Oh no, I know, trust me.. this is a very serious concern of mine.
For the life of me though.. I just can't figure out how some people can be so blind to something so serious.
The right to privacy extends from the right to property. If you have a right to property then you have a right to deny the request to view said property.
Maybe I shouldn't be so harsh on you, you want liberty too right? Everyone does. What you need to understand however is what your saying is basically that other countries have a worse form of cancer so we should be happy with cancer we have. I don't accept that, cancer is cancer and it's always bad.. it doesn't matter if other people have it worse.
You need to start looking at unintended consequences, you see the surface of things, but you don't appear to be aware of what is not seen. Government giving is very visible and on the surface it looks good.. but it always, ALWAYS, involves government taking, and that hurts people.
the only way that happens is if WE allow it. The government is nothing without the people.
You think you control the government ehh? I don't believe in such a delusions. DownsizeDC reported that message to congress against the bailout came in at a rate of 100/1 against.
Our presidential candidates "selected" for us were not in disagreement about the socialism they wanted to give us.. only how much socialism. There is no choice and the people have no power. Wake up, the republic is dead and this "democracy" is a sham. It's controlled from the top down by a single ruling party of elites. You can dream about being in control of the government.. but the real truth is, they are in control of you.
Now.. If my wife asked me to go out and buy a car, and I went out and paid $100,000 for a Ford Focus.. would she consider that "successful"? I have a car after all. No, she would kick me out of the god dammed house! However, you seem to think that if the government does someone albeit un-efficiently than it's all ok because ALL governments are inefficient.
Well duhh.. all governments are inefficient. There are really good reasons why. They are not incentivised to be efficient because they are not going to go out of business and it's not their money. The problem is rooted in the fact that government is a cohesive organization so it can not be fixed by getting a better government, ALL governments are cohesive. Force is the ONLY tool they have. They can force you to do something, force you not to do something, or force you to pay for something, that's the only ability they have.
When you say we need government to be our ISP even though they are inefficient, your saying you want to pay more money for worse service than what is already provided to you by your current ISP. It works that way with everything not just ISP's.
Actually, the 'economic crisis' we're in is a result of panic, nothing more.
Your economic theories are laughable. To assume that a good economy is the result of *only* consumer spending is absurd. Consumers can not cause recessions. There are so many problems with thinking they can that I don't know where to start. If that were true, than to have good times for the rest of humanity all people need to do is stop saving and spend every dime they get. Hell go ahead and spend more than you make, whats wrong with that? lol -- What your failing to realize is that there is a relationship between production and spending. When spending is higher than production you are in a market bubble. When production is higher than spending you are in a recession. What needs to happen is there needs to be a happy balance between the two and government pumping cash into the market will do nothing to fix the problem, instead they make it worse because they are taking money away from productive parts of the economy and giving it to the unproductive parts. The unproductive failing parts of the economy need to fail to release resources to the productive sector and open the market for new business that can make a profit. (The term for this is "creative destruction") GOVERNMENT CAN'T CONTROL MARKET FORCES. Market forces are created not by government, not by Obama, not by Kind George, or Congress, but by millions of individual, real flesh and blood, thinking people, just like you and me, doing whatever it is *they* (not the government) believe is in their own best interest. Market forces are always more powerful than government.. even the Soviet Union couldn't over power market forces.
By your standards, no one can solve any problem.
The market solves problems every day and it does it efficiently. People solve problems working together voluntary because they have an interest in solving it. It's not the abstraction called the government that is solving problems.. its people. Sometimes those people work for government and inefficiently "solve" problems.. but most often they work to better themselves and their surr
if you instead spastically flail out everytime someone words an article in a propagandistic manner, you are no defender of rights and freedoms, you are merely a manipulated hysterical fool. and, in fact, someone useful for the suppression of our rights, by proving to those who wish to restrict our rights that people don't even understand what their rights are
defend your rights and freedoms
against genuine threats
The government is the only entity that can actually take your rights away. The reason this is so is because they are the only entity that can legitimately use force on you.
Well technically, nobody can *take* a right because nobody can *grants* a right, rights are unalienable, and they can never be legitimate to infringe upon someones rights no matter if they are the government or not. However if you try to say "No" to the government, you will find yourself in a jail cell. If you continue to try say "No" to them putting you in a cage, you will be shot.
Criminal activity is not a threat to your rights and liberties because you can say no to them and you can take steps to protect yourself. The same is not true from the government.
I wonder when people will learn. Government through the ages has been the source of tyranny, war, poverty, slavery and death. We think we are ohh so "modern" now with our "democracies" where the majority impose their will on the minorities, but its all the same. This program might start out just going after spammers.. but even if the people in control of it now have noble intentions.. the same people are not always going to be in control of it, just think how the government might abuse this. This sounds to me like keeping a Stasi file on all citizens. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stasi
You can volunteer right now. You don't need the government to help out in your community. The very reason the government needs to be involved is because this is not about offering an opportunity for yourself.. its about using the government to force *other* people to serve. What would you call forced servitude? I call it national slavery or forced conscription.
Freedom is not using the government to force people to do things, that is the opposite of freedom..and that's fine you can be in favor of this tyrannical approach by the government, but you better be aware of what side you stand on.
America's Army was known to be a "reciting tool" intended to show kids how "cool" being a grunt in the infantry is.
In light of current politics, there is something on the "to do" list for the major players in government, and it's called National Service. Obama, McCain, Clinton and Bush all supported this and they have been using careful wording to sugar coat what is basically forced government conscription.
Rep. Rahm Emanuel Obama's choice for chief of staff wrote a book called "Big Ideas for America" where he writes. (emphasis added)
It's time for a real Patriot Act that brings out the patriot in all of us. We propose universal civilian service for every young American. Under this plan, All Americans between the ages of eighteen and twenty-five will be *asked to serve* their country by going through three months of basic training, civil defense preparation and community service.
Here's how it would work. Young people will know that between the ages of eighteen and twenty-five, the nation will enlist them for three months of civilian service. They'll be asked to report for three months of basic civil defense training in their state or community, where they will learn what to do in the event of biochemical, nuclear or conventional attack; how to assist others in an evacuation; how to respond when a levee breaks or we're hit by a natural disaster. These young people will be available to address their communities' most pressing needs...
Some Republicans will squeal about individual freedom..
On one hand, they say this is voluntary.. Groups like "Service Nation" that had a big rally in New York attended by McCain and Obama on, yep.. you guessed it 9/11 to exploit the date to promote their plan, they *claim* it will be a persons choice.. However if "Some Republicans will squeal about individual freedom" As Rahm says.. then he is clearly NOT planing for this to be voluntary.
I have no indication of it.. but I wonder if this game is, like America's Army, propaganda in order to convince people that "National Slavery" is a good thing and they they should love working for their masters in government.
Government doesn't have anything it didn't get from someone else. There is NOTHING they provide that is free.
It is an absolutely horrible idea to have the government become your ISP. Think of the danger this presents to free speech when the method of communication you use is controlled by the government. Would you have free speech if government controlled all the TV Networks or Newspapers? What if they said they will preform "some filtering" on them?
Now I know that they did not say they would be getting rid of traditional ISP's (who suck because they are usually government "provided" duopolies in most places) however if people feel they *already* pay through taxes for a service why pay extra again? Would that not make the government the dominant ISP?
Government has TERRIBLE customer service, it can't fix the roads, it can't do anything on budget, it can't fix our schools, it can't take care of the veterans, it can't make the poor wealthy, it can't solve the economic cries, it can't make you safe, and it can't make you happy... yet you idiots continue to turn to it to solve your every problem.. Why? What is wrong with you people?
The user experiences is in many ways more intuitive, but that's not the issue... What people say "intuitive" they actually mean "familiar". They are familiar with the old interface, and don't want to change to the new one even if it is better. They use the same argument against linux or mac too.
That's pretty much true. I work for a company that a while back yanked out all of their Windows XP systems and replaced them with Ubuntu.
Here is how they did it. First they moved everyone off Microsoft Software, and replaced it with what they would find later on Ubuntu. (Firefox, OpenOffice, Thunderbird, & Pidgin primarily.). After a time they instructed people to "Expect things to be diffrent, and diffrent does not mean bad. Some things will not work the same way, some thing may not even work at all, but some things will work better. You need to approach this as if you would approach an alien landscape, it's not the same so don't expect it to be the same." After that we did the change all at once. There have been complaints, some muttering here and there, and there have been issues, but overall it has gone over really really well, and the entire company is just as productive and happy on Ubuntu now. Maybe even more productive, we are getting to a point where there are very few IT Support issues regarding client desktops.. nearly none are work related, most are due to flash and pulseaudio..
But that's the big thing about interfaces.. people who are not interested in computers don't want to learn about them, and they don't want to learn a new interface even if it is better. They will get frustrated if they can't find their "C:\" drive, even though the thought of labeling a drive mappings by alphabetical charters is, and always was, archaic, confusing, and idiotic.
If they at least expect everything to be diffrent, things go a lot better.
The key here is the phrase 'on the same hardware'. As operating systems do more, they take more hardware to perform adequately. And it's not a Windows thing, it's a MacOS thing and a Linux thing.
Not necessarily. MacOS X, 10.2 was faster than 10.1, and 10.3 faster than 10.2, on the same hardware. It wasn't until 10.4 that you actually started seeing a performance hit on G3 and slower G4 computers.
This is true. The reason Mac's got faster was improvements to GCC on PPC, and further optimization and "smart things" done by Apple. (prefetch, preload)
The same code really was faster, but eventually some of the features coming out in the later versions slowed it down. (Spotlight, Exposé).
It shows that Apple is moving in the right direction. Make it leaner and give people features they actually want, All Microsoft seems to want to try to do is kill off their old versions and add more "help" features, that end up being annoying and confusing. Leopard is a really good OS, but it's not faster than Ubuntu/Debian on the same hardware. Lenny is the only reason my G3 is still alive.
Well good, because I've been leaving them on for about 20 years. Never had a board fry, but a few drives have died.
I think its probbly true, but I don't think its much of an issue. Might have been more so 20 years ago, seen a few systems suffer from problems with chip creep back them..
lol "the energy crisis" is caused by my desktop pc ehh? Perhaps I should also refrain from barbecuing too least I cause global warming:-). Perhaps I shouldn't cook my food at all or take cold showers.. heh, how far exactly would you like me to go here?
It seems to me that Ubuntu could take advantage of this pretty easily as it already checks on boot for a hibernation image.. and it wouldn't even need a special mainboard to do it.
Someone should file a feature request for Jaunty Jackalope.
After reading how the implementation in windows is done by doing pre-hibernation, it makes the Linux method look even more impressive. They start from a clean cold boot.
Still pre-hibernation is pretty interesting.. I never shut my systems off anyhow though, I always believed that systems left on have a longer life span because the chips never cool down, but that can't be true for some of the computers moving parts..
I wonder if something like this could be done with Linux now that 2.6.27.5 has been out for a few days and that situation with the RESET_REG_SUP bit has been resolved. This certainly is great news for Vista users looking for a new board.
It's been done in 5 seconds..
Doesn't even require a special motherboard, they did it by modifying Fedora on a EEE pc (something not known for it's speed) http://lwn.net/Articles/299483/
Our candidates are Coke and Pepsi, both cola and I'm not into cola. Don't care much who wins because whoever does will be a member of the one party elite.
To expand on this your rights come from your humanity, not from a piece of paper or government bureaucrats in a far off capitol. All people in all nations have rights. (This is why we get upset at things like Chinese human rights violations, if rights came from government why would we get upset? Because those people like you have rights and their government is abusing it.)
The Constitution is not meant to detail what rights you have.. but instead *attempts* to prevent your government from infringing upon certain rights. It's not doing a very good job at that.. mainly because government now just ignores it, and the people don't hold the politicians feet to the fire because they don't understand it..
It is in the constitution as others have pointed out.. but if it was not, why would you think you did not have a right to council?
The Constitution is not a list of the rights you have, it is a list of actions the government can never infringe upon. Read the Federalist papers number 84. It is an argument against the bill of rights because people were afraid it would become a list of the only rights people had.. and after 200 years.. they were right.. it has become a defacto list and even IT is being abused now.
The government has grown in so many ways it now has eradicated every single possible right the people had including skirting around most of the constitution. The second amendment is a PRIME example of this, but I would venture to say that every single article in the constitution and the bill of rights are being broken by todays government.
Where as I agree with you, and note you probbly understand this.. I wanted to make it clear, the Constitution does not grant you rights. It places a restriction on only government but grants you nothing.
Tomorrow congress could pass an amendment saying..
"All previous amendments to this document are void, and generous amounts of lube shall not be applied."
You still have rights. Bush could BURN the Constitution and you still have rights.
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Oh no, I know, trust me.. this is a very serious concern of mine.
For the life of me though.. I just can't figure out how some people can be so blind to something so serious.
The right to privacy extends from the right to property. If you have a right to property then you have a right to deny the request to view said property.
Maybe I shouldn't be so harsh on you, you want liberty too right? Everyone does. What you need to understand however is what your saying is basically that other countries have a worse form of cancer so we should be happy with cancer we have. I don't accept that, cancer is cancer and it's always bad.. it doesn't matter if other people have it worse.
You need to start looking at unintended consequences, you see the surface of things, but you don't appear to be aware of what is not seen. Government giving is very visible and on the surface it looks good.. but it always, ALWAYS, involves government taking, and that hurts people.
the only way that happens is if WE allow it. The government is nothing without the people.
You think you control the government ehh? I don't believe in such a delusions. DownsizeDC reported that message to congress against the bailout came in at a rate of 100/1 against.
Our presidential candidates "selected" for us were not in disagreement about the socialism they wanted to give us.. only how much socialism. There is no choice and the people have no power. Wake up, the republic is dead and this "democracy" is a sham. It's controlled from the top down by a single ruling party of elites. You can dream about being in control of the government.. but the real truth is, they are in control of you.
Now.. If my wife asked me to go out and buy a car, and I went out and paid $100,000 for a Ford Focus.. would she consider that "successful"? I have a car after all. No, she would kick me out of the god dammed house! However, you seem to think that if the government does someone albeit un-efficiently than it's all ok because ALL governments are inefficient.
Well duhh.. all governments are inefficient. There are really good reasons why. They are not incentivised to be efficient because they are not going to go out of business and it's not their money. The problem is rooted in the fact that government is a cohesive organization so it can not be fixed by getting a better government, ALL governments are cohesive. Force is the ONLY tool they have. They can force you to do something, force you not to do something, or force you to pay for something, that's the only ability they have.
When you say we need government to be our ISP even though they are inefficient, your saying you want to pay more money for worse service than what is already provided to you by your current ISP. It works that way with everything not just ISP's.
Actually, the 'economic crisis' we're in is a result of panic, nothing more.
Your economic theories are laughable. To assume that a good economy is the result of *only* consumer spending is absurd. Consumers can not cause recessions. There are so many problems with thinking they can that I don't know where to start. If that were true, than to have good times for the rest of humanity all people need to do is stop saving and spend every dime they get. Hell go ahead and spend more than you make, whats wrong with that? lol -- What your failing to realize is that there is a relationship between production and spending. When spending is higher than production you are in a market bubble. When production is higher than spending you are in a recession. What needs to happen is there needs to be a happy balance between the two and government pumping cash into the market will do nothing to fix the problem, instead they make it worse because they are taking money away from productive parts of the economy and giving it to the unproductive parts. The unproductive failing parts of the economy need to fail to release resources to the productive sector and open the market for new business that can make a profit. (The term for this is "creative destruction") GOVERNMENT CAN'T CONTROL MARKET FORCES. Market forces are created not by government, not by Obama, not by Kind George, or Congress, but by millions of individual, real flesh and blood, thinking people, just like you and me, doing whatever it is *they* (not the government) believe is in their own best interest. Market forces are always more powerful than government.. even the Soviet Union couldn't over power market forces.
By your standards, no one can solve any problem.
The market solves problems every day and it does it efficiently. People solve problems working together voluntary because they have an interest in solving it. It's not the abstraction called the government that is solving problems.. its people. Sometimes those people work for government and inefficiently "solve" problems.. but most often they work to better themselves and their surr
do you care about rights and freedoms?
you do?
then react to REAL and GENUINE threats to them
if you instead spastically flail out everytime someone words an article in a propagandistic manner, you are no defender of rights and freedoms, you are merely a manipulated hysterical fool. and, in fact, someone useful for the suppression of our rights, by proving to those who wish to restrict our rights that people don't even understand what their rights are
defend your rights and freedoms
against genuine threats
The government is the only entity that can actually take your rights away. The reason this is so is because they are the only entity that can legitimately use force on you.
Well technically, nobody can *take* a right because nobody can *grants* a right, rights are unalienable, and they can never be legitimate to infringe upon someones rights no matter if they are the government or not. However if you try to say "No" to the government, you will find yourself in a jail cell. If you continue to try say "No" to them putting you in a cage, you will be shot.
Criminal activity is not a threat to your rights and liberties because you can say no to them and you can take steps to protect yourself. The same is not true from the government.
I wonder when people will learn. Government through the ages has been the source of tyranny, war, poverty, slavery and death. We think we are ohh so "modern" now with our "democracies" where the majority impose their will on the minorities, but its all the same. This program might start out just going after spammers.. but even if the people in control of it now have noble intentions.. the same people are not always going to be in control of it, just think how the government might abuse this. This sounds to me like keeping a Stasi file on all citizens. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stasi
Well, what is this about then?
You can volunteer right now. You don't need the government to help out in your community. The very reason the government needs to be involved is because this is not about offering an opportunity for yourself.. its about using the government to force *other* people to serve. What would you call forced servitude? I call it national slavery or forced conscription.
Freedom is not using the government to force people to do things, that is the opposite of freedom ..and that's fine you can be in favor of this tyrannical approach by the government, but you better be aware of what side you stand on.
America's Army was known to be a "reciting tool" intended to show kids how "cool" being a grunt in the infantry is.
In light of current politics, there is something on the "to do" list for the major players in government, and it's called National Service. Obama, McCain, Clinton and Bush all supported this and they have been using careful wording to sugar coat what is basically forced government conscription.
Rep. Rahm Emanuel Obama's choice for chief of staff wrote a book called "Big Ideas for America" where he writes. (emphasis added)
It's time for a real Patriot Act that brings out the patriot in all of us. We propose universal civilian service for every young American. Under this plan, All Americans between the ages of eighteen and twenty-five will be *asked to serve* their country by going through three months of basic training, civil defense preparation and community service.
Here's how it would work. Young people will know that between the ages of eighteen and twenty-five, the nation will enlist them for three months of civilian service. They'll be asked to report for three months of basic civil defense training in their state or community, where they will learn what to do in the event of biochemical, nuclear or conventional attack; how to assist others in an evacuation; how to respond when a levee breaks or we're hit by a natural disaster. These young people will be available to address their communities' most pressing needs. ..
Some Republicans will squeal about individual freedom..
On one hand, they say this is voluntary.. Groups like "Service Nation" that had a big rally in New York attended by McCain and Obama on, yep.. you guessed it 9/11 to exploit the date to promote their plan, they *claim* it will be a persons choice.. However if "Some Republicans will squeal about individual freedom" As Rahm says.. then he is clearly NOT planing for this to be voluntary.
I have no indication of it.. but I wonder if this game is, like America's Army, propaganda in order to convince people that "National Slavery" is a good thing and they they should love working for their masters in government.
Government doesn't have anything it didn't get from someone else. There is NOTHING they provide that is free.
It is an absolutely horrible idea to have the government become your ISP. Think of the danger this presents to free speech when the method of communication you use is controlled by the government. Would you have free speech if government controlled all the TV Networks or Newspapers? What if they said they will preform "some filtering" on them?
Now I know that they did not say they would be getting rid of traditional ISP's (who suck because they are usually government "provided" duopolies in most places) however if people feel they *already* pay through taxes for a service why pay extra again? Would that not make the government the dominant ISP?
Government has TERRIBLE customer service, it can't fix the roads, it can't do anything on budget, it can't fix our schools, it can't take care of the veterans, it can't make the poor wealthy, it can't solve the economic cries, it can't make you safe, and it can't make you happy... yet you idiots continue to turn to it to solve your every problem.. Why? What is wrong with you people?
The user experiences is in many ways more intuitive, but that's not the issue...
What people say "intuitive" they actually mean "familiar". They are familiar with the old interface, and don't want to change to the new one even if it is better. They use the same argument against linux or mac too.
That's pretty much true. I work for a company that a while back yanked out all of their Windows XP systems and replaced them with Ubuntu.
Here is how they did it. First they moved everyone off Microsoft Software, and replaced it with what they would find later on Ubuntu. (Firefox, OpenOffice, Thunderbird, & Pidgin primarily.). After a time they instructed people to "Expect things to be diffrent, and diffrent does not mean bad. Some things will not work the same way, some thing may not even work at all, but some things will work better. You need to approach this as if you would approach an alien landscape, it's not the same so don't expect it to be the same." After that we did the change all at once. There have been complaints, some muttering here and there, and there have been issues, but overall it has gone over really really well, and the entire company is just as productive and happy on Ubuntu now. Maybe even more productive, we are getting to a point where there are very few IT Support issues regarding client desktops.. nearly none are work related, most are due to flash and pulseaudio..
But that's the big thing about interfaces.. people who are not interested in computers don't want to learn about them, and they don't want to learn a new interface even if it is better. They will get frustrated if they can't find their "C:\" drive, even though the thought of labeling a drive mappings by alphabetical charters is, and always was, archaic, confusing, and idiotic.
If they at least expect everything to be diffrent, things go a lot better.
The key here is the phrase 'on the same hardware'. As operating systems do more, they take more hardware to perform adequately. And it's not a Windows thing, it's a MacOS thing and a Linux thing.
Not necessarily. MacOS X, 10.2 was faster than 10.1, and 10.3 faster than 10.2, on the same hardware. It wasn't until 10.4 that you actually started seeing a performance hit on G3 and slower G4 computers.
This is true. The reason Mac's got faster was improvements to GCC on PPC, and further optimization and "smart things" done by Apple. (prefetch, preload)
The same code really was faster, but eventually some of the features coming out in the later versions slowed it down. (Spotlight, Exposé).
It shows that Apple is moving in the right direction. Make it leaner and give people features they actually want, All Microsoft seems to want to try to do is kill off their old versions and add more "help" features, that end up being annoying and confusing. Leopard is a really good OS, but it's not faster than Ubuntu/Debian on the same hardware. Lenny is the only reason my G3 is still alive.
Good News Everybody! This will very soon cease to be the case.
HTML 5 specifies a element. Firefox 3.1 will support this, with the Ogg Theora codec included out of the box.
Yep, it's impressive too. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Har-PRP4X9U
http://www.double.co.nz/video_test/test4.html
Nothing to do, just use Firefox and "it just works(tm)".
Because I choose not to, I don't have to have a good reason.
Well good, because I've been leaving them on for about 20 years. Never had a board fry, but a few drives have died.
I think its probbly true, but I don't think its much of an issue. Might have been more so 20 years ago, seen a few systems suffer from problems with chip creep back them..
lol "the energy crisis" is caused by my desktop pc ehh? Perhaps I should also refrain from barbecuing too least I cause global warming :-). Perhaps I shouldn't cook my food at all or take cold showers.. heh, how far exactly would you like me to go here?
It seems to me that Ubuntu could take advantage of this pretty easily as it already checks on boot for a hibernation image.. and it wouldn't even need a special mainboard to do it.
Someone should file a feature request for Jaunty Jackalope.
"Please hibernate the damn things?"
Why is it of your concern? I'll do what I want TYVFM.
After reading how the implementation in windows is done by doing pre-hibernation, it makes the Linux method look even more impressive. They start from a clean cold boot.
Still pre-hibernation is pretty interesting.. I never shut my systems off anyhow though, I always believed that systems left on have a longer life span because the chips never cool down, but that can't be true for some of the computers moving parts..
I wonder if something like this could be done with Linux now that 2.6.27.5 has been out for a few days and that situation with the RESET_REG_SUP bit has been resolved. This certainly is great news for Vista users looking for a new board.
It's been done in 5 seconds..
Doesn't even require a special motherboard, they did it by modifying Fedora on a EEE pc (something not known for it's speed)
http://lwn.net/Articles/299483/
Video: http://www.youtube.com/user/arjanintel
They can use this software and that will make people more moral, immediately after reading this news porn packers will run off to church and repent.
Lol.. ok I can't keep it up anymore.. lol what are they thinking. haha.
No, I'm voting (for Baldwin) I'm just not following the news.
I can't find a real good reason to vote.
Our candidates are Coke and Pepsi, both cola and I'm not into cola. Don't care much who wins because whoever does will be a member of the one party elite.
To expand on this your rights come from your humanity, not from a piece of paper or government bureaucrats in a far off capitol. All people in all nations have rights. (This is why we get upset at things like Chinese human rights violations, if rights came from government why would we get upset? Because those people like you have rights and their government is abusing it.)
The Constitution is not meant to detail what rights you have.. but instead *attempts* to prevent your government from infringing upon certain rights. It's not doing a very good job at that.. mainly because government now just ignores it, and the people don't hold the politicians feet to the fire because they don't understand it..
It is in the constitution as others have pointed out.. but if it was not, why would you think you did not have a right to council?
The Constitution is not a list of the rights you have, it is a list of actions the government can never infringe upon. Read the Federalist papers number 84. It is an argument against the bill of rights because people were afraid it would become a list of the only rights people had.. and after 200 years.. they were right.. it has become a defacto list and even IT is being abused now.
The government has grown in so many ways it now has eradicated every single possible right the people had including skirting around most of the constitution. The second amendment is a PRIME example of this, but I would venture to say that every single article in the constitution and the bill of rights are being broken by todays government.
Where as I agree with you, and note you probbly understand this.. I wanted to make it clear, the Constitution does not grant you rights. It places a restriction on only government but grants you nothing.
Tomorrow congress could pass an amendment saying..
"All previous amendments to this document are void, and generous amounts of lube shall not be applied."
You still have rights. Bush could BURN the Constitution and you still have rights.
All clocks are wrong anyhow. :p http://timecube.org/
I think we should replace daylight saving with time cube.
What's wrong with a Selectric III, I've had a I, a II, and a III? Heavy as boat anchors.
Mine doubles *as* a boat anchor. Works great.