No. A tax that benefits every citizen, such as for a protective police force, is legitimate tax. Taxes that only benefit ~5$ of the population (i.e. giving them free stuff), are illegitimate.
How ironic that the U.S. Cyber Crime unit is breaking U.S. Law to accomplish their goal (modding the hardware and installing Linux). Hmmm. But I doubt Sony or anybody else will file suit. They don't want to go after a big target like the United States government.
+1 funny? Or +1 informative. In the UK they lock you in jail for year-after-year until you give them the encryption key. So much for the right to be presumed innocent until PROVED guilty.
Sad but true. Refusal to share your encryption key or password is now illegal in Britannia.
No on second thought I'd rather work at Walmart. At least there I could flirt with the cute 20-something girls. "Do these shoes fit me?" No. Bend over and try these on instead. "Thanks!" Ahhh yes that's a good view.
My home town had to pay to provide police protection for a KKK demonstration.
Yes. The government has a job to protect people from being beaten or killed. It protects KKK members' right to life. The government does NOT have the job to steal money from your neighbors and give the KKK Leader a free podium or a free house. Such a thing would be theft of the neighbors' labor, and an infringement of *their* rights
Also police protection is something that benefits every citizen, and thus legitimate. Everyone pays but also everyone benefits. Giving the KKK Leader a free podium, or me a free broadband hookup, only benefits those few persons, and therefore illegitimate theft of money
Without CGI the tv show Babylon 5 could have never been made (too many war scenes) for the cheap cost that WB could afford (half Star Trek's budget).
Other shows that likely wouldn't exist in the format we got are the New Battlestar Galactica and Stargate SG1, SGA, SGU with their numerous space battle. Instead we'd have something like Buck Rogers or Space 1999 that barely have any space scenes at all, due to the cost of models being too high. i.e. Claustrophobic.
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
No, I'm correct, you are mistaken two legal terms. You are talking about the constitution here, not about the civil laws. And I was referring to the laws!
No you're not correct. (1) The Constitution IS the law - it's the supreme law. Nothing is higher than it. - (2) Congress can not pass "civil laws" which are in violation of the Constitution. Nor can it pass laws it has not been granted by the Constitution, except via the process of amendment by 3/4 of the Member States
Battlezone on the lowly 1 megahertz Atari VCS (1977) - I like the cool effects when the tank blows up. It's also very colorful for an ancient 70s game (128 colors)
Nobody forces people to go into mines and dig coal. They do that voluntarily. Some even enjoy it (yes I've met people who like working in mines). There is no harm done when people voluntarily choose these jobs.
Yes my ancient 1985 Amiga at just 7 megahertz has a pirate demo like that. It showed a 3D rabbit, and you could spin him in any direction using just your mouse and the right button. It was impressive in the 80s.
Not for people who violate the Right to Life (murderers) or Right to Property (thieves). I see no reason why we should respect somebody's Right to Liberty when then show no respect for their neighbors' rights. "No man has a right to harm another, and that's all the government should restrain him." - Thomas Jefferson
It's not a perfect solution. I'd prefer to have no prisons, but we're dealing with a non-perfect species, so that makes prisons necessary to protect everybody from the tiny few of sick individuals.
This is the fundamental fallacy of the doctrine of innate rights. Any actual part of the human body can be removed.
Only by two methods: (1) Voluntarily I can give my kidney, or I can sell my self to my employer for 8 hours a day. I give-up a portion of my body or rights to gain something in return. (2) By force. The latter is what I'm concerned about. Those persons who use option 2 are infringing upon your rights, and the persons or government responsible will be held to the fire. We executed German and Japanese leaders for using option (2) to remove Jewish and Chinese citizens from their natural rights.
there's no objective way to demonstrate that they exist at all.
Yes it can, and that demonstration was performed almost 2500 years ago by a Greek philosopher (Socrates if I recall correctly). Put a man in a cage. What is his first instinct? To escape. Therefore human beings have an *innate* desire to experience Liberty. ----- Another demonstration was to threaten someone with a knife. They will fight back rather than be killed. Therefore human beings have an innate desire to experience Life (i.e. not be killed).
These ancient Greek philosophers created the foundation for what eventually evolved into Enlightenment and modern-day Human Rights Philosophy.
Therefore it's not a "natural right" to claim exclusivityover any material object
If I labor my ass off, and receive payment as food, goods, or dollars, I HAVE earned that as my exclusive property. These concepts are tightly intertwined.
Labor == accumulation of property. Property == physical representation of previous labor performed.
Here's the other solution for when government becomes an agent of theft, to steal-away our labor from the middle class to the poor classes (or vice-versa, to the wealthy megacorps, like AIG):
"We hold these truths to be self-evident..... That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, -- That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness."
I feel like I'm being mugged. And the thieves are not using guns. They are using government.
Just vote for the right politicians, and they'll let you take other people's property.
Welcome to modern society. It looks a lot like the old Roman Empire, where Senators bought votes by redistributing wealth to their supporters. Two thousand years and nothing's really change. It's Conservatism (pro-big-government) in action.
Well of course but the U.S. could not suddenly announce, "All sales taxes shall be a uniform 5% in all 50 states". The US doesn't have that power to overrule state governments, although the EU apparently does have the power to uniformly control sales taxes in its member states
the government is the servant and the citizens the master. The citizens don't owe the government anything; the government owes the citizens for allowing it to exist.
We hold these truths to be self-evident..... That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, -- That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
In essence if you sold 1000 items per year, you'd have to mail 1000 tax returns to different localities, and pay $420 in postage. Oh yeah, this isn't a tax on private sellers AT ALL.
Does New York compensate the Virginian for his days of labor wasted "remitting" the tax? If not then it's uncompensated labor enforced upon a non-citizen and illegal. It's just the same as if Canada started demanding Americans collect and remit taxes to Ottawa.
This is plantation mentality. "The government is good to me, therefore I will serve it and give it my money and my labor." In reality the government is the servant and the citizens the master. The citizens don't owe the government anything; the government owes the citizens for allowing it to exist.
But I defend FOX News because that's who people are attacking 99% of the time. If they were not under attack, I wouldn't be talking about FOX at all. In other words, you started it!;-) Also it's worth noting that many persons (i.e. libertarians) consider FOX to be "liberal news media". It's all a matter of perspective. From my viewpoint when you watch the actual NEWS (not the commentors like Beck, Hannity, etc), FOX covers both leftist and rightest viewpoints. The other networks only do the left "we need more government" view.
1 or 2 years from now when these moderators are selling their used games or whatever, and they find they have to pay taxes to some multiple states 100s of miles away, then they'll want to cry.
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No. A tax that benefits every citizen, such as for a protective police force, is legitimate tax.
Taxes that only benefit ~5$ of the population (i.e. giving them free stuff), are illegitimate.
+1 insightful
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How ironic that the U.S. Cyber Crime unit is breaking U.S. Law to accomplish their goal (modding the hardware and installing Linux). Hmmm. But I doubt Sony or anybody else will file suit. They don't want to go after a big target like the United States government.
How is this in any way a troll?
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by commodore64_love (1445365) Alter Relationship on Wednesday November 18, @05:25PM (#30149634)
Just curious: ...how does one encrypt files with a password? Any free software available for that task?
Why is this marked troll? Have the mods gone batty?
+1 funny? Or +1 informative. In the UK they lock you in jail for year-after-year until you give them the encryption key. So much for the right to be presumed innocent until PROVED guilty.
Sad but true. Refusal to share your encryption key or password is now illegal in Britannia.
Where do I apply?
No on second thought I'd rather work at Walmart. At least there I could flirt with the cute 20-something girls. "Do these shoes fit me?" No. Bend over and try these on instead. "Thanks!" Ahhh yes that's a good view.
My home town had to pay to provide police protection for a KKK demonstration.
Yes. The government has a job to protect people from being beaten or killed. It protects KKK members' right to life. The government does NOT have the job to steal money from your neighbors and give the KKK Leader a free podium or a free house. Such a thing would be theft of the neighbors' labor, and an infringement of *their* rights
Also police protection is something that benefits every citizen, and thus legitimate. Everyone pays but also everyone benefits. Giving the KKK Leader a free podium, or me a free broadband hookup, only benefits those few persons, and therefore illegitimate theft of money
Without CGI the tv show Babylon 5 could have never been made (too many war scenes) for the cheap cost that WB could afford (half Star Trek's budget).
Other shows that likely wouldn't exist in the format we got are the New Battlestar Galactica and Stargate SG1, SGA, SGU with their numerous space battle. Instead we'd have something like Buck Rogers or Space 1999 that barely have any space scenes at all, due to the cost of models being too high. i.e. Claustrophobic.
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
No, I'm correct, you are mistaken two legal terms. You are talking about the constitution here, not about the civil laws. And I was referring to the laws!
No you're not correct. (1) The Constitution IS the law - it's the supreme law. Nothing is higher than it. - (2) Congress can not pass "civil laws" which are in violation of the Constitution. Nor can it pass laws it has not been granted by the Constitution, except via the process of amendment by 3/4 of the Member States
Battlezone on the lowly 1 megahertz Atari VCS (1977) - I like the cool effects when the tank blows up. It's also very colorful for an ancient 70s game (128 colors)
http://www.atariguide.com//ss/batlzone.gif
Uh.
Nobody forces people to go into mines and dig coal. They do that voluntarily. Some even enjoy it (yes I've met people who like working in mines). There is no harm done when people voluntarily choose these jobs.
Yes my ancient 1985 Amiga at just 7 megahertz has a pirate demo like that. It showed a 3D rabbit, and you could spin him in any direction using just your mouse and the right button. It was impressive in the 80s.
Not for people who violate the Right to Life (murderers) or Right to Property (thieves). I see no reason why we should respect somebody's Right to Liberty when then show no respect for their neighbors' rights. "No man has a right to harm another, and that's all the government should restrain him." - Thomas Jefferson
It's not a perfect solution. I'd prefer to have no prisons, but we're dealing with a non-perfect species, so that makes prisons necessary to protect everybody from the tiny few of sick individuals.
This is the fundamental fallacy of the doctrine of innate rights. Any actual part of the human body can be removed.
Only by two methods: (1) Voluntarily I can give my kidney, or I can sell my self to my employer for 8 hours a day. I give-up a portion of my body or rights to gain something in return. (2) By force. The latter is what I'm concerned about. Those persons who use option 2 are infringing upon your rights, and the persons or government responsible will be held to the fire. We executed German and Japanese leaders for using option (2) to remove Jewish and Chinese citizens from their natural rights.
there's no objective way to demonstrate that they exist at all.
Yes it can, and that demonstration was performed almost 2500 years ago by a Greek philosopher (Socrates if I recall correctly). Put a man in a cage. What is his first instinct? To escape. Therefore human beings have an *innate* desire to experience Liberty. ----- Another demonstration was to threaten someone with a knife. They will fight back rather than be killed. Therefore human beings have an innate desire to experience Life (i.e. not be killed).
These ancient Greek philosophers created the foundation for what eventually evolved into Enlightenment and modern-day Human Rights Philosophy.
Therefore it's not a "natural right" to claim exclusivityover any material object
If I labor my ass off, and receive payment as food, goods, or dollars, I HAVE earned that as my exclusive property. These concepts are tightly intertwined.
Labor == accumulation of property.
Property == physical representation of previous labor performed.
Leaving the country is one solution.
Here's the other solution for when government becomes an agent of theft, to steal-away our labor from the middle class to the poor classes (or vice-versa, to the wealthy megacorps, like AIG):
"We hold these truths to be self-evident..... That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, -- That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness."
I feel like I'm being mugged.
And the thieves are not using guns.
They are using government.
Just vote for the right politicians, and they'll let you take other people's property.
Welcome to modern society. It looks a lot like the old Roman Empire, where Senators bought votes by redistributing wealth to their supporters. Two thousand years and nothing's really change. It's Conservatism (pro-big-government) in action.
Well of course but the U.S. could not suddenly announce, "All sales taxes shall be a uniform 5% in all 50 states". The US doesn't have that power to overrule state governments, although the EU apparently does have the power to uniformly control sales taxes in its member states
the government is the servant and the citizens the master.
The citizens don't owe the government anything;
the government owes the citizens for allowing it to exist.
We hold these truths to be self-evident..... That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, -- That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
States are not allowed to impose duties on goods crossing their border. Nor are the allowed to block goods from crossing. See the U.S.C.
In essence if you sold 1000 items per year, you'd have to mail 1000 tax returns to different localities, and pay $420 in postage. Oh yeah, this isn't a tax on private sellers AT ALL.
Does New York compensate the Virginian for his days of labor wasted "remitting" the tax? If not then it's uncompensated labor enforced upon a non-citizen and illegal. It's just the same as if Canada started demanding Americans collect and remit taxes to Ottawa.
This is plantation mentality. "The government is good to me, therefore I will serve it and give it my money and my labor." In reality the government is the servant and the citizens the master. The citizens don't owe the government anything; the government owes the citizens for allowing it to exist.
I don't know about the other guy,
But I defend FOX News because that's who people are attacking 99% of the time. If they were not under attack, I wouldn't be talking about FOX at all. In other words, you started it! ;-) Also it's worth noting that many persons (i.e. libertarians) consider FOX to be "liberal news media". It's all a matter of perspective. From my viewpoint when you watch the actual NEWS (not the commentors like Beck, Hannity, etc), FOX covers both leftist and rightest viewpoints. The other networks only do the left "we need more government" view.
Ebay's actually trying to drive-out small sellers.
Idiots.
1 or 2 years from now when these moderators are selling their used games or whatever, and they find they have to pay taxes to some multiple states 100s of miles away, then they'll want to cry.