It seems to be NewSpeak for "we no longer have to provide exculpatory evidence to the defense" or "screw due process if it's inconvenient for my side."
They are more worried about deficits and debt than inflation. They tried tax and spend. That worked, but the rich complained.
To stop the rich from complaining, they decided to try borrow and spend. Borrow and spend is the same as tax and spend, only you promise to pay MORE for your project in the future instead of paying less now. This had the political benefit of making it some other Congress/President's problem. This, of course, lead to very high debt and deficits and to America owing money to enemies, despots, and anyone with enough sense to realize that they could force the US government to subsidize their activities.
Now they are trying print and spend. If the printed money goes to the middle class/poor, the rich will complain like they did with tax and spend. If the printed money goes to the rich, the middle class and poor will subsidize the lifestyle of the rich through a steadily and continually declining quality of life, leading to politicians being booted out of office.
M$ isn't that bad. They give you a system and allow you to freely program and modify it however you want. I'm talking about a PC, not an xbox of course. I can say the same thing about Google/Android.
I will stay away from the console market and iAnything, but I don't really need them.
This does seem like a good way to speed the transition to open source software in the targeted companies.
Why deal with the bureaucracy of proving to the FTC you don't infringe a software patent or license when you could just avoid the whole mess by adopting linux/libreoffice?
Why deal with the US when doing business at all?
I suppose industrial control systems are still proprietary enough to be targetable, but that's about it.
The police don't have to get warrants to photograph you in public, and do so on a regular basis.
The executive should have to get a warrant to monitor your communications in and out of your home, but they don't.
Citizens have the same right to photograph police in public. However, if a random private citizen were tapping an officers phone calls or internet usage, how quickly do you think he would be arrested once caught?
Our executive branch gives us warrantless wiretaps and constant surveillance, in violation of our Constitutional rights but cannot stand when citizens exercise similar behavior that is clearly allowed by the Constitution.
Maybe when these cities can no longer afford as many police officers, they will start training them better.
Just wow...
Do you think this report was designed by republicans to help oust Obama in the coming election, or are the bureaucrats running the NHTSA really that tone deaf and incompetent?
This does seem like a really good way to generate an anti-nanny state sentiment among the American people, especially this close to the election.
However, it is also possible that Halnon's razor, "Never attribute to conspiracy that which is adequately explained by incompetence" should apply.
What do you guys think, conspiracy, incompetence, or incompetent conspiracy?
I am that thing where you despise thought police. You can label it libertarianism, ethnocentrism, nationalism, or any one of a number of other isms that fit your preference.
Absolutely, that guy's an ass. I bet that even without using taxpayer money to put him in jail, he would get his comeuppance in the form of social stigma.
It just shouldn't be the governments job to try and police our thoughts.
Strangely, this makes me feel better about the US. Whenever I think our national politics couldn't be any more obnoxious and tone deaf, I look across the Atlantic (or Pacific) and think "it could be so much worse."
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To stop the rich from complaining, they decided to try borrow and spend. Borrow and spend is the same as tax and spend, only you promise to pay MORE for your project in the future instead of paying less now. This had the political benefit of making it some other Congress/President's problem. This, of course, lead to very high debt and deficits and to America owing money to enemies, despots, and anyone with enough sense to realize that they could force the US government to subsidize their activities.
Now they are trying print and spend. If the printed money goes to the middle class/poor, the rich will complain like they did with tax and spend. If the printed money goes to the rich, the middle class and poor will subsidize the lifestyle of the rich through a steadily and continually declining quality of life, leading to politicians being booted out of office.
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I will stay away from the console market and iAnything, but I don't really need them.
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A fair field of play in commerce?
I'll give you a hint. Start with companies like Bank of America and work your way out from there. If you think rampant software piracy is the biggest institutional threat to the American taxpayer and the American economy, I have a bank to sell you.
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/bank-of-america-too-crooked-to-fail-20120314
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Why deal with the bureaucracy of proving to the FTC you don't infringe a software patent or license when you could just avoid the whole mess by adopting linux/libreoffice?
Why deal with the US when doing business at all?
I suppose industrial control systems are still proprietary enough to be targetable, but that's about it.
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OUCH!!!
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The executive should have to get a warrant to monitor your communications in and out of your home, but they don't.
Citizens have the same right to photograph police in public. However, if a random private citizen were tapping an officers phone calls or internet usage, how quickly do you think he would be arrested once caught?
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Maybe when these cities can no longer afford as many police officers, they will start training them better.
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Just wow...
Do you think this report was designed by republicans to help oust Obama in the coming election, or are the bureaucrats running the NHTSA really that tone deaf and incompetent?
This does seem like a really good way to generate an anti-nanny state sentiment among the American people, especially this close to the election.
However, it is also possible that Halnon's razor, "Never attribute to conspiracy that which is adequately explained by incompetence" should apply.
What do you guys think, conspiracy, incompetence, or incompetent conspiracy?
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It just shouldn't be the governments job to try and police our thoughts.
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