...The only thing I can every recall from any president is that 'children are the future' and other such nonsense soundbites.
Well, I believe that children are our future. If you teach them well, then just let them lead the way. Show them all the beauty they possess inside.
Fear the new things! Fear the unknown! The government will protect you!
So true. The hysteria surrounding toy helicopters (not drones!) is reminiscent of the hysteria around the internet 15 years ago - "you are welcoming the predators into your home and they're going to lure your children away!" Fear, fear, fear.
Personally, I think disclosure of SSNs should not only be legal, but should be encouraged. Then we can get rid of the idiotic notion that "knowing" an SSN is somehow evidence that you are the person it belongs to.
OK, you first.
Let them face the consequences of their choices.
The problem with this argument, of course, is that their vote counts the same as yours. In the end, we don't need to worry about the terrorists or the Russians- we've seen the enemy and the enemy is us. "When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross."
( X) technical ( ) legislative ( ) market-based ( ) vigilante
approach to fighting spam^h^h^h^hrange anxiety. Your idea will not work. Here is why it won't work. (One or more of the following may apply to your particular idea, and it may have other flaws which used to vary from state to state before a bad federal law was passed.)
( ) Microsoft will not put up with it
( ) The accountants will not put up with it
(x ) Requires immediate total cooperation from everybody at once
discoverer of Bitcoin
The word you are looking for is inventor. A discoverer is someone who finds something that was there all along.
What happens if their EMP weapon accidently wipes the e-mail servers at the State Department?
No problem, the State Department e-mails are going through the Secretary's private server.
What if my lap is bigger than my desk?
Then it's time to push back from the dinner table.
"Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines." -- Bertrand Russell