Well, thats the entire problem. The Supreme Court has life time terms because the Framers knew that public opinion in the short term could be terribly reactionary. 5 years after the election, some people are still quite reactionary about the Election, thus the Constitution is working fine in that regard.
The United States is NOT a Democracy. The United States is a Republic and there are serious differences.
Jerry Springer Show isn't on anymore I don't think.
Alright. Theres a fiction here at work that people just like to ignore to bash Bush.
The fiction is that the Democratic Administration would have been "nicer" to Iraq than the Republicans. Thats a fantasy.
Clinton-Blair were every much as militarily active against Iraq as Bush-Blair. The military planning for OIF were devised in the late 1990s as Operation Desert Badger. Basicly if a US/UK or UN aircraft was shot down over Iraq the US/UK were going to invade Iraq.
"...discussions on Iraq preceding that, and subsequent to that, had been basically on Operation Northern Watch and Southern Watch and I think I mentioned to you that we had a plan for a downed aircraft called Desert Badger. And that I was uncomfortable with the fact that our planes were being shot at and we weren't able to do much about it under the constraints that existed.
I was also uncomfortable with Desert Badger, and I thought the President ought to have additional options, so I told him that I was going to see if we could pre-package some additional options, and we ended up pre-packaging a Desert Badger Plus and a Desert Badger Plus Plus. So that he knew about it, and that in the event a plane went down, I could call him and recommend one of those three."
The US/UK/Saudis/Kuwaitis were waiting for an excuse to go into Iraq. Right or wrong this happened in 2002-2003 and the Invasion was one.
This was going to happen no matter who was in the White House. Bush '41, Clinton, Bush '43, Gore, Kerry, it doesn't matter, US/UK policy was for removal of Saddam, to think otherwise is fiction.
"Never has there been a president more intent on making sweeping changes and pushing an agenda that upon final analysis is fairly marginal (and more truly radical than most realize)."
Heh. Yea because a position that is set for life by the US Constitution is so sensitive to public scandal.
The fact that O'Connor wasn't forced to retire because of a scandal or public opinion because of a decision shows that the US Constitution is working in regards to the Supreme Court.
Sorry, that wasn't a law that was passed, it's a court decision, which is different than passing a law.
"Susette Kelo, et al. v. City of New London, et al., more commonly Kelo v. New London, is a land-use law case argued before the United States Supreme Court on February 22, 2005. The case dealt with the limits of eminent domain, and specifically ruled that, under the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment, local governments may condemn private houses in order to use the land for uses that are primarily commercial, so long as such use serves a demonstrated "public purpose."
The case was first heard at the appellate level in the Supreme Court of Connecticut, which found that the use of eminent domain for economic development (the central focus of the case) did not violate the public use clauses of the state and federal constitutions. The court found that if an economic project creates new jobs, increases tax and other city revenues, and revitalizes a depressed (even if not blighted) urban area, it qualifies as a public use. The court also found that government delegation of eminent domain power to a private entity was also constitutional as long as the private entity served as the legally authorized agent of the government. The United States Supreme Court granted Certiorari to consider questions last raised in Berman v. Parker, 348 U.S. 26 (1954). Namely, does the Fifth Amendment protect landowners from the use of eminent domain for economic development, rather than, as in Berman, for the elimination of slums and blight."
If you want a higher level of home/small business office fireproofing, look at gun safes. They have to be more heat resistant to contain a cookoff.
Example - I don't work for Cabelas but I order alot of shit from them so thats where I went to off the bat.
"Stack-On Fire Resistant Personal Safe Perfect for storing valuables, documents and more. Both of these fire resistant safes are ETL verified to manufacturer's fire protection specifications. Up to 1,700 F. for one hour with the interior temperature remaining below 350 F. Solid steel, pry resistant door with four-number combination and key lock provides greater security. Holes for mounting to the floor are pre-drilled. Fastening hardware is included."
Yea, that's going to work well. For an example my Powerbook with a DVD player. Goes into a box in Taiwan, flies to the US, in a box, gets put in a truck in a box, gets hauled to my house in a box and it's always either in the house or in a bag and in a building being used. I know my Garmin doesn't work well in a bag, how would a little cell phone type GPS work? Not well at all.
Well, yea there is more frontier on Earth. The oceans have not been mapped for resources to the level of the surface. We really have no idea how much petrochemical reserves there are we can access.
In addition to the RP-1 used in the Saturn V, the oil crisis caused all sorts of problems for the US economy and inflation which had budget impacts on the Federal Government.
Manned space flight and exploration space flight are not economically viable.
Space flight that tosses up comm, weather and remote sensing birds is economically viable because that leads to revenue streams, everything else is space flight because the Nation-State throwing up the birds can afford it technically and financially.
Apollo died off because the Great Society and Vietnam were leading to budget fighting in Congress and Senator Mondale from MN was deadset against Apollo and he also lead the charge against Shuttle, reduced budget reduced Shuttle and thus we have Shuttle today.
Even if Apollo hadn't been ended in in '70 which lead to the last Moon shot in '72 the Oil Crisis starting in '74 would have ended it.
As for Apollo producing just flags and footprints, thats a pretty ignorant stance on the scientific and technical achivements the engineers and scientists involved came up with.
Thats because Cambodia wasn't a signatory to the Paris Peace Accords.
The Arclight missions over Cambodia were halted in August 15, 1973 by the United States Congress.
From the Khmer Rouge perspective, however, the severity of the bombings was matched by the treachery of the North Vietnamese. The Cambodian communists had refused to take part in the Paris peace talks. So that when North Vietnam and the United States signed the Paris Peace Accords on January 27, 1973, bombing missions over Vietnam and Laos were terminated. The fighter bombers and other aircraft thus released were diverted to strike Khmer Rouge positions in Cambodia.
No photos of the piles of dead bodies the Communists had murdered at Hue City during the '68 Tet?
Cambodian foreign policy during the 1950s and 1960s was one of neutrality. By the mid-1960s, parts of Cambodia's eastern provinces were serving as bases for North Vietnamese Army and Viet Cong (NVA/VC) forces operating against South Vietnam, and the port of Sihanoukville was being used to supply them. As NVA/VC activity grew, the United States and South Vietnam became concerned, and in 1969, the United States began a fourteen month long series of bombing raids targeted at NVA/VC elements, contributing to destabilization. Prince Sinanouk tacitly supported the bombing. The United States claims that the bombing campaign took place no further than ten, and later twenty miles inside the Cambodian border.
In March 1970, while Prince Sihanouk was absent in Bejing and Moscow, Gen. Lon Nol deposed Prince Sihanouk and assumed power. Son Ngoc Thanh announced his support for the new government. On October 9, the Cambodian monarchy was abolished, and the country was renamed the Khmer Republic.
Hanoi rejected the new republic's request for the withdrawal of NVA troops. 2,000-4,000 Cambodians who had gone to North Vietnam in 1954 reentered Cambodia, backed by North Vietnamese soldiers. In response, the United States moved to provide material assistance to the new government's armed forces, which were engaged against both the CPK insurgents and NVA forces.
In April 1970, US President Nixon announced to the American public that US and South Vietnamese ground forces had entered Cambodia in a campaign aimed at destroying NVA base areas in Cambodia. The US had already been bombing Cambodia for well over a year by that point. Demonstrations took place across college campuses in the US, culminating in the death of four students at Kent State, lending support in the US withdrawal from Vietnam.
OK, I'll bite. I moved from Oregon to Flordia, to Colorado to Oregon with a suspended licence, I didn't know it was suspended, and I didn't get tossed in the slammer.
A business licence and IRS paperwork aren't the same as "explicitly allowed by the state." Anyone can get a business licence in the States, you pay for it, you get registered, you are a business.
For Oregon, where I live.
"The State of Oregon does not have a general business license. However, many occupations and business activities require special licenses, permits, or certifications from state agencies or boards. To help businesses comply with state regulations, Oregon has established the Business Referral Center as a first-stop information source. To determine if your particular business activity is licensed or regulated by the state, the "Business Wizard" online provides a list of referrals for registering a new business and possible license, permit and certification requirements. "
"The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) provides two free CD ROMs 'A Virtual Small Business Workshop" (Publication 3700) and "The Small Business Resource Guide" (Publication 3207) that contain extensive information for new businesses. These can be obtained by calling the Forms Distribution Center at 1-800-829-3676"
I don't think KSR's Mars triliogy is "good". It's Sci-fi, but the characters are terrible. If it wasn't for the characters, it would be awesome. But he can't write chracters or interactions to save his life and the series drug on and on and on.
Most abnormal behavior is rare. However, with larger populations there will be more of the rare people.
Now, you talk about child abuse and spanking. Spanking isn't child abuse in the United States, generally.
"Corporal punishment of children in school is illegal in many western countries; it remains legal in 22 U.S. states, although it is commonly practised only in the South. In each of these states, it is up to each school district to determine whether corporal punishment will be used, in what situations will it be applied, and the manner in which it is given - typically with a paddle. There are states where school officials have lost their jobs for spanking students.
Spanking of children within families is illegal in some countries (for example, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Norway, Austria, Germany, Italy, Cyprus, Croatia, Israel and Latvia). Similar initiatives in the U.S. have repeatedly failed. Parental rights groups have formed since the 1990s to prevent spanking from being criminalized."
Using Google as the benchmark for how much child porn is out there is flawed, it seems that they are using encrypted sites and p2p apps for spreading it.
So, if I understand correctly, folks like Nambla exsist because people are against "child pr0n"?
No. Having a photo of a public event, legal or otherwise, doesn't support it. Thats a slippery slope arguement that doesn't hold water.
No one ever said, an image of an explosion or a building failing or an aircraft crashing is illegal.
You state that there is no child porn on the Internet? Well, I personally know a Police officer who is in cybercrimes that would beable to disprove that quite easily.
The kiddie porn thing isn't about having naked kids meaning you are going to commit child rape. It's because having kiddie porn means you are supporting this crap.
Personally, I'd go for having folks convicted of having kiddie porn or child molestation or child rape locked up forever.
No getting out period, chemical castration isn't enough.
As for this case, I guess if the files are on the computer at all, even in temp cache, fuck em, lock them up.
Slashdot Mirror
Well, thats the entire problem. The Supreme Court has life time terms because the Framers knew that public opinion in the short term could be terribly reactionary. 5 years after the election, some people are still quite reactionary about the Election, thus the Constitution is working fine in that regard.
The United States is NOT a Democracy. The United States is a Republic and there are serious differences.
Jerry Springer Show isn't on anymore I don't think.
Alright. Theres a fiction here at work that people just like to ignore to bash Bush.
w s/2004/04/mil-040419-dod02.htm
_ fox.htm
The fiction is that the Democratic Administration would have been "nicer" to Iraq than the Republicans. Thats a fantasy.
Clinton-Blair were every much as militarily active against Iraq as Bush-Blair. The military planning for OIF were devised in the late 1990s as Operation Desert Badger. Basicly if a US/UK or UN aircraft was shot down over Iraq the US/UK were going to invade Iraq.
"...discussions on Iraq preceding that, and subsequent to that, had been basically on Operation Northern Watch and Southern Watch and I think I mentioned to you that we had a plan for a downed aircraft called Desert Badger. And that I was uncomfortable with the fact that our planes were being shot at and we weren't able to do much about it under the constraints that existed.
I was also uncomfortable with Desert Badger, and I thought the President ought to have additional options, so I told him that I was going to see if we could pre-package some additional options, and we ended up pre-packaging a Desert Badger Plus and a Desert Badger Plus Plus. So that he knew about it, and that in the event a plane went down, I could call him and recommend one of those three."
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/library/ne
Don't forget DESERT FOX
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/ops/desert
The US/UK/Saudis/Kuwaitis were waiting for an excuse to go into Iraq. Right or wrong this happened in 2002-2003 and the Invasion was one.
This was going to happen no matter who was in the White House. Bush '41, Clinton, Bush '43, Gore, Kerry, it doesn't matter, US/UK policy was for removal of Saddam, to think otherwise is fiction.
"Never has there been a president more intent on making sweeping changes and pushing an agenda that upon final analysis is fairly marginal (and more truly radical than most realize)."
Ha.
Abraham Lincoln
Franklin D. Roosevelt
To name two.
Heh. Yea because a position that is set for life by the US Constitution is so sensitive to public scandal.
The fact that O'Connor wasn't forced to retire because of a scandal or public opinion because of a decision shows that the US Constitution is working in regards to the Supreme Court.
Whats a good hardware firewall these days?
An off the shelf one, I don't really want another box sitting around, but rather have a router/firewall.
I was looking at Fry's last weekend but didn't know what'd be a good one to buy.
Sorry, that wasn't a law that was passed, it's a court decision, which is different than passing a law.
v ._City_of_New_London_et_al.
"Susette Kelo, et al. v. City of New London, et al., more commonly Kelo v. New London, is a land-use law case argued before the United States Supreme Court on February 22, 2005. The case dealt with the limits of eminent domain, and specifically ruled that, under the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment, local governments may condemn private houses in order to use the land for uses that are primarily commercial, so long as such use serves a demonstrated "public purpose."
The case was first heard at the appellate level in the Supreme Court of Connecticut, which found that the use of eminent domain for economic development (the central focus of the case) did not violate the public use clauses of the state and federal constitutions. The court found that if an economic project creates new jobs, increases tax and other city revenues, and revitalizes a depressed (even if not blighted) urban area, it qualifies as a public use. The court also found that government delegation of eminent domain power to a private entity was also constitutional as long as the private entity served as the legally authorized agent of the government.
The United States Supreme Court granted Certiorari to consider questions last raised in Berman v. Parker, 348 U.S. 26 (1954). Namely, does the Fifth Amendment protect landowners from the use of eminent domain for economic development, rather than, as in Berman, for the elimination of slums and blight."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susette_Kelo_et_al._
Well yea, but I was wondering about tapes.
Already use/used CarbonCopyCloner to dump stuff off to Firewire drives.
If you want a higher level of home/small business office fireproofing, look at gun safes. They have to be more heat resistant to contain a cookoff.
Example - I don't work for Cabelas but I order alot of shit from them so thats where I went to off the bat.
"Stack-On Fire Resistant Personal Safe
Perfect for storing valuables, documents and more. Both of these fire resistant safes are ETL verified to manufacturer's fire protection specifications. Up to 1,700 F. for one hour with the interior temperature remaining below 350 F. Solid steel, pry resistant door with four-number combination and key lock provides greater security. Holes for mounting to the floor are pre-drilled. Fastening hardware is included."
http://www.championsafe.com/tech/fire.asp
Whats a good hardware/software tape drive solution for OS X?
I have about 700GB of data on my G4 tower and disks as well as a XServe with about 600GB of storage.
Heh. Thats why I don't allow people to dig or build on my MUSH/MUX.
Yea, that's going to work well. For an example my Powerbook with a DVD player. Goes into a box in Taiwan, flies to the US, in a box, gets put in a truck in a box, gets hauled to my house in a box and it's always either in the house or in a bag and in a building being used. I know my Garmin doesn't work well in a bag, how would a little cell phone type GPS work? Not well at all.
Well, yea there is more frontier on Earth. The oceans have not been mapped for resources to the level of the surface. We really have no idea how much petrochemical reserves there are we can access.
In addition to the RP-1 used in the Saturn V, the oil crisis caused all sorts of problems for the US economy and inflation which had budget impacts on the Federal Government.
Again, Apples and Oranges.
We can send unmanned probes to find the metals and resources that in 1492 took men.
So yea, today Manned Space flight are not economically viable.
Hell, I've played since day one on WoW and I've not finished everything as Alliance and I've not played Horde yet.
I've not done Strath Live, Scholo, URBS, MC, or Dire Maul yet at all. Not finished the Depths or Strath Undead.
Manned space flight and exploration space flight are not economically viable.
Space flight that tosses up comm, weather and remote sensing birds is economically viable because that leads to revenue streams, everything else is space flight because the Nation-State throwing up the birds can afford it technically and financially.
Apollo died off because the Great Society and Vietnam were leading to budget fighting in Congress and Senator Mondale from MN was deadset against Apollo and he also lead the charge against Shuttle, reduced budget reduced Shuttle and thus we have Shuttle today.
Even if Apollo hadn't been ended in in '70 which lead to the last Moon shot in '72 the Oil Crisis starting in '74 would have ended it.
As for Apollo producing just flags and footprints, thats a pretty ignorant stance on the scientific and technical achivements the engineers and scientists involved came up with.
Thats because Cambodia wasn't a signatory to the Paris Peace Accords.
The Arclight missions over Cambodia were halted in August 15, 1973 by the United States Congress.
From the Khmer Rouge perspective, however, the severity of the bombings was matched by the treachery of the North Vietnamese. The Cambodian communists had refused to take part in the Paris peace talks. So that when North Vietnam and the United States signed the Paris Peace Accords on January 27, 1973, bombing missions over Vietnam and Laos were terminated. The fighter bombers and other aircraft thus released were diverted to strike Khmer Rouge positions in Cambodia.
However, a control isn't the same as "explicitly allowed by the state".
Local zoning isn't a Federal law. In Vietnam the National Government limits business, in the United States things are much more open.
I don't think this joint is a mob. /.ers aren't that motived to go deface the LA Times, afterall there is porn out there to surf.
No photos of the piles of dead bodies the Communists had murdered at Hue City during the '68 Tet?
Cambodian foreign policy during the 1950s and 1960s was one of neutrality. By the mid-1960s, parts of Cambodia's eastern provinces were serving as bases for North Vietnamese Army and Viet Cong (NVA/VC) forces operating against South Vietnam, and the port of Sihanoukville was being used to supply them. As NVA/VC activity grew, the United States and South Vietnam became concerned, and in 1969, the United States began a fourteen month long series of bombing raids targeted at NVA/VC elements, contributing to destabilization. Prince Sinanouk tacitly supported the bombing. The United States claims that the bombing campaign took place no further than ten, and later twenty miles inside the Cambodian border.
In March 1970, while Prince Sihanouk was absent in Bejing and Moscow, Gen. Lon Nol deposed Prince Sihanouk and assumed power. Son Ngoc Thanh announced his support for the new government. On October 9, the Cambodian monarchy was abolished, and the country was renamed the Khmer Republic.
Hanoi rejected the new republic's request for the withdrawal of NVA troops. 2,000-4,000 Cambodians who had gone to North Vietnam in 1954 reentered Cambodia, backed by North Vietnamese soldiers. In response, the United States moved to provide material assistance to the new government's armed forces, which were engaged against both the CPK insurgents and NVA forces.
In April 1970, US President Nixon announced to the American public that US and South Vietnamese ground forces had entered Cambodia in a campaign aimed at destroying NVA base areas in Cambodia. The US had already been bombing Cambodia for well over a year by that point. Demonstrations took place across college campuses in the US, culminating in the death of four students at Kent State, lending support in the US withdrawal from Vietnam.
OK, I'll bite. I moved from Oregon to Flordia, to Colorado to Oregon with a suspended licence, I didn't know it was suspended, and I didn't get tossed in the slammer.
A business licence and IRS paperwork aren't the same as "explicitly allowed by the state." Anyone can get a business licence in the States, you pay for it, you get registered, you are a business.
For Oregon, where I live.
"The State of Oregon does not have a general business license. However, many occupations and business activities require special licenses, permits, or certifications from state agencies or boards. To help businesses comply with state regulations, Oregon has established the Business Referral Center as a first-stop information source. To determine if your particular business activity is licensed or regulated by the state, the "Business Wizard" online provides a list of referrals for registering a new business and possible license, permit and certification requirements. "
"The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) provides two free CD ROMs 'A Virtual Small Business Workshop" (Publication 3700) and "The Small Business Resource Guide" (Publication 3207) that contain extensive information for new businesses. These can be obtained by calling the Forms Distribution Center at 1-800-829-3676"
http://www.filinginoregon.com/obg/18.htm
I don't think KSR's Mars triliogy is "good". It's Sci-fi, but the characters are terrible. If it wasn't for the characters, it would be awesome. But he can't write chracters or interactions to save his life and the series drug on and on and on.
Most abnormal behavior is rare. However, with larger populations there will be more of the rare people.
Now, you talk about child abuse and spanking. Spanking isn't child abuse in the United States, generally.
"Corporal punishment of children in school is illegal in many western countries; it remains legal in 22 U.S. states, although it is commonly practised only in the South. In each of these states, it is up to each school district to determine whether corporal punishment will be used, in what situations will it be applied, and the manner in which it is given - typically with a paddle. There are states where school officials have lost their jobs for spanking students.
Spanking of children within families is illegal in some countries (for example, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Norway, Austria, Germany, Italy, Cyprus, Croatia, Israel and Latvia). Similar initiatives in the U.S. have repeatedly failed. Parental rights groups have formed since the 1990s to prevent spanking from being criminalized."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanking
Using Google as the benchmark for how much child porn is out there is flawed, it seems that they are using encrypted sites and p2p apps for spreading it.
So, if I understand correctly, folks like Nambla exsist because people are against "child pr0n"?
http://www.macnewsworld.com/story/33836.html - for example
No. Having a photo of a public event, legal or otherwise, doesn't support it. Thats a slippery slope arguement that doesn't hold water.
No one ever said, an image of an explosion or a building failing or an aircraft crashing is illegal.
You state that there is no child porn on the Internet? Well, I personally know a Police officer who is in cybercrimes that would beable to disprove that quite easily.
The kiddie porn thing isn't about having naked kids meaning you are going to commit child rape. It's because having kiddie porn means you are supporting this crap.
Personally, I'd go for having folks convicted of having kiddie porn or child molestation or child rape locked up forever.
No getting out period, chemical castration isn't enough.
As for this case, I guess if the files are on the computer at all, even in temp cache, fuck em, lock them up.