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A lay person cannot build and/or operate any transmitting device without licensing. Even certified RF engineers and technicians building or servicing legal devices must adhere to laws respecting allocated frequencies, co-channel dependencies (duplex channels),interference from resonate images (IF) and input (watts) or output power (ERP). Certified and licensed amateur radio operators (Hams) may build and operate their own equipment, but may only operate within the frequency bands allocated to them and without spurious or parasitic interference to other users. Even otherwise compliant devices cannot be used to interfere with other lawful users, for any reason. Unauthorized RF signals are simple to detect with radio direction finders (RDF), frequency counters and near field detectors. FCC inspectors have the same clout as most law enforcement agencies when it comes to search, seizure and prosecution.

Kick people off the dole, crime goes up, followed by more injuries (and death), property damage, rising insurance costs, cluttered courts and packed prisons. Emergency room costs go up. Republicans sure like to bite off their noses to spite their faces. They even seem content to condemn their own kind to second class citizenship because of preexisting conditions for profit.

You're the one in blinders thinking the social welfare system is the root of all America's economic, cultural and social ills. As a conservative, you expect (demand even) tax breaks or unregulated movement of cash to offshore shelters, unfettered access to public lands and resources, massive buyouts, hostile takeovers, multi-million dollar bonuses and and golden parachutes, even in the case of massive failures or corruption. The great lie that tax relief to the poor downtrodden corporate America, that has not, can not, and never will do anything wrong. That's what broke America's back, but those blinders seem to fit you comfortably and conveniently. Conservatives, namely Republicans are the biggest leeches on the American economy and historically ran the highest debts. Milking dollars then distracting from the issue by blaming others for receiving pennies. The Jones Act revealed it's ugly head in Puerto Rico. American protectionism cast upon it's own people to the tune of 40% surcharges on domestic goods, even during a state of emergency. Shameful.

Yes, like corporate welfare for those who pay no taxes, get bailed out or move offshore. It's all those social welfare non contributors fault, right? Letting social welfare recipients starve in the streets solves the whole problem, right? What you suggest is how India runs. A socio-political caste system. That's the democracy your strive?

Here you go with the privilege thing again. As though it trumps all other rate payers. So lets put healthcare and roads in the same basket. Most roads are built by fuel taxes and surcharges. Does avoiding taxes by making their own ethanol for their car disqualify a person from using roads? Are passengers freeloading while truckers are paying the lion's share of gas taxes? Doesn't giving a segment of any user group free access while others pay create a culture of dependency in your neoconservative logic? You want (more like adamantly insist) your rights are upheld as assailable, yet exercise broad discretion to deny others who pay into the system. In Canada, right to life ends at death. Family values means if you get sick, we as a country help to make you well so you can return to your family and job. In America, right to life ends at birth and family values means if you get sick, you lose your job, house or children's college fund or die. Good luck with that. And your gratitude for me not having children, is childish if not spitefully ignorant. I gave an example of my procreation history in the context of paying school taxes and even though the mods warned against cheap shots on this very page, you made one anyway. Grow up.

It always comes up as some sort of privilege when it's used to frame a discussion. As though their money is more precious, they're more influential when paying taxes ( or no taxes ). Yet anyone who pays transportation and road taxes via sales tax or property tax on rentals etc. don't matter. It's a false narrative, that paying taxes directly and in a timely manner entitles privilege.

Bullshit, it's not your precious money to control after it's spent merely because you claimed to have worked for it, princess. It's the government's money. Your receive services from police, fire etc from healthy people, able to work because of a health care system. Yet, police brutality and corruption remains and you say/do nothing about it. The vacuum which is your economic vision of the country is flawed. You drive on roads, camp in parks, visit libraries, churches and museums. I''m not religious, does that mean my money won't be subsidizing those career mooches and purveyors of nonsense any longer? America is more socialist than you say, comrade. You don't want people to have health care, but you want roads paved to move yourself about the country at your whimsy. You want guns and laws to protect YOU from threats, yet "driving while black" (for example) remains a great threat to otherwise hard working, law abiding minorities. I have no kids, but I pay school taxes levied to my property axes.

Although the character arcs stray or diverge in different directions, Dan and Dave have discussed and agreed with GRRM the ultimate ending will be the same as the books.

Yes it is, but not in the way Americans think it is. They've spun it to have everyone believe it's across the board and people lay bleeding on the floor while they interview foreign doctors, but it's only for elective procedures. If you have a bone spur on your foot, you're not disabled or going to die any time soon. You can wait until a surgeon is available. In our system, we have the luxury of preventative medicine by having the ability to see a doctor if you suspect problems, hence early detection enhances the overall health of the population. Wait times can be used as long term schedules for things like colonoscopies, regular breast or prostate screening etc. We pay private clinics for a lot of procedures and services, like eye glasses, dentistry, chiropractors and physiotherapists. It's not a free-for-all on the slippery slope to the gulags as American Republicans would have everyone believe. The great thing about the Canada Health Act, everyone is covered by law. Emergency services are conducted using the military triage system, not economic class. Under Trumpcare in America, if you are predisposed or have pre-existing conditions, you are a second class citizen. A lot of Americans seem content with accepting that, out of partisan spite rather than the public interest. It's far from perfect, but it's saved my life and put me back to work more than once and it didn't cost my home or children's education.

I see. When liberals do it, it's bad. When Republicans do it, it's good. Thanks for alluding to the batshit crazy pre-existing condition point I made earlier.

When Republicans learn that batshit crazy is a pre-existing condition, they'll blame the liberals for inventing the term. Even after Trump is long gone, they'll still blame liberals by claiming Trump was just a liberal all along. That's how batshit crazy works.

Cells rapidly become necrotic without oxygen. Likewise they expand and split when frozen. There are chemical preparations that will preserve cells for analysis, but they're highly toxic to otherwise living cells.

Airbrush admits the OP is flawed. Where's your evidence? Your argument is framed in a manner that must stand as an unsubstantiated fact which precludes criticism. Nobody is attacking you, just your opinion.

This is a science forum where you need to show your work, not a Trump rally where pulling feces out of your ass then throwing it against the wall expecting it to stick. You've brought nothing to this discussion other than soap boxing a deeply flawed opinion.

There's plenty of statistical data. Denying doesn't mean it doesn't exist. By your logic, your own conclusions are suspect.

You claim data doesn't exist yet dismiss so called fudged data based on that same data which doesn't exist? Clearly the antics of a double denier claiming data doesn't exist, but if it does therefore must be false.

It disregards floods, droughts, cold snaps, land slides, pollution, dams (or other water course alteration), tornadoes, invasive species and a whole host of other factors. Hence not even remotely scientific in their approach.

No less calling for, colluding with then denying Russian interference in the electoral process.

There's a really good Game of Thrones mod for the Total War series. It requires the Alexander add on. There's a detailed map of Westeros, Essos and Summer Isles. The commanders and family trees are quite true to form. http://www.moddb.com/mods/valar-morghulis-total-war

Well, when you open and close pretty much every one of your posts with cheap shots and the occasional epithet hurled in abuse don't expect many followers on a forum where facts, not emotions matter. If I may ask, did you sign up under the/a premise this is a left-ish board? The science-base thing is why I signed up and I'm privileged to contribute.

You make an excellent point. In recent times it's true, but it always wasn't like that. When I finished school, I became a telegraph operator on the Canadian Pacific Railway (yeah, I'm that old.). At the time, the railroad ran on local control and resources. Crews, shops, clerks etc. were managed by distinct racial groups. For example, blacks were porters, first nations were track maintenance crews, Italians were rolling stock inspection and repair, The French were chefs, cooks and architectural designers, Jews were sleeping car conductors. The list goes on an on. There were no nepotism laws in those days and many of the local managers or foremen could hire locally and often did. So it stands to reason, race often played into it. Technically it was unfair to any race, including some classes of whites, because white privilege excludes some whites too. White trash, if you will, for lack of a better description (as opposed to epithet). The system worked because it utilized the useful, advantageous attributes of certain cultures. First nations people for example are highly adept at traversing, navigating and inhabiting traditional lands, so it stands to reason they'd be ready and knowledgeable to get those jobs. The problem rises from classes. Blacks get a dollar an hour for toting bags and I get three dollars for issuing train orders because my white privilege. It's not that the porter couldn't be a telegrapher either. It's because I wouldn't teach him. I taught my white friends. That pretty much makes me a racist, even though I had a terrific time in the bar car with my friend from Barbados, or the sleeping car conductor I bribed with a jar of Mom's dill pickles, or the exquisite meals from the french bull cooks in the middle of nowhere. The difference being between liberal and conservative whites being, I'm all for trying to change this, not pretend it doesn't exist. Something had to change. Now with all the cut backs, down sizing, centralization and employment standards, everyone must apply for a job based on their performance merits only. This undermines white privilege, as a race from monopolizing the highest classes and some whites just cannot bring themselves to accept that without threatening the public interest and using extremism as their terms of reference. To keep it on topic. I'll call it like it is, the bottom line being... Trump copped to white privilege. In doing so he painted and group protesting him with the same brush as nazis. Period. White boy drives an auto into a crowd = murderer. Muslum drives a speeding auto into a crowd = terrorist. White privilege, hands down. Though Donald thinks that's win win for Donald, it's a tragedy for America. Moussillni (sp) was a nazi. He was garrotted and hung by his feet in public by violent anti-fascist protesters. I don't hear too many necons complaining about that. Beat on a few nazis (with lighter armor and weapons than the nazis have) at a rally though, claim liberals need to be pilloried for their blatant propensity toward violence toward "very fine" people. For shame.

White privilege is a standard applied to the "get off your lazy welfare mooching asses, get a job and clean up your neighborhoods" attitude. Without directly implying races or minorities as to appear racist. Left or right ideologies are not exempt from this. It's deeply ingrained into both. Conservatives don't deny it, even openly advocate it throwing it out like a blanket that everyone must comply, irrespective of social economic status. Liberals don't admit it readily, but do a lot uphold it in a more passive, calculating sort of way. Facilitating exceptions, compromises or additional support. That drives conservatives around the bend. There's a miriad of other things, like "driving while black" or other disadvantaged or disenfranchised social issues that are usually painted by the wide brush of white privilege. It needs to be addressed if change is to come, but a great part of the privileged fight inclusion or deny it's existence altogether

At rallies, Trump incited violence against protesters. Comments like "I'd like to punch them" or "I'll pay your legal costs". He loudly defended a supporter who sucker punched a protester. Conservatives had no issue with that. In a press conference, Trump said he could "shoot someone" and would not lose votes. Conservatives were okay with that. Trump cajoled 2nd Amendment advocates to murder Hillary Clinton. Conservatives excused it, accepting the bogus claim it was "a joke". Trump tweeted a video of a caricature of himself violently assaulting a CNN reporter. Conservatives brushed it off as deserved for producing fake news. In a speech to law enforcement, Trump decreed it was acceptable to use excessive force. Conservatives were silent. Fox News contributor Tucker Carlson posts a video on his news site, How to "Mow down Protestors". Conservatives let it stand. A hate openly group organizes a violent rally carrying torches, shouting antisemitic, anti-black rhetoric and violently contravenes (they attested to keep the peace as a condition) their permit by charging through protesters in an uncivil manner, then a supporter violently charges a crowd of protesters with a speeding automobile, killing one person, injuring several more and destroyed an automobile with two women waiting to make a turn. Conservatives are outraged, that protesters carried sticks to protect themselves from gun toting, shield carrying, epithet hurling neo-nazis coming at them. Trump morally equates protesters to the hate groups. Now, as demonstrated by a few political bigots who showed up here like Charlton Heston at a Columbine rally broadly declare all liberals are violent. The height of hypocrisy, despair and deflection, if not insane.

Here's Trump's lie d'jour. http://time.com/4905420/donald-trump-pershing-pigs-blood-muslim-tweet/ More like racist rant of the day. Your living, breathing walking example of Trump's version of knowing facts before speaking. His minions are flopping like fish equivocating this now. Censorship isn't my thing. I'd rather you stick around for all the world to see, snowflake. Broadly proving my points in your own words time and time again suits me just fine. But if you need to be a victim, fill your boots. Just don't claim I or any other liberal enabled it.

It has everything to do with it. Keep up? Bullshit. You are the one who jumped in the thread with a finger wagging tone about how everyone, except yourself should behave. In the Harper/Trudeau thing, you did exactly the same thing you are doing here. Blaming liberals for conservatives actions.