If the kids don't want to go to school and the parents aren't able to make them go to school...
Then they don't effing go to school.
We wouldn't have to worry with NCLB, because the kids in school would either a) want to be there or b) actually have parents who are capable of parenting. Everybody there will be interested (of their own accord or because their parents demand it) in doing the school work and furthering their education instead of bringing the class to a halt so they don't get "left behind"...
The Federal Government can regulate commerce, but the Constitution says:
"To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes"
So the Federal Government has the right to regulate the "buying and selling" of goods between the "States", not between two people or between a corporation and a person.
Next time you open your mouth, try doing a little research and critical thinking of your own.
You are right that it "falls under a government agency's mandate". However, the agency with its mandate is completely unconstitutional. Read the Constitution and it plainly states that the powers the federal government shall have are stated in the Constitution....the way to give the Government more power it to amend the constitution and I have not seen or read an amendment saying the Federal Government has the right to regulate food or drugs of any kind.
Therefore having the FDA regulate anything, tobacco or not is unconstitutional.
The only thing we really need to worry about are systems that are date sensitive; mainly financial concerns with banks and businesses. Everything else will just go over to "00" and not know the difference between 1900 and 2000. For example power grids will not fail because they dont have days where they dont turn on, all their systems monitor is usage and where to put more power because it is needed. Their computers could care less if the date is Jan. 1, 1900 or whether it is Jan. 1, 2000. And every desktop computer will roll over and that will be the end of it. The problems will be the people, not the computers. Consider this, everyone is up at midnight (waiting for all hell to break lose) and they have lights on, tv on, computer on and everything else on in the house so they will know if there is a glitch. Another will be everyone trying to pick up the phones at the stroke of 12 (local time) just to see if there is a dail tone. There have already been statements made by phone companies not to do this because their servers will not be able to handle it (the biggest dos attack in history). Another problem will be all the little fucks who think it will be cute to hack/crack (whatever you want to call it, be my guest) a website and deface it, and people trying to take down servers on purpose. Then lets not forget all the phychos that think the world is going to come to an end at 12 (local time) and are going to do something stupid and start looting and rioting. All of this with no purpose, and the news media is going to have a field day with it and a day later people will be saying "Where the hell was that Y2K bug!?" and this will just screw up more peoples perceptions of technology and such. Well im tired of writing, just my $0.02.
There is also another point that we are missing. That is that the RIAA cant do anything about pirated songs these days, they know that and so do we. There are just to damn many ways to do it. The problem is that Napster makes it easy to download music, and that the program is specifically made for this purpose. Now for most of us it doesnt matter cause we can go other places and get anything we want. The RIAA knows this. They are just pissed off cause this new program came out that makes it so any one with an IQ higher than their shoe size can use and download pirated music. So now the number of people that can and do download pirated music grows at an increasingly growing rate. They are suing Napster cause they think it will send a message to all the people that use it, cause they are too damn stupid to do it any other way, that they cannot do that. If the RIAA wins then most of those people will never download mp3s again because they are ignorant. They would do the same thing to IRC if it was advertised to download mp3s. Let the Wookie win, hell yeah!
If you want to hit the company where it hurts the most "in the pocket book." Then dont wait for the government to do something about it. Do something about yourself, dont buy the software. I dont agree with what ID is doing, but if you play the game and you know about the info being sent then you can say nothing about it, because you are the one letting it happen.
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If the kids don't want to go to school and the parents aren't able to make them go to school...
Then they don't effing go to school.
We wouldn't have to worry with NCLB, because the kids in school would either a) want to be there or b) actually have parents who are capable of parenting. Everybody there will be interested (of their own accord or because their parents demand it) in doing the school work and furthering their education instead of bringing the class to a halt so they don't get "left behind"...
"To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes"
So the Federal Government has the right to regulate the "buying and selling" of goods between the "States", not between two people or between a corporation and a person.
Next time you open your mouth, try doing a little research and critical thinking of your own.
Therefore having the FDA regulate anything, tobacco or not is unconstitutional.
You're statement is the only thing that is simple and wrong.....
infinity^2 is infinity.....it is uncountable has no values....therefore traditional mathematics do not apply
The only thing we really need to worry about are systems that are date sensitive; mainly financial concerns with banks and businesses. Everything else will just go over to "00" and not know the difference between 1900 and 2000. For example power grids will not fail because they dont have days where they dont turn on, all their systems monitor is usage and where to put more power because it is needed. Their computers could care less if the date is Jan. 1, 1900 or whether it is Jan. 1, 2000. And every desktop computer will roll over and that will be the end of it. The problems will be the people, not the computers. Consider this, everyone is up at midnight (waiting for all hell to break lose) and they have lights on, tv on, computer on and everything else on in the house so they will know if there is a glitch. Another will be everyone trying to pick up the phones at the stroke of 12 (local time) just to see if there is a dail tone. There have already been statements made by phone companies not to do this because their servers will not be able to handle it (the biggest dos attack in history). Another problem will be all the little fucks who think it will be cute to hack/crack (whatever you want to call it, be my guest) a website and deface it, and people trying to take down servers on purpose. Then lets not forget all the phychos that think the world is going to come to an end at 12 (local time) and are going to do something stupid and start looting and rioting. All of this with no purpose, and the news media is going to have a field day with it and a day later people will be saying "Where the hell was that Y2K bug!?" and this will just screw up more peoples perceptions of technology and such. Well im tired of writing, just my $0.02.
There is also another point that we are missing. That is that the RIAA cant do anything about pirated songs these days, they know that and so do we. There are just to damn many ways to do it. The problem is that Napster makes it easy to download music, and that the program is specifically made for this purpose. Now for most of us it doesnt matter cause we can go other places and get anything we want. The RIAA knows this. They are just pissed off cause this new program came out that makes it so any one with an IQ higher than their shoe size can use and download pirated music. So now the number of people that can and do download pirated music grows at an increasingly growing rate. They are suing Napster cause they think it will send a message to all the people that use it, cause they are too damn stupid to do it any other way, that they cannot do that. If the RIAA wins then most of those people will never download mp3s again because they are ignorant. They would do the same thing to IRC if it was advertised to download mp3s. Let the Wookie win, hell yeah!
If you want to hit the company where it hurts the most "in the pocket book." Then dont wait for the government to do something about it. Do something about yourself, dont buy the software. I dont agree with what ID is doing, but if you play the game and you know about the info being sent then you can say nothing about it, because you are the one letting it happen.