>>>Government owned local data infrastructure is actually a pretty good idea.
I'm sorry: What? I was always under the impression that "monopolies are bad", at least that's what we learned in 10th grade social studies, and yet here you are saying a monopoly is a good idea. I have to disagree. The U.S. Mail monopoly is a bad idea, and so too is a U.S. Data monopoly.
What we need are MORE choices at the home, not whittled down to just one.
Just as it was found in the Toyota case that the customers were not lying ("We did change our oil every 6000 miles!"), I suspect the Microsoft customers are not lying either. There might be some, but I bet the supermajority of them are telling the truth just as the Toyota customers were telling the truth. Microsoft is simply refusing to listen, just as Toyota refused to hear they built flawed engines.
Ultimately it required the action of the U.S. Government to force Toyota to listen to customers instead of assuming they are no-good, filthy liars, and it will likely take the U.S. to force Microsoft customers to be heard too.
No it isn't. There is only one definition of Democracy. Demos-kratos. The People - rule.
The United States is not that. The United States is ruled by law, and therefore is a Republic with the U.S. Constitution being the final say of what is allowed. For example, whites can not take away the immigrant-asians right to free speech, even if they hold a referendum. That majority vote is inferior to the Law.
Remember Franklin's famous words: "You have a Republic - if you can keep it."
I too was discussing the Presidential election by the Electoral College. For example I wrote, "in 1786 we were not a single nation - we were 13 independent nations coming together as an EU-type organization. Hence an election organized by States, not people."
>>>"hey if I do this while I am using it, it breaks". Its not designed to do that.
The Xbox is not designed to be used in a sideways, vertical position? Sorry but that's false. It IS designed to be used in that position and yet still scratches discs, therefore it's an engineering flaw.
No my analog is valid, because Toyota and Microsoft had/have ONE thing in common - They are unfairly blaming the users, when the people they should be holding to task are their engineers or businessmen for building bad engines/disc holders.
>>>So I should be able to just throw my xbox into a centrifuge
STRAWMAN ARGUMENT. If you bothered to read what I write, you would have seen this: "The flaw was not the user; the flaw was the engine overheating & the oil turning to sludge....... [Likewise Microsoft is] unfairly blaming users, but users have done nothing wrong. They have NOT moved their Xboxes, and yet discs are still getting scratched."
No you cannot throw your Xbox into a centrifuge.
Yes you should be able to set your Box on a stable table, and not pull scratched discs out of it.
Only because the Roman Senate was pounding on the door and demanding his death. Had Nero not committed suicide, he would have been dead a half hour later through other means.
I disagree. "It's the user's fault" is the same tactic Toyota tried to use when some of their engines started dying at 30,000 miles. Toyota blamed the user for not proper maintenance, but the truth was that the users had changed oil every 6000 miles as required. The flaw was not the user; the flaw was the engine overheating & the oil turning to sludge. Toyota refused to do anything until the U.S. Consumer Protection Agency threatened a class-action lawsuit, at which point Toyota chose to honor the engine warranty.
The same is true with Microsoft: They are unfairly blaming users, but users have done nothing wrong. They have NOT moved their Xboxes, and yet discs are still getting scratched.
Just as there was a fundamental flaw with Toyota engines, their is a fundamental flaw with Microsoft's disc loader.
>>>Microsoft settled on a cost-free fourth solution: a warning was added to Xbox 360 manual,
The managers once responsible for the Ford Pinto, and the decision that it was cheaper to "pay off" families for deaths than to fix the flammable gasoline tanks, are now working for Microsoft.
>>>the official record is al gore won the popular vote.
Yeah, but he lost the popular vote in Florida, therefore he lost those Electors and lost the Electoral College, which is a prerequisite for being president.
False. It takes a Law. It takes 12 jurors. Then it takes an Appeals Judge(s) to ascertain if the jury fairly applied the law, or not. If not the conviction is thrown-out, because the Law reigns supreme.
>>>Surely the right to life is protected by your constitution, so it would take a 2/3 majority to remove it?
Yes but that's only because we have a Republic, not a democracy. If we had a democracy, it wouldn't matter what the law says because the law could be ignored with a simple majority vote - "kill him". And then your right to life means nothing.
>>>a single state with provinces which have autonomy in certain areas - than to the EU.
Fairly accurate, although the States still hold the power to overrule the U.S. in certain areas. Such as a refusal to outlaw prostitution (Nevada) or to outlaw marijuana use (California) or polygamy (Utah). There were also a few states who refused to comply with the mandatory 55 speed limit back during the 1980s/90s.
We're discussing what the American Founders *believed* in 1786, and at that time they believed that Socrates had been executed by a 50% +1 Democratic vote..... and therefore they wanted to avoid that. They wanted a Law that would protect the individual right to life, regardless of what the Demos wanted.
>>>SCOTUS is the only body which has the authority and power to look and officially declare what the term natural-born citizen means
No. That power ultimately belongs to the 50 States, because they are the signatories to the contract that is the Constitution. The SCOTUS may offer their opinion of what is meant, but ultimately it is the States that can, through convention, define the meaning of "natural born" and thereby overrule anything SCOTUS says.
I agree that the U.S. Supreme Court acts as a good arbitrator in order to provide peaceful resolution.
First replace "Panama" with "Panama Canal" in my previous post.
Second, no the United States did not occupy foreign territory. The U.S. actually OWNED the "canal zone", according to the treaty between the U.S. and Panama.
>>>because Coke is benign and Aspirin is benign, until I pointed out that caffeine and Aspirin have a synergistic effect and Excedrin is a combination of the two.
Precisely. I can't believe Snopes made such an obvious mistake. Two substances when joined often act very differently. The obvious example is Hydrogen and Oxygen. Both are gases and somewhat dangerous (flammable), but when you join them together you get a liquid which douses flames.
>>>a little doubt in the power of democracy. a fuck up
(1) That's because they recalled that a previous Democracy in Athens had killed one of mankind's greatest thinkers, Socrates, simply because they didn't like him. They did not want the right to life to be taken-away by a simple 50% +1 vote.
(2) It's no more fucked-up then how the European Union operates - ya know, a Union of States where States elect ministers to the Council, not the people. You need to understand history, because in 1786 we were not a single nation - we were 13 indepentent nations coming together as an EU-type organization. Hence an election organized by States, not people.
(3) Hence we a Republic of 50 States, where LAW reigns and protects the individual, not a democracy where the majority squashes the individual underfoot.
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>>>Government owned local data infrastructure is actually a pretty good idea.
I'm sorry: What? I was always under the impression that "monopolies are bad", at least that's what we learned in 10th grade social studies, and yet here you are saying a monopoly is a good idea. I have to disagree. The U.S. Mail monopoly is a bad idea, and so too is a U.S. Data monopoly.
What we need are MORE choices at the home, not whittled down to just one.
Just as it was found in the Toyota case that the customers were not lying ("We did change our oil every 6000 miles!"), I suspect the Microsoft customers are not lying either. There might be some, but I bet the supermajority of them are telling the truth just as the Toyota customers were telling the truth. Microsoft is simply refusing to listen, just as Toyota refused to hear they built flawed engines.
Ultimately it required the action of the U.S. Government to force Toyota to listen to customers instead of assuming they are no-good, filthy liars, and it will likely take the U.S. to force Microsoft customers to be heard too.
No it isn't. There is only one definition of Democracy. Demos-kratos. The People - rule.
The United States is not that. The United States is ruled by law, and therefore is a Republic with the U.S. Constitution being the final say of what is allowed. For example, whites can not take away the immigrant-asians right to free speech, even if they hold a referendum. That majority vote is inferior to the Law.
Remember Franklin's famous words: "You have a Republic - if you can keep it."
I too was discussing the Presidential election by the Electoral College. For example I wrote, "in 1786 we were not a single nation - we were 13 independent nations coming together as an EU-type organization. Hence an election organized by States, not people."
was referring to the presidential election.
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>>>"hey if I do this while I am using it, it breaks". Its not designed to do that.
The Xbox is not designed to be used in a sideways, vertical position? Sorry but that's false. It IS designed to be used in that position and yet still scratches discs, therefore it's an engineering flaw.
>>>Your analogy fails.
No my analog is valid, because Toyota and Microsoft had/have ONE thing in common - They are unfairly blaming the users, when the people they should be holding to task are their engineers or businessmen for building bad engines/disc holders.
>>>So I should be able to just throw my xbox into a centrifuge
STRAWMAN ARGUMENT. If you bothered to read what I write, you would have seen this: "The flaw was not the user; the flaw was the engine overheating & the oil turning to sludge....... [Likewise Microsoft is] unfairly blaming users, but users have done nothing wrong. They have NOT moved their Xboxes, and yet discs are still getting scratched."
No you cannot throw your Xbox into a centrifuge.
Yes you should be able to set your Box on a stable table, and not pull scratched discs out of it.
Only because the Roman Senate was pounding on the door and demanding his death. Had Nero not committed suicide, he would have been dead a half hour later through other means.
I disagree. "It's the user's fault" is the same tactic Toyota tried to use when some of their engines started dying at 30,000 miles. Toyota blamed the user for not proper maintenance, but the truth was that the users had changed oil every 6000 miles as required. The flaw was not the user; the flaw was the engine overheating & the oil turning to sludge. Toyota refused to do anything until the U.S. Consumer Protection Agency threatened a class-action lawsuit, at which point Toyota chose to honor the engine warranty.
The same is true with Microsoft: They are unfairly blaming users, but users have done nothing wrong. They have NOT moved their Xboxes, and yet discs are still getting scratched.
Just as there was a fundamental flaw with Toyota engines, their is a fundamental flaw with Microsoft's disc loader.
>>>Microsoft settled on a cost-free fourth solution: a warning was added to Xbox 360 manual,
The managers once responsible for the Ford Pinto, and the decision that it was cheaper to "pay off" families for deaths than to fix the flammable gasoline tanks, are now working for Microsoft.
>>>the official record is al gore won the popular vote.
Yeah, but he lost the popular vote in Florida, therefore he lost those Electors and lost the Electoral College, which is a prerequisite for being president.
False. It takes a Law. It takes 12 jurors. Then it takes an Appeals Judge(s) to ascertain if the jury fairly applied the law, or not. If not the conviction is thrown-out, because the Law reigns supreme.
>>>Surely the right to life is protected by your constitution, so it would take a 2/3 majority to remove it?
Yes but that's only because we have a Republic, not a democracy. If we had a democracy, it wouldn't matter what the law says because the law could be ignored with a simple majority vote - "kill him". And then your right to life means nothing.
>>>a single state with provinces which have autonomy in certain areas - than to the EU.
Fairly accurate, although the States still hold the power to overrule the U.S. in certain areas. Such as a refusal to outlaw prostitution (Nevada) or to outlaw marijuana use (California) or polygamy (Utah). There were also a few states who refused to comply with the mandatory 55 speed limit back during the 1980s/90s.
We're discussing what the American Founders *believed* in 1786, and at that time they believed that Socrates had been executed by a 50% +1 Democratic vote..... and therefore they wanted to avoid that. They wanted a Law that would protect the individual right to life, regardless of what the Demos wanted.
I too was discussing the Presidential election by the Electoral College. Go back and re-read the post a few more times until you understand.
>>>SCOTUS is the only body which has the authority and power to look and officially declare what the term natural-born citizen means
No. That power ultimately belongs to the 50 States, because they are the signatories to the contract that is the Constitution. The SCOTUS may offer their opinion of what is meant, but ultimately it is the States that can, through convention, define the meaning of "natural born" and thereby overrule anything SCOTUS says.
I agree that the U.S. Supreme Court acts as a good arbitrator in order to provide peaceful resolution.
First replace "Panama" with "Panama Canal" in my previous post.
Second, no the United States did not occupy foreign territory. The U.S. actually OWNED the "canal zone", according to the treaty between the U.S. and Panama.
>>>because Coke is benign and Aspirin is benign, until I pointed out that caffeine and Aspirin have a synergistic effect and Excedrin is a combination of the two.
Precisely. I can't believe Snopes made such an obvious mistake. Two substances when joined often act very differently. The obvious example is Hydrogen and Oxygen. Both are gases and somewhat dangerous (flammable), but when you join them together you get a liquid which douses flames.
>>>When requesting proof of birth, the State of Hawaii, like many other states, does not send someone down to the archives to photocopy old records.
Perhaps they should. Especially for the Supreme Law of the Land's requirement that the most-powerful man in the nation be natural born.
>>>The head of the Hawaii Department of Health confirmed
And she could not possibly be lying, because politicians/bureaucrats are completely trustworthy. (cough)
>>>Everything I have seen indicates that Obama was born in Hawaii. Got anything to back up your claim?
Do you?
Nobody's seen his birth certificate except one judge who, for some strange reason, is keeping it hidden. Is this certificate fake? It's possible.
It appears the answer is "yes" from the article.
Crap.
"PEBKAC - problem existing between keyboard and chair".
Ahhh okay. I don't see how Firefox freezing for twenty seconds is a problem caused by the user. Why do you blame the user and not the programmers?
My laptop has an older IE; version 5 I believe..... will this flaw affect that too, or is it just a flaw in the current version of IE?
>>>a little doubt in the power of democracy. a fuck up
(1) That's because they recalled that a previous Democracy in Athens had killed one of mankind's greatest thinkers, Socrates, simply because they didn't like him. They did not want the right to life to be taken-away by a simple 50% +1 vote.
(2) It's no more fucked-up then how the European Union operates - ya know, a Union of States where States elect ministers to the Council, not the people. You need to understand history, because in 1786 we were not a single nation - we were 13 indepentent nations coming together as an EU-type organization. Hence an election organized by States, not people.
(3) Hence we a Republic of 50 States, where LAW reigns and protects the individual, not a democracy where the majority squashes the individual underfoot.