Perhaps. But it's my experience that 3 out of 5 people I talk to that think the government should just give them shit are that stupid.

Because the government has a huge amount of overhead before it actually spends the money on anything beneficial for you and me. If even more things are going to be paid through taxation, then we will need to be paying in even more. Honestly, I wouldn't mind paying more if we got the benefits that many countries in the EU get for their money. But we don't. Extra money seems to get siphoned off into someone's pet project rather than where should go.

Garbage collection is getting paid by us now. Why do we need to add an extra layer of bureaucracy? You can't possibly believe more people having their hands out is going to be more cost efficient.

How is having driving permits paid by "the government" going to be better? I don't know what the DMV is like in your state as they have ranged from dreadful to acceptable in the various states I've lived in. When I lived in Pennsylvania I think they would have designed the place like something in the styling of M.C. Escher if the universe would allow for it.. I can't imagine what another layer like the IRS would do to this. And why does everyone deserve a drivers license? If you can't afford the cost of a license how in the hell are you going to buy a car to drive anyhow?

We already pay the local government agencies to come up with building codes. What more should they pay for?

Now healthcare. Yes, that should be something we don't have to worry about. But look at the colossal fuck up we got in place now. We had the executive and both houses of the legislative branch of government in agreement about this and they used reconciliation to get it through the senate. Instead of giving us a single payer system that could have been so simple to do, we got, well we're still not sure what in the hell we got out of it.

Sorry if I came across as attacking you or something. But I talk to so many people who think the government is some endless pit of money that should just give them shit and that money materializes out of thin air.

Because the "government" doesn't pay for anything. They simply spend the money that the people must pay them through taxation.

I don't care what the specs are. Laptop hardware doesn't perform at the same level as desktop. I have a quad-core i7 laptop for work with the fastest RAM Dell offered and a $1200 video card upgrade. My 5 year old Phenom 9950 is able to transcode video at comparable speeds. I don't know which is fastest as I've not timed them, but it's close enough to not matter. Neither system is overclocked. Both have a mix of ssd and spinning disks. For work (medical software) the video on the laptop is better. But for gaming is typically better on the desktop.

According to This site iOS has 59..49% of the market and Android 24.4% in the US. Windows Phone (1.21%) is being beaten out by BlackBerry (1.64%), Symbian (2.06%, and Java ME (10.2%). Very few people are buying Windows Phones, so how much of a market is there for stolen ones?

Survivalists and campers are also anticipating this new release. In addition to the long battery life they can also be used to create spontaneous fires in emergency situations. These new "smart" batteries are able to sense an emergency and self ignite with no need for user input.

I read an interview with Ray Manzarek 20+ years ago that the interviewer asked if he though Jim Morrison was still alive. Ray Manzarek said he doubted it since it had been a long time since Jim called him to borrow money.

From the TSA website:

According to the TSA website you are currently allowed to carry a non-torch fuel lighter in your pocket as carry-on. You may also have up to two fuel lighters in your checked baggage that are either empty or in a TSA approved case. At one point in time all lighters were banned from checked or carry-on period. Matches were allowed, then they weren't and now they are again.

Are you checking un-fueled lighters? or are they in an approved case? Or have you just been lucky?

The problem is that the TSA are a bunch of fucking idiots, not the GGP. They don't exactly have a track record of hiring the best and brightest. Then they change the rules too frequently to even keep their own staff informed of what is going on, let alone waste time letting the public know. The bigger problem is that the TSA are a complete waste of time and money.

Further proof that the threat of all things nuclear is just a diversion to take our attention away from the true danger. Dihydrogen Monoxide. This is the true menace to mankind. If we would have rid this planet of this toxic substance years ago those 20,000 people wound not have died (in the tsunami). In fact we wouldn't even be talking about Fukashima at all right now.

It all depends on where you live I suppose:

http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/4558:former-narcotics-detective-admits-drug-planting-common

http://www.ocweekly.com/2006-11-09/news/training-day/

http://rt.com/usa/planting-utica-car-pocket-215/

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/02/nyregion/brooklyn-detective-convicted-of-planting-drugs-on-innocent-people.html

http://www.copblock.org/1059/a-cop-planting-a-crack-pipe-caught-on-video-was-just-a-prank/

No, not all do. But ones in shitty areas do more than either of us would like to believe. Just do a simple Google search for police planting evidence. I've worked with law enforcement in the past and was friends with many cops. For the most part they are decent people. But their are always exceptions. Acting like a cocky little shit like the poster I was replying to is a sure fire way to find out what kind of officer you are dealing with. How do you think the officer in this video would react to it:

http://lukescorner.net/video/police-caught-threatening-to-beat-and-plant-drugs-on-man

I don't think anywhere near a majority of officers do. But if you are in a shitty area of NY or LA, you can bet your ass they are there. If you don't think so, you better seek professional help in removing your head from your ass.

It doesn't matter. As long as the person being monitored has physical access to the equipment, it will not be reliable. I suspect it will take about 2 hours after this is implemented until you will be able to order jamming equipment to screw with it. And less than a week until someone finds a way to receive the data that shouldn't and perhaps another week until a different video stream can be sent in place of the one on the camera.

And this is about the point when the system "malfunctions" and you resist arrest and have to be subdued with a couple of love taps upside your head with a nightstick. Oh snap! While the officer was cuffing your half conscious ass he found a nontrivial amount of cocaine and an unregistered firearm on your person. Amazingly the video and audio pick up again while he's politely requesting you to "please watch your head sir" while putting into the back of his cruiser.

First, I don't understand why a separate email account is needed. But let's say there is a good reason. The way I read this is that it was an official account that was set up within the organization. There is no good reason why this should be anymore difficult to find/access as any other account. Either someone is extremely incompetent, or is trying to hide something. Or both.

If communications legally must be logged then the system also should not allow users to access "personal" accounts. If someone uses a personal account to do business, then that account should immediately become property of the organization. Not just "frowned upon". I've known people who worked in security agencies. They typically had a secure computer and one that was not. If you accidentally plugged a USB device(yours or not) into the secure system it then became classified and property of that department and you just lost it. I don't see why this should be treated any differently. Anyone who is caught trying to circumvent this should have to forfeit the account and be disciplined, or fired as the very least, and possibly criminally charged. I find it baffling that behavior that could get you fired or criminally charged in the private sector is so commonplace and ignored in the government.

I know I'm getting old, but we've come a long way from Lincoln's government of the people, for the people, and by the people. It's becoming pretty obvious that we have a government above the people.

The game itself was much better. When compared to almost everything else the Uwe Boll has done it was at least watchable. I was shocked that Uwe Boll directed the movie "Rampage". It is by far the best of his movies that I've seen.