Does walking (drunk) on public highways take thousands of lives a year??? Drunk Driving Does!
So that's your argument for automatically suspending your "privilege" to travel by automobile? Your right to due process is eliminated because you assert you 4th Amendment right to a copper?
Like I said before, you are not alone. Authoritarians love eliminating people's rights, and do all kinds of mental acrobatics attempting to justify it. It defies logic. And America is full of authoritarians.
these corporations will get government subsidies to manage our 'motor vehicles'.....
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One of the inherent rights of owning a vehicle is the ability to get on one’s backside — a wrench in one hand and a grease rag in the other, and just tinker to your little heart’s desire. Since the vehicle was invented, it’s been an important facet within the community of gearheads.
General Motors — the same company responsible for 87 deaths related to faulty ignition switches, FYI — wants to take that right away from you citing safety and security issues. Along with a few other big names.
It’s called the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). It’s been around since 2000 and started as anti-Internet piracy legislation. But automakers want to use it to try and make working on your own car illegal. Yes, illegal. The general premise is that unlike cars of the past, today’s vehicles are so advanced and use such a large amount of software and coding in their general makeup, altering said code could be dangerous and possibly even malicious.
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Listing the vehicle as a “mobile computing device,” the law would hypothetically protect automakers from pesky owners looking to alter any sort of technology in the vehicle that relates to the onboard computer. Flashing your ECU would be a big no no, which could also lead to all sorts of problems for aftermarket shops.
What GM, and even tractor companies like John Deere, argues is that you, as an owner, don’t actually own your car. Rather, you’re sort of just borrowing it for an extended amount of time and paying for the rights to use the technology. If it sounds ridiculous— it is. But it gets even more ludicrous.
According to the Electronic Frontier Foundation, John Deere argued that “letting people modify car computer systems will result in them pirating music through the on-board entertainment system.”
That’s right— pirating music. Through a tractor.
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DMCA does give a little bit of leeway, though. While the act could hypothetically lock customers out of key safety features, it would still allow owners the ability to repair other areas of the vehicle’s onboard computer as they see fit. It’s a slim compromise, but one that may be more closely based in reality.
As it currently sits, there are 13 (!) large automakers on the list supporting the DMCA. Want to know who they are? Of course you do:
General Motors Company BMW Group FCA US LLC Ford Motor Company Jaguar Land Rover Mazda Mercedes-Benz USA Mitsubishi Motors Porsche Toyota Volkswagen Group of America Volvo Cars North America
Ironically, one of the brands that relies most on technology in its vehicles — Tesla Motors — in not in support of DMCA. While other American companies like GM, Ford and Chrysler all agree that working on your own vehicle should be punishable by law.
Funny how three brands that pride themselves on American ingenuity don’t want customers to work on their cars.
Box thinks there's a small bunch of rich folks lording over the poor folks,,,,,well, Box here's more to the story and you already have the 'core curriculum' in your head.......
remember you had an issue with science 'fiction'.....you should have paid more attention to where your loyalties and fears lie as a human
...you are a product of your environment, your environment is a product of your priorities, your priorities are a product of you......
The replacement of morality and conscience with law produces a deadly paradox.
STOP BEING GOOD DEMOCRATS---STOP BEING GOOD REPUBLICANS--START BEING GOOD AMERICANS
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. John Kenneth Galbraith
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. John Kenneth Galbraith
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. John Kenneth Galbraith
Sen. Rand Paul’s (R-KY) “intensive effort to redeem himself — and the Republican Party — with minorities seemed to be on the verge of cratering,” CNN reports.
“He joked Tuesday to conservative radio host Laura Ingraham that he was happy his train didn’t stop in the riot-scarred city of Baltimore. It was exactly the type of tone-deaf remark the Kentucky senator’s group of black advisers urged him to avoid as he seeks to expand the GOP’s outreach to minorities… The episode underscores Paul’s complicated history with race. This is the man who openly questioned central tenets of the Civil Rights Act before he later voiced unequivocal support.”
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. John Kenneth Galbraith
Randy is so desperate for votes, he's even courting the Tinfoil Hat crowd.
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The U.S. military is doing training exercises this summer (Operation Jade Helm). They haven't kept it a secret, but conspiracy peddler like Alex Jones have used this to scare people into thinking it's part of a UN plot to take over America along with the military to install martial law.
I'm sure that Bumbler knows all about this 'threat'.
From Randy Paul: Des Moines, Iowa radio host Jan Mickelson asked Paul in an April 21 interview whether he was up to speed on the training exercise dubbed "Jade Helm" that's scheduled to take place in several southwestern states. "You know I've gotten a few questions about it on the road and I really don't—" Paul responded. "I'm not sure about exactly what is going on with that." "It's making some people nervous, but it doesn't take much to make people nervous nowadays," Mickelson said. "If you get a chance to, I'd like to know what the rest of the story is on that." "We'll look at that also," Paul assured him.
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. John Kenneth Galbraith
The latest Bluegrass Poll, conducted by SurveyUSA, of registered Kentucky voters finds that the presidential race would be a tossup between Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Kentucky Senator Rand Paul. In a head to head match-up, each command the loyalty of 45 percent of Kentucky voters. The poll, conducted between May 5th and May 10th, shows that Hillary Clinton is remarkably competitive in Kentucky.
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. John Kenneth Galbraith
Rand Paul: Hillary turned Libya into a ‘jihadist wonderland’
By Aaron Short May 11, 2015 | 6:44am
Republican presidential hopeful Rand Paul lambasted Democratic front-runner Hillary Rodham Clinton Sunday, saying she made Libya a “jihadist wonderland” as secretary of state.
“Hillary Clinton’s war in Libya has made us less safe,” Paul (R-Ky.) told John Catsimatidis on The Answer 970 AM radio. “It made it a hotbed for jihadists, and, in fact, I think Libya now is a jihadist wonderland.”
Rand said it was a “big mistake” for the US to get involved in Libya’s affairs in the first place.
“A lot of times when we topple secular dictators, we’ve gotten chaos and then . . . the rise of radical Islam,” he said.
Even FoxSnooze knows that Rand Paul Has No Chance of Being President. (They don't even include him in their polls!)
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. John Kenneth Galbraith
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I LOVE DRONES!!!
