Actually, the concept originated with the Vikings, long before the UK existed, or England even unified as a nation-state.
I will, however, agree that English common law -- as used throughout the English-speaking world -- is the most well-developed legal system in existence, and is better at pursuing justice than its civil-code counterpart in the rest of the world.
In this regard, the German legal system and the political culture that drives it are indeed inferior to the Americn system. But this is certainly nothing new.
The top ten list at the end was what it would have been if they'd counted game series rather than individual games. Civilization in the #3 spot on that list counted both Civ and Civ2; The Ultima in the #2 spot was the entire Ultima series, not just the first Ultima.
The funny thing is that the lefties are actually blaming dereculation of the power industry in California for the crisis.
The problem was caused by the government-imposed rate-cap which prevented private electric companies from raising rates to keep supply and demand at equilibrium. Demand increased faster than the power companies could expand to increase their production capacity, so blackouts were inevitable.
Now California's government is trying to sieze control of the power plants. If I had a sucpicious nature, I'd be led to believe that the whole thing - starting with the initial 'deregulation' - was really a leftist plot to put the power compaines under direct state control.
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Think I am making this up?
Yes.
Especially since you say "[t]his is just a small sample of what it's like to work in a sweatshop" without actually having actually provided any examples. Your "sample" was actually a group of generalities presented in the second person.
I have no doubt that you actually believe that conditions similar to those you've described exist in the third-world, but I'm led to beleive that you base those opinions entirely upon hearsay.
Why would you want to "dump the queen?"
If not for the British monarchy, your ancestors would likely have rotted in English jails, and Australia would today still be a largely desolate continent, populated only by a handful of people who would still have yet to emerge from the neolithic era.
Why celebrate the past by severing your ties to it?
A vote for the Nader is a vote to back the Green party. It'll have no effect on the Libertarian party, except to put a party whose principles are diametrically opposed to the Libertarians' into the national spotlight.
Nader will only harm the LP. Sorry, but you made a mistake.
Browne isn't pro-abortion. He's said on numerous occaisions that he's opposed to abortion.
He just realises that abortion is not an issue that the federal government has any business addressing in any way. That is to say, the federal government should neither support nor repress abortion. That means he'd return the issue to the states, the way it was before Roe v. Wade.
Moderate taxation is what the Libertarians are going for. Currently, about half of the federal revenue comes from tariffs and excise taxes. Browne isn't going to touch that.
Income taxes, on the other hand are quite oppressive, and remove a crucial check on government power. With tariffs and excises, you can boycott the taxed goods if you really detest what the government is up to - remember the Boston Tea Party? With income taxes, you're not going to stop working.
The legitimate constitutional functions of the federal government can indeed be funded by the tariffs and excise taxes already being collected. Repealing income taxes will limit the government's ability to waste money on pork-barrel projects and enforce unconstitutional laws like those against drugs. It will also make the federal government more accountable, and most importantly, free us from the burden of having to pay file income taxes.
AT&T was not a government-established monopoly. AT&T established itself as a monopoly quite successfully without government intervention.
When the government realised that monopoly was natural in the business AT&T was in, it decided to exampt AT&T from the anti-trust laws, provided tht AT&T allowed itself to be 'regulated.'
All of AT&T's profits came from the sales of their products and services - and government regulation just added extra rules that had to be followed. In other words, Bell Labs was funded entirely with private money, and all the government did was get int he way.
Browne himself opposes campaign finance laws. The current laws are actually inhibiting his campaign.
Nader has no chance of winning, so even if he succeeds in pushing the campaign finance issue into the spotlight, any new laws will still be passed by the Dems and Reps.
Do you think they're going to pass laws halpful to third parties? Or will they pass some laws that look like campaign finance on the surface, but only further entrench their own position.
A vote for Nader is a vote for Nader, and a vote for Browne is a vote for Browne. Nader will take your vote, and use it to proclaim public support for socialism.
Claiming that voting for Nader actually helps Browne is akin to "we have to burn down this village in order to save it."
Whether a school is a state college depends on who runs it, not where its funds come from. I attend a state school, but I have to pay a lot of money out of my pocket to do so, even with a scholarship. The bill I pay to live in my dorm - which includes the network connection - works out to about the same monthy rent I'd be paying to stay at a private apartment (and most local apartement buildings have their own networks and high-bandwidth internet connections.)
In other words, I certailny do pay for the privilege of having a high-speed internet connection, and expect not to have my use thereof arbitrarily regulated. And my university recognises this: the only activities expressly forbidden are those which are already illegal.
The state in which the item is bought and the state in which it is sold are the same state - the one in which the actual transaction takes place, i.e. the state that the vendor is located in. If you don't happen to live in that state, that state has no jurisdiction over you and cannot force you to pay sales tax. That's why you don't pay sales tax on goods that you order from another state. BTW, the federal government has no constitutional authority to enact a national sales tax.
This is likely the end of Caldera as a viable Linux vendor. The moment any company issues an IPO, they cease to be an economically signifigant business. The main impetus of their activity becomes financial activity - playing the stock market - and ceases to be competitively providing goods and services to the market. And the people who founded the company, with the original intent of earning profit by selling a quality Linux distribution, will no longer be the actual owners of the company. Their policy will now be determined by a corporate bureaucracy at the behest of stockholders, whose main purpose in investing is to gain a short term profit without regard for the actual business operations of the company. The stock market is anti-Capitalistic, anti-Individualistic, and detrimental to the economy. Caldera has, in issuing its IPO, handed the company over to the practical equivalent of Las Vegas gamblers.
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This thing comes with a 20 gig hard drive.
The asterisk is actually above the numeral eight, but on the same key. There's nothing directly above the key itself.
This costs only $85.
Actually, the concept originated with the Vikings, long before the UK existed, or England even unified as a nation-state.
I will, however, agree that English common law -- as used throughout the English-speaking world -- is the most well-developed legal system in existence, and is better at pursuing justice than its civil-code counterpart in the rest of the world.
In this regard, the German legal system and the political culture that drives it are indeed inferior to the Americn system. But this is certainly nothing new.
Well, if you're in the Sahara, a good solar cell would probably suffice.
The top ten list at the end was what it would have been if they'd counted game series rather than individual games. Civilization in the #3 spot on that list counted both Civ and Civ2; The Ultima in the #2 spot was the entire Ultima series, not just the first Ultima.
The funny thing is that the lefties are actually blaming dereculation of the power industry in California for the crisis. The problem was caused by the government-imposed rate-cap which prevented private electric companies from raising rates to keep supply and demand at equilibrium. Demand increased faster than the power companies could expand to increase their production capacity, so blackouts were inevitable. Now California's government is trying to sieze control of the power plants. If I had a sucpicious nature, I'd be led to believe that the whole thing - starting with the initial 'deregulation' - was really a leftist plot to put the power compaines under direct state control.
...are sculptured metal logo plates for your case.
Think I am making this up?
Yes.
Especially since you say "[t]his is just a small sample of what it's like to work in a sweatshop" without actually having actually provided any examples. Your "sample" was actually a group of generalities presented in the second person.
I have no doubt that you actually believe that conditions similar to those you've described exist in the third-world, but I'm led to beleive that you base those opinions entirely upon hearsay.
What does domestic violence in the US have to do with workplace intimidation in the third-world?
Are you deliberately creating a straw man because you have no evidence to back up your claims, or do you have only a single brain cell?
Wow! I can't wait for the 2-way web to be enabled. The current uni-directional communication standards are hopelessly obsolete.
Better yet, why not combine the elegance and consistency of the Mac GUI with the Unix shell?
We could all wait for MacOS X, and buy some new hardware to run it, but why bother? BeOS is already out!
Great! Instant-On for my C-64! Wait, it has that already.
Check out http://www.99er.net for the motherlode of TI-99 info.
Why would you want to "dump the queen?" If not for the British monarchy, your ancestors would likely have rotted in English jails, and Australia would today still be a largely desolate continent, populated only by a handful of people who would still have yet to emerge from the neolithic era. Why celebrate the past by severing your ties to it?
A vote for the Nader is a vote to back the Green party. It'll have no effect on the Libertarian party, except to put a party whose principles are diametrically opposed to the Libertarians' into the national spotlight.
Nader will only harm the LP. Sorry, but you made a mistake.
Browne isn't pro-abortion. He's said on numerous occaisions that he's opposed to abortion.
He just realises that abortion is not an issue that the federal government has any business addressing in any way. That is to say, the federal government should neither support nor repress abortion. That means he'd return the issue to the states, the way it was before Roe v. Wade.
Moderate taxation is what the Libertarians are going for. Currently, about half of the federal revenue comes from tariffs and excise taxes. Browne isn't going to touch that.
Income taxes, on the other hand are quite oppressive, and remove a crucial check on government power. With tariffs and excises, you can boycott the taxed goods if you really detest what the government is up to - remember the Boston Tea Party? With income taxes, you're not going to stop working.
The legitimate constitutional functions of the federal government can indeed be funded by the tariffs and excise taxes already being collected. Repealing income taxes will limit the government's ability to waste money on pork-barrel projects and enforce unconstitutional laws like those against drugs. It will also make the federal government more accountable, and most importantly, free us from the burden of having to pay file income taxes.
And you think Bush is going to do anything about it?
Vote for Browne, and maybe we'll have a free country within a few years.
AT&T was not a government-established monopoly. AT&T established itself as a monopoly quite successfully without government intervention. When the government realised that monopoly was natural in the business AT&T was in, it decided to exampt AT&T from the anti-trust laws, provided tht AT&T allowed itself to be 'regulated.' All of AT&T's profits came from the sales of their products and services - and government regulation just added extra rules that had to be followed. In other words, Bell Labs was funded entirely with private money, and all the government did was get int he way.
Browne himself opposes campaign finance laws. The current laws are actually inhibiting his campaign.
Nader has no chance of winning, so even if he succeeds in pushing the campaign finance issue into the spotlight, any new laws will still be passed by the Dems and Reps.
Do you think they're going to pass laws halpful to third parties? Or will they pass some laws that look like campaign finance on the surface, but only further entrench their own position.
A vote for Nader is a vote for Nader, and a vote for Browne is a vote for Browne. Nader will take your vote, and use it to proclaim public support for socialism.
Claiming that voting for Nader actually helps Browne is akin to "we have to burn down this village in order to save it."
A national sales tax would be patetently unconstitutional. But since when did the constitution stop the politicians from having their way?
Whether a school is a state college depends on who runs it, not where its funds come from. I attend a state school, but I have to pay a lot of money out of my pocket to do so, even with a scholarship. The bill I pay to live in my dorm - which includes the network connection - works out to about the same monthy rent I'd be paying to stay at a private apartment (and most local apartement buildings have their own networks and high-bandwidth internet connections.)
In other words, I certailny do pay for the privilege of having a high-speed internet connection, and expect not to have my use thereof arbitrarily regulated. And my university recognises this: the only activities expressly forbidden are those which are already illegal.
The state in which the item is bought and the state in which it is sold are the same state - the one in which the actual transaction takes place, i.e. the state that the vendor is located in. If you don't happen to live in that state, that state has no jurisdiction over you and cannot force you to pay sales tax. That's why you don't pay sales tax on goods that you order from another state. BTW, the federal government has no constitutional authority to enact a national sales tax.
This is likely the end of Caldera as a viable Linux vendor. The moment any company issues an IPO, they cease to be an economically signifigant business. The main impetus of their activity becomes financial activity - playing the stock market - and ceases to be competitively providing goods and services to the market. And the people who founded the company, with the original intent of earning profit by selling a quality Linux distribution, will no longer be the actual owners of the company. Their policy will now be determined by a corporate bureaucracy at the behest of stockholders, whose main purpose in investing is to gain a short term profit without regard for the actual business operations of the company. The stock market is anti-Capitalistic, anti-Individualistic, and detrimental to the economy. Caldera has, in issuing its IPO, handed the company over to the practical equivalent of Las Vegas gamblers.