Cops don't give each other or friends tickets."
Then they are criminals.
#5 | Posted by danni

They call it Police Discretion.
#6 | Posted by Hagbard_Celine

It's called Professional courtesy.
#12 | POSTED BY BOAZ

AKA tyranny.....

What you need an assault weapon for, to hike in national parks safe from Bambi and Yogi?

#47 | POSTED BY NULLIFIDIAN

No, for when the MAN comes to take your weed..........

Lip,

I have been to Israel three times, I have yet to see what you are talking about, could be the crowds we run around with. But I have seen it in Japan.

"There used to be a route for people that weren't well educated to make a decent living." - FTA

Perhaps one should investigate why UNIONS exist, it isn't just to get better working conditions for people. It was and is also a mechanism to keep uneducated people out (read people of different skin color) out of the unionized labor force.

The article is absolutely written with one objective, as opposed to being objective.

"From schools to prisons, outsourcing government's works typically ends with cronyism, waste and unaccountability."

The common thread here being anything to do with government ends with cronyism, waste and unaccountability, glad we agree. The difference between privatization and keeping it in the public sphere is that its easy to cut back the service if privatized. Try getting rid of a bad government employee, or department..... those people/bureaucracies are there forever.....

The real issue is that governments can't manage anything.......

"Second, the conservative view of market freedom ignores background inequalities of power and wealth. "

I don't ignore it, in fact I know it exists, the basic rule of "Those that has gets" is part of the conservative approach. But it doesn't ameliorate the fact that centrally planned economies have an even greater concentration of wealth and power. I would rather have trillions spread out over millions, than trillions spread out over thousands. See SovietUnion, Communist China, and et al for some really good examples of what centralized planning does.

"if the above scenario is LEGAL, why would capturing 1's & 0's be naughty?"

It has to do with the difference between a copy and a recording. A copy is indistinguishable from the master, where as a recording loses fidelity with each subsequent generation.

In this way The VCR was tolerable to the copyright holders, it was a recording, as each generation lost fidelity its dispersion didn't permeate the market place. Whereas with a copy, each generation does not lose any fidelity. On top of that, the ability to transfer this copy in the digital domain is literally friction and mechanically free. So one copy could possibly destroy the marketplace for the copyright holder.

As someone that develops products on the digital player side I don't take any POV, I just try to stay on the right side of the law.

#1 didn't know it was that bad, that's pretty sad if you are out of work......

But higher rates, comparatively, give more incentive to reinvest, be it via equipment, workers, whatever. - Danforth

I understand your logic, but it works in businesses that have no outside investment, or is in no need of future investment. But not one that needs investment to keep going, part of the equation of investing is when am I going to get my money back plus, if taxes keep someone from cutting me a check, or it takes too long, then its not someplace I would invest.......

The problem now isn't reinvestment, but basic investment increasing the tax rate to get a return on investment will only decrease the amount of money being invested in business within the country.

Your inflation analogy also comes into play in the same way. Balancing these out is not easy. Should the tax rate be the same as labor?...... It should be if you don't want me not to invest.....

Why can't any of these web wizards look up the definition of the word "dedicated" on the intertubes, as used in the phrase "rogue sites dedicated to copyright theft"...?
#24 | Posted by Danforth

If you really believe thats the case, can you think of a way around this bill then, and how useless it would make the bill?

2012-01-14 11:28 AM
Gonna go play with my seven-year-old now. Sometimes, there really are better things to do.

2012-01-14 12:10 PM
10--Yeah, fuck off, moron.

Two things... playing didn't last long, and it appears it wasn't as fun as previously imagined......

My guess the seven-year old had better things to do.........

GlennBeck and the TeaParties attempts to build up the FF's and the thread and article that attempts to teardown the FF's are illogical, and fall under the fallacy of nunc pro tunc.

So... Zombie Hunters is now fantasy....

Democratic Socialist is an oxymoron.... who cares if a physicist liked the idea ;)

Private ownership of personal property, but collective ownership of the means of production is all but impossible, and a fantasy false dichotomy.

Old school Democrats were not socialist. While they wanted government support for people, they didn't believe in command and control of the economy. Which is quintessential when talking about socialism. It is through raising of the baseline on what the government "should do", that today we have democrats that are socialist.

"How stupid do you have to be not to realize the inflammatory potential of such questions? By reducing the mistreatment of a race of people to a math problem, they cheapen the issue and reduce any hope of a greater understanding." - CBOB

Amazing isn't it? The modern liberal methodology of teaching knows no bounds in its stupidity. Instead of teaching like instruction has been done for hundreds of years, which has sent us to the moon. Today we need new ways to integrate math and social studies, there is no end to the possibilities. The only real problem, students still aren't being educated, but this is a secondary problem. The most important problem for teachers is staying interested, and this is accomplished with innovation and new techniques, the student be damned.

My smart phone takes higher resolution photos than my first digital camera. However it does lack a zoom lens which right now is one of it's limitations. -726

"The Senate was held hostage by the filibuster rule, which the Republican minority used to block just about anything they could. It takes 60 votes to break that and the Dems didn't have it."

Citing the police report, the Denver Post reported that the suspect was apparently drunk at the time.
Ya think?

#2 | POSTED BY 726

Well she could have just had a lot of junk in the trunk......

Good luck Moder8 hope you get it! :)

And do you have a link for either of your first two assertions?

#9 | POSTED BY PRAGMATIST

"It also has a new gas-freeing system and the hull is covered with rubber anti-sonar protection tiles to reduce the risk of detection." - Zot

These tiles only lower the energy of the reflection, 10 to 20 decibels, It certainly isn't sonar proof. This technology started in WWII, it is standard on all modern subs.

Who'll be left holding the bag in Pa. ethanol plant's demise?

CLEARFIELD, Pa. - Five years ago, officials of Getty Petroleum Marketing Inc. enlisted then-Gov. Ed Rendell to help build Pennsylvania's first ethanol plant in this borough of 6,100 people, a badly needed investment in a community battered by coal's long decline.

#60 - Paneocon

In Cali we had this happen with MBTE, and conversion to dyno machines for smog. The station owners got it in the shorts, when they changed the law to test only....

It was only a matter of time... If you aren't to big to fail, when you get in bed with the devil... sooner or later you get fucked!

They normally fight against one another, not against themselves. Just this week we see Jews fighting Jews and now Christians fighting Christians.

#8 | POSTED BY KANREI

The GreekOthodox and the Armenian clerics have been fighting for along time....

Anyone seen a ladder?

" conservatives who post here still cry for deregulation, some folks are too stupid to learn." - Danni

Regulation won't fix a damn thing. There are plenty of regulations that have been broken yet no one is going to jail. There are plenty of regulations on banks just none of them are enforced. There are plenty of regulations in starting a business, all of them probably good in some way. But when taken in their entirety, they lead to friction and stagnation to the honest man, and has enabled us to enter a more uncertain phase.

We have entered a time of arbitrary or unrestrained exercise of power, otherwise known as tyranny, where law enforcement and the executive branch enforce the laws that make them the most money, in tribute. The governments use of power is arbitrary, it is not to protect its citizens but currently to enable more tribute.

Look at the drug war, local police ignore the real problems and go after MJ because there are dollars involved. We don't go after Wall Street because there are dollars involved. We are in a state of tyranny, no regulation will solve. OSHA doesn't go after real problems it goes after Chuckie Cheese for having 16yos run mixers, yet these same 16yos drove to work.

Resist the tribute, and the IRS will come crashing down on you, you have violated some tax regulation how could you not. The IRS plays a statistical game, and only now is enforcing laws that have been in the books for decades. Why? Because the government needs the money.

You would be wise to reflect on the problem if you believe it is a regulation/deregulation is the issue.