide and seek in the woods. I made a device to act as a detector. I got a foot of copper pipe, two AA batteries, a switch, a mercury switch, and a siren. You would stick it in the ground and tie a string between it and a tree. If someone ran by and knocked it over the alarm would go off. I lost one and it turned up in the street as a copper pipe with wires sticking out of it. A frantic mother called the bomb squad. They came and my friends ratted me out. The cop came to my house and asked me if I built it. I told him yes and what it was. He had me go out and identify it and that was it. No cuffs, no big deal.
That reminds me of a story. I was working as a government contractors. It took the IT department about 3 weeks to get a new hire a computer access since they had to go through all of the required IT training. We had an extra machine so my boss would log on for him every morning. Well 2 week later he was called into a management meeting. They asked what the hell was going on. Apparently the new guy was pretty much watching porn from 9-5 at work on the bosses account. They went back and figured out what machine it was from and that it was the new guy so they walked him out immediately.
That was 10 years ago and every time I see him I ask if I can log on to some computer for me.
The reason behind this law is because even though in Florida you have a right to defend yourself with lethal force if necessarily there were cases where peoples lives were destroyed by a prosecutor or judge that didn't agree with this law. The would keep the person in court so long they would bankrupt them and ruin their lives just for protecting themselves or family. So this law was passed to protect people from anti-gun and anti-self defense prosecutors. So while it might not be a great law if there weren't prosecutors that thought they were above the law and used the legal system as an assault weapon it wouldn't have been needed.
I found this great new site you may be unaware of. It's called Wikipedia. It is kinda of like an online encyclopedia that has brief summaries of almost anything. Check it out I'm sure you will like it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software-defined_radio
It's not only the $50k for the test. Most likely there will millions in cuts and this test happened to be in the mix. It would be nice if you only had to pay for the tests that showed problems. It would make engineering much easier. Unfortunately you have to test for everything even the stuff that works fine.
Your problem is one of perspective. There are four main actors. The Chinese government (elite), American government (elite), Chinese people, and American people. Both governments inflate their currency to give them more purchasing power to buy goodies to keep them in power. This inflation hurts the Chinese and American people who can't save for the future. China is able to inflate faster because it's people started out in crappier conditions. Their standard of living is increasing slowly and their government is retarding this by stealing wealth through inflation. The American government is also inflating but since the US had a decent standard of living there wasn't massive growth to hide the inflation theft.
What pisses me off the most is the people who wring their hands and say we should end Nuclear Power based on a first generation commercial design 20 years past it's design life in the most seismically active place in the world on the coast of the country that has such bad Tsunamis that they actually got the world to use their language in naming it. At the same time there have been near zero coverage of the tens of thousands of people and billions of dollars in property destroyed by the quake and Tsunami.
This is all a result of preventing the industry from advancing. Imagine if we were stuck with first generation airplanes? Sure there were accidents as the technology developed and many were killed on the planes and on the ground. But the only way to get better is to do it. We could be sitting here with near limitless energy and zero CO2 emissions if breeders were pursued.
So government employees do something wrong and the court punishes the taxpayers? How about paying that $160k out of the cops retirement fund?
This is like when a Priest gets caught molesting a kid and the Church pays the victim with the congregations money.
Juries are the last line of defense against government abuse. It is your job to determine if the law applies or not. You don't have to listen to anybody. The only purpose of a judge is to act like a moderator and make sure things proceed in an orderly fashion.
People around here sure love FORCING other people to bend to their will. What a great world.
I used to play lots of craps back when there was always a $5 table with a 5x odds which gets the house bug down to around .3%.
My money management was to accept small wins. I'd go with a $2k bankroll and be happy to win $100. Also if I got ahead at all in a session I never gave back the money. Play with the house money and keep pocketing a portion of your wins until you are done.
Imagine flipping a coin. What are the odds you will be ahead at some point before you are down 15? If you are happy with a 5% gain in a night you will keep in the game long enough for the big wins.
I think alchemy is now covered under nuclear physics. And the philosopher's stone is now a nuclear reactor.
But we are at the center of the known universe.
Wish I had some mod points. You hit the nail on the head. Sales does not equal profits. Everything about creating and distributing a song has gotten cheaper over the years. A person can create and distribute their own album for thousands of dollars.
Comparing sales when they had a natural monopoly to now when the only have a legal monopoly is absurd. When you have a natural monopoly you can get away with charging high prices and margins. Once technology destroys your natural monopoly you are left competing in a market and prices and costs both come down.
There are uses for fission byproducts you know? Nuclear medicine saves more peoples lives then reactor accidents have ever taken.
What you don't understand is there is a natural interest rate that is the price given to time preference. Just like when you go to the super market and decide that you could rather have a pound of apples vs the $2 the store charges there is a rate given to how much you prefer present good to future goods.
Deflation in a free market hard currency system would be minimized because as the price of goods drops people tend to buy more. Also as the commodities that would be most likely used for money become more valuable more people would spend their time and energy producing money which would cause inflation. But unlike a fiat currency inflation it requires actual work and the money is first put into use by those that put the work in creating the money.
It's not like I came up with precious metals as money. Those have been agreed upon as money by billions of people making free choices. This is mostly because money is more efficient than barter. Most things have value because people make free choices in exchange. Fiat currency only has value because of legal tender laws. Fractional reserve banking only exists because of things like the FDIC and other laws that lull people into keeping their money in insolvent banks. Without those laws it would be considered fraud.
This is really a symptom of our monetary system. With the federal reserve and fiat fractional reserve banking system you can make more money in finance because you can literally create money. It's no wonder the people given the privilege of making money by flipping bits on a computer are rich. In a hard money 100% reserve system the miners and mints would create the money. These are engineers and techs.
The system we have now is designed to steal wealth from productive people and transfer it to the privileged class. Tax rates don't matter when you allow people to create money out of thin air. They will always be rich.
My Dad worked at Bell Labs Homdel, NJ. He knew exactly when it was over. They used to encourage home projects. You could take as many electrical components home from inventory as you wanted. The assumption was that while working on your projects you would learn. One day they put someone in charge of monitoring the components and he knew it was over since the bean counters were in charge.
I found this site and it has made all of the difference. The main idea is that most brew recopies are for pros that have expensive equipment and are trying to make the most beer for the grain they have. It's an efficiency thing.
This site shows how to easily make an all grain brew with pretty simple equipment with the idea that you aren't going to get perfect extraction from the grain but who cares just use more grain since it's cheaper than a pro setup.
http://www.classiccitybrew.com/homebrew.html