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Chris Taylor
Never, PA
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Chris commented on the petition |I am tired of being raped by banks and I am tired of the out of of control USURY in this country.
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Chris commented on the article |Envy is not a problem. There are many things and many people I envy. But I do not think I am greedy.
Envy can turn into greedy actions but your not HURTING anyone until it does turn into greedy action.
Greed is the core problem.
Seatbelt laws have nothing to do with safety and nothing to do with footing insurance bills.
Helmets is a different story. THEY truly do save lives and your pretty much assured to be dead if you DON'T wear one but its still none of the states business.
Seatbelt laws have one purpose. to usurp your 4th amendment rights by ELIMINATING any need for valid probable cause. you can simply claim I did not see a seatbelt.
NOTE not you were not wearing one but I did not SEE it.
that is why as predicted most secondary offense seatbelt laws are now PRIMARY offenses. That was the objective all along. Making them secondary offenses was to appease the weak that knew this would happen but accepted it when they claimed it would be a secondary offense (Ie they had to pull you over for something ELSE other than the seatbelt IE 4th amendment intact they still needed probable cause)
Now they don't. THAT is why we have seat belt laws. any other reason is a smokescreen or outright misinformation.
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Chris commented on the article |
racism is a catch word for pretty much any high level prejiduce. Its like Velcron and Kleenex.
racism is not intrinsically bad. part of its natural most of its LEARNED in our societies.
ACTING on it is whats bad. Or at least I hope undesired in our society.
BUT until greed is under control racism will NEVER be put under control. Period.
99.999999% of all of societies problems are related or begin as GREED.
Black people were not carted off in ships as slaves because they were inferior.
They were carted off in ships because THEY WERE inferior (technologically) so they could easily be captured and enslaved as cheap labor and cheap labor means a lot of profit.
IE GREED. the "inferior race" card was just an EXCUSE to justify the greedy intentions.
Eliminate greed and you eliminate almost all of mankinds problems.
Thats impossible though.
We can ALMOST get there though. Eliminate NEED and most of WANT and you eliminate "most" of the problems that result from greed and empower those left over to "deal" with greed and keep it in check.
sadly the only solution do that is matter replicators. Seeing as how the only place your going to find one of those anytime soon is an episode of star trek we have a while to go yet :-(
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Chris commented on the article |Ahh are we looking at the same picture? the one at the top of this page? where do you see a $500 phone? I sure don't The picture is far too small to positively identify the phone but I can tell you this.
Its not an Iphone. Its not a Windows Mobile phone and its not a blackberry.
Those are the ONLY phones that cost $500 or anywhere close to $500. Hell I paid $80 for my Blackberry Curve. (straight up used on craigslist)
I see what is likely a Nokia phone. You know some of the cheapest phones on planet earth.
I bet its under $99 brand new. you can get nokia camera phones for FREE. -
Chris commented on the article |
NO we have all NOT done that. I know me personally I have NEVER "gotten" a job and then "gotten" a place to live. Not once in my life.
I doubt you have either. I doubt more than a FRACTION of the people posting here have EVER "Get a job get a place to live"
Most of us STARTED with a place to live ALREADY (you know the odd carbon based parental units that raised you?) yeah those things.
You lived under THEIR ROOF.
You started with a place to live already and THEN got a job and once you were able you moved out into your own place.
THAT is a hell of a lot easier than "Get a job get a place to live"
I KNOW people who live like this. The only place they can LIVE is weekly motels. ever price those? 90% of there income goes to that motel to have a roof bed and shower over their heads.
living on the STREET they would be unable to keep a JOB in most cases (sleep cleanliness etc..)
SO now how does this person find balance? one might say they are STUPID renting an apartment would cost a fraction of what the weekly rate is on a motel.
Except that to rent an apartment you need first and last months plus security plus utilities plus be APPROVED.
really easy to try and wait when you have a PAID FOR roof over your head (parents)
NOT so easy when 90% of your income is going to your weekly motel rental.
Unless your lucky enough to have parents or friends who can take you in FOR FREE so that YOU CAN get a job so you CAN save up enough money to actually get your own place.
Its a viscious. You finally get a job finally get a place to live but this place is SO EXPENSIVE your UNABLE to "move up" to more affordable but higher up front cost of living.
so instead of paying a hotel $250 a week you should rent an apartment for $600 a month.
well if you can afford $250 a week then SURELY you can afford $600 a month right? hell for now leave the electricity OFF if you have too.
well not so fast there partiner. That $600 is a MYTH. it does not exist. you see you need $1800
so if your making $300 a week you need 6 weeks to get up enough to get an apartment ASSUMING you get approved.
OOPS wait a minute $1500 of that $1800 is GONE now because you had to pay another 6 weeks in that motel. so now your down to $300 and then you needed 6 weeks worth of FOOD there goes another $150 now your down to $150 a month assuming ZERO and I mean ZERO other expenses.
now your looking at 12 MONTHS MINUMUM before you can even THINK about an apartment and thats assuming no SURPRISES come up and you can some how get your clothes for free of craigslist or freecycles.
This also assumes you live in an area where it possible to GET BY without a car. This assumes no health problems. THIS ASSUMES that job LASTS 12+ months.
so take your "Get a job get a place to live" and shove it back up your ass exactly where it came from.
99% of the people in this thread NEVER had to do that. half would probably FAIL if they tried.
I know I have NEVER had to "Get a job get a place to live" and I hope I am fortunate enough to never have to try it.
How long can you SURVIVE with almost NO MONEY working you ass off for almost ZERO GAIN for almost ZERO benifit as 95% of your income it eaten up by a roof and food.
How long before you go nuts? or simply burn out.? -
Chris commented on the article |
YES it is a right. it absolutely IS a right.
OWNERSHIP of what is YOURS is a right.
that phone belongs to him therefore he has a RIGHT to keep it. Its his PROPERTY.
I have a very nice Blackberry 8330 smart phone. Its quite literally a COMPUTER by any normal standard.
If I lost my job tommorrow and was on the STREET next month. Your saying this piece of property I ALREADY OWN is not my RIGHT to keep? that because I am living on the street I LOSE the right to my property and I have to GIVE IT UP?
You can get a camera phone for $9.99 with a month's free service from cricket. No contracts No rebates. Pay $9.99 and you have a camera phone with a free month of unlimited talk service.
who the hell are YOU to decide what is and is not a luxury. Property is Property if you own it YOU HAVE A RIGHT TO IT.
that it what is means to own PROPERTY.
Your definition of luxury is all right out of your fraking ass.
by YOUR definition of luxury I can deduce the logical counter definition fo NECESSITY.
Food is a NECESSITY. Many of those people can NOT afford FOOD.
but according to you it should be GIVEN to them its a NECESSITY. so you go give them YOUR food.
a single gram more food than you NEED to survive is by your own definition a LUXURY.
A cell phone is not a luxury. its a piece of property. a damned CHEAP piece of property at that. Collect 100 cans in michigan and you can have a cell phone.
Its NO contract. you can call up each month and order a NEW $9.99 phone and get another free months service. Use a different "friends" address and name each month (with permission of course) and for 100 soda cans on the side of the road you can have a CAMERA PHONE with unlimited talk and text.
YOU need to "get a life" and a "reality check"
I have FOUND more phones lying on the ground than I have OWNED by purchase in my life.
they are no longer "luxuries" they are simple commodites. common place regular simple cheap items. Nothing special. even the service can be had CHEAP. -
Chris commented on the article |
Well first its apples to oranges. Wearing baggy pants can NOT under any conditions KILL those around you.
Dropping chemical waste can and WILL kill those around you. SO if your going to make analogy try not to make an ass of yourself and have the analogy at least SOMEWHAT make sense.
If you can figure out a way to put chemical waste on one lot of land and reasonable guarentee it can NOT HARM ME OR MY PROPERTY. Fine go ahead I would defend your right to do that.
Seeing as how that's impossible with current technology I am not to worried about it.
What YOU describe is like saying I want to take off my pants spray them in POISON and then swing them around over my head potentially covering people around me in poison.
your pants may be your property but MY HEALTH is not your property.
Remember the "rights" golden rule. You can do anything you want so long as it does not infringe MY RIGHTS. once that happens it ceases to be a "rights" issue.
That is how you can logically BAN racism (or try to) without violating ones rights.
Rights by definition can not infringe on OTHERS rights lest they not have the same rights YOU DO.
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