There are about 300 million people in America. 300 million / 5 million = 60. 12 / 60 = 1/5. Its your wildly inaccurate statement that I was referencing, not a fact. Your assertion that 1 in 5 million was in the circumstance that I and the dozen gamers I knew in the same circumstance would indicate that our population of 12 was a 5th of the US population in that circumstance.
Yes, my inclusion in that group is in the past tense, I having moved since then, and some of my friends having finally gotten broadband. It was however the recent past, and a lot of people are still there.
As for your comment about rural mississippi? Get your head out of your ass. There really are a lot of people there that have interests other than nascar, drugs or getting knocked up.
Why do you consider it aggression to make people reduce CO2 usage, but not aggression to dump enough CO2 into the atmosphere that sea levels rise, displacing millions from their property? Why do you consider it "breaking a window" to made businesses have to retool for greener tech, but you don't consider it "breaking a window" for a dinosaur industry to dump toxic crap (like coal, while also causes GHG) into everyone's lungs just so workers in that industry can keep their jobs?
If you can show that a specific legal entity or group thereof is contributing significantly to either rising sea levels or health issue resulting from pollution then you are quite welcome to organize the victims into a group and sue for damages. That would count as "significant evidence". You are also welcome to employ liberal degrees of social pressure, which tends to be even more effective in regard to broad externalities such as these and is not limited by hard evidence.
Your "most efficient, easiest option" of prior restraint ("limited permits") and arbitrary fines ("taxes") as a means of coercively regulating others' behavior, however, is simply unacceptable. The proper place for disputes of this nature is the courtroom, where rulings are guided on a case-by-case basis by evidence of damage and intent and ultimately bounded in proportion to the specific offense.
"the golden passport to ticket exemption is the military ID. I've seen it used many times. According to rumors, this works better for enlisted personnel than for officers. I know a guy who was a sergeant in the army. He was often pulled over, but NEVER ticketed."
I call bullshit. If, in fact, you knew such a sergeant, then he was an extremely good bullshitter. A military ID often times makes you a target for a cop's ire, depending on location. Most times, you're better off handing over your license, keeping you military ID in your wallet, and hoping that the cop didn't notice your base parking sticker.
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