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• On the post: French Privacy Agency DDoS's Itself In Ordering Google To Link To It From Google France Home Page

  

  The Mighty Buzzard ( profile ), 10 Feb, 2014 @ 07:44am

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  Even their websites surrender.

• On the post: Ukraine Parliament Repeals Anti-Protest Laws As Prime Minister Falls On President's Sword

  

  The Mighty Buzzard ( profile ), 29 Jan, 2014 @ 03:23pm

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  Can you show me the law he rewrote or ignored? As near as I can tell, actual dates of implementation were not in the law itself.

  
  
  Subtitle B, Section 1101, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, paragraph a. He had no legal authority to extend that January 1 deadline but did, first to January 31 and then to March 15.
  
  Spending bills and the budget are similar but not the same thing. Some things Congress just slaps a big wad of fungible money in the executive's hands and some it spells out specifically where the money has to go. Regardless, we would both have to read both to find out for certain which of us is correct. I don't know about you, but reading a large chunk of Obamacare was plenty for me for the day.

• On the post: Ukraine Parliament Repeals Anti-Protest Laws As Prime Minister Falls On President's Sword

  

  The Mighty Buzzard ( profile ), 29 Jan, 2014 @ 11:36am

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  Scratch the SOTU bit. Rewrote the response and missed removing that part.

• On the post: Ukraine Parliament Repeals Anti-Protest Laws As Prime Minister Falls On President's Sword

  

  The Mighty Buzzard ( profile ), 29 Jan, 2014 @ 11:33am

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  Did you not watch the State of the Union?
  
  http://exposethemedia.com/2014/01/16/dictator-obama-delays-another-obamacare-deadline/
  
  He's taken passed law and rewritten/ignored it more than than once recently just in regards to legal deadlines for Obamacare.
  
  And, no, changing governmental spending is always a congressional prerogative. So much so that any bill doing so has to specifically originate in the House.
  
  The number of EOs doesn't matter, the number of abuses does. Is Obama that much worse than Bush/etc...? Not really. Does that make it okay? Hell no.

• On the post: Ukraine Parliament Repeals Anti-Protest Laws As Prime Minister Falls On President's Sword

  

  The Mighty Buzzard ( profile ), 29 Jan, 2014 @ 09:58am

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  There are limits on executive orders, etc. so no, he's not a dictator.

  
  
  Nice in theory but that's not how they're being used under the current administration. Just in the past few months they've been used to change Congressionally passed law to something that better suits the administration re: Obamacare, changes to the Uniform Code of Military Justice which is the province of Congress, creating succession orders for several departments of government, changing pay rates all over the place, etc...
  
  Have a look at the rest with an eye for "Does this power belong in the executive?"
  
  http://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/executive-orders
  
  It's nice that we theoretically have limits on executive orders. It's not as nice to see them eroded and outright ignored.

• On the post: Police Banned From Enforcing Traffic Laws In Oklahoma Town Over Abuse Of Traffic Tickets For Money

  

  The Mighty Buzzard ( profile ), 28 Jan, 2014 @ 08:23am

  Re: They also have to protect the truckstop/casino north of town.

  Rest assured, the casino has no need of outside security. Internal casino security aside, Indian tribes maintain their own police forces and are licensed to operate pretty much anywhere in the state.

• On the post: Police Banned From Enforcing Traffic Laws In Oklahoma Town Over Abuse Of Traffic Tickets For Money

  

  The Mighty Buzzard ( profile ), 28 Jan, 2014 @ 08:18am

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  Nice thought but it just wouldn't work here. To become a town here you have to have at least one commercial and one industrial business. If you later fall below that bar, any town nearby can annex you any time they like.
  
  The problem is they also have to yoink a continuous tract of land between themselves and the town they want to annex. This being Oklahoma, there is enough open land between towns that it's just not feasible. Any town taking our worst speedtraps over would have to annex and supply town services to ten, twenty, maybe thirty miles worth of highway frontage to get there.

• On the post: Rooting For The Laundry: The Absolute Insanity Of Decisions About The NSA Being Made Based On 'Liberal' Or 'Conservative' Ideology

  

  The Mighty Buzzard ( profile ), 27 Jan, 2014 @ 02:10pm

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  facepalm
  
  And there you just went and did exactly what Mike was ripping on.

• On the post: Surprise: Republican Party Says NSA Surveillance Programs Are Unconstitutional And Must End

  

  The Mighty Buzzard ( profile ), 24 Jan, 2014 @ 02:56pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Interesting...

  And in the really long run, I'll die of old age and it won't have mattered either way. Fixed for now is the best we can hope for.

• On the post: Surprise: Republican Party Says NSA Surveillance Programs Are Unconstitutional And Must End

  

  The Mighty Buzzard ( profile ), 24 Jan, 2014 @ 02:43pm

  Re: Re: Interesting...

  I really don't care by whom this particular sausage gets made. I just want it made. If the Reps want to be my best buds on this, they get the props for doing so.

• On the post: USTR Refuses To Show Up For Senate Hearing On Fast Track

  

  The Mighty Buzzard ( profile ), 17 Jan, 2014 @ 02:26pm

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  No worries, Congress hasn't had that role in a very long time.

• On the post: NSA Goes From Saying Bulk Metadata Collection 'Saves Lives' To 'Prevented 54 Attacks' To 'Well, It's A Nice Insurance Policy'

  

  The Mighty Buzzard ( profile ), 13 Jan, 2014 @ 08:00am

  Re: That simplifies things

  You know, their argument is on pretty solid ground in the current administration. They've been pretty vehement in making us buy insurance whether we want it or not.

• On the post: How To Solve The Piracy Problem: Give Everyone A Basic Income For Doing Nothing

  

  The Mighty Buzzard ( profile ), 27 Dec, 2013 @ 12:05pm

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  Give it a bit. Natural government corruption and market forces will take care of any aberrant appearance of success.

• On the post: How To Solve The Piracy Problem: Give Everyone A Basic Income For Doing Nothing

  

  The Mighty Buzzard ( profile ), 27 Dec, 2013 @ 11:58am

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  Personally, I think I'd prefer an good "we're going to take money from them and give it to you" system rather than dressing it up as social programs. It's at least more honest about what's being done. I just don't see anything coming from it but bad results though.

• On the post: How To Solve The Piracy Problem: Give Everyone A Basic Income For Doing Nothing

  

  The Mighty Buzzard ( profile ), 27 Dec, 2013 @ 10:45am

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  Replacing all the pet subsidies that taxes currently pay for with the basic income you mean? It could never happen. The kind of people who would vote in a basic income subsidy would be the same ones who would scream loudest if their other subsidies were taken away. In short, they would want both the current subsidies and the basic income subsidy. At the very least they would not stand for reduction in current subsidies.
  
  As for democratizing how much spare time they have... I'll take freedom over democracy every single time. The entire reason pure democracy does not exist on this earth is that everyone with half a brain knows it would result instantly and without fail in tyranny of the masses. All minorities of any sort would be oppressed under it. Even proper fascism would be preferable.

• On the post: How To Solve The Piracy Problem: Give Everyone A Basic Income For Doing Nothing

  

  The Mighty Buzzard ( profile ), 27 Dec, 2013 @ 09:59am

  Re: Re: Re: Canada did it too

  Even attempt this worldwide and there will be war like this world has never seen it before. It's a socialist, utopian pipe dream and will never be anything but.

• On the post: How To Solve The Piracy Problem: Give Everyone A Basic Income For Doing Nothing

  

  The Mighty Buzzard ( profile ), 27 Dec, 2013 @ 09:55am

  Re: Re: Canada did it too

  Hrm. appears that LI tags need to be filtered out. Something in the comment scripting treats them as new posts and loses its shat.

• On the post: How To Solve The Piracy Problem: Give Everyone A Basic Income For Doing Nothing

  

  The Mighty Buzzard ( profile ), 27 Dec, 2013 @ 09:53am

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  And you only have to look at how well that worked for the U.S.S.R. to see how that would play out.

• On the post: How To Solve The Piracy Problem: Give Everyone A Basic Income For Doing Nothing

  

  The Mighty Buzzard ( profile ), 27 Dec, 2013 @ 09:49am

  Re: Canada did it too

  I would and I make nowhere near $250k/year.
  
  How this plays out:
  

  • Govt announces this program.
  • Everyone making over $250k/year leaves for somewhere that won't ass rape them.
  • Nation falls into poverty that makes the great depression look like insane prosperity.

• On the post: How To Solve The Piracy Problem: Give Everyone A Basic Income For Doing Nothing

  

  The Mighty Buzzard ( profile ), 27 Dec, 2013 @ 09:44am

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  There is no 'afford to do this'. The only thing that would happen if this were done is instant and insane inflation. The poor would still be poor, the rich would still be rich, and the middle class would slowly erode into poverty.

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