>> ^heropsycho:

That's what he said. You don't think he was saying the job is easy?! So what did he mean by "low-human-potential"?!


Obviously he was inferring you.

I kid. I kid. But no one is claiming the job is "easy". I'm sure it has it's difficulties. @chilaxe didn't even infer that it was. He was responding to this ludicrous notion that being a teacher is as difficult as you guys are alluding. I mean, have you read dft's summation of the job? You'd think the teachers were fucking Einsteins wearing every hat imaginable.

I mean, you guys are laying it on thick. I've had jobs where I was hired because of a specific skill, but also had to do things unrelated to that skill set. But you don't hear me over here claiming I'm a file clerk because I had to file the occasional paperwork. Or that I'm a receptionist because I answered my own phones. Or that I'm a disciplinarian because I was the lead on a team. Or, and this is my personal favorite, a psychologist! A fucking psychologist! Seriously, dft claimed that being a teacher is akin to having eight years medical school! I mean fuck me in the face! lol

Whatever, you guys have become parodies of yourselves by this point. I'm done with this discussion. Haha. Fucking psychologists teaching at our public schools! This is phenomenal! Our kids should be geniuses! lol.

>> ^bobknight33:

I would concede to you argument only to an negligible amount.
Do yo believe having some kind of proof of citizenship should be necessary to vote?

>> ^NetRunner:
But you do concede that tightening the restriction would result in people who are eligible to vote, who are trying to vote legally, being denied the ability to vote, yes?
Voting is a right, not a privilege, isn't it?
>> ^bobknight33:
Give me a break.
You said "None of those are particularly easy to get, and they also cost money".
If you don't have 40 bucks to get an ID, which every one needs, then you have bigger problems and voting is not one of them.



Do I think it's a reasonable thing for other people to want? Sure.

As a matter of hypothetical principle? I sorta feel like becoming a citizen of this country should be as simple as swearing the oath of allegiance.

Which is to say, if someone lives here, and cares enough about politics to want to vote, I say let 'em.

But that aside, you still have to be registered to vote. Registration is probably when they should affirm your citizenship, not at the polls. That gives you time (months, possibly years) of time to get your paperwork in order. Then all that happens when you show up at the polls is you give your name, and provide (any) form of ID as proof.

Like I've been saying, the case of someone committing voter impersonation is vanishingly rare. Even attempts to vote in the wrong or multiple districts is rare. And that's all these bills would guard against. And in trying to prevent one of those 4 in a decade cases, they're putting in place laws that will definitely wind up denying the vote to thousands of legal voters every year.

If the bank is owed money on the place, I really doubt they are going to let some guy move in and own the place for free. They may let him be there for awhile while they get their paperwork straightened out, but I really doubt in 3 years that no one who has any claim on the place is going to let some guy file a 16 dollar piece of paper and take it.

And what's going to suck for him, if he doesn't pay the property taxes he can't claim he owns it. And if he DOES pay the property taxes he's going to have a hard time to get whomever takes the house from him to reimburse him. In a normal process the house would be auctioned off if no one paid property taxes on it for enough time....and it'd sell for something a lot higher than 16 bucks.

It's slick, but I doubt he's there this time next year.

it is $16 to file the paperwork for him to claim ownership. The bank has 3 years to prove otherwise in court. The house officially becomes his if they don't do anything about it.

I would think the neighbors would be happy the house isn't just sitting empty and deteriorating.

Property taxes have to be paid by someone or else the house can be sold by the county is what would happen here in IL. Not sure what Texas laws are like. Oh and property taxes are supposed to be based on fair market value. This man hasn't bought the house, he filed papers claiming he already owned it.

-karl

If it's within the confines of the law, then the house is pretty much his. But I wonder... why 16? Is it some arbitrary number he conjured up? Is it how much he had in his wallet? Or is it to cover the cost of the paperwork when he filed for possession?

You should also give a shit that this Texas moron has put your liberty at danger when you visit other countries, who may take the same devil-may-care attitude towards the rights of accused american citizens.

>> ^MarineGunrock:
So let me rephrase: So a man brutally rapes and tortures a girl, and I should give a shit that he was sentenced to death? American citizen, illegal alien - it doesn't matter. Either way I don't give a shit.>> ^bareboards2:
No, you should give a shit because most of the developed world does not have a death penalty and is appalled that we do. And when a citizen of another country is going to be executed, the international community has an excuse to show up what barbarians we are.
And when we ignore the voices of the international community and insist on our barbaric need for revenge, it fuels hatred against us.
This guy came to America when he was just a baby. Him being "Mexican" is a paperwork notion only. For all intents and purposes, he was a red-blooded American. Isn't that ironic?
>> ^MarineGunrock:
So an illegal alien brutally rapes and murders a girl, and I should give a shit that he was sentenced to death?

You should give a shit that your country gave its word and broke it.>> ^MarineGunrock:

So let me rephrase: So a man brutally rapes and tortures a girl, and I should give a shit that he was sentenced to death? American citizen, illegal alien - it doesn't matter. Either way I don't give a shit.>> ^bareboards2:
No, you should give a shit because most of the developed world does not have a death penalty and is appalled that we do. And when a citizen of another country is going to be executed, the international community has an excuse to show up what barbarians we are.
And when we ignore the voices of the international community and insist on our barbaric need for revenge, it fuels hatred against us.
This guy came to America when he was just a baby. Him being "Mexican" is a paperwork notion only. For all intents and purposes, he was a red-blooded American. Isn't that ironic?

>> ^MarineGunrock:
So an illegal alien brutally rapes and murders a girl, and I should give a shit that he was sentenced to death?

So let me rephrase: So a man brutally rapes and tortures a girl, and I should give a shit that he was sentenced to death? American citizen, illegal alien - it doesn't matter. Either way I don't give a shit.>> ^bareboards2:

No, you should give a shit because most of the developed world does not have a death penalty and is appalled that we do. And when a citizen of another country is going to be executed, the international community has an excuse to show up what barbarians we are.
And when we ignore the voices of the international community and insist on our barbaric need for revenge, it fuels hatred against us.
This guy came to America when he was just a baby. Him being "Mexican" is a paperwork notion only. For all intents and purposes, he was a red-blooded American. Isn't that ironic?

>> ^MarineGunrock:
So an illegal alien brutally rapes and murders a girl, and I should give a shit that he was sentenced to death?

No, you should give a shit because most of the developed world does not have a death penalty and is appalled that we do. And when a citizen of another country is going to be executed, the international community has an excuse to show up what barbarians we are.

And when we ignore the voices of the international community and insist on our barbaric need for revenge, it fuels hatred against us.

This guy came to America when he was just a baby. Him being "Mexican" is a paperwork notion only. For all intents and purposes, he was a red-blooded American. Isn't that ironic?


>> ^MarineGunrock:

So an illegal alien brutally rapes and murders a girl, and I should give a shit that he was sentenced to death?

Ugh! Cato institute Bullshit.

Some links:
http://www.thelocal.se/32330/20110301/
Record growth in the fourth quarter while 2010 as a whole turned out to be the strongest year since 1970

http://www.thelocal.se/32390/20110304/
Can't have growth with high taxes and government involvement? 3.5% growth expected for 2011

http://www.thelocal.se/31544/20110120/
OECD compares strength of Swedish economy with Pippi Longstockings. GDP grew by 5.2 percent last year (2010)

http://www.thelocal.se/33842/20110518/
Sweden has fared well in a new ranking of the world's most competitive countries, climbing two spots into fourth place in a new ranking from the Swiss business school IMD.

http://www.thelocal.se/31016/20101222/
Sweden offers the best care and chance of survival against cancer in the Nordic countries, according to a new study published in The Lancet medical journal. However, we do have queues for optional surgeries and as in the US the amount of doctors being trained is kept artificially low so we have a lack of them (helps with keeping the wages high). Also paperwork. Tons and tons of paperwork for the doctors.

http://www.thelocal.se/33804/20110516/
If it is so bad for companies in Sweden why is Facebook putting down billions in SEK on a server park here? (Most of it in electricity though)

Linking to The Local because they have news from Sweden in ok English...

That would be fine if you just wanted the text from the document. In this case the the document as a whole is what is of interest. Anyone with any graphic sense would scan into photoshop since the image would be a photo. This would present itself as 1 and only 1 layer.

No one would OCR scan to PDF execpt those with out photoshop. Sure the scanner will have software provided for OCR ( optical character recognition). in such case then you would und up with a plain text document with no background. According to what you wrote, then all of these TEXT areas would have to be reassembled and arranged to fit onto the green pattern background. That does not make sense. Why would anyone pull a document apart just to put it back together? The only logical way to do this is to scan into Photoshop and save as a jpeg or equivalent. To convert it ti PDF then I would open it in Illustrator and do a save as PDF.Or on a Mac just print to PDF



In the video they use Illustrator to open the document. Illustrator will open a PDF and if there were any layers then they would be available also.

Again there is no reason for this document to have this amount of adulteration that this has.


>> ^mfsteele:

Here's a very simple explanation I found on a forum I frequent:
When you scan a document into PDF, you can use a mode which does text recognition. This will produce a document with layers. It stores the text as actual text instead of an image. This option is there because it typically generates a smaller PDF file.
In the areas where the birth certificate is near-black, Adobe's PDF-rendering engine eliminates the 8-bit RGB data and replaces it with a 1-bit layer with alpha. It's all in the interest of reducing file size
Try scanning ANY item directly into Acrobat using the twain tool, which the EXIF data shows was done. Run OCR on it, as is required by all federal and state agencies that work under the paperwork reduction act. Multiple control layers are added, as are masks for objects.

Here's a very simple explanation I found on a forum I frequent:

When you scan a document into PDF, you can use a mode which does text recognition. This will produce a document with layers. It stores the text as actual text instead of an image. This option is there because it typically generates a smaller PDF file.

In the areas where the birth certificate is near-black, Adobe's PDF-rendering engine eliminates the 8-bit RGB data and replaces it with a 1-bit layer with alpha. It's all in the interest of reducing file size

Try scanning ANY item directly into Acrobat using the twain tool, which the EXIF data shows was done. Run OCR on it, as is required by all federal and state agencies that work under the paperwork reduction act. Multiple control layers are added, as are masks for objects.

>> ^blankfist:

>> ^NetRunner:

You're failing to realize that "creating" isn't the same as "recognizing under the law".

You've made me sigh twice in one day. Kudos.
From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporations
"...legal entity that is created under the laws of a state designed to establish the entity as a separate legal entity having its own privileges and liabilities distinct from those of its members." (emphasis mine)


This is getting quite silly. They're created...by whom? If they're created by government, that means Ford and Microsoft were created by the government, and not Henry Ford and Bill Gates.

If that were the case, how did those people wind up associated with them? Were they appointed by the President? Congress? Governor? State Legislature? Did they win an election?

I know it sounds crazy, but I think the sequence of events was that they started created a business, and then decided to file some paperwork to have it legally recognized as a corporation to get all the legal benefits.

You know, sorta like getting married isn't the same thing as having it be legally recognized, and having it be legally recognized doesn't mean every marriage is "created by" government.

Never buy Brother printers. Had an all-in-one once. Every time it went to print, it would do a "print head clean". Also, every 2-3 hours, it would perform a "print head clean". All according to plan in the instructions. No errors/warranty issues.

For those of you who don't speak Printer Ripoff, "print head clean" means "piss ink into the 1 pint container at the bottom of the printer".

We had to change ink once every 14 days. Brother told us to turn it off between print runs. As it was also our fax machine... that really wasn't an option. It's holding down some important paperwork in the garage now.

mInor infraction - not worth the paperwork - But how long do you have to tailgate beforte they get the hint to pull over - Nothing worse than slow drivers clogging up the arteries of the open road!