I'm not sure that works. A "right" after all is just the flip side of a duty. A right held by an individual consists of a set of duties borne by certain others with respect to him. That is the biggest heaping pile of crap I have ever read.
Your rights don't make obligations on others. A right can not make a demand on another person because a right is internal, it affects you and your property, it does not affect others.
You can't contract with someone to provide a right because if that contrast is voided then that right no longer exists. Rights can not be granted as if some king smacked a guy on the head with his royal scepter. Likewise a right can not be taken away. (People in china have the same rights you do, their government just infringes on them.)
Your rights do not come from pieces of paper, they do not come from the magic of government, they come from the natural state of man or from god if you so believe.
"Bills of rights" are things kings would provide their "subjects" (look up the word subject). In our history there was a great debate by the "sovereign" (look that up too) people of the United States on the Bill of Rights, *WHY* would people NOT what a bill of rights you ask? Because they were afraid it would become a list of the only rights our government allows. They were right IT HAS!
The government protects their friends, they don't protect us.. that is just a lie, the government job isn't even to protect us at all (even if it *could*). It's job is to provide us a maximum of liberty and to stay the hell out of our lives.
People always have to take it to the god dammed extreme.. "Oh god if we don't limit the number of ISP's in an area we will have heaps of network lines in the STREET! We'll all choke on them!" It just playing on peoples fear and its unnecessary.
What would be so terribly bad about having 4 or 5 broadband providers in an area? NONE. Our prices would be lower and our service would be better and the only reason we can't do that is government.
This is one of the reasons I like ClearWire so much because they provide an alternative, by going around local government restrictions.
The reason their is duopolys with ISP providers is the various local governments will only allow one cable and one telephone provider. The government has handed Comcast a monopoly (if it is one) on a silver platter.
Comcast is proposing this because only they want to control it. We don't need regulations, we need Comcast to the right thing. If they sell a 8/2 line (or what ever it is) then they should actually provide 8/2 24/7/365.. It's not our fault that most of their users don't use maxim capacity on the line.. they cant bank on that.
You don't pick the president. NO single person who votes chooses the president. Your vote is your one chance to tell your government what you want, and I will NOT endorse John McCain's illegal amnesty, gun banning, give the democrats whatever they want bullshit.
I'm going to tell my government I want them to follow the Ron Paul doctrine of small government and constitutional values and the rest of America is going to do the same.. they are going to wake up tomorrow, you laugh but by god they are, they will go to the polls and they are going to turn this god dammed government around before its too late.
They have to because if they don't.. then we will be a European style Socialist Democracy and the constitutional freedoms our countrymen died for will be all for nothing.
Forgive me if I start swearing up a storm here but when in the name of gods green earth before 2007 did any of you in the party assume John McLame was a conservative? How about ever time I look at Flip Romney I see a sleaze bucket that blows in the wind.. he reminds me of Bill Clinton.
I voted for Bush twice I've always been a Republican and for god sakes I came to my senses. Our party is going to hell. We had two really good really conservative people in the race for president, Tom Tancredo and Ron Paul and we have ignored them both so we could vote for these jerk wads so they can give us total illegal amnesty, gun bans, and wreck our economy even further with their aimless runaway spending??! WHY?
Whats wrong with the Republicans anymore, have you all lost your minds? you all need to take a serious look at who you are supporting and why.. your all lucky Ron is still somehow in the race.. I still believe we will come to our freaking senses in a mass epiphany tomorrow and all vote for him while there is still chance to save this party.. and the Republic of the United States as we know it..
Generally it takes freedom to create wealth. Although I'm not saying that America is absolutely free either.
If you think a "good job" and "benies" is the path to riches your a fool. You want to be truly successful you need to start your own business.. This is still possible in America.. I don't think everyone has that opportunity though..
It is very difficult to run your own business in America and the number of government regulations make this impossible for some. You need a stack of licenses and it doesn't take long for you to have to hire someone to actually deal just with government regulations. Mind you.. you need a license in America to CUT HAIR for money.
In Hong Kong you can start a business in one day with one single simple form. So they have more economic freedom than we have.. but less social freedom. (at least in Hong Kong)
[quote][quote]Ultimately we're in a competitive battle with the rest of the world; a battle where we need to stay the most powerful nation in the world. And the only way our nation stays ahead forever is with superior technology and innovation.
Well, first of all, as I mentioned a moment ago, the way a nation like ours stays ahead permanently from other nations is having superior technology and innovation[/quote]
Woo! Go USA! Thousand year empire!
I hope you notice that candidates in other countries just don't talk in such belligerent terms about their nations position in the world.[/quote]
That is dangerous language.. What "competitive battle" and why must we "stay the most powerful nation in the world" - It's absurd to think we must beat every other nation in any field. Mitt doesn't seem to understand that we can simply buy our electronics from Japan and both nations prosper, we don't need a "competitive battle" with them and if anyone is wondering they took the lead a long time ago. (What *is* made in the USA anymore?)
Let me get this straight.. you want the government to have a record of everywhere you go, everything you do, every transaction you make? You best hope you stay in control of that government and NEVER decide to go against what they say. Unfortunately a government like that threatens us all, forget about the thief.
You post is disgusting, it involves nothing more than crying to your government to save you as if they are some sort of magic entity that can prevent all crime. Good grief.. How much would you charge in government services, police, and court fees to go after a measly $50 hard drive?
They don't want to take it back.. fine, just don't shop there anymore.. Newegg sells hard drives just fine give them your business.
SWAT teams are *way* overused and almost never actually needed. Well said, yeah cops like raids, they get all jacked up on adrenaline and excited that they get to use all the cool "toys" they got from the military.
First part is wrong.
Not true at all. You can commit a felony without being found guilty. And it has nothing to do with democracy, which isn't our form of government anyway. Ehh word games.. You can commit crimes that are felonies and thus you would be guilty in a moral sense but you are not guilty according to the state until a jury convicts you.
Second is right though.
First of all, he was impeached. It didn't "fail". He wasn't convicted because his party was willing to ignore the crime and the Republicans didn't have a supermajority. And maybe you can tell me the difference between "lying" and "giving misleading testimony". Clinton was guilty and he should be in the jail cell right next to Bush.
Why? The case was cut n dry, she broke the law and she lost.
The jury's job is to determine if she broke the law, not determine if the law makes sense. Wrong, as many others posted. Jury Nullification is the final check on our government, they should HAVE to tell juries about this option.. but they don't..
The juror here is an IDIOT for allowing the RIAA (who's behavior is FAR worse then any single individual) set legal precedence on the matter.
I was splashed with gasoline and set on fire while wearing a polyester Hawaiian shirt. -- It happened twice because the girl I was with thought it was funny so she did it again. Dammed kids these days.. back in my day we would just huff the gas, but oooh no, not today, thats to old fashion, gotta take everything the the extreme now.
Glossy paper in his pocket may have shielded him from getting burned by the fire, Danny Williams said in local news reports. "If TSA had come by and seen me smoking, they could have honestly thought I was a terrorist," Williams is quoted as saying. That's funny. You could go to jail for life because you pocket exploded into flames.
Uhh.. I'm advocating against them. You might be too young to remember but at one time AT&T was the national phone company. Yes, a national utility company just like you suggest and it was terrible. It's better now, but the "new" AT&T is 5/7th the Old AT&T, the other 2 parts are Quest and Verizon.
We need to open this market up and allow more competition.
Anyhow.. to stomp on your dreams of government controlling everything.. Have you ever heard anyone say a Trabant (or Zapor) was a good car? Ever hear of someone wanting to buy one? You don't because they are crap. You had to mix the oil and gas for them by hand like a lawnmower, they smoked, if they broke down it was the owners responsibility to fix it as there were few auto shops, and they made the same model from 1963 to 1991.. They really really sucked and it wasn't because the East Germans were technically incapable of building good cars, it was because there was no reason to make them any better. With government in control of business we all get the same.. and that's the lowest common denominator in service and products, why should they do better? There is no reason to excel.. just barley working is good enough.
Want another example? Check out the French Minitel system. France wanted to be on the cutting edge of telecommunications and the government rolled out the Minitel network in the early 80's. Today Minitel's considered a dinosaur, and thats all because it was controlled by the government, the bureaucrats in charge couldn't keep up with the hundreds of millions of experiments flying about in the United States where the Internet not controlled by the government or anyone, thrived. If anything the crappy Minitel system is said to have hurt the adoption of the Internet in France. So what would you rather have? The government Minitel system that is still there with its green monochrome screens looking all 1980's or something that actually gets better over time, like prodigy -> aol -> dsl -> cable -> fttp -> ??
Competition drives us forward. Do you think Microsoft would have ever upgraded IE6 and implemented the features of IE7 if Firefox didn't exist to challenge them? No, we would still be using the same crappy browser that was basically some minor changes to IE5 that came out in 1999.
Kinda reminds me of when AT&T was the only companey that could provide telephone service.. You would wait for hours if you had to go to pay a bill there.
I think its a good idea, You could install your own lines and charge 1/10th the cost the phone companies charge and still make money. POTS service is dirt cheep...but your going to the extreme by asuming I want total anarchy.. I just want the city to allow a few other companies access to the same city equipment that Verison and AT&T have.
Oh really? They'd run billlions and billions of dollars of fiber infrastructure all across the country so that they could run FTTH when a customer signed up? Are you sure about that? Yes, I am sure. If they thought they could make money doing it, they absolutely would. If they had the ability to compete with Verizon in certain market's (IE: LA or Seattle) you bet they would.. hell, they ARE doing that now, just not with fiber.
It is impossible when they own the land, poles, and conduits and have rules in place that deny it. This is why they should not sign exclusive contracts and allow more than one person to use their equipment. How many? I don't know, I'm sure feasibility would play a factor at some point.. and that's ok.:sarcasm: Oh its just impossible to have anything without government. People are just incapable of building complex things like.. gasp.. roads.. without bureaucrats. (Except they do all the time, when I was a kid we lived in an area that had a private road and every year we would pitch in with the other people that lived on the road to do various things on it.) NO! That's totally impossible! You need government workers to fix roads, only they have the technology to lay asphalt and hold flags!
Your argument is ridiculous, and wrong, private people can build public infrastructure systems, and they do.
It can be done, and it should be done, the Cities should allow open mutable contractors to use their equipment and not get into the exclusive contracts that they currently do.
Frankly, I'd prefer them to be city utilities with equal access to anyone who wants in. Heh, you little fucking socialist.. Just like legacy AT&T, you would have terrible service, it would be expensive, and they would never upgrade. The push for profit currently keeps these people motivated, so they need some competition to keep them in danger of loosing their profits. That keeps prices down and service good. I just want to allow more players in the market than 2.
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Comcast wants to do this so they can control it.
Your rights don't make obligations on others. A right can not make a demand on another person because a right is internal, it affects you and your property, it does not affect others.
You can't contract with someone to provide a right because if that contrast is voided then that right no longer exists. Rights can not be granted as if some king smacked a guy on the head with his royal scepter. Likewise a right can not be taken away. (People in china have the same rights you do, their government just infringes on them.)
Your rights do not come from pieces of paper, they do not come from the magic of government, they come from the natural state of man or from god if you so believe.
"Bills of rights" are things kings would provide their "subjects" (look up the word subject). In our history there was a great debate by the "sovereign" (look that up too) people of the United States on the Bill of Rights, *WHY* would people NOT what a bill of rights you ask? Because they were afraid it would become a list of the only rights our government allows. They were right IT HAS!
Read the federalist papers No. 84
The government protects their friends, they don't protect us.. that is just a lie, the government job isn't even to protect us at all (even if it *could*). It's job is to provide us a maximum of liberty and to stay the hell out of our lives.
People always have to take it to the god dammed extreme.. "Oh god if we don't limit the number of ISP's in an area we will have heaps of network lines in the STREET! We'll all choke on them!" It just playing on peoples fear and its unnecessary.
What would be so terribly bad about having 4 or 5 broadband providers in an area? NONE. Our prices would be lower and our service would be better and the only reason we can't do that is government.
This is one of the reasons I like ClearWire so much because they provide an alternative, by going around local government restrictions.
This is very true.
The reason their is duopolys with ISP providers is the various local governments will only allow one cable and one telephone provider. The government has handed Comcast a monopoly (if it is one) on a silver platter.
Comcast is proposing this because only they want to control it. We don't need regulations, we need Comcast to the right thing. If they sell a 8/2 line (or what ever it is) then they should actually provide 8/2 24/7/365 .. It's not our fault that most of their users don't use maxim capacity on the line.. they cant bank on that.
You don't pick the president. NO single person who votes chooses the president. Your vote is your one chance to tell your government what you want, and I will NOT endorse John McCain's illegal amnesty, gun banning, give the democrats whatever they want bullshit.
I'm going to tell my government I want them to follow the Ron Paul doctrine of small government and constitutional values and the rest of America is going to do the same.. they are going to wake up tomorrow, you laugh but by god they are, they will go to the polls and they are going to turn this god dammed government around before its too late.
They have to because if they don't.. then we will be a European style Socialist Democracy and the constitutional freedoms our countrymen died for will be all for nothing.
Forgive me if I start swearing up a storm here but when in the name of gods green earth before 2007 did any of you in the party assume John McLame was a conservative? How about ever time I look at Flip Romney I see a sleaze bucket that blows in the wind.. he reminds me of Bill Clinton.
I voted for Bush twice I've always been a Republican and for god sakes I came to my senses. Our party is going to hell. We had two really good really conservative people in the race for president, Tom Tancredo and Ron Paul and we have ignored them both so we could vote for these jerk wads so they can give us total illegal amnesty, gun bans, and wreck our economy even further with their aimless runaway spending??! WHY?
Whats wrong with the Republicans anymore, have you all lost your minds? you all need to take a serious look at who you are supporting and why.. your all lucky Ron is still somehow in the race.. I still believe we will come to our freaking senses in a mass epiphany tomorrow and all vote for him while there is still chance to save this party.. and the Republic of the United States as we know it..
Generally it takes freedom to create wealth. Although I'm not saying that America is absolutely free either.
If you think a "good job" and "benies" is the path to riches your a fool. You want to be truly successful you need to start your own business.. This is still possible in America.. I don't think everyone has that opportunity though..
It is very difficult to run your own business in America and the number of government regulations make this impossible for some. You need a stack of licenses and it doesn't take long for you to have to hire someone to actually deal just with government regulations. Mind you.. you need a license in America to CUT HAIR for money.
In Hong Kong you can start a business in one day with one single simple form. So they have more economic freedom than we have.. but less social freedom. (at least in Hong Kong)
[quote][quote]Ultimately we're in a competitive battle with the rest of the world; a battle where we need to stay the most powerful nation in the world. And the only way our nation stays ahead forever is with superior technology and innovation.
Well, first of all, as I mentioned a moment ago, the way a nation like ours stays ahead permanently from other nations is having superior technology and innovation[/quote]
Woo! Go USA! Thousand year empire!
I hope you notice that candidates in other countries just don't talk in such belligerent terms about their nations position in the world.[/quote]
That is dangerous language.. What "competitive battle" and why must we "stay the most powerful nation in the world" - It's absurd to think we must beat every other nation in any field. Mitt doesn't seem to understand that we can simply buy our electronics from Japan and both nations prosper, we don't need a "competitive battle" with them and if anyone is wondering they took the lead a long time ago. (What *is* made in the USA anymore?)
Or at least the truth that he would have thrown the kid in jail for the rest of his life..
He cant even be serious about the great level of harm the drug war does.
Let me get this straight.. you want the government to have a record of everywhere you go, everything you do, every transaction you make? You best hope you stay in control of that government and NEVER decide to go against what they say. Unfortunately a government like that threatens us all, forget about the thief.
You post is disgusting, it involves nothing more than crying to your government to save you as if they are some sort of magic entity that can prevent all crime. Good grief.. How much would you charge in government services, police, and court fees to go after a measly $50 hard drive?
They don't want to take it back.. fine, just don't shop there anymore.. Newegg sells hard drives just fine give them your business.
Not true. Cops kill lots of people because they *think* they are armed..
Or maybe some of think its fun.. read this, you'll be sick. http://www.lewrockwell.com/grigg/grigg-w10.html
Cops are known to shoot first ask questions later when they go on raids.
Second is right though. First of all, he was impeached. It didn't "fail". He wasn't convicted because his party was willing to ignore the crime and the Republicans didn't have a supermajority. And maybe you can tell me the difference between "lying" and "giving misleading testimony". Clinton was guilty and he should be in the jail cell right next to Bush.
The jury's job is to determine if she broke the law, not determine if the law makes sense. Wrong, as many others posted. Jury Nullification is the final check on our government, they should HAVE to tell juries about this option.. but they don't..
The juror here is an IDIOT for allowing the RIAA (who's behavior is FAR worse then any single individual) set legal precedence on the matter.
Uhh.. I'm advocating against them. You might be too young to remember but at one time AT&T was the national phone company. Yes, a national utility company just like you suggest and it was terrible. It's better now, but the "new" AT&T is 5/7th the Old AT&T, the other 2 parts are Quest and Verizon.
.. They really really sucked and it wasn't because the East Germans were technically incapable of building good cars, it was because there was no reason to make them any better. With government in control of business we all get the same.. and that's the lowest common denominator in service and products, why should they do better? There is no reason to excel.. just barley working is good enough.
We need to open this market up and allow more competition.
Anyhow.. to stomp on your dreams of government controlling everything.. Have you ever heard anyone say a Trabant (or Zapor) was a good car? Ever hear of someone wanting to buy one? You don't because they are crap. You had to mix the oil and gas for them by hand like a lawnmower, they smoked, if they broke down it was the owners responsibility to fix it as there were few auto shops, and they made the same model from 1963 to 1991
Want another example? Check out the French Minitel system. France wanted to be on the cutting edge of telecommunications and the government rolled out the Minitel network in the early 80's. Today Minitel's considered a dinosaur, and thats all because it was controlled by the government, the bureaucrats in charge couldn't keep up with the hundreds of millions of experiments flying about in the United States where the Internet not controlled by the government or anyone, thrived. If anything the crappy Minitel system is said to have hurt the adoption of the Internet in France. So what would you rather have? The government Minitel system that is still there with its green monochrome screens looking all 1980's or something that actually gets better over time, like prodigy -> aol -> dsl -> cable -> fttp -> ??
Competition drives us forward. Do you think Microsoft would have ever upgraded IE6 and implemented the features of IE7 if Firefox didn't exist to challenge them? No, we would still be using the same crappy browser that was basically some minor changes to IE5 that came out in 1999.
Confused? You call up Level 3 (who is not a baby bell) and say "Hea, I need a backbone." There you go, your now a competitor to AT&T.
The "kicker" is they are not allowed by city government to do this. The LAW is against them not some mystical barrier to entry.
Have they "upgraded" the DMV to reduce the wait?
Kinda reminds me of when AT&T was the only companey that could provide telephone service.. You would wait for hours if you had to go to pay a bill there.
I think its a good idea, You could install your own lines and charge 1/10th the cost the phone companies charge and still make money. POTS service is dirt cheep. ..but your going to the extreme by asuming I want total anarchy.. I just want the city to allow a few other companies access to the same city equipment that Verison and AT&T have.
It is impossible when they own the land, poles, and conduits and have rules in place that deny it. This is why they should not sign exclusive contracts and allow more than one person to use their equipment. How many? I don't know, I'm sure feasibility would play a factor at some point.. and that's ok. :sarcasm: Oh its just impossible to have anything without government. People are just incapable of building complex things like .. gasp .. roads .. without bureaucrats. (Except they do all the time, when I was a kid we lived in an area that had a private road and every year we would pitch in with the other people that lived on the road to do various things on it.) NO! That's totally impossible! You need government workers to fix roads, only they have the technology to lay asphalt and hold flags!
Your argument is ridiculous, and wrong, private people can build public infrastructure systems, and they do.