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Comment: Re:Get a bat (Score 2) 322

by fnj (#40200767) Attached to: Whose Cameras Are Watching New York Roads?

I don't think pointing your own gun or laser at a fascist CAMERA is a very smart thing to do. It might be transmitting in real time. Hell, it's not even smart to recommend it. I certainly don't. It is easy, however, to imagine other ways - strictly as a mental exercise.

Right now the fascists are in hog heaven because they have a monopoly on drones. However, it's pretty easy for citizens and bands of citizens to manufacture their own drones at a cost of 1% or 0.1%, maybe 0.01% of what those morons pay for theirs. Just imagine a sky black with rebel drones taking out the fascist drones and cameras.

Just sayin'. Get the popcorn; the show could be interesting.

Comment: Re:Yeah, that's a good argument. (Score 1) 375

by fnj (#40197629) Attached to: SpaceX Brownsville Space Port Opposed By Texas Environmentalists

Start here; I tend to take mistaken pronouncements seriously. I'm willing to entertain the idea that is a character flaw as long as it is understood that it stems from a passion for truth.

We see firstly that wealth, the abundance of valuable resources or material possessions, has nothing to do with money or valuation.

It follows therefore that service transactions, which result only in the exchange of wealth for service (money being usually used as a proxy), do not add to or subtract from the global supply of wealth.

Comment: Re:Yeah, that's a good argument. (Score 1) 375

by fnj (#40197547) Attached to: SpaceX Brownsville Space Port Opposed By Texas Environmentalists

Whenever two parties exchange goods, services and/or money in a freely chosen transaction, they are presumably both giving up something they value less for something they value more, and therefore the net product of the economy has risen. To say that only the creation of tangible objects can lead to the creation of wealth is not, in fact, generally accepted.

Sorry, coward. That's full of shit. Wealth: "abundance of valuable material possessions or resources". You haven't ended up with more material possessions or resources.

Comment: Re:Treaspassing (Score 5, Insightful) 322

by demachina (#40197137) Attached to: Whose Cameras Are Watching New York Roads?

DEA has had license plate reading cameras on U.S. highways for a while. In particular they record every car on some routes in California, Texas, Arizona and recently Utah using ELSAG cameras though they usually make no attempt to hide them.

They analyze the data looking for people transporting drugs from the Mexican border among other things. Maybe they are just expanding the program to watch the traffic along the northern border too.

So, yea welcome to the big brother police state, we've been in it a while now. Say cheese!!

Comment: Re:Here are the environmental threats (Score 1) 375

by fnj (#40196655) Attached to: SpaceX Brownsville Space Port Opposed By Texas Environmentalists

That's right, and it's a shitload of meaningless drivel as presented.

Points 1 and 2 per se are not outlining any presumed threat at all; just stating facts.
Point 3, 7, and 9 are speculative and provides no hint of any foundation for fears at all.
Points 4, 5 and 6 are pretty much a statement that anything man does could possibly go wrong and have consequences.
Point 8 is irrational and not explained.

Are you still an ALCOHOLIC?

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