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Re:I don;t get it.
It is no more necessary to embrace porn on the internet than it is necessary to embrace hate sites on the internet.
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The landed go free.
There was a great big sign
That said private property
And on the other side it didn't say nothing
That's the land for you and me
From the USA's alternative national anthem. The one that corporate middle class US America hasn't rammed down the throats of children for the last 70 or so years.
Some alternatives:
This land is your land, it once was my land,
Before I sold you Manhattan Island;
You banished my nation, to the reservation,
This land was stole by you from me.
This land is my land, it isn't your land
I got a shotgun, and you ain't got one
If you don't get off, I'll blow your head off
This land was made for only me
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_Land_Is_Your_Lan d
Anyone care to translate this for a Brit?
And where is that band who so vauntingly swore
That the havoc of war and the battle's confusion
A home and a country should leave us no more?
Their blood has wiped out their foul footstep's pollution.
No refuge could save the hireling and slave
From the terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave:
And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.
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It would have to be invented first, but...
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Shameless plug...
Until I migrated to cable about 4 years ago, I used the dial-up service provided by my local library, Baltimore County Public Library. They are run as a non-profit, have incredibly good technical support, and come with all geek features. After I went to a cable modem, I asked them to forward any mail hitting my old POP address with them to my new account, and they did for several months!
You pay for one year at a time. I believe it was around $100. When I started in 1995, it was $70 / year!
Their website is
http://www.bcpl.net
Also check out the Library's SAILOR, which is 100% free statewide text-only Internet access. They've been around since Gopher and are still going strong.
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Re:For instanceHere's a few I found after doing a Google search for backhoe "internet backbone":
Given a bit more searching (and better search terms), I could probably come up with a bunch, including the one that hit Internic a while ago (resulting in a massive 4 hour net-wide outage). -
The Simple Solution!
Rather than searching the plane to make sure all bugs/listening-devices are discovered, it would be easier just to fit a cone of silence
"What's that Chief?!"
"I'm sorry Max, you'll have to speak up!"
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Master Control keyboard!
A solid flat surface keyboard -- it's Dillinger's keyboard from Tron! w00T!
"You shouldn't have come back, Flynn" -
Greenland
According to http://www.bcpl.net/~jspath/isocodes.html anyone with a Greenland localised domain is also infringing on their trademark.
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Re:veganismIf your friend wasn't getting enough protein, he either was eating a very odd selection of foods, was not eating enough food, or had a strange quick of metabolism. It's very difficult to get an adequate caloric intake and not have enough protein. It just ain't a big deal.
Iron? It's now being suggested that most American men are getting far too much of it in their diets. Unless you're naturally anemic, with reasonable selection of foods getting enough iron is also not a problem.
I'm generally getting tired of people telling me how I'm going to certainly die soon since I'm not getting enough x in my diet. Few people who go vegan have problems. However, it is an unfortunate fact that there are a significant number of young women with eating disorders who attempt to cover them by going vegan and then saying they can't find anything to eat. (Ha!, sez I. I've been vegan for a decade and having enough to eat has never been a problem. In fact I could do with a little less to eat, he said patting the little bit of extra padding around his belly.)
If you're interested in the nutritional aspects of veganism, let me suggest the book Vegan Nutrition: Pure and Simple by Micheal Klapper. I've also got some stuff at my website.
As as for the ability of plants to suffer, we're not so ignorant of biology as to have no idea what is required for consciousness. Show me a plant with a complex sensory and reaction system capable of sustaining cognition and a subjective experience, and I promise not to eat it.
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Re:veganismIf your friend wasn't getting enough protein, he either was eating a very odd selection of foods, was not eating enough food, or had a strange quick of metabolism. It's very difficult to get an adequate caloric intake and not have enough protein. It just ain't a big deal.
Iron? It's now being suggested that most American men are getting far too much of it in their diets. Unless you're naturally anemic, with reasonable selection of foods getting enough iron is also not a problem.
I'm generally getting tired of people telling me how I'm going to certainly die soon since I'm not getting enough x in my diet. Few people who go vegan have problems. However, it is an unfortunate fact that there are a significant number of young women with eating disorders who attempt to cover them by going vegan and then saying they can't find anything to eat. (Ha!, sez I. I've been vegan for a decade and having enough to eat has never been a problem. In fact I could do with a little less to eat, he said patting the little bit of extra padding around his belly.)
If you're interested in the nutritional aspects of veganism, let me suggest the book Vegan Nutrition: Pure and Simple by Micheal Klapper. I've also got some stuff at my website.
As as for the ability of plants to suffer, we're not so ignorant of biology as to have no idea what is required for consciousness. Show me a plant with a complex sensory and reaction system capable of sustaining cognition and a subjective experience, and I promise not to eat it.
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complacency through consumerismThe worst part of this isn't the forced wearing of ID badges - although that's stupid and useless. It's not the use of barcoded SSN -although that's evil. It's the mandated wearing of a Pepsi corporate logo.
Of course, I guess it's part of the plan to encourage complacency and crush dangerous independent thought through consumerism. After all, things have to be ok in any nation where you can purcahse dozens of types of carbonated caffeinated sugar water, right? The revolution will not have official corporate sponsors.
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Re:Difference?
I'm sorry you feel that the enforcement of property rights was an example of the Supreme Court being "challenged in basic reading skills".
It was the Court's judgement that no freed slave or decendant of slaves could be a citizen of the United States that is Constitutionally baseless. Prior to the Fourteenth Amendment, it was the power of the individual States to determine who constituted their citizenry; there was no federal authority to make any such determination.Slavery was a sin of capitalism alone -- which presents a particular problem for Libertarians.
Perhaps, but if so only for libertarian capitalists. Libertarians who take a people-based, rather than property-based, approach have no problem here. (Libertarian != libertarian capitalist, unless one is speaking of the Libertarian party.)There are many Federal functions and powers that are not specifically enumerated in the Constitution. As I've already addressed in other posts, this is a non-issue.
It's already been pointed out that your position is explicitly contradicted by the text of the Tenth Amendment:The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.
It's right there in black and white. (Or whatever colors you may have set on your browser.) If you find this a non-issue...well, I can't find a polite way of saying what this suggests about your mental state.In our current system, the Supreme Court is the final word on whether such a law is Constitutional.
De facto, yes, this is the case. De jure, however, it is not; the Court assumed the power or judicial review for itself decades after the Constitution was ratified, in the Marbury v. Madison decision. It is not a role provided for by the Constitution. That is not a value judgement that the Court should or should not have such power; it is a textual and historical fact.
