It is therefore perfectly clear that the only way to ensure the liberty that so many of our descendents have given their lives to protect is to support those with strong, progressive social agendas. Beware of the so-called "moderate Democrats"; the "Democratic Leadership Council" is nothing of the kind. These people are nothing more than conservatives in sheep's clothing, and their hateful message is to be eschewed in favor of the more compassionate message of the Democratic Left.
No, it's not the only way. It's not best way. It's not even a good way. The democrats want to tell you how you can spend your money. They want to rob you to pay for their own agendas. Wouldn't you rather choose where the fruits of your labour go?
If you believe that you should be making your decisions, instead of having politicans tell you how to live your life, then vote for a party who will let you decide how you want to spend your money and your time. Vote Libertarian.
If you want more information, go read the party platform.
This is not entirely true. Any software written to the Classic API is definately out, of course. Carbon, too.
Here is the plot really thickens: Cocoa apps would run unmodified (with a recompile or a fat binary compile) on a MacOS X release for x86.
There's your software. MacOS X for x86 is not yet viable, true. But once a wide selection of Cocoa software is written, it will automatically work with an x86 release.
This overcomes the chicken-egg scenario that any new OS must face. Nobody wants an OS with no software, and nobody wants to write software for an OS that nobody has. Once Cocoa is fully adopted by the developer community for MacOS X on Apple's hardware, a MacOS X for x86 would have the same software--automatically.
FBI agents have protected us from suspected criminals and subversives well in the past - John Dillinger, Martin Luther King, and John Lennon come to mind.
John Dillinger was created by the government. Prohibition (a great mistake that apparently taught nothing) created a black market that made gangs and gang warfare profitable. We are once again in the same situation, with the so called "War on Drugs" creating a wasteland of gang activity.
Perhaps you are just a white supremacist, but I can't see what makes you believe Dr. King was a criminal.
Cool it and cut the paranoia. The United States Constitution set up a system of checks and balances to prevent abuses of power by any one branch of government. The FBI has proper authorization from Congress for these activities.
Yes, there does exist a system of checks against government abuse. However, they are being ignored and the apathy of people (such as our AC here) is what is allowing it to happen.
It doesn't have to be this way. We can fight now with our vote, and reclaim the freedom being stolen from us by fatcat bureaucrats. Vote for a President that will end the insane War on Drugs, allow you to live your life as a free American, and restrict the federal government to its Constitutional limits. Harry Browne is one.
Paranoia is one of the many reasons I don't vote libertarian. I keep one of the others in my wallet.
Webster defines "paranoia" as "a tendency on the part of an individual or group toward excessive or irrational suspiciousness and distrustfulness of others. I do not distrust everyone, and a distrust of the government is by no means irrational. Do you mean to say that you feel that people like Bill Clinton, Al Gore, &c. are deserving of blind faith in the driver's seat of our lives?
As for the other part of your closing line, I don't know what you could mean. I can't see how you could possibly claim money, without ignorance, to be a reason to vote to support a huge, corrupt government that can't steal enough money from the people to support its rampant spending.
Your assertion that a warrant that allows the government blanket access to the private email of every customer of a "suspected criminal's" ISP does not constitute "unreasonable" is laughable.
"...you might start to think that random drug testing is unconstitutional"
Random drug testing in no way violates the protections granted by the 4th amendment, as long as the participation of the testee is voluntarily. If it is demanded by that person's employer--even as a condition of their employment--it is fine. Every employee has a right to quit their job if they don't agree with the policies of their employer.
However, if the government mandates these drug tests, without consent of the tested, then 4th amendment rights are infringed. For example, military members are randomly tested, and refusal to cooperate is a violation of the Uniform Code of Military Justice. As such, this practice violates the rights of the very soldiers who are sworn to defend those rights. A harsh irony indeed.
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
It does not matter what the FBI says, they may not do this and be in compliance with our Constitution.
Let your representatives know that you don't want the Constitution ignored, or vote for a candidate that will demand that the government complies.
This would be quite a difficult task to accomplish. The iMac convection cooling system works because the monitor (being a vacuum tube) generates a lot of heat that rises through the vents and pulls room temperature air in from the bottom vents.
In order for a PC enclosure to do the same convection cooling then you would have to have a top vent (that isn't flat, because God knows anything flat gets a dozen old magazines piled on top of it in milliseconds) and someting to generate heat above the mainboard.
Apple can pull it off with the iMac design because they have control over what they put in there. A standalone enclosure for PCs would not be so lucky.
Why are some foreign countries so anit-US? I don't understand it. Why does the US make you so bitter? How do we make your life miserable?
I wonder this, as well. I can see perfectly--being that I am an American--why its own citizens would hate the U.S. Government. We have to suffer the effects of this bloated federal government every day.
This is not a situation that we have to sit quietly and accept, however. I may despise the myriad of unconstitutional agencies I'm forced to pay for with my taxes, but I love the spirit in which my country was created, and I believe in the ideals that our ancestors paid for in blood.
Americans don't have to take this. We can fight back with the weapon government fears most--VOTE. Vote for a candidate that believes in your ability to govern yourself. If you want to learn about these candidates, visit the Libertarian Party home page.
You might as well try to sue the US Government for being a monopoly... After all, I suspect their product has suffered from lack of other competing governments within the US.
This is an excellent idea, but of course it would not work. The bull-headed idiots in office are not going to allow you to take away their control of your life that easily. The intended checks on government power have been ignored by the government (Ooooh, big surprise).
We have to elect new leaders that care about the Constitution and want you to have the liberty our forefathers' paid for in blood. We need to use the power we do have: VOTE. Vote for a candidate that believes in your ability to make your own choices and lead your own life, instead of insisting that you conform to his draconian regime.
We don't have to stand for this. I know I won't. I love my country, and I've sworn an oath to defend the Constitution of the United States. The presidents swear an oath, too. They just don't take it seriously. It is my moral and patriotic duty to cast my vote for a candidate who does take that oath seriously.
I will vote for Harry Browne in November, and make it clear that I am tired of a huge government wasting my money. Are you tired, too? Support Harry Browne for President.
Consult the Libertarian Party home page to find candidates for your local elections that believe in you and your freedom.
Of course Micro$oft has said that Internet Explorer 5 will have a Carbonized release at the time of the MacOS X release. Also, with Mozilla 6 completed, and open source, it could easily be Carbonized as well.
All in all, we should have several browser choices when MacOS X is shipping.
Just *change* the law. It worked for Prohibition.
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U.S. laws that are not compatible with the Constitution are void. Void laws have no need to be acknowledged by citizens. However, many law enforcement agencies (especially the illegal and unauthorized federal agencies) will still attempt to enforce these "laws." If you don't want to be harassed by the cops, flaunting the "law" may not be the best idea.
The best recourse for restoring liberty is to exercise your voice and vote for candidates that believe in liberty and will do what it takes to fight against its infringement. Don't give any support to those who are set on suppressing your freedom.
If you need a list of candidates that believe in the U.S. Constitution, and believe in your ability to govern yourself, go to the Libertarian Party home page.
Topher "Man is free at the moment he wishes to be." -Voltaire
Just because Darwin is designed to lie under MacOS X, it is not limited to that function.
It will stand alone as a BSD, and some people may find it useful as such. You say that "if you want to run Apache headless in a co-lo space, then Darwin is irrelevant to you." I disagree.
If you want to run this setup, and run it really fast, they may want to run Darwin. I think a big selling point of Darwin, in comparison to other BSDs, will be AltiVec acceleration--especially with the new G4s that have two AltiVec units on the chip. A really fast system is often coveted.
Some time ago there was rumour of a "Red Box" in development that was basically an implementation of the Win32 API for MacOS. This would trap Win32 calls and execute on an x86 coprocessor PCI card. Like the Blue Box does for Classic apps, and the Yellow Box does for Cocoa apps, except those run on the existing CPU.
If this exists, then the Red Box would not require additional hardware when run on MacOS X for x86, and the Blue Box could be supported with a G3 processor on a PCI card. The Yellow Box, of course, is already written to x86, so that would be available, too.
So, then it would be matter of do you want to: A) Run on better hardware, with supported but slower Win32 support, OR B) Run on the x86 hardware that would be cheaper and support Blue apps with additional hardware if you need them? Either choice would leave you with full-speed Yellow apps. Although the superior archetecture of the PowerPPC would yield better results, you could settle for x86 if you wanted to.
Off topic trivia: The colours (Blue, Yellow, Red) come from a brainstorming session the MacOS software team had years ago, where they wrote ideas they had for MacOS development on little cards. They wrote things that could be done soon on blue cards, stuff that was tough to do on red cards, and the middle-ground stuff on yellow cards. Rhapsody/MacOS X stuff is from the yellow. Makes you wonder what is written on the rest of the red cards, doesn't it?
You wouldn't have to support all of that hardware, just a subset. In fact, if Apple made Intel boxes itself (or talked, say, Dell into building a box just for OS X), it would be just as easy to deal with as Apple's current PPC hardware.
All that's needed here is a spec that would have to be met to run MacOS X on x86--a set of supported and/or required chipsets. That way Apple could license a "Works with MacOS X" moniker for supported boxes, and work with Dell, Gateway, etc. to be sure the hardware is up to standard. Use of MacOS X on a non-spec'd machine would be possible, but unsupported. And if the spec was unpublished and NDA'd then they also wouldn't have every schmo trying to make a cheapass PC to run MacOS X instead of buying thier hardware. (Hell, even if it WAS published, they would sell more of their software, without having to back it up with support for unlicensed machines!)
I see it as doable. They just need to pick their friends.
Yes, I agree. However, under the DCMA it has become illegal to circumvent the encryption. That is why we need to fight to retain (and regain) our rights. Tell them in November that you are sick and tired of idiots trying to run your life. Vote the @$$holes out of office.
Do you know any engineers? They overestimate everything, like Scotty telling Kirk how long repairs will take. You bet that you can run that chip faster than it is rated.
Topher
"I've not met a human I thought was worth cloning, yet. Lot's of cows though." -- Mark Westhusin
Yes, indeed I do support numerous judicial reforms.
I believe that those losing civil suits they initiated should suffer the burden of their target's legal costs. This would relieve some of the pressure on our overburdened judicial system by eliminating some of the more frivolous lawsuits.
I believe that death penalty appeals should be given a priority, so that their cases can be seen again quickly, to overturn the conviction if new evidence has come to light, or to speed the elimination of this burden on society.
I believe in cutting a lotof legislative fat by enacting a constitutional amendment to require a time limit on current and future legislation, maximum of five years. This I mentioned in a previous post.
We need to stop allowing the government to do for us what we should be doing for ourselves. We need to take the responsibly, and kick those porky bureaucrats out of office. Vote for someone who believes in your ability to govern yourself. For a list of those candidates, visit the Libertarian Party home page.
Demand Liberty! Topher
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." -Aristotle
"it would be like owning a gun. it gives regular people a huge advantage, but it's not forbidden"
The right to own a gun to protect yourself is in jeopardy in the United States, and has been taken from the people governed by several of the more oppressive governments.
This sort of thing is exactlywhy we need to fight to retain these rights now. When the government reserves (and utilizes) for itself a right that those governed are denied, you have a verydangerous situation. Our founding fathers had the good sense to know this, and state it clearly when we sloughed off the oppressive reins of King George. Unfortunately for us, they did not enact into law, nor include in the subsequent Constitution, the Declaration of Independence.
This, combined with an unfortunate loophole in the Constitution, has allowed our liberty to be slowly and surely whittled away by legislation. Don't let this continue! If you want to see one of the ideas I support to stop this bloated legislation, see my previous post.
You may be getting tired of "Rock the Vote" ads and whatnot (especially if you are stuck watching the Armed Forces Network), but it is up to you to make this change. Yourvoice needs to be heard. Tell the fatcat bureaucrats that you won't put up with this anymore, and vote them out of office.
You don't have to settle for the "least bad" of candidates. Vote for a candidate that supports yourright to govern yourself. If you need help finding a candidate for the elections in your state, and nationally, visit the Libertarian Party home page.
Demand Liberty! Topher
"Man is free at the moment he wishes to be." -Voltaire
"The GPL is a trap laid to catch unwary programmers."... "If people only contribute to programs using more morally acceptable licenses (like MPL), eventually the GPL will become the exclusive province of a small, greedy minority."
Your distaste for the GPL is obvious. What is not apparent is your logic. Could you please explain the basis of your opinion? My knowledge of the GPL leads me to believe that it guarrantees freedom for everyone involved. If you know (or believe) differently, I'd like to see your perspective.
I am also interested in this "MPL" that you believe to be more "morally acceptable." Please post a link to the text of this license.
Thanks, Topher
It's a free country. Everyone has the right to sound like an idiot.
maybe you premeditated it and deserve to spend your life in jail
No, you deserve to be hanging from your neck until dead. I'm sick of paying my taxes to feed this worthless scum. I say kill 'em all and make room for people who can be reformed.
If we, as a society, get tough on crime (that's crime, now, not mere violations of idiotic law that do no harm to others), perhaps those contemplating attempts at depriving others of their life, liberty, or property might have second thoughts.
Topher
"I've not met a human I thought was worth cloning, yet. Lot's of cows though." -- Mark Westhusin
Nobody wants to halt the ability to profit financially (as opposed to profiting emotionally) from creating software. You can still make plenty of money writing non-proprietary software.
If you couldn't make money writing software, only communists would write software.
Topher
"I've not met a human I thought was worth cloning, yet. Lot's of cows though." -- Mark Westhusin
I agree completely with this. I am of the opinion that an amendment to the constitution should be written to require all legislation to have an expiration date, maximum of five years. All current legislation would have expiration date five years from the ratification of the amendment. (Of course this applies only to the US...)
This would force the idi--*ahem* I mean, legislating body to concentrate on laws that still matter and apply to the people of the day. Of course, if something is REALLY important and requires perpetuity, (such as the expiration itself) then it should be considered for constitutional amendment.
Tophu
I may not like what you have to say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it. -- Voltaire (paraphrased)
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No, it's not the only way. It's not best way. It's not even a good way. The democrats want to tell you how you can spend your money. They want to rob you to pay for their own agendas. Wouldn't you rather choose where the fruits of your labour go?
If you believe that you should be making your decisions, instead of having politicans tell you how to live your life, then vote for a party who will let you decide how you want to spend your money and your time. Vote Libertarian.
If you want more information, go read the party platform.
Here is the plot really thickens: Cocoa apps would run unmodified (with a recompile or a fat binary compile) on a MacOS X release for x86.
There's your software. MacOS X for x86 is not yet viable, true. But once a wide selection of Cocoa software is written, it will automatically work with an x86 release.
This overcomes the chicken-egg scenario that any new OS must face. Nobody wants an OS with no software, and nobody wants to write software for an OS that nobody has. Once Cocoa is fully adopted by the developer community for MacOS X on Apple's hardware, a MacOS X for x86 would have the same software--automatically.
An egg for the chicken, if you will.
I hope they get laughed out of court.
Topher
Got Freedom?
John Dillinger was created by the government. Prohibition (a great mistake that apparently taught nothing) created a black market that made gangs and gang warfare profitable. We are once again in the same situation, with the so called "War on Drugs" creating a wasteland of gang activity.
Perhaps you are just a white supremacist, but I can't see what makes you believe Dr. King was a criminal.
Cool it and cut the paranoia. The United States Constitution set up a system of checks and balances to prevent abuses of power by any one branch of government. The FBI has proper authorization from Congress for these activities.
Yes, there does exist a system of checks against government abuse. However, they are being ignored and the apathy of people (such as our AC here) is what is allowing it to happen.
It doesn't have to be this way. We can fight now with our vote, and reclaim the freedom being stolen from us by fatcat bureaucrats. Vote for a President that will end the insane War on Drugs, allow you to live your life as a free American, and restrict the federal government to its Constitutional limits. Harry Browne is one.
Topher Got Freedom?
Webster defines "paranoia" as "a tendency on the part of an individual or group toward excessive or irrational suspiciousness and distrustfulness of others. I do not distrust everyone, and a distrust of the government is by no means irrational. Do you mean to say that you feel that people like Bill Clinton, Al Gore, &c. are deserving of blind faith in the driver's seat of our lives?
As for the other part of your closing line, I don't know what you could mean. I can't see how you could possibly claim money, without ignorance, to be a reason to vote to support a huge, corrupt government that can't steal enough money from the people to support its rampant spending.
Your assertion that a warrant that allows the government blanket access to the private email of every customer of a "suspected criminal's" ISP does not constitute "unreasonable" is laughable.
Topher
Got Freedom?
Random drug testing in no way violates the protections granted by the 4th amendment, as long as the participation of the testee is voluntarily. If it is demanded by that person's employer--even as a condition of their employment--it is fine. Every employee has a right to quit their job if they don't agree with the policies of their employer.
However, if the government mandates these drug tests, without consent of the tested, then 4th amendment rights are infringed. For example, military members are randomly tested, and refusal to cooperate is a violation of the Uniform Code of Military Justice. As such, this practice violates the rights of the very soldiers who are sworn to defend those rights. A harsh irony indeed.
Topher
Got Freedom?
It does not matter what the FBI says, they may not do this and be in compliance with our Constitution.
Let your representatives know that you don't want the Constitution ignored, or vote for a candidate that will demand that the government complies.
Look for a candidate at the Libertarian Party home page.
Topher
Got Freedom?
In order for a PC enclosure to do the same convection cooling then you would have to have a top vent (that isn't flat, because God knows anything flat gets a dozen old magazines piled on top of it in milliseconds) and someting to generate heat above the mainboard.
Apple can pull it off with the iMac design because they have control over what they put in there. A standalone enclosure for PCs would not be so lucky.
Topher
Got Freedom?
I wonder this, as well. I can see perfectly--being that I am an American--why its own citizens would hate the U.S. Government. We have to suffer the effects of this bloated federal government every day.
This is not a situation that we have to sit quietly and accept, however. I may despise the myriad of unconstitutional agencies I'm forced to pay for with my taxes, but I love the spirit in which my country was created, and I believe in the ideals that our ancestors paid for in blood.
Americans don't have to take this. We can fight back with the weapon government fears most--VOTE. Vote for a candidate that believes in your ability to govern yourself. If you want to learn about these candidates, visit the Libertarian Party home page.
Topher
Got Freedom?
This is an excellent idea, but of course it would not work. The bull-headed idiots in office are not going to allow you to take away their control of your life that easily. The intended checks on government power have been ignored by the government (Ooooh, big surprise).
We have to elect new leaders that care about the Constitution and want you to have the liberty our forefathers' paid for in blood. We need to use the power we do have: VOTE. Vote for a candidate that believes in your ability to make your own choices and lead your own life, instead of insisting that you conform to his draconian regime.
We don't have to stand for this. I know I won't. I love my country, and I've sworn an oath to defend the Constitution of the United States. The presidents swear an oath, too. They just don't take it seriously. It is my moral and patriotic duty to cast my vote for a candidate who does take that oath seriously.
I will vote for Harry Browne in November, and make it clear that I am tired of a huge government wasting my money. Are you tired, too? Support Harry Browne for President.
Consult the Libertarian Party home page to find candidates for your local elections that believe in you and your freedom.
Topher
Got Freedom?
All in all, we should have several browser choices when MacOS X is shipping.
Topher
Got Freedom?
The best recourse for restoring liberty is to exercise your voice and vote for candidates that believe in liberty and will do what it takes to fight against its infringement. Don't give any support to those who are set on suppressing your freedom.
If you need a list of candidates that believe in the U.S. Constitution, and believe in your ability to govern yourself, go to the Libertarian Party home page.
Topher
"Man is free at the moment he wishes to be." -Voltaire
It will stand alone as a BSD, and some people may find it useful as such. You say that "if you want to run Apache headless in a co-lo space, then Darwin is irrelevant to you." I disagree.
If you want to run this setup, and run it really fast, they may want to run Darwin. I think a big selling point of Darwin, in comparison to other BSDs, will be AltiVec acceleration--especially with the new G4s that have two AltiVec units on the chip. A really fast system is often coveted.
Topher
Got Freedom?
Where the hell are we going to get the dilithium crystals necessary for a warp field of this magnitude?
We don't have the goods to even produce a nanocochrane warp field, let alone a field large enough surround an entire starship.
Topher
Got Freedom?
If this exists, then the Red Box would not require additional hardware when run on MacOS X for x86, and the Blue Box could be supported with a G3 processor on a PCI card. The Yellow Box, of course, is already written to x86, so that would be available, too.
So, then it would be matter of do you want to:
A) Run on better hardware, with supported but slower Win32 support, OR
B) Run on the x86 hardware that would be cheaper and support Blue apps with additional hardware if you need them?
Either choice would leave you with full-speed Yellow apps. Although the superior archetecture of the PowerPPC would yield better results, you could settle for x86 if you wanted to.
Off topic trivia:
The colours (Blue, Yellow, Red) come from a brainstorming session the MacOS software team had years ago, where they wrote ideas they had for MacOS development on little cards. They wrote things that could be done soon on blue cards, stuff that was tough to do on red cards, and the middle-ground stuff on yellow cards. Rhapsody/MacOS X stuff is from the yellow. Makes you wonder what is written on the rest of the red cards, doesn't it?
Topher
Got Freedom?
All that's needed here is a spec that would have to be met to run MacOS X on x86--a set of supported and/or required chipsets. That way Apple could license a "Works with MacOS X" moniker for supported boxes, and work with Dell, Gateway, etc. to be sure the hardware is up to standard. Use of MacOS X on a non-spec'd machine would be possible, but unsupported. And if the spec was unpublished and NDA'd then they also wouldn't have every schmo trying to make a cheapass PC to run MacOS X instead of buying thier hardware. (Hell, even if it WAS published, they would sell more of their software, without having to back it up with support for unlicensed machines!)
I see it as doable. They just need to pick their friends.
Topher
Got Freedom?
Visit the Libertarian Party home page to find candidates that believe in your ability to govern yourself.
Topher
"Man is free at the moment he wishes to be." -Voltaire
Topher
"I've not met a human I thought was worth cloning, yet. Lot's of cows though." -- Mark Westhusin
I believe that those losing civil suits they initiated should suffer the burden of their target's legal costs. This would relieve some of the pressure on our overburdened judicial system by eliminating some of the more frivolous lawsuits.
I believe that death penalty appeals should be given a priority, so that their cases can be seen again quickly, to overturn the conviction if new evidence has come to light, or to speed the elimination of this burden on society.
I believe in cutting a lotof legislative fat by enacting a constitutional amendment to require a time limit on current and future legislation, maximum of five years. This I mentioned in a previous post.
We need to stop allowing the government to do for us what we should be doing for ourselves. We need to take the responsibly, and kick those porky bureaucrats out of office. Vote for someone who believes in your ability to govern yourself. For a list of those candidates, visit the Libertarian Party home page.
Demand Liberty!
Topher
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." -Aristotle
The right to own a gun to protect yourself is in jeopardy in the United States, and has been taken from the people governed by several of the more oppressive governments.
This sort of thing is exactlywhy we need to fight to retain these rights now. When the government reserves (and utilizes) for itself a right that those governed are denied, you have a verydangerous situation. Our founding fathers had the good sense to know this, and state it clearly when we sloughed off the oppressive reins of King George. Unfortunately for us, they did not enact into law, nor include in the subsequent Constitution, the Declaration of Independence.
This, combined with an unfortunate loophole in the Constitution, has allowed our liberty to be slowly and surely whittled away by legislation. Don't let this continue! If you want to see one of the ideas I support to stop this bloated legislation, see my previous post.
You may be getting tired of "Rock the Vote" ads and whatnot (especially if you are stuck watching the Armed Forces Network), but it is up to you to make this change. Yourvoice needs to be heard. Tell the fatcat bureaucrats that you won't put up with this anymore, and vote them out of office.
You don't have to settle for the "least bad" of candidates. Vote for a candidate that supports yourright to govern yourself. If you need help finding a candidate for the elections in your state, and nationally, visit the Libertarian Party home page.
Demand Liberty!
Topher
"Man is free at the moment he wishes to be." -Voltaire
Your distaste for the GPL is obvious. What is not apparent is your logic. Could you please explain the basis of your opinion? My knowledge of the GPL leads me to believe that it guarrantees freedom for everyone involved. If you know (or believe) differently, I'd like to see your perspective.
I am also interested in this "MPL" that you believe to be more "morally acceptable." Please post a link to the text of this license.
Thanks,
Topher
It's a free country. Everyone has the right to sound like an idiot.
No, you deserve to be hanging from your neck until dead. I'm sick of paying my taxes to feed this worthless scum. I say kill 'em all and make room for people who can be reformed.
If we, as a society, get tough on crime (that's crime, now, not mere violations of idiotic law that do no harm to others), perhaps those contemplating attempts at depriving others of their life, liberty, or property might have second thoughts.
Topher
If you couldn't make money writing software, only communists would write software.
Topher
I agree completely with this. I am of the opinion that an amendment to the constitution should be written to require all legislation to have an expiration date, maximum of five years. All current legislation would have expiration date five years from the ratification of the amendment. (Of course this applies only to the US...)
This would force the idi--*ahem* I mean, legislating body to concentrate on laws that still matter and apply to the people of the day. Of course, if something is REALLY important and requires perpetuity, (such as the expiration itself) then it should be considered for constitutional amendment.
Tophu
I may not like what you have to say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it. -- Voltaire (paraphrased)