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Comment Re:The steady slide to Police State continues (Score 1) 1123

|| The police are basing this claim on a ridiculous reading of the two-party consent surveillance law - requiring all parties to consent to being taped. ||

So this should work with red light cameras and other "public" oriented camera surveillance. Just because one is in "public" doesn't mean that grant their consent to being under such surveillance. It's not a matter of "privacy" it's a matter of "consent".

Comment Re:Who is going (Score 1) 875

Oh, by the way, Joel Rogers is not just "University Science Dude Says", here is who Joel is (Wikipedia and other sources):

Joel Rogers is an American academic and political activist. He currently is a professor of law, political science, and sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and has written on American politics and public policy.

Rogers received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Yale University, his Master of Arts and Ph.D. from Princeton, and his J.D. from Yale Law School.

He is also the founder and director of a research and policy center, the Center on Wisconsin Strategy (COWS), at UW-Madison. Rogers has written widely on American politics and public policy, political theory, and U.S. and comparative industrial relations, as well as the "high-road" approach to economic development he is credited as first theorizing.

Rogers is also one of the founding members of the Apollo Alliance. [1]. This group was credited with writing the controversial $787 billion dollar stimulus package for the US Congress in 2009.

Now, go do your own research, you might learn something (at least, I hope you do).

Comment Re:Who is going (Score 1) 875

1. U.W. Madison Prof. Joel Rogers admit that "...it is all about the money and if we stopped ALL emissions in the U.S., it would make absolutely no difference".

2. AGW (or Climate Change) is nothing more than an attempt to "redistribute wealth", but don't believe me. Just search for quotes of the current U.S. Administration's advisors and appointees. Maybe that will open your eyes a little.

Comment Re:Who is going (Score 1, Insightful) 875

Being that a carbon tax will have little to no effect (per "Climate Change" and "Global Warming" proponents that will greatly benefit, monetarily, should such come to pass) on the amount of human generated carbon in the atmosphere, all talk of such "carbon" or similar taxes should completely scrapped.

It is, and always has been, nothing more than A) a power grab and B) a method to bilk even more money out of tax paying citizens who are already over-taxed in the extreme to help cement further control and enslavement of the United States citizenry. Such taxes solve nothing except continue the craven "re-distrubtion of wealth" meme.

This should be opposed and thwarted at every level and at every opportunity.

Comment Re:For answers to the question -- (Score 1) 363

O.K., I have.

I have read 50 plus books A FRICKEN YEAR for over 28 years now. I mentioned one book out of over 1400 books I have read in that time.

The one book I mentioned got me started on my own research into the area, there is definitely some good, and definitely some bad in the relationships between pharmaceutical companies, the AMA, various medical research institutes and various societies.

And, for final full disclosure, I have met the author of "Murder By Injection", about 15 years ago. I do not agree with all of his writings, and totally reject his anti-Semitic views/writings (heck, I was married to an Israeli for nine years, been to Israel twice, etc.). Nice man, generally, but very much "out there" on a number of things.

Hope that helps, have a nice day.
   

Comment For answers to the question -- (Score 0) 363

-- about cancer societies and research.

Read books like "Murder by Injection" and similar.

The various disease societies are pretty much PR/Marketing arms or heavily supported organizations of pharmaceutical companies and the like. Does some good come of their activities, yes. Does a some bad (in the forms of where their loyalties lie) come from their activities, yes.

Comment Re:So what? (Score 1) 315

"2000 was amazing, but couldn't run games"

Uh, I had a Win 2000 Pro system that I used for gaming back in the day, no problems, solid as a rock.

It (Win 2000) was a better OS than XP ever was as far as stability in my direct personal experience with both OSes.

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