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  1. Re:Everything else comes from the Internet on Car Dealers vs the Web: GM Shifts Toward Online Purchasing · · Score: 1

    IN most states you have X number of days to return a car before the sale is "final". Buy it, if you don't like, return it.

  2. Re:Yep, buy on the web, at full MSRP. on Car Dealers vs the Web: GM Shifts Toward Online Purchasing · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The whole "wheeling and dealing" for a car price needs to go away.

  3. Re:This just in... on Car Dealers vs the Web: GM Shifts Toward Online Purchasing · · Score: 1

    So forever?

  4. Re:Speaking as a non-American... on Slashdot Asks: How Does the US Gov't Budget Crunch Affect You? · · Score: 1

    200 years of practice argues otherwise.

  5. Re:Aspirational terms. on Slashdot Asks: How Does the US Gov't Budget Crunch Affect You? · · Score: 1

    Federal Budget is not the same thing as a Household budget... A Federal Budget bill does does not "balance" the way that a a Household budget would.

  6. Re:Speaking as a non-American... on Slashdot Asks: How Does the US Gov't Budget Crunch Affect You? · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately, the branch with the job of determining what is or is not Constitutional is the Supreme Court. They have deemed it to be Constitutional, so it is.

  7. Re:Speaking as a non-American... on Slashdot Asks: How Does the US Gov't Budget Crunch Affect You? · · Score: 1

    Yeah, we are not repealing the 17th Amendment. The Senate was rampant with corruption.

    And Yes, it would take a Constitutional Amendment to do what I propose. So I doubt it will every happen. But that doesn't mean it wouldn't be for the best.

  8. Re:Shut more of it down..... on Slashdot Asks: How Does the US Gov't Budget Crunch Affect You? · · Score: 1

    Actually the Private Sector needs the EPA. IF a law says that have to have a permit provided from the EPA, the company is on hold - not conducting business - until the EPA comes back.

  9. Re:Time for an Election in the USA... on Slashdot Asks: How Does the US Gov't Budget Crunch Affect You? · · Score: 1

    So, just to fix your argument. FDR tried to pack the courts, and failed. He didn't threaten the Supreme Court with with packing it - as they knew he couldn't. He served as President long enough to appoint 8 of the 9 people serving on the Supreme Court. Thus, he ensured that those on the Supreme Court held views similar enough to himself.

  10. Re:The effect has been deleterious on Slashdot Asks: How Does the US Gov't Budget Crunch Affect You? · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I don't think people realize that the Federal Government actually employees a LOT of Private Sector companies.

    /Former private sector employee employeed by the Federal Government
    //Many years ago

  11. Re:Speaking as a non-American... on Slashdot Asks: How Does the US Gov't Budget Crunch Affect You? · · Score: 1

    Which might a be a good reason to do away with districts and switch to a Multi-Party system like Euope does: You get House Seats based on your percent of the votes cast.

  12. Re:Speaking as a non-American... on Slashdot Asks: How Does the US Gov't Budget Crunch Affect You? · · Score: 2

    Except for the whole arguments that Madison and Hamilton make in the Federalist Papers about Majority Rule and Minority Protections. and how our Republic is specifically set up to put limitations on majority rule. IF the Founding Fathers wanted Majority Rule, we'd have a Direct Democracy.

  13. Re:Speaking as a non-American... on Slashdot Asks: How Does the US Gov't Budget Crunch Affect You? · · Score: 1

    FYI, The court has been cutting out the "unconstitutional" pieces of legislation and leaving the rest since they've been using Judicial Review. OR are you attempting to make the argument that Judicial Review itself is unconstitutional?

  14. Re:Aspirational terms. on Slashdot Asks: How Does the US Gov't Budget Crunch Affect You? · · Score: 3, Informative

    The shut down will end up costing MORE money then just passing a Budget.

  15. Re:No more midichlorians! on An Animated, Open Letter To J.J. Abrams About Star Wars · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I replied without reading your full post. You should work on making your posts more interesting :-)

  16. Re:Can we do something else now? on An Animated, Open Letter To J.J. Abrams About Star Wars · · Score: 1

    Yet. There were a few years between TOS and TNG. Give Harry Potter time.

  17. Re:No more midichlorians! on An Animated, Open Letter To J.J. Abrams About Star Wars · · Score: 2

    Just ignore the scientific aspect of the force. It isn't needed.

  18. Re:Question about the second picutre in TFA on First Cases of Flesh-Eating Drug Emerge In the United States · · Score: 1

    I am also assuming that the area is dead, so the nerves maybe be non-functioning as well.

  19. Re:Solution on First Cases of Flesh-Eating Drug Emerge In the United States · · Score: 1

    That's because the sale if it is still confusing and not wide spread. It will go down over time. However, it is a cheap plant to grow, so their will always be a "black market" for it. But it won't be a billion dollar black market.

  20. Re:Solution on First Cases of Flesh-Eating Drug Emerge In the United States · · Score: 1

    Apparently not that addictive if they never tried it again.

  21. Re:Solution on First Cases of Flesh-Eating Drug Emerge In the United States · · Score: 1

    Personal Responsibility. Don't try heroine. It can fuck your life up. The side effects of Heroine are bad enough, without jailing you on top of that.

  22. Re:Solution on First Cases of Flesh-Eating Drug Emerge In the United States · · Score: 1

    Legalize it and someone will "fix it" so it doesn't eat flesh.

  23. Re:So the FBI hacked servers to find pedos? on FBI Admits It Controlled Tor Servers Behind Mass Malware Attack · · Score: 1

    Protecting any groups right to assemble and speech protects everyones right to assemble and speech.

  24. Re:3.3 million down the drain on No Child Left Untableted · · Score: 1

    Hmm. That must be why smaller classroom size actually HAS an effect on student performance. But hey, don't let facts get in your way!

  25. Re:3.3 million down the drain on No Child Left Untableted · · Score: 1

    Teachers Unions don't want "more money" for the sake of "more money". They one one of the few things to actually have shown to generate better student improvement: Smaller Class Sizes. Now, that means more classrooms, and more teachers. Which, does tend to cost more money.