Are you willing to increase your taxes paid by 20% just to staff enough people for my "UFO" and "Anal probe" requests in 30 different ways to every single agency i can think of so i can prove all UFO sightings are government conspiracies an all alien anal probes are means to punish and discredit people who are thorns in the side of the government or some crony company they support? Or should something like the department of health and human services spend a good portion of their budget on these rather than their stated missions? I can see it now. FEMA fails to respond to some natural disaster stating their budget was already burned through fielding FOIA requests.

I agree with you in principle, I just look at the practical application of it. Probably unlike you, I do see a need for some secrets to remain in government. I think it's mostly to national defense and comments or advice given but not adopted over political matters. For example, issues like the civil rights act or giving women the vote could have turned out differently if everything we now know was instantly available when it transpired.

They also have no way of distinguishing codes used in furthering their goesl. For instance we could nickname components of a bomb recipe the same as foods. "I'm having a party, what can you bring that we can put on the grill" could be a code for lets bomb something, got any explosives. And the response "nothing but i have plenty of eggs and bacon if I can stay over" could mean I'm in- no explosives but lors of ammo and guns. Someone else could chime in with "i need to stay over too and i have plenty of beer and some beef for the BBQ" could mean I'm in and have these components of explosives.

And all that can be determined over the kitchen table or in another country or whatever in advance. No amount of listening in will catch that before something happened and would be a shaky guess only pointing to a connection between people after the fact.

I would suggest that if you say things neo-nazis say, you might be considered associated with them. Just like if you say things communist, or republican or fascist or whatever, people might connect you to them and think you support the crazy shit the crazy people say.

Now if you are complaining that there are not enough minorities or enough gays or whatever, then yes, you have to either defend or distance yourself from crap others like you say.

Words are generally the catalyst of violence.

When is the last time a bar fight broke out when no words at all were said? How often does it happen?

Get real, live in the real world. Even the courts recognize that there are such things as fighting words.

Yes, he is saying that when you go around pissing people off, do not be surprised when they get pissed off and get violent. That is what some people do when they get pissed off and it's been a part of human nature and probably an evolutionary key to survival since we were apes. And yes, apes do get malicious and violent when pissed. It's even part of animal nature.

It shouldn't be unlawful in the first place (and ultimately will be found unconstitutional if the woman raises enough funds to challenge it properly).

It wasn't that the woman refused to serve them, she refused to serve them in a way that went against her constitutionally protected freedom of religion. That is the discrimination involved here. But instead of the gay couple going to one of the hundreds of other bakers capable of making a wedding cake who have no issues at all with gay weddings, they are intolerant and sue knowing that it is a religious belief because they want to attack the religious.

And don't give me that but she is running a business bullshit. Soldiers can object and opt out of killing the enemy when we are at war because of religious freedoms and they openly entered into a profession that is somewhat of a known job requirement that you might have to kill someone. The first amendment says congress shall make no law prohibiting the free exercise of religion- not that you lose your rights and freedoms if you open a business.

I'll tell you right now that your experience isn't typical. It's not even based on reality from my experience. I've worked at a lot of jobs doing a lot of things- most of these things are crap jobs most others do not want to do. I've had minorities work circles around me and I have had idiots who were basically place holders for quotas that caused me to work 3 times as much as I should have.

There are jobs run by incompetent management who value race, gender, and appearances over skills or performance specifically because it fits some magic number that they think stops them from being at risk for some lawsuits. It's like getting stuck working with the boss's relatives who only have a job because of their relation else they would have already been shit canned long ago.

I played that game too. I even spent 400 bucks on a sound blaster multimedia kit for my 486sx just to have sound for it. However, that is just full throttle, not a full throttle hummer.

you sure you don't mean violence against people who are anti queer?

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anti-queer violence? You mean bigots are getting beat up?

Umm.. your confused. That was Harpo Marx not his retarded cousin Karl. Sorry, I know it's hard to tell the clowns apart but Harpo rarely spoke but had a lot to say.

Unfortunately this case is not even to the state of courts. His livelihood (or part of it ) is being denied without any court at all so far.

Even in losers pay areas, you still have to front the money and if you run out, are you still going to win? But more interesting might be the value of the app verses the costs of courts. If the app only generates $5k a year income, How do you justify a million or even 50k dollars in defense costs knowing you might lose and possibly have to pay their costs.

It also means a lot less legitimate case goto court too.

I don't think Linux users is the intended market here. It's more likely a move to get lower income people to purchase. They might keep linux installed or void the warranty and install some pirated windows version. When i say void the warranty, I mean disqualify the setup for support and make it difficult to get warranty support (because the diagnostic utilities don't run right in user supplied operating systems ).

Another posted pointed out to me that it was the brits in world war two not the cold war. In my civil air patrol days of the mid 1980s as a cadet (before i discovered the preacher's daughter and drugs/alcohol) I'm pretty sure i was told it was the cold war but i or the guy telling the story could be wrong.

Of course we heard a lot of stories. Part of the experience probably had more primitive camping than the boy scouts wished for in training for the search and rescue (sar) portion. But the CAP, as part of it's mission was propaganda er educating the public.

Yup..

And they didn't wait for anything to happen to the right person. They created the incident in order to have a complete record along with witnesses. She was sent to create the issues that were common to other blacks which is why her name is associated with it.