How about these loose interpretations of the commerce clause. That was just the first few that turned up in a quick search:
Federal investigators asserted jurisdiction over the arson of the Mt. Zion A.M.E. Church in South Carolina. Because the church received electrical power through a power grid, which is, in turn, attached to an interstate power grid, agents maintain that federal jurisdiction was triggered under the commerce clause.
The Justice Department maintains that federal jurisdiction can be asserted over a Connecticut man who allegedly beat his wife and destroyed some of her personal possessions. Because violence against women affects job performance, which in turn affects the national economy, which in turn affects interstate commerce, federal jurisdiction was triggered under the commerce clause.
The U.S. Attorney's Office in Sacramento asserted jurisdiction over a woman who was accused of hiring someone to burn her house down so that she could file a fraudulent insurance claim. Prosecutors maintained that because the woman's home received natural gas from a company that had received a portion of its gas from out-of-state sources, federal jurisdiction was triggered under the commerce clause.
The Justice Department asserted jurisdiction over a parcel of private property near San Francisco because the occasional rainwater ponds on that property could serve as a potential habitat for migratory birds that fly across state lines. And since migratory birds are "important" articles of interstate and foreign commerce, federal jurisdiction was triggered under the commerce clause.
The U.S. Attorney's Office in New York asserted jurisdiction over a man accused of plotting a murder over his beeper paging system. Although all of the relevant phone calls were sent from and received in New York, prosecutors maintain that because the beeper emitted signals interstate each time it was used, federal jurisdiction was triggered under the commerce clause.
Essentially, the US federal government has cart blanche to do as they please, constitutional limits be damned.
What makes Kazaa any different than HTTP or FTP? It's just a tool. I can use hammer to pound a nail or crush someone's skull. The individual does bear responsibility for proper use of tools.
That's the whole point of guns, to drastically change combat, balancing it between attacker and defender. My wife is 5'2", 125 pounds. The average male is 10 inches taller and weighs half again as much as she does. I'm not interested in maintaining some esoteric "paradigm of hand to hand combat" for her if someone decided to break into our house. I want her to have the option of killing that person if it comes to that.
It's not about the quality now, it's about the quality 10 years from now. Right now, the format is MP3, AAC or whatever the heck you're using. Ten years from now, what will the format be? If the portable players in the future change formats a couple times, you're going to have to re-encode your audio. A couple more lossy compressions on an already lossy source file and your music is going to sound like garbage. Do you think they company you bought your MP3 files from is going to give you free downloads of all the music you bought in the new format?
When I play a CD right now that I bought 15 years ago, it sounds exactly the same as it did back then. If music could be downloaded in a lossless format, it can be encoded in whatever format you want in the future.
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How utterly shortsighted of you. You bemoan the state of the planet and society in general while droning on about what a waste a moon project would be. If you can't see how the two might be related, you're as much a part of the problem as any.
Establishing a moon base could give us further insight into even more minute intricacies of delicate ecosystems, which could be quite helpful here on Earth. Methods for dealing with waste, water purification, air filtration, etc. The technologies used for energy production on the moon might be applicable here as well, as part of our move away from fossil fuels. The fact that anything we do on the moon has to be as energy and material efficient as possible could help us make great strides in improving conditions here.
All you see is the obvious solution. "We need more doctors. Think of the children!" You lack creative vision and are as harmful to progress as a religious zealot.
I was realtor at one point in my life., but no longer am. I certainly understand home financing, but since I'm not a realtor I have no vested interest in propping up the housing industry.
All you describing is compound interest. You haven't stumbled across some kind of secret banking conspiracy. Yeah, it's mostly interest. 8% yearly or whatever your rate is, comopunded monthly. As I said, if you have investment that will pay out 8% or better guaranteed for the next 20 years, then stick with renting. If your investment gains can't beat your mortgage rate, you're better off buying.
It sounds to me like you're the one who doesn't understand how borrowing money works. As I said, if you know of an investment that can guarantee a rate higher than the mortgage rate you should be pitching that investment to all those people investing in mortgage funds. They'll throw billions of dollars at you. I'm not sure you understand how the mortgage market works at all.
I worked with a woman once who killed computers. Her computer would spontaneously reboot periodically, and we couldn't figure out why. We switched out the computer, the monitor, the keyboard and mouse. We tried different outlets, and different outlets on different circuits. We swapped out her desk, her chair, and the chair mat. Finally we put a grounding strap on her wrist and attached it to the desk. No more problems. I shit you not.
There has to be something to the fact that some people create strong enough electrical fields to mess with electronics. I can't explain it any other way.
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Sorry, what's your point? Fat people in prison have a high burnout rate?
I'd be interested to read more about that particular case study. One important difference however is the fact that you say it's a loan. When those people receive $27 dollars, I assume they have to pay it back. That means they must take the loan and actually use it to produce something in order to repay the debt. There's an incentive to use that money in a way that is profitable, and that's good for everyone involved.
Taxing the rich and redistributing their assets doesn't sound like a loan to me though. It sounds like a handout. The problem with handouts is that it doesn't solve anything except for the immediate problem. Those people will need another handout next month. And the next. Unless people are forced to use those funds for education or in some other way improve their status, the money will end up right back in the hands of the wealthy.
We've all seen it. Most of the time it's ambitious people whose goals/expectations are not met. ex. expect to be promoted but are not. This is the individual's problem. An employer doesn't and shouldn't really care either way.
We've all seen it. Most of the time it's managers and owners whose business goals/expectations are not met. ex. meeting stockholders expectations but didn't. This is the owner's problem. An employee doesn't and shouldn't really care.
You may call it stupid, but most employers call it productivity. The more productive their workforce, the more successful the organization tends to be.
You may call it stupid, but most employees call it spacing out, it looks like they're working but they're really not. The more spacing out they do, the less work they actually have to do to receive a paycheck.
Hey, if your only goal as a business owner is to extract maximum work for minimum dollars, don't be surprised when your employees attempt to extract maximum dollars for minimum work.
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I started limiting myself to 8 hour workdays unless there was an emergency, making sure I used my vacation time and took my lunch break, and making a habit of taking lunch outside of the office.
There are companies where [i]everything[/i] is an emergency. That will burn anybody out, no matter how good their work habits are. I left a company like that two years ago, and I'm only now starting to look back into IT work. That company has more churn than a butter factory. I still know one or two people that work there, and every time I stop in to meet them for lunch, it's a sea of new faces in the office. I'm looking for a job now, and one of my requirements is a more sane work schedule. Emergencies are fine, as long they're not a way of life.
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Perhaps a part of that human interaction you're avoiding is learning to accept other viewpoints without blowing up. Maybe modern society's disassociation with religion and politics [i]as they relate to actual people[/i] is part of our problem. Rather than people seeing Democrats, Republicans, Muslims, and Christians as real people with lives, families and friends those people just get grouped together and end up as just another nebulous entity that can be blamed for all the problems in the world. Honest, open discussion with real people (as opposed to faceless internet foes) might be a good way to increase understanding.
Sure, go ahead and talk about the weather because it directly impacts your plans to paint the house. But if that's as deep as your conversation goes with the people around you, that's pretty sad.
The homeowner sees the same income growth due to inflation, yet their cost for their home remains the same. They then have the opportunity to invest the additional income rather than pay the landlord.
It's not rocket science. If you have an investment which can guarantee a higher rate of returns than the cost of borrowing money in the form of mortgage (taking into account home appreciation) then go for it. In fact, if you have such a surefire investment that you can safely beat mortgage rates, investors should be throwing their money at you. You do realize the mortgage market and it's rates are determined by investors, don't you? If you don't have people throwing money at you, my guess is that you don't really have a system which can beat mortgage investments and are simply throwing around hypotheticals.
Don't blame capitalism for your $204.15 tube of cream. Capitalism would love to sell you a tube of cream for $4.15. It's government regulations which require you to spend the extra $200.
What kind of twisted frame of mind must it require to look to government for the solution to the problem which they caused in the first place? The government answer to that problem would likely involve raising taxes and then paying for half of your doctor's fees.
What are those people going to spend $5 on? Nothing is being produced, unless enough of those people can get together and pool their $5 into starting a company. I know, we'll call it the stock market. Too bad it makes people rich.
Your second point is better, in that money can be shipped overseas in which case none of the benefit is seen locally. That is far more important in my mind than the actual distribution of the wealth.
A $2000/mo house payment now will be a $2000/mo house payment in 20 years.
$1500/mo rent could easily be $4000/mo rent in 20 years.
At the end you have a $2000 deficit compared to someone who purchased instead of rented. In addition, the purchaser now has a home free and clear that essentially costs him nothing (we'll ignore taxes and utilities, since both pay that) while the renter has to continue paying for their residence. At the end of 50 years, don't be surprised to see rent at $10,000/mo or more.
I've often wondered what kind of unexpected results we'll see from wind and solar power. Those power sources are almost certainly far better than fossil fuels, but the law of energy conservation can't be escaped. If we take energy from the climate in the form of solar and wind being converted to electricity, it WILL an effect. The exact effect may be unknown in the beginning, but it will definitely be there.
Sometimes I think maybe I wanna join the army I mean it's basically like FPS except better graphics, but what happens if I get lag out there, I'M DEAD! And I mean I even heard there's no respawn points in RL.
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Multiple passwords? Are you saying I shouldn't use the same password at my bank that I use on bustybabes.com?
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How about these loose interpretations of the commerce clause. That was just the first few that turned up in a quick search:
Essentially, the US federal government has cart blanche to do as they please, constitutional limits be damned.
What makes Kazaa any different than HTTP or FTP? It's just a tool. I can use hammer to pound a nail or crush someone's skull. The individual does bear responsibility for proper use of tools.
Forgot to append the quote: "God made men, but Sam Colt made them equal."
That's the whole point of guns, to drastically change combat, balancing it between attacker and defender. My wife is 5'2", 125 pounds. The average male is 10 inches taller and weighs half again as much as she does. I'm not interested in maintaining some esoteric "paradigm of hand to hand combat" for her if someone decided to break into our house. I want her to have the option of killing that person if it comes to that.
Crime and lawyering are just different levels of thuggery.
It's not about the quality now, it's about the quality 10 years from now. Right now, the format is MP3, AAC or whatever the heck you're using. Ten years from now, what will the format be? If the portable players in the future change formats a couple times, you're going to have to re-encode your audio. A couple more lossy compressions on an already lossy source file and your music is going to sound like garbage. Do you think they company you bought your MP3 files from is going to give you free downloads of all the music you bought in the new format?
When I play a CD right now that I bought 15 years ago, it sounds exactly the same as it did back then. If music could be downloaded in a lossless format, it can be encoded in whatever format you want in the future.
How utterly shortsighted of you. You bemoan the state of the planet and society in general while droning on about what a waste a moon project would be. If you can't see how the two might be related, you're as much a part of the problem as any.
Establishing a moon base could give us further insight into even more minute intricacies of delicate ecosystems, which could be quite helpful here on Earth. Methods for dealing with waste, water purification, air filtration, etc. The technologies used for energy production on the moon might be applicable here as well, as part of our move away from fossil fuels. The fact that anything we do on the moon has to be as energy and material efficient as possible could help us make great strides in improving conditions here.
All you see is the obvious solution. "We need more doctors. Think of the children!" You lack creative vision and are as harmful to progress as a religious zealot.
I was realtor at one point in my life., but no longer am. I certainly understand home financing, but since I'm not a realtor I have no vested interest in propping up the housing industry.
All you describing is compound interest. You haven't stumbled across some kind of secret banking conspiracy. Yeah, it's mostly interest. 8% yearly or whatever your rate is, comopunded monthly. As I said, if you have investment that will pay out 8% or better guaranteed for the next 20 years, then stick with renting. If your investment gains can't beat your mortgage rate, you're better off buying.
It sounds to me like you're the one who doesn't understand how borrowing money works. As I said, if you know of an investment that can guarantee a rate higher than the mortgage rate you should be pitching that investment to all those people investing in mortgage funds. They'll throw billions of dollars at you. I'm not sure you understand how the mortgage market works at all.
I worked with a woman once who killed computers. Her computer would spontaneously reboot periodically, and we couldn't figure out why. We switched out the computer, the monitor, the keyboard and mouse. We tried different outlets, and different outlets on different circuits. We swapped out her desk, her chair, and the chair mat. Finally we put a grounding strap on her wrist and attached it to the desk. No more problems. I shit you not.
There has to be something to the fact that some people create strong enough electrical fields to mess with electronics. I can't explain it any other way.
Sorry, what's your point? Fat people in prison have a high burnout rate?
I'd be interested to read more about that particular case study. One important difference however is the fact that you say it's a loan. When those people receive $27 dollars, I assume they have to pay it back. That means they must take the loan and actually use it to produce something in order to repay the debt. There's an incentive to use that money in a way that is profitable, and that's good for everyone involved.
Taxing the rich and redistributing their assets doesn't sound like a loan to me though. It sounds like a handout. The problem with handouts is that it doesn't solve anything except for the immediate problem. Those people will need another handout next month. And the next. Unless people are forced to use those funds for education or in some other way improve their status, the money will end up right back in the hands of the wealthy.
We've all seen it. Most of the time it's managers and owners whose business goals/expectations are not met. ex. meeting stockholders expectations but didn't. This is the owner's problem. An employee doesn't and shouldn't really care.
Perhaps a part of that human interaction you're avoiding is learning to accept other viewpoints without blowing up. Maybe modern society's disassociation with religion and politics [i]as they relate to actual people[/i] is part of our problem. Rather than people seeing Democrats, Republicans, Muslims, and Christians as real people with lives, families and friends those people just get grouped together and end up as just another nebulous entity that can be blamed for all the problems in the world. Honest, open discussion with real people (as opposed to faceless internet foes) might be a good way to increase understanding.
Sure, go ahead and talk about the weather because it directly impacts your plans to paint the house. But if that's as deep as your conversation goes with the people around you, that's pretty sad.
Is "burnout" listed in the DSM? If not, then your "pros" don't get to determine it's meaning.
The homeowner sees the same income growth due to inflation, yet their cost for their home remains the same. They then have the opportunity to invest the additional income rather than pay the landlord.
It's not rocket science. If you have an investment which can guarantee a higher rate of returns than the cost of borrowing money in the form of mortgage (taking into account home appreciation) then go for it. In fact, if you have such a surefire investment that you can safely beat mortgage rates, investors should be throwing their money at you. You do realize the mortgage market and it's rates are determined by investors, don't you? If you don't have people throwing money at you, my guess is that you don't really have a system which can beat mortgage investments and are simply throwing around hypotheticals.
Very well put.
Don't blame capitalism for your $204.15 tube of cream. Capitalism would love to sell you a tube of cream for $4.15. It's government regulations which require you to spend the extra $200.
What kind of twisted frame of mind must it require to look to government for the solution to the problem which they caused in the first place? The government answer to that problem would likely involve raising taxes and then paying for half of your doctor's fees.
What are those people going to spend $5 on? Nothing is being produced, unless enough of those people can get together and pool their $5 into starting a company. I know, we'll call it the stock market. Too bad it makes people rich.
Your second point is better, in that money can be shipped overseas in which case none of the benefit is seen locally. That is far more important in my mind than the actual distribution of the wealth.
You've forgotten one important point: inflation.
A $2000/mo house payment now will be a $2000/mo house payment in 20 years.
$1500/mo rent could easily be $4000/mo rent in 20 years.
At the end you have a $2000 deficit compared to someone who purchased instead of rented. In addition, the purchaser now has a home free and clear that essentially costs him nothing (we'll ignore taxes and utilities, since both pay that) while the renter has to continue paying for their residence. At the end of 50 years, don't be surprised to see rent at $10,000/mo or more.
You're good at math, bad at logic.
I've often wondered what kind of unexpected results we'll see from wind and solar power. Those power sources are almost certainly far better than fossil fuels, but the law of energy conservation can't be escaped. If we take energy from the climate in the form of solar and wind being converted to electricity, it WILL an effect. The exact effect may be unknown in the beginning, but it will definitely be there.
You split 8B between 100M people, that's $80 each. Are you saying everyone would be significantly better off if they had just $80 more?
Do people who are familiar with technology really need to hide their pill reminders in a stuffed animal? That sounds more patronizing than anything.
Sometimes I think maybe I wanna join the army I mean it's basically like FPS except better graphics, but what happens if I get lag out there, I'M DEAD! And I mean I even heard there's no respawn points in RL.
Multiple passwords? Are you saying I shouldn't use the same password at my bank that I use on bustybabes.com?