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How does one protest the requirement of a permit in order to protest?
How does one protest the requirement of a permit in order to protest?
I just shot an email over to Toyota, to see what, if any, policies they have in place similar to that of OnStar. Their service, Entune, is available in almost all of their vehicles, from Toyota to Lexus, so I figured it may be applicable/helpful.
Will post a followup for anyone interested.
I'm sure that these will be the first to be quickly brought down on one strike. Libraries, universities, book stores... basically every public place that provides "free WiFi" will be cut off.
I just don't see that working well at all.
Americans are too timid because for the following reasons: bullying is underage terrorism, fighting is bad, hug each other, don't say hurtful things, etc, etc, etc.
Too many parents teaching their kids to be pacifists, and we literally baby children like they're babies.
When most of us were kids, if someone picked on us, we fought, and to the victor went the spoils. That's it.
Today, parents and lawyers do all the fighting, so 95% of America doesn't know how to stand up for itself. 4/5% became cops or military, and 1% isn't a great number to have on your side.
This has to be done very delicately. Pick the wrong fight, or from the wrong angle, and we all end up with mandatory keyloggers built into every OS.
It is as much a psychological puzzle as a moral fight.
I haven't seen this mentioned yet, so forgive me if it has been...
I just see this as a way to extort more fees for pre-configured machines. Say you order something from Dell, IBM, whatever... $20 fee to include a piece of paper with your PKI key, so you can install your own OS. This not only protects Microsoft, but has a potential to pad the margin for manufacturers, all while sticking it to the consumer.
If that is found to be the case, the judge should then be asked to step down, on bias grounds. The same also goes for if he/she has a Nokia product.
Hope he/she uses a Droid and Xoom?
Look up the value of each of these on the market. Not the (RI/MP)AA market, but the real, "I would like to give you paper for goods" market.
For things like the ROM's, consider what each ROM costs, if you were to buy the game, and to play it, you need the console.
I can only assume it is the same logic that gets us to $5m. And if it were (RI/MP)AA market values... One hundred... billion...kajillion... flazillion... dollars.
/.ed
Which reminds me of my drive to work this morning...
The human element is a huge factor in something like traffic, when you have people running red lights, right on red when it's a no-no, and lane changes with no blinker (signal for those of you not in the Boston area).
Given the circumstances of driving, and introducing the human element, I'd nominate Boston, LA, or something of the sorts.
Furthermore, I will gladly accept a government stipend to live in this town, and drive like I do to work.
As long as GLaDOS isn't running these experiments.
That sounds all too familiar...
1. Let's abuse group A very badly
2. We make it up to them by giving them land
3. We give them terrible land in the desert
4. They open casinos and make some money
5. We tax said casinos...
6. Profit
I'm not sure how to fit a water recycling system backflow into a car analogy just yet; but I'm sure we can give it a go.
Perhaps:
It would be akin to running your exhaust through your air vents?
Just a shot in the dark to help you out =D
Offtopic, I know, but I would have dropped out in pre-k if that were the case growing up.
End of story.
Give me peanut butter, or give me a GED!
Having a license to carry a concealed firearm, as many others in this country have, what does this accomplish? This would be an unreasonable search of my person, without a warrant, resulting in the inevitable "papers, please." Too many ways for that situation to end up poorly...
I'd like to see an image from something headed toward the sun, looking back at Earth. Showing a lighted sphere on both Earth and the Moon, where the moon is at a position to show distance, aka 90* angle relative to earth, between the image taken and the moon.
Alright NASA, you have your task. Minions assemble!
Quantity is no substitute for quality, but its the only one we've got.