Instead they uphold the Supreme Law as being above all other laws. In this case the "you must by hospital insurance" law passed by the Union Congress is NULLLIFIED by the supreme law known as the Constitution; specifically amendment 10 (intrastate commerce is regulated by the Member State not the Union).
>>>The clause in question does NOT really criminalize failure to get insurance, it simply requires those that fail to buy a insurance to pay the government cash.
Sounds like a fine to me. Where in the Constitution was Congress given power to interfere with INTRAstate commerce between Me and my Doctor or hospital? Answer: No where. Such interference is specifically limited to the STATE Legislature per amendment 10.
If you still think your stance is reasonable, consider if the Congress started charging people $1000 extra per year if they failed to buy a solar roof. Or a Microsoft Operating System. Or a General Motors car. Or..... Still think your stance is reasonable? Once the precedent is set (fines for failure to buy a product) then there's no limit to what the Congress can "nudge" us to buy.
Anyway I hold to Jefferson and Madison's opinion that the US was meant to have a FEW enumerated powers, while most of the powers remained with the Member States. Just like the modern EU.
Of course it's reasonable. The next think the US (and the EU too) should do is require everyone to buy hybrid cars, else face a $1000/year penalty. Also solar paneled roofs, else face a $500 penalty. And buy Operating Systems (no freebies lke linux) or else be fined $5/year.
I don't see how anyone could possibly disagree with this Modest Proposal.
(Unless, to quote the fellow above, he is the Virginia AG who is a right-wing frak... but other than that... who could possibly object to the EU or US forcing/nudging people to buy products they don't want? Unemo.)
STILL FALSE. Still lacking in citation. Yes Ron Paul is anti-abortion but that doesn't mean he wants to be a tyrant and all join "the religious right" or forced church attendance.
You don't have to be "religious" to be anti-abortion, and there are lots of people who don't believe in God at all, but still think the HUMAN fetus has the same right to life as a baby or toddler or child because it has 46 chromosomes, is alive, and has innate natural rights to not be killed.
You're funny, but Broadband DOES have a technical definition and it relates to *frequencies* not data rates. To say "broadband equals 4 megabit/s minimum" makes as little sense as saying I-95's Lane Width is 65 miles an hour. It is gobbledy-gook.
Perhaps if the FCC said "broadband equals 200 megahertz minimum" then they'd sound more intelligent, instead of like politicians with no tech skills.
LOW? I have 0.7 and it's more than enough to watch streaming video on hulu.com and other sites (which was not possible with dialup). Even if I, my wife, and two kids were all watching videos at the same time in separate rooms, all we'd need is 0.7*4= ~3 Mbit/s.
So why would I need more? Realistically you don't unless you're being greedy (i.e. I don't need an Acura to get to work - a Honda is good enough).
>>>One could argue that labelling 256k "broadband" was a joke to begin with
Not really. At the time of that definition, most people had Narrowband modems of 14k or 28k. So 256k was considered damn fast. In fact it was twice as fast as the fastest tech available (IDSN) for home users.
First-off 99% of Japanese don't have fiber but have a variant of DSL with their overall national average being just ~20 Mbit/s. Second the reason 68% of Americans don't have broadband is because the FCC REDEFINED it. It used to be 256k was called "broadband" and now they redefined it as 4000k so tons of people (including me) suddenly are considered non-broadband even though we purchased Broadband lines (like DSL or cable).
It's basically 1984. Redefine the words and change the meaning. (shrug):-)
California doesn't have 1 Gbit/sec fiber to all homes, but neither does Japan. 99% of the homes are DSL and the overall average speed is just ~5 Mbit/s faster than california's average. (according to speedtest.net)
>>>How would you like every note you passed in class, every text you have sent, and every conversation where you said something bad about a friend to be posted to your facebook wall? >>>
If this happened on my Employer's email or web server or computer, then they have every right to view everything I wrote on their premises. Likewise the Employer of the politicians (us) have every right to view their work product. That's why they are called PUBLIC servants, and "have zero expectation of privacy"* while on the job. At home? Yes. But not inside the People's government buildings while getting paid by the people's money.
>>>Rand Paul...believes that the role of government is to enforce the will of the religious-right
Completely false.
If you think it's true then go-ahead and cite where Rand wants to act like a tyrant and force us all to become "religious"..... else your statement has zero validity and is just a lie.
Ron Paul considers it Congresses' job to designate where the money will be spent, because if it's not designated, the president will spend the money randomly.
His son Rand disagrees with his dad, and I don't think it matters because earmarks represents just 1/100th of 1% of the total budget. There are more important expenditures that need to be reduced like the military and SS (exclude the rich from getting benefits) which represent over one-half of the budget.
That's why Rand Paul has arrived on the scene to take-over for his dad when he retires from politics. And of course there's other Ron Paul types in congress, just not as visible (they didn't make three attempts to become president).
The reporters who revealed the Watergate scandal were protected. Ditto Edward R Murrow when he revealed secret documents of the Unamerican Committee. Likewise the reporters at wikileaks should be protected. Arrest the government employees that stole the documents, not the press.
RAVEN: Do you have anything more useful to contribute to the discussion? Or just more grade-school level insults? Perhaps you should try acting more mature in the future, instead of like my 5-yr-old.
The US states were sovereign from 1775 (when the earliest split away) to 1783 when they created the Union government. Yes true brief but it has legal signifigance. It means the States hold the power to dissolve the Constitution and the US.
As for Europe, I've observed how the EU Court has slapped down the Italian, French, and other governments for violating EU Directives. They are no longer sovereign. They central government is now the master over them, just as Congress is the master over the u.s. states.
By your reasoning the current government-run age is pretty shitty too, because gays can't marry, thousands of human fetuses are killed each year, and citizens are forced to buy hospital insurance or face time in jail. So maybe worshipping the gopvernment is a damn dumb idea to.
Especially considering governments have killed over 150 million of their OWN citizens between 1910 and 2010. I'm not aware of any free market taht's murdered taht many people.
Sorry - what? (1) Cartels are illegal in the US and (2) our Union government has punished several companies over the last decade including the Record companies, Disney, Paypal, Microsoft, Walmart, JCPenney, and thousands of lesser-known smaller companies.
I'd say Europe has more monopolies (including govt-run ones), duopolies, and cartels than America has.
>>>If you can show me one place on earth, ever in history, where a free market has resulted in a stable, prosperous society
America circa 1650-1770 and 1790-1860. Also the post war years from 1870 to 1928 were quite good. Almost all the inventions we use today originated then.
Another key of the free market is that gives citizens the power of CHOICE instead of ramming things down their throat.
The EU is made-up of FORMERLY sovereign states, just as the US is made-up of formerly sovereign states. They aren't sovereign no more.
As for another poster's claim, "the US never had roaming charges" I disagree with that. I was with Cingular (now ATT) in the early 2000s, and all my calls were free within the Washington/Baltimore market. But as soon as I went somewhere distant, like Cumberland MD or Ocean City MD, I was hit with 50 cent per minute "roaming" charges. ----- These charges were eventually eliminated, not by the Member State or Union government, but by the free market and unhappy customers complaining to the corporations ("Why did I get a $100 bill when it's only supposed to be $20?") or taking our business to other companies w/o roaming charges. The invisible hand of the market eliminated the roaming charges.
Side-thought: This article also erases the myth that EU cellplans are so much cheaper than US cellplans. Sounds like they are more expensive.
Re:That's one heck of a "long goodbye"
on
Goodbye, VGA
·
· Score: 1
>>>get a USB keyboard that has two or four USB ports on it, itself.
Just what I need: More cables to get my legs and other appendages tangled in. And often times I don't use the keyboard at all..... just a mouse. It would be difficult to plug my mouse (or anything else) into the keyboard while it's laying under the coffee table.
A slightly-more expensive 2x battery that lasts the life of the vehicle and never needs replaced? Or a 1x battery that has to be replaced every 75,000 miles at ~$4000 a pop (plus labor)??? I think Toyota/Honda chose wisely when they decided to make the battery last the life of the car, rather than sock customers with expensive replacement costs. .
>>>if you're only allowed to use 30% of that capacity isn't that just as bad?
Well considering Toyota's first hybrid (prius) got 50-60 MPG and Honda's first hybrid (insight) got 70-80 MPG, I'd say "no". They accomplished what they set-out to do: create a car that was extremely fuel efficient without loss of acceleration.
Where does Fascism (national socialism) fit into that model?
Under that late 1800s/early 1900s theory, the State didn't own the companies but it did control them through direct commands. A bit like China today. Are they socialist or not? I'd say "yes" they are, even though they evolved from state-owned to private-owned industry, since the government still controls the CEOs and the Boards.
Slashdot Mirror
Judges don't interfere with Laws.
Instead they uphold the Supreme Law as being above all other laws. In this case the "you must by hospital insurance" law passed by the Union Congress is NULLLIFIED by the supreme law known as the Constitution; specifically amendment 10 (intrastate commerce is regulated by the Member State not the Union).
>>>The clause in question does NOT really criminalize failure to get insurance, it simply requires those that fail to buy a insurance to pay the government cash.
Sounds like a fine to me. Where in the Constitution was Congress given power to interfere with INTRAstate commerce between Me and my Doctor or hospital? Answer: No where. Such interference is specifically limited to the STATE Legislature per amendment 10.
If you still think your stance is reasonable, consider if the Congress started charging people $1000 extra per year if they failed to buy a solar roof. Or a Microsoft Operating System. Or a General Motors car. Or ..... Still think your stance is reasonable? Once the precedent is set (fines for failure to buy a product) then there's no limit to what the Congress can "nudge" us to buy.
Anyway I hold to Jefferson and Madison's opinion that the US was meant to have a FEW enumerated powers, while most of the powers remained with the Member States. Just like the modern EU.
Of course it's reasonable. The next think the US (and the EU too) should do is require everyone to buy hybrid cars, else face a $1000/year penalty. Also solar paneled roofs, else face a $500 penalty. And buy Operating Systems (no freebies lke linux) or else be fined $5/year.
I don't see how anyone could possibly disagree with this Modest Proposal.
(Unless, to quote the fellow above, he is the Virginia AG who is a right-wing frak... but other than that... who could possibly object to the EU or US forcing/nudging people to buy products they don't want? Unemo.)
STILL FALSE. Still lacking in citation. Yes Ron Paul is anti-abortion but that doesn't mean he wants to be a tyrant and all join "the religious right" or forced church attendance.
You don't have to be "religious" to be anti-abortion, and there are lots of people who don't believe in God at all, but still think the HUMAN fetus has the same right to life as a baby or toddler or child because it has 46 chromosomes, is alive, and has innate natural rights to not be killed.
>>>Darn government interference!
You're funny, but Broadband DOES have a technical definition and it relates to *frequencies* not data rates. To say "broadband equals 4 megabit/s minimum" makes as little sense as saying I-95's Lane Width is 65 miles an hour. It is gobbledy-gook.
Perhaps if the FCC said "broadband equals 200 megahertz minimum" then they'd sound more intelligent, instead of like politicians with no tech skills.
>>>to a low number like 4 Mbit/s?
LOW? I have 0.7 and it's more than enough to watch streaming video on hulu.com and other sites (which was not possible with dialup). Even if I, my wife, and two kids were all watching videos at the same time in separate rooms, all we'd need is 0.7*4= ~3 Mbit/s.
So why would I need more? Realistically you don't unless you're being greedy (i.e. I don't need an Acura to get to work - a Honda is good enough).
>>>One could argue that labelling 256k "broadband" was a joke to begin with
Not really. At the time of that definition, most people had Narrowband modems of 14k or 28k. So 256k was considered damn fast. In fact it was twice as fast as the fastest tech available (IDSN) for home users.
HAAA!
First-off 99% of Japanese don't have fiber but have a variant of DSL with their overall national average being just ~20 Mbit/s. Second the reason 68% of Americans don't have broadband is because the FCC REDEFINED it. It used to be 256k was called "broadband" and now they redefined it as 4000k so tons of people (including me) suddenly are considered non-broadband even though we purchased Broadband lines (like DSL or cable).
It's basically 1984. Redefine the words and change the meaning. (shrug) :-)
Cute but not factual.
California doesn't have 1 Gbit/sec fiber to all homes, but neither does Japan. 99% of the homes are DSL and the overall average speed is just ~5 Mbit/s faster than california's average. (according to speedtest.net)
>>>How would you like every note you passed in class, every text you have sent, and every conversation where you said something bad about a friend to be posted to your facebook wall?
>>>
If this happened on my Employer's email or web server or computer, then they have every right to view everything I wrote on their premises. Likewise the Employer of the politicians (us) have every right to view their work product. That's why they are called PUBLIC servants, and "have zero expectation of privacy"* while on the job. At home? Yes. But not inside the People's government buildings while getting paid by the people's money.
*
* phrase borrowed from the US Supreme Court
>>>Rand Paul...believes that the role of government is to enforce the will of the religious-right
Completely false.
If you think it's true then go-ahead and cite where Rand wants to act like a tyrant and force us all to become "religious"..... else your statement has zero validity and is just a lie.
Ron Paul considers it Congresses' job to designate where the money will be spent, because if it's not designated, the president will spend the money randomly.
His son Rand disagrees with his dad, and I don't think it matters because earmarks represents just 1/100th of 1% of the total budget. There are more important expenditures that need to be reduced like the military and SS (exclude the rich from getting benefits) which represent over one-half of the budget.
>>>No one is suppressing the writings of Assange or any other protester
Yes. Yes they are.
They wish to silence him via arrest.
That's why Rand Paul has arrived on the scene to take-over for his dad when he retires from politics. And of course there's other Ron Paul types in congress, just not as visible (they didn't make three attempts to become president).
The reporters who revealed the Watergate scandal were protected.
Ditto Edward R Murrow when he revealed secret documents of the Unamerican Committee.
Likewise the reporters at wikileaks should be protected. Arrest the government employees that stole the documents, not the press.
>>>commodore64_love's ignorance
RAVEN:
Do you have anything more useful to contribute to the discussion? Or just more grade-school level insults? Perhaps you should try acting more mature in the future, instead of like my 5-yr-old.
The US states were sovereign from 1775 (when the earliest split away) to 1783 when they created the Union government. Yes true brief but it has legal signifigance. It means the States hold the power to dissolve the Constitution and the US.
As for Europe, I've observed how the EU Court has slapped down the Italian, French, and other governments for violating EU Directives. They are no longer sovereign. They central government is now the master over them, just as Congress is the master over the u.s. states.
By your reasoning the current government-run age is pretty shitty too, because gays can't marry, thousands of human fetuses are killed each year, and citizens are forced to buy hospital insurance or face time in jail. So maybe worshipping the gopvernment is a damn dumb idea to.
Especially considering governments have killed over 150 million of their OWN citizens between 1910 and 2010. I'm not aware of any free market taht's murdered taht many people.
>>>the cartel-friendly state the US has become.
Sorry - what? (1) Cartels are illegal in the US and (2) our Union government has punished several companies over the last decade including the Record companies, Disney, Paypal, Microsoft, Walmart, JCPenney, and thousands of lesser-known smaller companies.
I'd say Europe has more monopolies (including govt-run ones), duopolies, and cartels than America has.
>>>If you can show me one place on earth, ever in history, where a free market has resulted in a stable, prosperous society
America circa 1650-1770 and 1790-1860. Also the post war years from 1870 to 1928 were quite good. Almost all the inventions we use today originated then.
Another key of the free market is that gives citizens the power of CHOICE instead of ramming things down their throat.
RAVEN:
Do you have anything more useful to contribute to the discussion?
Or just a grade-school level insult?
The EU is made-up of FORMERLY sovereign states, just as the US is made-up of formerly sovereign states. They aren't sovereign no more.
As for another poster's claim, "the US never had roaming charges" I disagree with that. I was with Cingular (now ATT) in the early 2000s, and all my calls were free within the Washington/Baltimore market. But as soon as I went somewhere distant, like Cumberland MD or Ocean City MD, I was hit with 50 cent per minute "roaming" charges. ----- These charges were eventually eliminated, not by the Member State or Union government, but by the free market and unhappy customers complaining to the corporations ("Why did I get a $100 bill when it's only supposed to be $20?") or taking our business to other companies w/o roaming charges. The invisible hand of the market eliminated the roaming charges.
Side-thought: This article also erases the myth that EU cellplans are so much cheaper than US cellplans. Sounds like they are more expensive.
>>>get a USB keyboard that has two or four USB ports on it, itself.
Just what I need: More cables to get my legs and other appendages tangled in. And often times I don't use the keyboard at all..... just a mouse. It would be difficult to plug my mouse (or anything else) into the keyboard while it's laying under the coffee table.
What's cheaper?
A slightly-more expensive 2x battery that lasts the life of the vehicle and never needs replaced? Or a 1x battery that has to be replaced every 75,000 miles at ~$4000 a pop (plus labor)??? I think Toyota/Honda chose wisely when they decided to make the battery last the life of the car, rather than sock customers with expensive replacement costs.
.
>>>if you're only allowed to use 30% of that capacity isn't that just as bad?
Well considering Toyota's first hybrid (prius) got 50-60 MPG and Honda's first hybrid (insight) got 70-80 MPG, I'd say "no". They accomplished what they set-out to do: create a car that was extremely fuel efficient without loss of acceleration.
>>>effectively an import tariff on a service provided from one member state being 'imported' into another
Tariffs are illegal for US States.
I thought the same was true with EU States too?
Where does Fascism (national socialism) fit into that model?
Under that late 1800s/early 1900s theory, the State didn't own the companies but it did control them through direct commands. A bit like China today. Are they socialist or not? I'd say "yes" they are, even though they evolved from state-owned to private-owned industry, since the government still controls the CEOs and the Boards.