Further evidene, of course, was that there wass no interest in the Constitution is the media bias regarding -- and relatively poor showing in the primaries by -- Ron Paul.
Ron Paul had more political views than a strict reading of the Constitution. Even a strict interpertation would be a hard sell (many people agree with an expansive reading of the commerce clause and the equal protection clause.) However, Ron Paul believed in getting rid of paper money (a power clearly granted in the Constitution.) He favored withdrawing from a conflict that may or may not be legal (Congress never flexed its muscles to get the troops out of Iraq, and the Gulf of Tonkin resolution pretty much lets the President start a war in an emergency and then gives Congress the power to veto later.) He favors the dismantling of the IRS and federal income tax, which the Constitution was amended to explicitly allow. It is just not the case that Ron Paul is solely a strict consitutionalist, there are lots of other views he has, and those other views are why he does poorly in the primaries and in the media.
Another point is that, being a federalist nation, forcing laws to be created like this would take power away from the states. The states, essentially, can make up laws however the heck they want. The feds forcing states laws to go through a process like this screams infringement on the principles of federalism.
Except that after the Civil War, the Consitution was amended to give far more power to the federal government. Primarilly, this power was for the federal government to ensure equal protection of citizens and their consitutional rights. If this system were set up to "protect people's right to have understandable laws" than it would be a simple matter to claim federal rights to push it on the states.
I do agree with most of the rest of your post though.
(Just last week, after I sued a telemarketer for $1,500 and won a judgment for $565, the telemarketer appealed by posting a bond for twice that amount, or $1,130. This doesn't seem correct under any interpretation of the law, since the "amount in controversy", however you define it, was greater than the "amount of the judgment" of $565.)
As far as I know, the appeal cannot result in a worse result for the defendant. The most he would have to pay would be $565, hence that is the amount in controversy.
IANAL.
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I'm a programmer and I worked in one company where the programmers were on one side of a desk divider and the other side had the sales people. We were killing ourselves laughing at then kinds of statements sale people were making about the products we were creating!. Often it wasn't based on fact at all.
You start by killing yourself laughing, but later you are going to be killing yourself trying to add the "factor really large primes while plotting the absolute optimal route for your sales force" feature that the sales guys slipped into the specs. Before they are able to sell many units of vapourware, make sure you have slid out of the way of supporting it.
It is sleazy, don't get me wrong, because what other reason would someone other than Real want to purchase the information except to do no good?
Well, there are malware blocking programs that deal with plugging holes in other programs. Windows, and the various VB running Office programs are one source of bugs. I could see an antimalware company advertising itself as fixing holes in Real/Flash/Other malformed content.
This is not an universal problem. It only occurs for those kernels with a specific function compiled in that most installations won't need, and which halfway decent sysadmins won't have as part of the kernel anyhow when they don't need it.
Yet another good example of why you shouldn't hire the sysadmins who blindly use what the vendors ship, but security and performance minded sysadmins who reduce installations to what's actually needed.
Suppose there is a bug in Windows (stretch your imagination to include that possibility) that is part of one of the unpopular services on by default. No one on/. would excuse it because the user (or their sysadmin) should have disabled that service.
Also, options should never, as a principle, cause security holes.
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It's hard to believe that Ron Paul's chief political strategy was apparently to hope for deadlock between the front runners so that he could attempt to sway people to his side at a hypothetical brokered convention. And this, while encouraging his own rabid supporters to spend their own money out of pocket to try to create a grassroots following. Could $30 million possibly have been used to achieve less?
That was never going to happen. At a brokered convention, Ron Paul would go up to each of the frontrunners, and offer his delgates for a place in the administration. I doubt he would have enough pull to even get the VP slot.
Inflation is bad for people with assets. Inflation is good for "bottom level earners" because they are usually in debt, and they pay back the debt with inflated dollars. Bottom level earners actually were a powerful faction towards getting the US off the gold standard, which they refered to as a "cross of gold". Since wages go up when prices go up, bottom level earners are fine. And if wages don't go up, its because Congress has been allowing the minimum wage to slip.
Ron Paul's claim that poor people suffer most from a non-gold backed currency is one of the most historically inverted things I've heard posited by a presidential candidate.
So Yahoo! would sell out for $40, eh? Why am I not impressed with their integrity.
Yes, it's a stock. It's always for sale. The only question is price. MS was buying huge chunks of Apple before the federal government stopped them. The only question in selling a publically traded company is "how much?" Any company would be foolish not to sell out for 100x their stock price, for instance.
I also have another priority... If I were to lose the primary for my congressional seat, all our opponents would react with glee, and pretend it was a rejection of our ideas.
Dear Ron Paul,
If you lose the primary for your congressional seat, it will in fact be a rejection of your ideas. It could hardly be a partisan matter, as it was a primary and whomever wins is going to count for the number of Republicans in Congress.
Or are you such a bad Congressman that you alone of almost all incumbents should be singled out for removal from office by his own party?
If he had more people voting for him, he'd have more votes. Wow, keen political insight there. Have you considered a career with CNN?
The last policital commentary I saw on CNN (copied onto A Daily Show) was "People like to vote for people they like". So, while you intended to be sarcastic, his comment was up to CNN's standards.
Maybe it is time for money to be backed by something tangible and valuable, instead of the federal nothing-in-reserve notes we have now, backed only by the printing of nothing-in-reserve notes on the one hand, and the incineration of nothing-in-reserve notes on the other.
So take your money, and turn it from federal reserve notes into gold. Or silver. Or tungston. Or yuan. We live in a free market. Peg your life savings to whatever you damn well want. You only need to keep whatever you spend in the short term in the currency of whereever you live.
There are a lot of production companies involved in most shows/movies. Basically, the compnanies get credit just as actors/directors/etc. do. However, only one production company owns the show. NBC owns the Tonight Show (after all, it predates Leno and his BDP). However, WWP owns Letterman's show.
don't think the term "Operating System" mean the same things to all people.
Linus was talking about the things that truly are invisible to the average user: the API, the filesystem, etc.
Filesystems? I use a microkernel you insensitive clod!.
I do agree with you, OS X's filesystem is archaic at best. I dropped OS X after it decided to outsmart me on defragging my drives. Thanks for hosing my backup drive when the power went out because you thought it was a good idea to be defragging. Well done.
Simple: The EFF buy one copy of software from someone who has had to pay patent extortion. The price that the EFF paid was presumably higher than it would have been if the software house did not have to pay patent dues... thus the EFF has suffered financially.
The problem is that the standard is not, as the summary claims " anyone... suffering direct financial harm." Instead, the law is about third-party challenges. In other words, the only way after one year to challenge a patent would as a defense once sued over said patent.
The iPhone is the same size as a current BlackBerry and millions of BB users don't find the phones bulky or fragile. The only people that think they are fragile are those that freak out on the first scratch. My BlackBerry 8830 has been kicked across the room and dropped on tile numerous times. Is it pristine? Oh no. But it still works just fine. When I get an iPhone it will be the same way. Battered and bruised, but I bet it still works.
It's not the size of the iPhone/BlackBerry that inheritly makes it fragile. For the iPhone, it is the huge touchscreen. I had a phone with a large touchscreen. Those screens are fragile.
And a BlackBerry, while similar in size, is a different product. Call me when you drop your iPod on the tile, kick it across the room and it still works fine.
But his answer fits perfectly with his philosophy. As a proponent of the federal republic, anything he would say about internal state laws like this would be purely personal opinion and as utterly meaningless...
Except that it's not meaningless. For one, its a matter of customs and interstate commerce. Leaving that aside, it not being a federal issue is not an answer. What does he think Texas should do? Otherwise, it's an obvious "fill in what you want to hear" answer.
And Ron Paul isn't prone to meaningless pander.
Except with regards to the Federal Reserve or any economic matter.
You miss the point of why I brought up those topics. They are yet more examples of things the president has no control over. I was stating that "It's not a presidential function" is a dodge at best, since that in no way means he should not have an opinion on it.
Essentially, his answer to question #3 is "the federal government should leave it to the states". Fair enough for a candidate for a federal office.
Why would that be acceptable? For one, customs regulation is a federal matter. For another, many people, including on slashdot, want to know a candidate's opinions on gay marriage, abortion, and evolution, areas where the president has little or no sway. Aside from pure curiousity, there is also a matter of understanding his intellectual method. If he said, "I think the federal government should stay out of it and there should be no state laws against it", that would be an answer. But that was half an answer at best designed to allow people to read him as pro/anti marijuna legalization as needed.
The problem is that a lot of leading political figures on the left believe that 50% is the right mark
I'd contend that, if anything, 50% is too low. Now, part of the issue is that the highest tax rate should apply to fewer people. But emperically, the economy has done best with a tax rate of 50% or higher.
If it doesn't improve business, which does actually include quality of life and nationalistic branding stuff, then, it shouldn't be there.
Aside from the fact that the vast majority of governemnt spending is for business's benefit, the purpose of the government is to promote the people's welfare. Although often the people's needs are aligned with corporate needs, there are many times when they are diametrically opposed.
I mean, why should Medicare ever go up more than GDP?
Medicare spending is going up. Medicare revenues are not. Medicare is for old people. There are waves of population, so there are few old people, then many, then few... During the "few" years Medicare saves money it thens spends during the "many" years. But whether Medicare spending increases by more or less than the GDP depends on the phase of the cycle.
Question I have is, why do rates need to go up at all?
Beacause these rates have always been unsustainable. Hence, they have always needed to go up.
God forbid that profits might for once be kept by the people who created it, rather than leeched off by various governments in order to waste on all sorts of irrelevent crap.
Even the Lauffer Curve, beloved of Reagan, says that taxes lead to more productivity. While 100% is bad, 0% is also bad. The right number is in-between.
In any case, that could be one reason to use a precious metal rather than something cheap, if gold is capable of being colorized in ways that lead is not..
Here's the oft repeated story again, instead of trying to improve infrastructure and services (like backup lines for instance) the consumers are the ones left holding the bag. In fact they're already using the word 'rationing'. Why is it that almost always its the consumers who bear the burden of whatever boo boo's made by the service providers ?
This isn't a private company, it's the entire country's connection to the rest of the world. As in, the government. And there are redundancies, that's why they can still connect. Two of the three main cables (each over a mile apart) failed simultanously.
On the other hand though the statement is worded unsurprisingly inept, i guess the sentiment here might be to take stock of the usage and avoiding unnecessary bandwidth hogging for a while. Though what's unnecessary should be left to the consumers to define for themselves.
A simple request for 'help' and 'understanding' would have been more useful without generating all the negative publicity that I'm sure this will generate.
That's pretty much what they did. They said there was limited bandwidth, and asked people not to download music and movies because it would eat up bandwidth that might be needed for contining business purposes.
If you read all his comments, it is quite polite and understanding of individuals' rights. You might not think it was polite because it was translated from Arabic. Egypt is a different country than the United States. Many other countries speak languages besides English.
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Ron Paul had more political views than a strict reading of the Constitution. Even a strict interpertation would be a hard sell (many people agree with an expansive reading of the commerce clause and the equal protection clause.) However, Ron Paul believed in getting rid of paper money (a power clearly granted in the Constitution.) He favored withdrawing from a conflict that may or may not be legal (Congress never flexed its muscles to get the troops out of Iraq, and the Gulf of Tonkin resolution pretty much lets the President start a war in an emergency and then gives Congress the power to veto later.) He favors the dismantling of the IRS and federal income tax, which the Constitution was amended to explicitly allow. It is just not the case that Ron Paul is solely a strict consitutionalist, there are lots of other views he has, and those other views are why he does poorly in the primaries and in the media.
Except that after the Civil War, the Consitution was amended to give far more power to the federal government. Primarilly, this power was for the federal government to ensure equal protection of citizens and their consitutional rights. If this system were set up to "protect people's right to have understandable laws" than it would be a simple matter to claim federal rights to push it on the states.
I do agree with most of the rest of your post though.
As far as I know, the appeal cannot result in a worse result for the defendant. The most he would have to pay would be $565, hence that is the amount in controversy.
IANAL.
You start by killing yourself laughing, but later you are going to be killing yourself trying to add the "factor really large primes while plotting the absolute optimal route for your sales force" feature that the sales guys slipped into the specs. Before they are able to sell many units of vapourware, make sure you have slid out of the way of supporting it.
Well, there are malware blocking programs that deal with plugging holes in other programs. Windows, and the various VB running Office programs are one source of bugs. I could see an antimalware company advertising itself as fixing holes in Real/Flash/Other malformed content.
Suppose there is a bug in Windows (stretch your imagination to include that possibility) that is part of one of the unpopular services on by default. No one on /. would excuse it because the user (or their sysadmin) should have disabled that service.
Also, options should never, as a principle, cause security holes.
That was never going to happen. At a brokered convention, Ron Paul would go up to each of the frontrunners, and offer his delgates for a place in the administration. I doubt he would have enough pull to even get the VP slot.
Inflation is bad for people with assets. Inflation is good for "bottom level earners" because they are usually in debt, and they pay back the debt with inflated dollars. Bottom level earners actually were a powerful faction towards getting the US off the gold standard, which they refered to as a "cross of gold". Since wages go up when prices go up, bottom level earners are fine. And if wages don't go up, its because Congress has been allowing the minimum wage to slip.
Ron Paul's claim that poor people suffer most from a non-gold backed currency is one of the most historically inverted things I've heard posited by a presidential candidate.
Yes, it's a stock. It's always for sale. The only question is price. MS was buying huge chunks of Apple before the federal government stopped them. The only question in selling a publically traded company is "how much?" Any company would be foolish not to sell out for 100x their stock price, for instance.
Dear Ron Paul,
If you lose the primary for your congressional seat, it will in fact be a rejection of your ideas. It could hardly be a partisan matter, as it was a primary and whomever wins is going to count for the number of Republicans in Congress.
Or are you such a bad Congressman that you alone of almost all incumbents should be singled out for removal from office by his own party?
The last policital commentary I saw on CNN (copied onto A Daily Show) was "People like to vote for people they like". So, while you intended to be sarcastic, his comment was up to CNN's standards.
So take your money, and turn it from federal reserve notes into gold. Or silver. Or tungston. Or yuan. We live in a free market. Peg your life savings to whatever you damn well want. You only need to keep whatever you spend in the short term in the currency of whereever you live.
There are a lot of production companies involved in most shows/movies. Basically, the compnanies get credit just as actors/directors/etc. do. However, only one production company owns the show. NBC owns the Tonight Show (after all, it predates Leno and his BDP). However, WWP owns Letterman's show.
Filesystems? I use a microkernel you insensitive clod!.
I do agree with you, OS X's filesystem is archaic at best. I dropped OS X after it decided to outsmart me on defragging my drives. Thanks for hosing my backup drive when the power went out because you thought it was a good idea to be defragging. Well done.
I stand corrected.
The problem is that the standard is not, as the summary claims " anyone... suffering direct financial harm." Instead, the law is about third-party challenges. In other words, the only way after one year to challenge a patent would as a defense once sued over said patent.
It's not the size of the iPhone/BlackBerry that inheritly makes it fragile. For the iPhone, it is the huge touchscreen. I had a phone with a large touchscreen. Those screens are fragile.
And a BlackBerry, while similar in size, is a different product. Call me when you drop your iPod on the tile, kick it across the room and it still works fine.
Except that it's not meaningless. For one, its a matter of customs and interstate commerce. Leaving that aside, it not being a federal issue is not an answer. What does he think Texas should do? Otherwise, it's an obvious "fill in what you want to hear" answer.
Except with regards to the Federal Reserve or any economic matter.
You miss the point of why I brought up those topics. They are yet more examples of things the president has no control over. I was stating that "It's not a presidential function" is a dodge at best, since that in no way means he should not have an opinion on it.
Why would that be acceptable? For one, customs regulation is a federal matter. For another, many people, including on slashdot, want to know a candidate's opinions on gay marriage, abortion, and evolution, areas where the president has little or no sway. Aside from pure curiousity, there is also a matter of understanding his intellectual method. If he said, "I think the federal government should stay out of it and there should be no state laws against it", that would be an answer. But that was half an answer at best designed to allow people to read him as pro/anti marijuna legalization as needed.
I'd contend that, if anything, 50% is too low. Now, part of the issue is that the highest tax rate should apply to fewer people. But emperically, the economy has done best with a tax rate of 50% or higher.
Aside from the fact that the vast majority of governemnt spending is for business's benefit, the purpose of the government is to promote the people's welfare. Although often the people's needs are aligned with corporate needs, there are many times when they are diametrically opposed.
Medicare spending is going up. Medicare revenues are not. Medicare is for old people. There are waves of population, so there are few old people, then many, then few... During the "few" years Medicare saves money it thens spends during the "many" years. But whether Medicare spending increases by more or less than the GDP depends on the phase of the cycle.
Beacause these rates have always been unsustainable. Hence, they have always needed to go up.
Even the Lauffer Curve, beloved of Reagan, says that taxes lead to more productivity. While 100% is bad, 0% is also bad. The right number is in-between.
Or if you wanted to suck on your ring.
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This isn't a private company, it's the entire country's connection to the rest of the world. As in, the government. And there are redundancies, that's why they can still connect. Two of the three main cables (each over a mile apart) failed simultanously.
That's pretty much what they did. They said there was limited bandwidth, and asked people not to download music and movies because it would eat up bandwidth that might be needed for contining business purposes.
If you read all his comments, it is quite polite and understanding of individuals' rights. You might not think it was polite because it was translated from Arabic. Egypt is a different country than the United States. Many other countries speak languages besides English.