No, you cannot. If your power is entirely superficial then you are not an evil dictator overlord. You might aspire to be one, or maybe even believe yourself to be one, but if your power is entirely superficial you are not at the levers of power at all.

Again, you can wield power, or you can distract attention away from the person who does, but you cannot do both. There are, of course, other options, but these two completely contradictory options that smitty and others are constantly trying to pin on the same person cannot both be true.

A clown, however, is not. A clown exists only to distract from power, never to wield it. And a failure of a clown is not a ringleader; he is only a clown that gets gored by the bull or allows the audience to see behind the curtain.

You cannot simultaneously wield power and distract attention from someone else wielding it, even if you have multiple personalities.

They cant realistically kill the line ( "you cant stop the signal" ), but if you disable every access device known to man it would have the same effect... Killing every phone ( and soon tablets ) in one swoop would go a long way towards that goal.

This also gets around adhoc and private mesh networks that the feds have no real access to control.

What good media exists at all.

I say none.

He has no business being on the bench. A big F-You goes out to the bastard.

A lot of people like to make that argument, but I don't see it holding water. Why would you need to write in an amendment to assist in the overthrow of a government? Those actions need to be taken by people who are devoted enough to their cause to be willing to suffer the consequences of failure. The United States was established by a revolution that had a very real chance of failure, and that failure would have very likely lead to the execution of many of those who participated. They didn't need a law to assist their efforts, why would anyone else?

And on top of that, the government was intended to be elected, which is itself supposed to be a mechanism for the people to use to throw out bad leaders. If they wanted to initiate the American Experiment of democracy, why would they write in a mechanism to subvert it?

When the constitution was ratified, the militia was the only defense that the United States had, and all able bodied men were expected to be ready to serve.

Now, whether the militia is the intent of the second amendment is a question that we have been asking for a long time now. The wording of the second amendment is not particularly clear on that.

And yes, I know that this opinion is not popular on a site as conservative as slashdot. That is why we see this as a front page story bashing the person proposing the re-examination of the second amendment.

I pointed out before that your "rodeo clown" argument is diametrically opposed to your "evil dictator" argument. Nobody can be both a "rodeo clown" and an "evil dictator". If you are arguing that our country is in some sort of fetal position, that implies that you are gravitating away from the latter and more towards the former.

However, most of the conspiracy theories that you so enthusiastically advocate for in the hopes of bringing about an early end to the Obama Administration go out the window when you call him a "rodeo clown" as they negate the possibility of him being actively involved in any such actions.

So which is he?

A couple decades back, house prices and lot sizes were a lot smaller.

I'm not sure what part of

Was unclear to you...

I don't agree with this tactic, but when congress keeps cutting taxes without reducing spending by a matching amount they leave the IRS with few choices but to work harder to pursue outstanding debts.

I was joking.

I have noticed that motorized scooters have been granted a status in some places of "absolutely magical". It is apparently legal to park them at no cost at bicycle racks, even if they prevent actual bicycles from parking there. They are, by association, legal to ride (or at least, push) on the sidewalk as well. You can carry whatever or whoever you want with you on it, seldom need a proper helmet, and if you have enough power you can go ahead and drive on the freeway as well. They generally need less insurance and registration to boot.

Why bother with a bicycle at that point? We don't really embrace fitness in this country anyways.