PC Repair In Texas Now Requires a PI License

JohnnyNapalm writes "In some shocking news out of Texas, PC repair will now require a PI License. Surely this stands to have a substantial impact on small repair shops around the state if upheld. Never fear, however, as the first counter-suit has already been filed."

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Re:Slaughterhouse Cases

[ClassMyAss]

Which is better? In my opinion a moral society in which people can do what they want with their money is desirable to a morally corrupt society where everything goes as long as you're paying extortion money to the liberal government. But that's just my opinion.

Meh. The insinuation that if liberals had their way everyone would be morally lacking, and that the "conservatives" (if you can even call them that anymore, which IMHO is truly a perversion of the word's meaning) would make things more morally righteous, is all dependent on the fact that you view the concept of morality through the glasses of a pretty extremist Christian. Some of the most detestable people that I know are cut from the fire and brimstone neocon mold, and I really don't think giving these loons any more legislative power would help make any of us more moral.

A lot of the rest of us find the idea of the death penalty to be extremely immoral, especially when its application is racially biased. We also see it as immoral to start wars, give guns of any sort to anyone that wants them, ignore the economic plight of our neighbors, and keep consenting adults from being happy in any way they choose as long as it doesn't directly affect our lives (nope, being disgusted by it doesn't count).

FWIW, I'm libertarian in most ways, though I can't believe in a flat tax because I don't believe that such a thing is unsustainable in a democracy, regardless of its dubious "fairness" (which IMO has been vastly overstated by its proponents, since at the core it's main effect is to shift more financial responsibility from the rich to the poor). Assuming one person == one vote, the tax rate must decrease for the brackets with the highest numbers of citizens at the expense of the rich, where there is less pressure due to the lower number of people; the rate doesn't increase for the poor despite their fewer numbers because the middle class generally speaking aren't assholes, and realize that a 10% tax bump for someone at the low end of the pay scale will dramatically affect their quality of life, whereas it will not for someone at the high end. Any non-progressive tax scheme is inherently undemocratic given the current income distribution, as in any democracy each person should have the "power" to influence an equal amount of tax liability allocation, regardless of their individual income.

Re:Slaughterhouse Cases

[daveyboy79]

Really?? Guess you have a local education then...