Comment Re:The founding documents present a path... (Score 1) 161
{Darth Vader voice}
"We will crush this 'rebel alliance' and destroy all who oppose the Empire!"
{/Darth Vader voice}
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{Darth Vader voice}
"We will crush this 'rebel alliance' and destroy all who oppose the Empire!"
{/Darth Vader voice}
Strat
Surely it wouldn't be beyond the collective wit of the internet to set up a parallel surveillance system targeting judges, politicians and others involved in dismantling these freedoms. After a couple of months of having their every private movement made public I suspect they'd change their outlook.
Quite a while back I posted a comment suggesting a smartphone application that allows people to take a snapshot of a government official/bureaucrat/judge/LEO/agent as well as officials/employees of NSA/NRO/CIA/etc private contractors and upload it and location/time and other relevant data to a website in a non-5-eyes nation where facial recognition and data-mining software could analyze it and make that information and analysis publicly available. Track all their travel, associations, purchases, everything possible.
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ALL AF bases and the majority of the the other services did away with base stickers several years ago and now everyone in the vehicle over the age of 16 has to display a valid Government issued ID to get on base.
All? I'd swear last time I accompanied my father (retired AF) on base at either Nellis or Wright-Patterson, the skycop just asked for his ID, not mine. It might be different overseas, and it's been different here at various times in the past, but unless they've changed things yet again since this past December, they most likely only care about the driver's ID.
Is there a minus -1 knows nothing prejudiced mod ?
Clearly, the answer is for some smooth-talkin' Slashdotter to seduce Angie. Then, once the deed is done, put a nasty negative review on Angie's List. "C-, would not bang again." BOOM goes the dynamite!
Wait... smooth talkin' Slashdotter? Never mind. It will never work.
France can always be counted on to do things in the least logical way possible.
In which alternate universe is arresting the people running an illegal business the "least logical way possible"?
The fact that it's illegal for a private person to accept payment for a car ride principally to protect politically-connected businesses practicing an outdated/obsolete business model is both corrupt and illogical. It's protectionist crony-capitalism. Rather than logically correcting such a corrupt system, they doubled down on it. Just because a government declares something "illegal" does not mean it is morally and/or ethically wrong, or a detriment to society and/or the economy.
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"When anyone says `theoretically,' they really mean `not really.'" -- David Parnas