>>>I don't know where you live, but highways here aren't restricted by how much you.
Maryland's I-95 through Baltimore. Rich people can pay extra and take the express lane, and then the Annapolis government gets to keep the money to pay off its debt.
So basically we have a government acting just as evil/greedy as a corporation.
Various State Governments still hold the monopoly licenses for Verizon, Comcast, and others. That gives them power to regulate and enforce net neutrality, or else revoke said license and give it to somebody else.
I wondered what Westinghouse had violated, and now I know - failed to publish the open source code for BusyBox. Also good to know they didn't have to publish their own self-developed proprietary code. It's pretty stupid Westinghouse chose to fight the GPL instead of simply complying with it.
>>>Every gram costs a small fortune, so they used every gram of fuel to keep the satellite "stationary" (i.e. in desired orbit).
It's pretty pathetic that despite 50 years of space experience, we still have to worry about mere grams of fuel. I suspect humans will never develop the ability to travel further than our own solar system - it would be too expensive (in terms of fuel).
1000 years from now we'll be in pathetic shape, with all our oil, uranium, and other resources drained dry, and just barely surviving. Never mind space travel. There won't be enough fuel for the rockets. ----- I also suspect this is why we've never been visited by aliens. They can't escape their own solar system due to lack of energy.
Bigger issue: We have to send astronauts out in space to tie balloons to all this junk, one at a time. So..... wouldn't that cost a heck of a lot of money in terms of man-hours? Hmmmm. Maybe it's a job stimulus bill - the first space garbage men.
I wish humans would be longer-sighted. They should have designed these satellites to be self-killing - i.e. Burn a rocket, deorbit, and burn rather than just throw stuff all over the place & forget about it.
Why him in particular? Because he acted as a Defense Lawyer on behalf of several "redcoats". Without him the soldiers would have been found guilty and killed, or more likely drug into the streets and beat to death by the mob. The British soldiers received the same right to trial by a jury as any other Massachusetts citizen of that era.
>>>With respect, what did "we" (the people, presumably) lose with Gitmo? When has it ever been held that foreign nationals...
When Bush decided to arrest and send 3 US citizens there, so he could ignore the due process of law and the Constitution. It made us ALL vulnerable to the possibility of being exported to Guantanamo & thereby losing our rights. (And now I hear Obama sent another US citizen there too.)
>>>Any country with 300 million people and nearly 4 million square miles is going to take a large organization to run it.
Or 50 smaller organizations..... ya know, similar to how the European Union has 450 million people run by 25 smaller organizations (aka states). You don't need a large central government if most of the power is reserved to the Member State Governments.
>>>And we'd all be speaking German now, because the power to declare war on the Hessians was not written into the Constitution.
(1) Yes the power to declare war is in the Constitution (technically the Articles of Confederation which had authority at the time). Look it up.
(2) In 1776 German was *already* the language spoken in my state. In fact German was still commonplace in my hometown as late as the 1920s, and even today my Amish neighbors still speak German. There's nothing wrong with that, and it offends me that you imply it's un-american to do so.
>>>He said "The US gov. is much too large." Shrinking the government to an ineffective size will kill the government.
Damn.
Mr. Data blew a fuse again trying to absorb your illogic. When someone says, "Government is too big" that does not equal "kill government" or "no government". When Best Buy advertises a "big 80% off sale" that doesn't mean I'm getting stuff for 100% off. It's a matter of degrees not black-and-white. (Big government or no government.) ----- When someone like myself says government is too big, what we desire to see is a government like we had circa 1900. That's not a non-existent government. It's simply smaller than what we have now. AND it's constitutional. .
>>>the reason that the constitution isn't being followed is because of a lackadaisical public
Well you do have a point there. But even when the public speaks out (over 70% were against passage of Pelosicare) (80% were against the Bush Bailout Bill), the officials don't listen and simply ram through the bills anyway. The People clearly have lost power. The serfs just get ignored by the lords in Congress.
What you really need is the power of the Member State Governments to check-and-balance the central government. They need to start nullifying US laws that violate the contract they originally created. And if that doesn't work, call a constitutional convention, dissolve the central government, and start over fresh with newly elected leadership.
>>>You aren't being subjected to an unreasonable search. You choose to get on an airplane.
You choose to get in a car. It's not an unreasonable search when cops demand to see inside your trunk. You choose to walk on the sidewalk. It's not an unreasonable search for cops to stop you & pat you down. You choose to live inside the city limits. It's not an unreasonable search for inspectors to ram the door & enter.
I may be wrong, but I think there's something wrong with your original premise. The reason why the Constitution (both national and state level) says the government must obtain a warrant is so you can live your life in liberty, without being hassled when you are at home or traveling, or living in constant fear of the police.
The SCOTUS agrees. That is why searches of homes, people, or cars without warrants (from a judge) or probable cause (cop hears screams) have been overturned again and again and again. Likewise travel by a train or plane instead of a car should be a protected right, without a lot of hassle, like being stripped by a scanner.
>>>have the court rent a room from a private entity, and pay a premium for "security", which said entity will provide with strip scanners
No. That's still the government participating in an unconstitutional activity (virtual strip search without warrant), and they'd still be getting copies of the stripped bodies which can then be passed to the FBI or the Congress or President's administrators. The last thing I want it to see the TSA turned into a police force, and a bunch of people arrested because they were carrying copies of Seventeen, or had some medicinal marijuana in their pocket, or were caught carrying $5000 cash (yes that last one has happened). That's a police state.
And:
The reason I said I'm okay with a private corporation using these scanners is because (1) it's their property so I have to obey their rules and (2) I don't have to go there. When a local bar recently decided to start patting-down customers for guns, I simply decided to go to a different bar because I don't like being felt up.
I'd do the same if American Airlines started strip-scanning people, and ride a different airline. But with government strip-scanning...... well there is no other option. Plus refusal might land me in jail. Government is FAR more dangerous than any corporation, which is why government must be limited more.
>>>Some of us aren't complete retards and recognize a full stop when we see one.
I'm not writing for you. I'm writing for lowest common denominator who will be reading my work. That would be somewhere around IQ 90, and they need the extra whitespace between sentences.
It's also why we double space between lines, instead of single spacing, so the document is easier for the average person to read.
>>>>>Some of us aren't complete retards and recognize a full stop when we see one. >> >>in the past 10 years...
Yeah that's really a long time./end sarcasm. I've been typing since 1984 and there's probably many here typing longer than that. We do what we were originally taught to do by our teachers, and even though I've experimented with single spacing, I simply didn't like how close the sentences were to one another.
Another thing I do, which is not common practice among most students or coworkers, is full justification. It makes the final document look neater. Perhaps ye think that's "wrong" but I really don't care. The poet ee cummings ignored the rules as well, and used the format he liked best.
>>>Professional typography uses one single space that is longer than the inter-word space
That's probably where double-spacing originated. When typewriters were invented they wanted to mimic the typesetting of the presses, but they couldn't do 1.5 spacing so they used 2 spacing instead. And then the practice stuck. I first took Typing class in 1986 (7th grade), and that's what we were expected to do or else be red-lined by the teacher.
Even when I later switched to Commodore 64's GEOS (Mac OS clone) with proportional spacing, I experimented with single spacing and decided the computer put sentences too close together, so I went back to double spacing again.
>>>The answer to government abuses is not to kill the government,
Strawman argument. Nobody said we should do that. .
>>>The solution is for the public to take an active role in government again
Or we could follow the solution the Founding Father set-up for us: A Supreme Law (constitution) that chains and limits what the government can do, both at the national and state level. The government can exercise those specifically enumerated powers given to it, and nothing else. Hence: No cameras doing a virtual strip search, because said power was never given to the US government.
>>>You don't need to take a picture of my penis to find out if I'm smuggling a grenade
Precisely. And I find this part of the article funny: "The TSA says that body scanning is perfectly constitutional." The actual constitution says the People shall not be subject to unreasonable searches unless a warrant is obtained. No warrant was obtained, so the next question is: Are virtual strip searches that reveal a man's ballsac and woman's breasts/nipples/vaginal lips a reasonable search?
Not in my book.
I would be alright if the private airline wanted to run these scans, since it's their plane, but to allow the government to record these strippings and share them with other agencies that might wish to arrest me ("Oh look - he snuck Seventeen back from europe," says the new pedophile czar) is not acceptable. And it sure as hell isn't constitutional/legal.
>>>WTF is the reason for 2? Your eyes so poor you cant see the delineation?
Yes.
.
Slashdot strips the extra spaces, but double-spacing on MS Word makes the document easier to read. Whitespace is just as important a consideration as the actual text because it helps make the document inviting to the reader, ratherthanruneverythingtogetherinonegiantblackmass. (Yhat's how I used to program... it saved memory.)
I for one can't wait 'til we get this clown Bush and his Republicans out of office, and a new Democrat administration in place, so they can stop this spying stuff.
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You can see the film was sped-up, and it could be anything. Like a high-altitude airplane or spyplane.
>>>I don't know where you live, but highways here aren't restricted by how much you.
Maryland's I-95 through Baltimore. Rich people can pay extra and take the express lane, and then the Annapolis government gets to keep the money to pay off its debt.
So basically we have a government acting just as evil/greedy as a corporation.
I wouldn't despair yet.
Various State Governments still hold the monopoly licenses for Verizon, Comcast, and others. That gives them power to regulate and enforce net neutrality, or else revoke said license and give it to somebody else.
+1 for this whole thread.
I wondered what Westinghouse had violated, and now I know - failed to publish the open source code for BusyBox. Also good to know they didn't have to publish their own self-developed proprietary code. It's pretty stupid Westinghouse chose to fight the GPL instead of simply complying with it.
>>>Every gram costs a small fortune, so they used every gram of fuel to keep the satellite "stationary" (i.e. in desired orbit).
It's pretty pathetic that despite 50 years of space experience, we still have to worry about mere grams of fuel. I suspect humans will never develop the ability to travel further than our own solar system - it would be too expensive (in terms of fuel).
1000 years from now we'll be in pathetic shape, with all our oil, uranium, and other resources drained dry, and just barely surviving. Never mind space travel. There won't be enough fuel for the rockets. ----- I also suspect this is why we've never been visited by aliens. They can't escape their own solar system due to lack of energy.
>>>The images are not personally identifiable
The guards see me naked. And yes they have personally identified me. That's reason enough why I don't want it.
Bigger issue: We have to send astronauts out in space to tie balloons to all this junk, one at a time. So..... wouldn't that cost a heck of a lot of money in terms of man-hours? Hmmmm. Maybe it's a job stimulus bill - the first space garbage men.
I wish humans would be longer-sighted. They should have designed these satellites to be self-killing - i.e. Burn a rocket, deorbit, and burn rather than just throw stuff all over the place & forget about it.
I like 5 periods..... because Babylon 5 is my favorite show of all time.
John Adams would vehemently disagree with you.
Why him in particular? Because he acted as a Defense Lawyer on behalf of several "redcoats". Without him the soldiers would have been found guilty and killed, or more likely drug into the streets and beat to death by the mob. The British soldiers received the same right to trial by a jury as any other Massachusetts citizen of that era.
>>>With respect, what did "we" (the people, presumably) lose with Gitmo? When has it ever been held that foreign nationals...
When Bush decided to arrest and send 3 US citizens there, so he could ignore the due process of law and the Constitution. It made us ALL vulnerable to the possibility of being exported to Guantanamo & thereby losing our rights. (And now I hear Obama sent another US citizen there too.)
>>>Any country with 300 million people and nearly 4 million square miles is going to take a large organization to run it.
Or 50 smaller organizations..... ya know, similar to how the European Union has 450 million people run by 25 smaller organizations (aka states). You don't need a large central government if most of the power is reserved to the Member State Governments.
>>>And we'd all be speaking German now, because the power to declare war on the Hessians was not written into the Constitution.
(1) Yes the power to declare war is in the Constitution (technically the Articles of Confederation which had authority at the time). Look it up.
(2) In 1776 German was *already* the language spoken in my state. In fact German was still commonplace in my hometown as late as the 1920s, and even today my Amish neighbors still speak German. There's nothing wrong with that, and it offends me that you imply it's un-american to do so.
>>>He said "The US gov. is much too large." Shrinking the government to an ineffective size will kill the government.
Damn.
Mr. Data blew a fuse again trying to absorb your illogic. When someone says, "Government is too big" that does not equal "kill government" or "no government". When Best Buy advertises a "big 80% off sale" that doesn't mean I'm getting stuff for 100% off. It's a matter of degrees not black-and-white. (Big government or no government.) ----- When someone like myself says government is too big, what we desire to see is a government like we had circa 1900. That's not a non-existent government. It's simply smaller than what we have now. AND it's constitutional.
.
>>>the reason that the constitution isn't being followed is because of a lackadaisical public
Well you do have a point there. But even when the public speaks out (over 70% were against passage of Pelosicare) (80% were against the Bush Bailout Bill), the officials don't listen and simply ram through the bills anyway. The People clearly have lost power. The serfs just get ignored by the lords in Congress.
What you really need is the power of the Member State Governments to check-and-balance the central government. They need to start nullifying US laws that violate the contract they originally created. And if that doesn't work, call a constitutional convention, dissolve the central government, and start over fresh with newly elected leadership.
>>>You aren't being subjected to an unreasonable search. You choose to get on an airplane.
You choose to get in a car. It's not an unreasonable search when cops demand to see inside your trunk.
You choose to walk on the sidewalk. It's not an unreasonable search for cops to stop you & pat you down.
You choose to live inside the city limits. It's not an unreasonable search for inspectors to ram the door & enter.
I may be wrong, but I think there's something wrong with your original premise. The reason why the Constitution (both national and state level) says the government must obtain a warrant is so you can live your life in liberty, without being hassled when you are at home or traveling, or living in constant fear of the police.
The SCOTUS agrees. That is why searches of homes, people, or cars without warrants (from a judge) or probable cause (cop hears screams) have been overturned again and again and again. Likewise travel by a train or plane instead of a car should be a protected right, without a lot of hassle, like being stripped by a scanner.
>>>have the court rent a room from a private entity, and pay a premium for "security", which said entity will provide with strip scanners
No. That's still the government participating in an unconstitutional activity (virtual strip search without warrant), and they'd still be getting copies of the stripped bodies which can then be passed to the FBI or the Congress or President's administrators. The last thing I want it to see the TSA turned into a police force, and a bunch of people arrested because they were carrying copies of Seventeen, or had some medicinal marijuana in their pocket, or were caught carrying $5000 cash (yes that last one has happened). That's a police state.
And:
The reason I said I'm okay with a private corporation using these scanners is because (1) it's their property so I have to obey their rules and (2) I don't have to go there. When a local bar recently decided to start patting-down customers for guns, I simply decided to go to a different bar because I don't like being felt up.
I'd do the same if American Airlines started strip-scanning people, and ride a different airline. But with government strip-scanning...... well there is no other option. Plus refusal might land me in jail. Government is FAR more dangerous than any corporation, which is why government must be limited more.
>>>Some of us aren't complete retards and recognize a full stop when we see one.
I'm not writing for you. I'm writing for lowest common denominator who will be reading my work. That would be somewhere around IQ 90, and they need the extra whitespace between sentences.
It's also why we double space between lines, instead of single spacing, so the document is easier for the average person to read.
>>>>>Some of us aren't complete retards and recognize a full stop when we see one.
>>
>>in the past 10 years...
Yeah that's really a long time. /end sarcasm. I've been typing since 1984 and there's probably many here typing longer than that. We do what we were originally taught to do by our teachers, and even though I've experimented with single spacing, I simply didn't like how close the sentences were to one another.
Another thing I do, which is not common practice among most students or coworkers, is full justification. It makes the final document look neater. Perhaps ye think that's "wrong" but I really don't care. The poet ee cummings ignored the rules as well, and used the format he liked best.
>>>Professional typography uses one single space that is longer than the inter-word space
That's probably where double-spacing originated. When typewriters were invented they wanted to mimic the typesetting of the presses, but they couldn't do 1.5 spacing so they used 2 spacing instead. And then the practice stuck. I first took Typing class in 1986 (7th grade), and that's what we were expected to do or else be red-lined by the teacher.
Even when I later switched to Commodore 64's GEOS (Mac OS clone) with proportional spacing, I experimented with single spacing and decided the computer put sentences too close together, so I went back to double spacing again.
>>>The answer to government abuses is not to kill the government,
Strawman argument. Nobody said we should do that.
.
>>>The solution is for the public to take an active role in government again
Or we could follow the solution the Founding Father set-up for us: A Supreme Law (constitution) that chains and limits what the government can do, both at the national and state level. The government can exercise those specifically enumerated powers given to it, and nothing else. Hence: No cameras doing a virtual strip search, because said power was never given to the US government.
>>>the first vagina grenade goes off on a crowded plane, what will you say?
Oooo! A squirter.
>>>You don't need to take a picture of my penis to find out if I'm smuggling a grenade
Precisely. And I find this part of the article funny: "The TSA says that body scanning is perfectly constitutional." The actual constitution says the People shall not be subject to unreasonable searches unless a warrant is obtained. No warrant was obtained, so the next question is: Are virtual strip searches that reveal a man's ballsac and woman's breasts/nipples/vaginal lips a reasonable search?
Not in my book.
I would be alright if the private airline wanted to run these scans, since it's their plane, but to allow the government to record these strippings and share them with other agencies that might wish to arrest me ("Oh look - he snuck Seventeen back from europe," says the new pedophile czar) is not acceptable. And it sure as hell isn't constitutional/legal.
>>>I've been an editor (copy editor, proofreader, senior editor, etc.) for 10 years now. One space.
No. Two spaces separate the sentences further apart, and make it easier to read the document without accidentally running two sentences together.
>>>WTF is the reason for 2? Your eyes so poor you cant see the delineation?
Yes.
.
Slashdot strips the extra spaces, but double-spacing on MS Word makes the document easier to read. Whitespace is just as important a consideration as the actual text because it helps make the document inviting to the reader, ratherthanruneverythingtogetherinonegiantblackmass. (Yhat's how I used to program... it saved memory.)
+1 for you
I for one can't wait 'til we get this clown Bush and his Republicans out of office, and a new Democrat administration in place, so they can stop this spying stuff.
Or build a vibrator