LP advocate getting rid of all Government institutions and replacing them with private companies or contractors.
well, getting rid of the non-constitutional institutions. The fed, to me, _is_ a company. One that has a monopoly over what it does and can force it's customers to do whatever it wants. I trust private companies which can't force me to do something.
you have no control over the federal government. slight control over your state government.
a bit more control over your local government.
Cut back gradually. Eliminate a cup or glassful a day rather than going "cold turkey."
Keep a log to see how much caffeine you consume. Remember to count medications and supplements. Experiment with your intake to see how you feel both physically and psychologically
Limit your intake to 200-300 mg of caffeine per day.
Substitute herbal tea, hot or cider or decaf coffee for caffeinated drinks.
Be active or be still - run, walk, bike ride, swim, do yoga or meditate.
Eat regular meals
Stop smoking - caffeine and cigarettes often go together.
Ask others in your house or office to decrease their caffeine with you. There is strength in numbers.
Remember that coffee does NOT help you to sober up after drinking alcohol.
Prohibition against murder is a cultural reason, if you take a long view.
murder? who is forcing someone to do drugs?
If you have a case, then it would be suicide.
If it's suicide, then show me ONE case where someone has died strictly because of marijuana.
I would argue that most people don't overdose on drugs. They take an unknown dose of drugs. Any idea why they would be taking an unknown amount? because it's ILLEGAL. A pinch of caffeine is deadly, yet you don't see little kids croaking after their coca cola intake. Get over it, people have different cultures than yours. If it's truely detrimental, then nature should work itself out right?
The whole "lone person in the theatre" has that Taxi Driver stigma to it. Personally, I don't find it weird, but your environment thinks it is. It's a matter of whether you are affected by what your environment thinks or not.
Aside from the Alamo Draft House, movie theatres around here don't serve beer. At home you can have cheap beer... and pause the show for the ensuing bathroom breaks.
that, and it's just plain weird going to the theatre on my own.
So if the US Constitution says what the federal government is allowed to do, then where does it give the fed the power to outlaw alcohol without an ammendment..? The Interstate Commerce Clause? hardly.
I don't see gentoo as being "just another distro". Sure you can make it into a distribution, but portage is more like a collection of recipes for making distributions.
It could be universal to all distributions.. gnu/linux, bsd, hurd, or whatever.
I suppose the init scripts might make it a distribution.
Three-fourths of the states are needed to ammend the consitution. 36 states were needed to properly ratify the 16th ammendment because there were 48 states at the time.
If you hate libertarianism, then you hate the origins of the U.S.
This guy is an idiot. The Sixteenth Amendment gives the IRS authority:
uhh, Michael Badnarik has extensive knowledge of the constitution. Trust me, he knows about the 16th ammendment. If you don't believe me, download some of his videos on the constitution here
I can't remember which video it is, but his argument is that the 16th wasn't ratified by Kentucky,Oklahoma,California, and Minnesota even though the federal government says they did:
- The federal government claims Kentucky was the second
state to ratify the 16th Amendment, on Feb. 8, 1910.
However, the records of the State of Kentucky show that
after the Kentucky House proposed a resolution to adopt
the amendment and sent it to the Senate, on Feb. 8, 1910
the Kentucky Senate voted upon that resolution, but
rejected it by a vote of 9 in favor and 22 opposed.
Apparently, the Kentucky Senate never did ratify that
amendment. Federal officials, who had possession of
documents showing this rejection, nevertheless claimed
Kentucky had ratified the amendment.
- In Oklahoma, the proposed amendment was passed by the
Oklahoma House and the language of the resolution
perfectly matched the one passed by Congress. However,
the Oklahoma Senate obviously disliked what Congress had
proposed, so it amended the language of the 16th
Amendment in such a fashion as to have a precisely
opposite meaning.
- The California legislative assembly never recorded any
vote upon any proposal to adopt the 16th Amendment. And
whatever California did adopt bore no resemblance to
what Congress had proposed. Several states engaged in
the unauthorized activity of amending the language of
the amendment proposed by Congress, a power that these
states did not possess.
- Minnesota sent nothing to the Secretary of State in
Washington, but this did not deter Philander Knox from
claiming that Minnesota ratified the amendment,
regardless of the absence of any documentation from the
State of Minnesota.
- Article V requires three fourths of states to ratify
- in 1913 there were 48 states, 36 required & only 35 ratified.
Unless you want to argue that government interferes in the software market by enforcing copyright law, I think Microsoft is a pretty good counter-example to this Libertarian argument.
I'm not a fan of Microsoft, but I don't think they should be regulated by the government.
The free market teaches people. In this case, it teaches us to not intrust our infrastructures to closed and proprietary systems. When enough people learn this, they will regulate themselves away from Microsoft products.
It would be worse if the government regulates and people never learn.
This is slashdot right? I bet a lot of us are here because we've already learned that lesson.
Though often mistaken for a planet, Earth is in reality the greatest supercomputer of all time, designed by Deep Thought to discover the Great Question of Life, The Universe And Everything (to which the answer is 42).
Since the app sends the shader source code to the driver, it would be easy to see all the shaders an app is using. I remember Randi saying that this is one of the issues they are having to deal with. Microsoft doesn't have this problem because the shaders are compiled before shipping.
while not an issue for me, it will be for many companies planning on competitively deploying shaders in their apps.
indeed:
"To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;"
Sure they know a few of their "government granted" rights
The government doesn't grant us rights!
We, the people, have rights. We grant the government privileges to do certain things enumerated in the Constitution. What the hell is the point in enumerating anything if the ICC grants the government any privilege they can think of?
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LP advocate getting rid of all Government institutions and replacing them with private companies or contractors.
well, getting rid of the non-constitutional institutions. The fed, to me, _is_ a company. One that has a monopoly over what it does and can force it's customers to do whatever it wants. I trust private companies which can't force me to do something.
you have no control over the federal government.
slight control over your state government.
a bit more control over your local government.
regulate using your $$$, not the government.
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does anybody seriously think that the American public would have been served by having the debate canceled?
From the libertarian point of view, these debates don't matter in the slightest.
The public will get screwed either way.
At least the lp.org would get some attention from the corporate media for a change... would they?
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looks like I forgot the and screwed all the other unsorted lists. slashdot bug?
I didn't write these.
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Prohibition against murder is a cultural reason, if you take a long view.
murder? who is forcing someone to do drugs?
If you have a case, then it would be suicide.
If it's suicide, then show me ONE case where someone has died strictly because of marijuana.
I would argue that most people don't overdose on drugs. They take an unknown dose of drugs. Any idea why they would be taking an unknown amount? because it's ILLEGAL. A pinch of caffeine is deadly, yet you don't see little kids croaking after their coca cola intake. Get over it, people have different cultures than yours. If it's truely detrimental, then nature should work itself out right?
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I don't know why.
The whole "lone person in the theatre" has that Taxi Driver stigma to it. Personally, I don't find it weird, but your environment thinks it is. It's a matter of whether you are affected by what your environment thinks or not.
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Aside from the Alamo Draft House, movie theatres around here don't serve beer.
At home you can have cheap beer... and pause the show for the ensuing bathroom breaks.
that, and it's just plain weird going to the theatre on my own.
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6) Marijuana vs. Alcohol - Hippie question. Alcohol is part of our culture, like it or abstain from it. No dance with Mary Jane. Move on.
So you are saying that the government has the right to prohibit something for cultural reasons?
Oh wait.. So long as it's not _your_ culture..
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don't forget to include the "booya".
thanks.
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Outlawing Alcohol didn't require an amendment.
So if the US Constitution says what the federal government is allowed to do,
then where does it give the fed the power to outlaw alcohol without an ammendment..?
The Interstate Commerce Clause? hardly.
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I don't see gentoo as being "just another distro".
Sure you can make it into a distribution, but portage is more like a collection of recipes for making distributions.
It could be universal to all distributions.. gnu/linux, bsd, hurd, or whatever.
I suppose the init scripts might make it a distribution.
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I can't believe this hasn't been posted yet:
downloadable videos of Michael Badnarik via bittorrent
The classes on the constitution are extremely insightful.
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It was ratified by a majority of the States.
Three-fourths of the states are needed to ammend the consitution. 36 states were needed to properly ratify the 16th ammendment because there were 48 states at the time.
If you hate libertarianism, then you hate the origins of the U.S.
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This guy is an idiot. The Sixteenth Amendment gives the IRS authority:
uhh, Michael Badnarik has extensive knowledge of the constitution. Trust me, he knows about the 16th ammendment. If you don't believe me, download some of his videos on the constitution here
I can't remember which video it is, but his argument is that the 16th wasn't ratified by Kentucky,Oklahoma,California, and Minnesota even though the federal government says they did:
- The federal government claims Kentucky was the second state to ratify the 16th Amendment, on Feb. 8, 1910. However, the records of the State of Kentucky show that after the Kentucky House proposed a resolution to adopt the amendment and sent it to the Senate, on Feb. 8, 1910 the Kentucky Senate voted upon that resolution, but rejected it by a vote of 9 in favor and 22 opposed. Apparently, the Kentucky Senate never did ratify that amendment. Federal officials, who had possession of documents showing this rejection, nevertheless claimed Kentucky had ratified the amendment.
- In Oklahoma, the proposed amendment was passed by the Oklahoma House and the language of the resolution perfectly matched the one passed by Congress. However, the Oklahoma Senate obviously disliked what Congress had proposed, so it amended the language of the 16th Amendment in such a fashion as to have a precisely opposite meaning.
- The California legislative assembly never recorded any vote upon any proposal to adopt the 16th Amendment. And whatever California did adopt bore no resemblance to what Congress had proposed. Several states engaged in the unauthorized activity of amending the language of the amendment proposed by Congress, a power that these states did not possess.
- Minnesota sent nothing to the Secretary of State in Washington, but this did not deter Philander Knox from claiming that Minnesota ratified the amendment, regardless of the absence of any documentation from the State of Minnesota.
- Article V requires three fourths of states to ratify
- in 1913 there were 48 states, 36 required & only 35 ratified.
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Unless you want to argue that government interferes in the software market by enforcing copyright law, I think Microsoft is a pretty good counter-example to this Libertarian argument.
I'm not a fan of Microsoft, but I don't think they should be regulated by the government.
The free market teaches people.
In this case, it teaches us to not intrust our infrastructures to closed and proprietary systems.
When enough people learn this, they will regulate themselves away from Microsoft products.
It would be worse if the government regulates and people never learn.
This is slashdot right? I bet a lot of us are here because we've already learned that lesson.
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Computation is moving things around.
following taken from Wikipedia:
Though often mistaken for a planet, Earth is in reality the greatest supercomputer of all time, designed by Deep Thought to discover the Great Question of Life, The Universe And Everything (to which the answer is 42).
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Ron Paul, (R. Texas)
Before the Iraq war in 2003, he posed are series of questions that other congress critters should ask themselves. Read them here
I didn't hear any serious debates about it anywhere.
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Nevermind.
Google ignores the initial period in
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Java vs
65.6 million for "Java"
22.4 million for ".net -site:.net"
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Since the app sends the shader source code to the driver, it would be easy to see all the shaders an app is using. I remember Randi saying that this is one of the issues they are having to deal with. Microsoft doesn't have this problem because the shaders are compiled before shipping.
while not an issue for me, it will be for many companies planning on competitively deploying shaders in their apps.
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Clause 8.
indeed:
"To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;"
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Sure they know a few of their "government granted" rights
The government doesn't grant us rights! We, the people, have rights. We grant the government privileges to do certain things enumerated in the Constitution. What the hell is the point in enumerating anything if the ICC grants the government any privilege they can think of?
Understanding the purpose of the Constitution takes a bit more than just reading it.
Michael Badnarik's 8 hour course on the Constitution
enjoy,
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correct.
It's clarified here in a 8 hour class on the US Constitution.
The first hour should cover it.
or.. just read the thing yourself.
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Where in Article 1 Section 8 do we, the people, give Congress the privilege to do this?
Watch an 8 hour class on the Constitution: torrent format
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(Score:0, Offtopic)
WTF?
the topic is:
"Kock Safely With portknocking_v1.0"
It's not my fault the topic is offtopic..
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