Why is he not deemed a flight risk? He has enough money to buy off everyone between him and safe haven. Its a class argument that suggests Madoff will honorably stand trial while a lower class criminal will just run away.
The sickening fact is what Madoff did is probably not illegal right now. He was operating a black box investment fund. No one knows what was going on inside his scheme, and if the prosecution can't prove he was running a Ponzi scheme, Madoff is under no obligation to incriminate himself.
Do you really care about some screenwriter's answer to a hard question? What makes the writers of BSG qualified to answer tough questions that have stumped us for decades? What information are they privvy to that makes their interpretation of current events useful or correct? I am not familiar with the series, but if they really bring up the tough questions and leave them to the viewer to decide an answer, then they will have done a greater service than vomiting their answer onto the screen.
I think MENSA is one of the most clever tricks an average intelligence pulled off on a higher intelligence person. You join up, pay yearly dues and do... puzzles?
What does being a prude or having a healthy taste for porn have to do with breastfeeding? Can you understand, that in the context of a woman feeding an infant, breastfeeding has ABSOLUTELY nothing to do with sex or sexuality? To say you're not a prude, suggests you have no qualms with healthy sexual appetites, am I right? So what bearing should that have on nursing?
In actuality, you are unable to see a female breast as anything besides a sexual object. You may not be puritanical, religious or a prude, but you mirror your puritanical, religiously inspired and prudish culture's view of a woman's anatomy.
And finally, how is she thrusting an image at you on her facebook? Are you her friend? Are you being forced to look at these images? She has a group of people that choose to associate with her and have a shared interest in each others internet lives.
No one in this thread has posted that sucking on tits != sexual ever. You are forgetting a magic little word called context.
If my girlfriend gets a massage at a spa it is not a sexual act. If I give her a massage as foreplay then it is a sexual act. How hard is that to understand? If I suck on my girlfriends nipples, as a sexual act, then it has a sexual connotation. If her child does so, as an act of sustenance, it is not a sexual act. No one is being sexually gratified when a mother breastfeeds her child, the act may be physically pleasurable, but that does not mean it is sexually stimulating.
People the world over use breastfeeding as supplemental nutrition for toddlers. Your queasiness is ridiculous and your projection of victorian values seems somehow out of place given a screenname of Belial6.
Are you talking about specific jewish people losing land in those countries or the state of Israel? If you're speaking of the individual land owners, then yes, everything said about an interred palestinian farmer can be and should be said about a displaced jewish shop owner. If you're speaking of the state of Israel and the land it acquired through the six day war in 1967, then no, land acquired by force should not be considered if later given up in the process of treaty negotiation. You describe the land that Israel bought and conveniently ignore the land that Israel has stolen and will steal.
Is the decent chance in Jordan you're talking about the UN refugee camps set up immediately prior to the 6 day war? And is blowing it running away from warzones?
Further, a quick thought experiment, at this time there is no nation of Colorado. There is a state of Colorado but I think if we're being intellectually honest and not pedantic, we would both agree that Colorado, while known as a state in the USA, would more accurately be called a territory if we go by the world interpretations of territory vs. state (as it is lacking in both autonomy and sovereignty.) If some force were given the land of Colorado and they proceeded to displace the current occupants of Colorado you would be correct in saying "There never was a nation of Colorado, so these Coloradoians are non-existent." You would however be incorrect in saying "Colorado was an unoccupied wasteland prior to the occupation of the previously mentioned force." As its clear from historical and archeological records, that Colorado was in fact "occupied" by somebody and for some relatively long time period with regard to the current life of the occupying force. Can we apply the same reasoning to Israel? Yes we can, Israel currently occupies 8000sq mi including some of the oldest occupied land in the world. The land that is Israel was previously owned by many different empires, while still not an empire in itself. The land that is Israel has been consistently occupied for 5000 fucking years! It did not magically stop being occupied when the biblical jews left just waiting for the chosen of God to return and turn it into a verdant landscape of joy and beauty. It was farmed, mined and developed by a long standing population that had clearly been using the land for millenia before the state of Israel was created. The creation of the state of Israel is a vestige of british colonial power. It is not a divinely mandated right of the people of Israel, and it does not have a meaningful historic basis. It is at face value a racist theocracy supported by american might and upon closer inspection, a savvy political machine endowed with a Sampson complex.
The problem is not Judaism. The problem is not zionism. Although both of those world views are used as vehicles to try and legitimize the Israeli state. The problem is currently 500,000 palestinians displaced and moved into the equivalent of WW2 american internment camps. The problem is the creation of an oppressed minority and the maintenance of the population as a second class and cheap source of labor. Israel is the current incarnation of apartheid.
Contributing to the difficulty in discussing Israeli policy is the equating of the terms Anti-Israel with Anti-Semetic or more accurately Anti-Jewish. In the paragraph above I mentioned that Judaism and Zionism are vehicles by which Israeli Nationalism is conveyed and acceptance is forced. Taken at face value, there exists no reason to support the actions of the Israeli state and an alien observer would most likely suggest that Israel are the provacateurs. We for some reason, completely ignore the actions of Israel while focusing on the rhetoric of arab leaders. We set as equal the Israeli response (the bombing and occupation of Beirut killing at least 900 for instance) with the provocation (Hezbollah missiles from an undisclosed area in Beirut killing 5.) We applaud Israel for its aggressive response to any perceived threat and deny the s
If you can read the post of yours that I responded to, and somehow glean the above from that post, you have amazing powers of interpretation verging on the supernatural.
Your previous post indicates you believe 500,000 men, women and children in a specific part of the world are ignorant brainwashed barbarians. This could be an observed inference from a random and unbiased representative sample of the palestinian population, but somehow, perhaps because of your tone and rhetorical stylings, I highly doubt you, or most of the other teeth gnashing Pro-Israeli muslim final solutionists, have the academic discipline necessary to conduct the required investigation. You also seem to believe, although this is only by inference, that a violent solution to Palestinian aggression will solve the palestinian "problem." I infer this as the only solutions I am aware of that Israel proposes are bulldozing and internment, both of which are clearly violent and forceful solutions.
What you describe in your above post are indeed indoctrinations. Perhaps they are benign and even beneficial things to believe, but you certainly do not "possess" those beliefs through some enlightened revelation. You, likely, possess those beliefs because of a combination of environment and a predisposition to specific media. Ironically, while your profess the beliefs above, you are much more cavalier in interpreting their meaning and ascribing them to the Israeli power structure, while denying them to the Palestinian people.
The important question to ask, as much as knee-jerk "conservative" idealists hate to admit it, is why would a group of 500,000 people from fairly diverse backgrounds have a large and vocal element of the population advocating violence to another group of people? Some of you may scream "Its the muslims!!!! Kill 'em before they kill us!!" But even then you haven't addressed the issue of why another person, with presumably the same ability to reason as you... well me anyway, would see radical islamic fundamentalism as a viable worldview. To answer that question, and I know the Rush Limbaugh fans in the audience will call me a coward/pinko/homosexual, you have to examine the environment that these people live in and question why/how they came to live in said environment. Its not insightful, hell its not even a clever stance, its an obvious stance. Its based on the maxim "To know a man, you must walk a mile in his shoes."
If we go by your stated beliefs above, and we reason that all men can reason, you have to question why some men, after applying their reason, come up with the very beliefs that you find so contrary to your own. Our other option is to question whether all men can reason. And if thats the case, do your stated beliefs still hold? Or rather do you really interpret your beliefs to be "I, the superior man, can cast judgment on those lesser beasts who have not the capacity to intuit the necessary preconditions for civilized life and in my judgment deride, deny and denigrate any cultural, intellectual or historical achievement of said beasts."
How reasonable of the Israelis, I hope they get to any number of other potentially dangerous building materials, here is a short list: Bricks/Masonry (its what they build military bunkers out of, doncha know) Leather (military boots) steel (any number of weapons) batteries (how elsse will they power their IEDs?) water/food (gotta stop them from feeding those damn terrorists.)
The fundamental problem is Israel is an agressive nation with expansionist tendencies that has been continuously oppressing the palestinians for 50 years now. What non-violence should they be maintaining? The student entifada was non-violent all the way through the seventies, unless you count rock throwing by unarmed palestinian teens against armed israeli soldiers. Why should the palestinians get over the most recent uncontested land grab? Why should they acknowledge a biblical claim to land that has been consistently habitated for 4000 years? Why does a new york jew have greater claim to any land in israel than a palestinian family that can trace its ancestry back to that very home (now bulldozed) for 1500 years?
Hmmm... I wonder what you have been indoctrinated into believing and by what forces? Your dichotomy is as much an invention of your "western" indoctrination as the palestinian response to isrealis is their indoctrination. The palestinians are currently being oppressed by, in their eyes, an occupying nation that has consistently been censured by the world community. The hilarity is the internal media of Israel presents a more varied view of Palestinian/Israeli interaction than most of the media outlets of the west.
Nah, If that were the international date it would be released on March 7th '09. I think he was just saying that any delay ruins the "magic" of a moderately interesting release date.
Why can't a games developer develop in linux and send out the game with some sort of virtual linux installer? Then for the linux crowd the software would be native and for the other crowds, no one would be the wiser.
This is a fabulous graphic novel, but at this point, you are no longer supporting the creators of the original content. Alan Moore has signed away his rights to all of his DC work, hence the flood of shitty Moore-inspired movies. I say steal away and buy the promethea comic line.
Just a note, I do own the graphic novel in print form, comic files are kind of a pain in the ass if you ask me.
While I do not subscribe to the conspiracy theory outlined above, it occurs to me that if you are trying to serve notice that this kind of storytelling will not be tolerated, then it is in your best interest to wait until the maximal amount of pain can be caused. If that is the case, it is much worse for the studio/producer/director to lose the 100's of millions of dollars and the years of man hours.
I find I consistently love your posts. Post on and let the karma burn.
To offer support for some of Mcgrew's statements:
"black people are poor because they are black" The book "Why Americans Hate Welfare" delves into the media representation of welfare recipients from the '70's into the 80's. The representation of black people receiving welfare benefits, as gauged by pictures of welfare recipients showed a distinct upward trend until welfare recipients were almost entirely represented as black in spite of receiving something like 20-30% of the benefits (a disproportionate amount, but not the 100% being reflected in the media.) Survey's taken throughout that period showed a decline in american acceptance of welfare. Looks pretty racist to me.
Here's a link discussing some of the more egregious problems of capital punishment, including unequal representation for poor people:
And meanwhile most of these anti-union screeds wouldn't be surprising if they came out of the lips of Ann Coulter or Rush Limbaugh.
I have a theory on Ann Coulter, I think she's a lot like Andy Kaufman and future generations will laugh at one of the most insightful/inciteful satirists of all time.
Your entire non problem is solved with a small generator. Include a generator by design or just carry one with you as an always prepared boyscout. I'm surprised at the surplus of imagination required to consider all the possible failure points in an electric vehicle, but the complete lack thereof when deciding if there exists a simple and easy to implement solution.
Besides, consider what happens when the fuel pump fails in your trusty ICE, or when the transmission breaks, or the engine seizes. Now where are we? Motorist assistance comes and tows you to the nearest mechanic where you can politely lower your pants, bend over and... you know the rest.
In what way has Russia/USSR been beaten? We're operating within the same global framework. They have enough nukes to guarantee our destruction, we have enough nukes to guarantee theirs what's the difference? We can't directly engage them for fear of nukes so we appease or proxy battle, just like Vietnam or Afghanistan in the '70s. The only things that have changed about the cold war are administrations downgrading the russian threat in spite of no major changes in the venue. We've found it politically helpful to have other equally unbeatable enemies (Muslim Terrorists) to maintain our fear based political system. There is no change in the cold war and anyone suggesting that the USSR got beat is mistaken. The USSR changed face but all the same politicians are in power and all the same policies are being followed, with a healthy dose of criminality.
If Constellation is the best solution for whatever reason, be it cost or technological, then providing that information is precisely what will save the program. If constellation is a weaker program relative to others being proposed then it should be abandoned in favor of a better program. What's the argument about? Let 10 or 100 experts chime in on their multitude of ideas and let the cream rise to the top. If Constellation is part of the cream, more power to it, if its not, nothing of value was lost.
Or it teaches a sense of civic responsibility. You know taking pride in your country and city. I seem to recall a quote that went something like this: "Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country." And any guy who was getting handskies from Marilyn Monroe is a wise man to me.
Who is being forced into working for the state? This is incentivising community service. If you don't want the tax break, don't do the community service. Or, if you don't want the tax break, don't get signed off for community service. You aren't being told what to do, you are being told "There is a new opportunity over here that you can work if you want to."
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Why is he not deemed a flight risk? He has enough money to buy off everyone between him and safe haven. Its a class argument that suggests Madoff will honorably stand trial while a lower class criminal will just run away.
The sickening fact is what Madoff did is probably not illegal right now. He was operating a black box investment fund. No one knows what was going on inside his scheme, and if the prosecution can't prove he was running a Ponzi scheme, Madoff is under no obligation to incriminate himself.
Do you really care about some screenwriter's answer to a hard question? What makes the writers of BSG qualified to answer tough questions that have stumped us for decades? What information are they privvy to that makes their interpretation of current events useful or correct? I am not familiar with the series, but if they really bring up the tough questions and leave them to the viewer to decide an answer, then they will have done a greater service than vomiting their answer onto the screen.
You are now one of my top ten favorite posters. Kudos
I think MENSA is one of the most clever tricks an average intelligence pulled off on a higher intelligence person. You join up, pay yearly dues and do... puzzles?
I like thinking of a memristor as the REAL flux capacitor :)
What does being a prude or having a healthy taste for porn have to do with breastfeeding? Can you understand, that in the context of a woman feeding an infant, breastfeeding has ABSOLUTELY nothing to do with sex or sexuality? To say you're not a prude, suggests you have no qualms with healthy sexual appetites, am I right? So what bearing should that have on nursing?
In actuality, you are unable to see a female breast as anything besides a sexual object. You may not be puritanical, religious or a prude, but you mirror your puritanical, religiously inspired and prudish culture's view of a woman's anatomy.
And finally, how is she thrusting an image at you on her facebook? Are you her friend? Are you being forced to look at these images? She has a group of people that choose to associate with her and have a shared interest in each others internet lives.
No one in this thread has posted that sucking on tits != sexual ever. You are forgetting a magic little word called context.
If my girlfriend gets a massage at a spa it is not a sexual act. If I give her a massage as foreplay then it is a sexual act. How hard is that to understand? If I suck on my girlfriends nipples, as a sexual act, then it has a sexual connotation. If her child does so, as an act of sustenance, it is not a sexual act. No one is being sexually gratified when a mother breastfeeds her child, the act may be physically pleasurable, but that does not mean it is sexually stimulating.
People the world over use breastfeeding as supplemental nutrition for toddlers. Your queasiness is ridiculous and your projection of victorian values seems somehow out of place given a screenname of Belial6.
Are you talking about specific jewish people losing land in those countries or the state of Israel? If you're speaking of the individual land owners, then yes, everything said about an interred palestinian farmer can be and should be said about a displaced jewish shop owner. If you're speaking of the state of Israel and the land it acquired through the six day war in 1967, then no, land acquired by force should not be considered if later given up in the process of treaty negotiation. You describe the land that Israel bought and conveniently ignore the land that Israel has stolen and will steal.
Is the decent chance in Jordan you're talking about the UN refugee camps set up immediately prior to the 6 day war? And is blowing it running away from warzones?
Further, a quick thought experiment, at this time there is no nation of Colorado. There is a state of Colorado but I think if we're being intellectually honest and not pedantic, we would both agree that Colorado, while known as a state in the USA, would more accurately be called a territory if we go by the world interpretations of territory vs. state (as it is lacking in both autonomy and sovereignty.) If some force were given the land of Colorado and they proceeded to displace the current occupants of Colorado you would be correct in saying "There never was a nation of Colorado, so these Coloradoians are non-existent." You would however be incorrect in saying "Colorado was an unoccupied wasteland prior to the occupation of the previously mentioned force." As its clear from historical and archeological records, that Colorado was in fact "occupied" by somebody and for some relatively long time period with regard to the current life of the occupying force. Can we apply the same reasoning to Israel? Yes we can, Israel currently occupies 8000sq mi including some of the oldest occupied land in the world. The land that is Israel was previously owned by many different empires, while still not an empire in itself. The land that is Israel has been consistently occupied for 5000 fucking years! It did not magically stop being occupied when the biblical jews left just waiting for the chosen of God to return and turn it into a verdant landscape of joy and beauty. It was farmed, mined and developed by a long standing population that had clearly been using the land for millenia before the state of Israel was created. The creation of the state of Israel is a vestige of british colonial power. It is not a divinely mandated right of the people of Israel, and it does not have a meaningful historic basis. It is at face value a racist theocracy supported by american might and upon closer inspection, a savvy political machine endowed with a Sampson complex.
The problem is not Judaism. The problem is not zionism. Although both of those world views are used as vehicles to try and legitimize the Israeli state. The problem is currently 500,000 palestinians displaced and moved into the equivalent of WW2 american internment camps. The problem is the creation of an oppressed minority and the maintenance of the population as a second class and cheap source of labor. Israel is the current incarnation of apartheid.
Contributing to the difficulty in discussing Israeli policy is the equating of the terms Anti-Israel with Anti-Semetic or more accurately Anti-Jewish. In the paragraph above I mentioned that Judaism and Zionism are vehicles by which Israeli Nationalism is conveyed and acceptance is forced. Taken at face value, there exists no reason to support the actions of the Israeli state and an alien observer would most likely suggest that Israel are the provacateurs. We for some reason, completely ignore the actions of Israel while focusing on the rhetoric of arab leaders. We set as equal the Israeli response (the bombing and occupation of Beirut killing at least 900 for instance) with the provocation (Hezbollah missiles from an undisclosed area in Beirut killing 5.) We applaud Israel for its aggressive response to any perceived threat and deny the s
If you can read the post of yours that I responded to, and somehow glean the above from that post, you have amazing powers of interpretation verging on the supernatural.
Your previous post indicates you believe 500,000 men, women and children in a specific part of the world are ignorant brainwashed barbarians. This could be an observed inference from a random and unbiased representative sample of the palestinian population, but somehow, perhaps because of your tone and rhetorical stylings, I highly doubt you, or most of the other teeth gnashing Pro-Israeli muslim final solutionists, have the academic discipline necessary to conduct the required investigation. You also seem to believe, although this is only by inference, that a violent solution to Palestinian aggression will solve the palestinian "problem." I infer this as the only solutions I am aware of that Israel proposes are bulldozing and internment, both of which are clearly violent and forceful solutions.
What you describe in your above post are indeed indoctrinations. Perhaps they are benign and even beneficial things to believe, but you certainly do not "possess" those beliefs through some enlightened revelation. You, likely, possess those beliefs because of a combination of environment and a predisposition to specific media. Ironically, while your profess the beliefs above, you are much more cavalier in interpreting their meaning and ascribing them to the Israeli power structure, while denying them to the Palestinian people.
The important question to ask, as much as knee-jerk "conservative" idealists hate to admit it, is why would a group of 500,000 people from fairly diverse backgrounds have a large and vocal element of the population advocating violence to another group of people? Some of you may scream "Its the muslims!!!! Kill 'em before they kill us!!" But even then you haven't addressed the issue of why another person, with presumably the same ability to reason as you... well me anyway, would see radical islamic fundamentalism as a viable worldview. To answer that question, and I know the Rush Limbaugh fans in the audience will call me a coward/pinko/homosexual, you have to examine the environment that these people live in and question why/how they came to live in said environment. Its not insightful, hell its not even a clever stance, its an obvious stance. Its based on the maxim "To know a man, you must walk a mile in his shoes."
If we go by your stated beliefs above, and we reason that all men can reason, you have to question why some men, after applying their reason, come up with the very beliefs that you find so contrary to your own. Our other option is to question whether all men can reason. And if thats the case, do your stated beliefs still hold? Or rather do you really interpret your beliefs to be "I, the superior man, can cast judgment on those lesser beasts who have not the capacity to intuit the necessary preconditions for civilized life and in my judgment deride, deny and denigrate any cultural, intellectual or historical achievement of said beasts."
How reasonable of the Israelis, I hope they get to any number of other potentially dangerous building materials, here is a short list:
Bricks/Masonry (its what they build military bunkers out of, doncha know)
Leather (military boots)
steel (any number of weapons)
batteries (how elsse will they power their IEDs?)
water/food (gotta stop them from feeding those damn terrorists.)
The fundamental problem is Israel is an agressive nation with expansionist tendencies that has been continuously oppressing the palestinians for 50 years now. What non-violence should they be maintaining? The student entifada was non-violent all the way through the seventies, unless you count rock throwing by unarmed palestinian teens against armed israeli soldiers. Why should the palestinians get over the most recent uncontested land grab? Why should they acknowledge a biblical claim to land that has been consistently habitated for 4000 years? Why does a new york jew have greater claim to any land in israel than a palestinian family that can trace its ancestry back to that very home (now bulldozed) for 1500 years?
Hmmm... I wonder what you have been indoctrinated into believing and by what forces? Your dichotomy is as much an invention of your "western" indoctrination as the palestinian response to isrealis is their indoctrination. The palestinians are currently being oppressed by, in their eyes, an occupying nation that has consistently been censured by the world community. The hilarity is the internal media of Israel presents a more varied view of Palestinian/Israeli interaction than most of the media outlets of the west.
Nah, If that were the international date it would be released on March 7th '09. I think he was just saying that any delay ruins the "magic" of a moderately interesting release date.
Why can't a games developer develop in linux and send out the game with some sort of virtual linux installer? Then for the linux crowd the software would be native and for the other crowds, no one would be the wiser.
This is a fabulous graphic novel, but at this point, you are no longer supporting the creators of the original content. Alan Moore has signed away his rights to all of his DC work, hence the flood of shitty Moore-inspired movies. I say steal away and buy the promethea comic line.
Just a note, I do own the graphic novel in print form, comic files are kind of a pain in the ass if you ask me.
While I do not subscribe to the conspiracy theory outlined above, it occurs to me that if you are trying to serve notice that this kind of storytelling will not be tolerated, then it is in your best interest to wait until the maximal amount of pain can be caused. If that is the case, it is much worse for the studio/producer/director to lose the 100's of millions of dollars and the years of man hours.
watchmen is being released in the states on March 6th, 2009. 03-06-09 (american dating, not international.) Thats all GP was referring to.
If ever there was an AC post that should be modded +5 informative, this would be it.
I think you're making a mistake in equating nerd or geek to smart.
McGrew,
I find I consistently love your posts. Post on and let the karma burn.
To offer support for some of Mcgrew's statements:
"black people are poor because they are black"
The book "Why Americans Hate Welfare" delves into the media representation of welfare recipients from the '70's into the 80's. The representation of black people receiving welfare benefits, as gauged by pictures of welfare recipients showed a distinct upward trend until welfare recipients were almost entirely represented as black in spite of receiving something like 20-30% of the benefits (a disproportionate amount, but not the 100% being reflected in the media.) Survey's taken throughout that period showed a decline in american acceptance of welfare. Looks pretty racist to me.
Here's a link discussing some of the more egregious problems of capital punishment, including unequal representation for poor people:
http://themostbrian.wordpress.com/2008/04/15/the-death-penalty/
And meanwhile most of these anti-union screeds wouldn't be surprising if they came out of the lips of Ann Coulter or Rush Limbaugh.
I have a theory on Ann Coulter, I think she's a lot like Andy Kaufman and future generations will laugh at one of the most insightful/inciteful satirists of all time.
Brandon
Your entire non problem is solved with a small generator. Include a generator by design or just carry one with you as an always prepared boyscout. I'm surprised at the surplus of imagination required to consider all the possible failure points in an electric vehicle, but the complete lack thereof when deciding if there exists a simple and easy to implement solution.
Besides, consider what happens when the fuel pump fails in your trusty ICE, or when the transmission breaks, or the engine seizes. Now where are we? Motorist assistance comes and tows you to the nearest mechanic where you can politely lower your pants, bend over and... you know the rest.
In what way has Russia/USSR been beaten? We're operating within the same global framework. They have enough nukes to guarantee our destruction, we have enough nukes to guarantee theirs what's the difference? We can't directly engage them for fear of nukes so we appease or proxy battle, just like Vietnam or Afghanistan in the '70s. The only things that have changed about the cold war are administrations downgrading the russian threat in spite of no major changes in the venue. We've found it politically helpful to have other equally unbeatable enemies (Muslim Terrorists) to maintain our fear based political system. There is no change in the cold war and anyone suggesting that the USSR got beat is mistaken. The USSR changed face but all the same politicians are in power and all the same policies are being followed, with a healthy dose of criminality.
Consider this,
If Constellation is the best solution for whatever reason, be it cost or technological, then providing that information is precisely what will save the program. If constellation is a weaker program relative to others being proposed then it should be abandoned in favor of a better program. What's the argument about? Let 10 or 100 experts chime in on their multitude of ideas and let the cream rise to the top. If Constellation is part of the cream, more power to it, if its not, nothing of value was lost.
Or it teaches a sense of civic responsibility. You know taking pride in your country and city. I seem to recall a quote that went something like this:
"Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country."
And any guy who was getting handskies from Marilyn Monroe is a wise man to me.
Who is being forced into working for the state? This is incentivising community service. If you don't want the tax break, don't do the community service. Or, if you don't want the tax break, don't get signed off for community service. You aren't being told what to do, you are being told "There is a new opportunity over here that you can work if you want to."
Like blowing too much air into a balloon!!!