They could start by not sending credit card offers to my dog.
Do you ever fill them out for him and send them back with a pawprint on the signature line? Put "home security specialist" as his job title and estimate how much you spend per annum on dog food as his salary.
Judicial activism is just a name for rulings one particular group doesn't like
No. "Activist" as a term for the judiciary has a specific meaning: when the judge(s) issue orders as defacto legislation. See: Forced bussing, the Massachusettes legislature ordered to make a law regarding same sex marriage, a myriad of nonsense ordered under the guise of the 14th, etc. When a judge strikes down a law under an interpretation of the Consitution, it's a proper function of the judiciary whether you or I agree or not. The Schiavo case is an excellent example of this; the court behaved in the appropriate role. When a judge orders new laws made and/or tax dollars collected and spent in a specific manner, it's activism and should not be tolerated. In the Schiavo case, if the Court ordered the legislature to make the law to reinsert the tube, they would have been acting in an activist manner.
While caustically phrased, parent post is not trollbait. It's 100% on that "judicial activism" is a serious problem with the modern government that needs to be fixed. And it can only be fixed by removing judges with activist tendencies.
the same Sandra Day O'Connor that stopped the recount
You mean who helped stop the Fla court from changing the local election law after the election. Well, I guess it doesn't matter. The LA Times, NY Times, and Washington Post all conducted their own independent counts and found that GWB was the winner.
What exactly does this have to do with any specific rights online? It's just a troll-fest waiting to happen.
I hereby submit that posts in 'YRO' topics be subject only to + mod points since it's just a slam session of who can get mod points from their side before being cast into -1 oblivion.
Probably because mini-DV holds about 13GB and an LTO has a capacity of 400GB. Get a 4 tape autochanger and you've got 1.2TB, or about 92 Mini-DV tapes.
I think you need to check up on what a line item veto is. It isn't anywhere near "complete control" over legislation. There WAS a line item veto given to Clinton by the Republican majority Congress in 96, so it's hard to argue that it gives away all the power. Do you think the Republican congress would give away complete control to Clinton? Anyway, the supremes nixed it after being wooed by the lawyers for the farmers' unions. Do you know most state governors have it? Hasn't ruined them yet.
The court found that it gave the executive branch unprecidented legslative powers since they could effectively modify already passed legslation
Which was a completely bogus argument IMO. Congress voluntarily delegated that power; it wasn't a case of one branch of government usurping another's powers. And duh, if a president abused it the Congress could pass a revocation by nonveto-able supermajority. Problem solved. But no. Did you know that the group who sued to get the line item rejected was the potato farmers' union? Talk about pork barrel; don't even get me started on farm subsidies. Special thanks for working hard to strike down the line item goes out to Ruth "ACLU" Ginsbug.
Blah blah blah, so what? For every individual instance were someones like a given rider there are truckloads of riders that suck in general. Good proposals for legislation should be able to stand on their own and get passed by themselves. The vast majority of riders are bad ideas that needs to be put in as riders because otherwise it wouldn't be passed. I really despise this cheap tactic by the Congresscritters and remain utterly unimpressed by any of the few exceptions you can point out.
A line item veto doesn't mean lines of text so the executive gets to rewite the thing. It means the ability to delete individual riders. Your objection is therefore seems to be from a misunderstanding and my proposal addresses your complaint. Congress can feel free to insert irrelevant riders but they can be stuck out easily.
Tribal societies and their precursors have been around far longer than the lock. The idea of ownership and "lock and key" is generally a by-product of civilization and its immediate pre-cursors
Only as long as you're talking about one small tribe. As soon as wandering neolithic tribe #1 accidentally meets up with wandering neolithic tribe #2 then there's definitely a concept of ownership. Just check into how the Ice Man from the Italian Alps died. Your rose colored view of primitive tribal society leaves out a lot of reality.
Every time one of these controversial rider bills comes up it should underscore to everyone the need for a line item veto on for the Federal executive. And this shouldn't be a partisan issue; I want this for the Prez regardless of which party controls which branch.
You then get a PR coup for MS and the Vietnamese officials
You seem innocently naive of southeast Asian politics. A foriegn company asking for human rights improvements would be a HUGE insult to said Vietnamese officials. They'd probably go home and kick a few peasants just for spite.
How is it then that the detainees haven't been granted POW status?
Why do you bother to ask when the link you've given spells it out in plain English?!?
I recommend everyone babbling about inhumane treatment read that link; see esp. the list of what all detainees are being provided daily. Compare with treatment of Americans captured in Iraq. Note that "Heads sawed off with knives" is not on the GB prisoner's list.
Americans compaining about other country's human rights records
Yeah, the same Americans who 35 years ago were protesting the US's attempt to keep the communists from taking over Vietnam are now complaining that said communists are running a repressive regime.
Gets your card number out there so you don't have to bother giving it to retailers - they already have it
First of all, the hacked system in question belonged to a payment processor, not a merchant. Second, merchants already do keep them. Walmart's central data warehouse has a consumer's entire transaction, including credit card number, within 15 minutes of the POS transaction. I went to Home Depot to make a return without a receipt and with a swipe of my cc the cashier had the transaction on screen in just a couple of seconds. Scary! Cash at HD from now on for me!
Well, I guess if you're determined to work at company X and there aren't any openings in your field but there is one in marketing / whatever then you might take that and apply to transfer internally to a more preferred department. Larger companies like to shuffle people around more than getting someone from the outside.
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They could start by not sending credit card offers to my dog.
Do you ever fill them out for him and send them back with a pawprint on the signature line? Put "home security specialist" as his job title and estimate how much you spend per annum on dog food as his salary.
Judicial activism is just a name for rulings one particular group doesn't like
No. "Activist" as a term for the judiciary has a specific meaning: when the judge(s) issue orders as defacto legislation. See: Forced bussing, the Massachusettes legislature ordered to make a law regarding same sex marriage, a myriad of nonsense ordered under the guise of the 14th, etc. When a judge strikes down a law under an interpretation of the Consitution, it's a proper function of the judiciary whether you or I agree or not. The Schiavo case is an excellent example of this; the court behaved in the appropriate role. When a judge orders new laws made and/or tax dollars collected and spent in a specific manner, it's activism and should not be tolerated. In the Schiavo case, if the Court ordered the legislature to make the law to reinsert the tube, they would have been acting in an activist manner.
Supreme Court Justices are required to be conservative
!?!?!? Have you been paying attention for the last 40 years?
OMG! The irony blinds me!! Mod a complaint about trolls as being a troll!!!
While caustically phrased, parent post is not trollbait. It's 100% on that "judicial activism" is a serious problem with the modern government that needs to be fixed. And it can only be fixed by removing judges with activist tendencies.
the same Sandra Day O'Connor that stopped the recount
You mean who helped stop the Fla court from changing the local election law after the election. Well, I guess it doesn't matter. The LA Times, NY Times, and Washington Post all conducted their own independent counts and found that GWB was the winner.
What exactly does this have to do with any specific rights online? It's just a troll-fest waiting to happen.
I hereby submit that posts in 'YRO' topics be subject only to + mod points since it's just a slam session of who can get mod points from their side before being cast into -1 oblivion.
If Lucas counts as one, lots
Since he isn't British, I'd say he doesn't count in the UK census.
Late night posting strike again... make that: 1.6TB is 123 Mini-DV tapes.
Why not just keep the original MiniDV?
Probably because mini-DV holds about 13GB and an LTO has a capacity of 400GB. Get a 4 tape autochanger and you've got 1.2TB, or about 92 Mini-DV tapes.
I think you need to check up on what a line item veto is. It isn't anywhere near "complete control" over legislation. There WAS a line item veto given to Clinton by the Republican majority Congress in 96, so it's hard to argue that it gives away all the power. Do you think the Republican congress would give away complete control to Clinton? Anyway, the supremes nixed it after being wooed by the lawyers for the farmers' unions. Do you know most state governors have it? Hasn't ruined them yet.
Well, Seattle *is* on the Pacific coast, after all.
The court found that it gave the executive branch unprecidented legslative powers since they could effectively modify already passed legslation
Which was a completely bogus argument IMO. Congress voluntarily delegated that power; it wasn't a case of one branch of government usurping another's powers. And duh, if a president abused it the Congress could pass a revocation by nonveto-able supermajority. Problem solved. But no. Did you know that the group who sued to get the line item rejected was the potato farmers' union? Talk about pork barrel; don't even get me started on farm subsidies. Special thanks for working hard to strike down the line item goes out to Ruth "ACLU" Ginsbug.
Before the ink was even dry, Microsoft cut all new antivirus support for all Unix and Linux
So stop wasting time whining about it and start a Linux antivirus software company or a SourceForge project depending on your philosophy / free time.
and if Bush had this he'd line item veto...
Blah blah blah, so what? For every individual instance were someones like a given rider there are truckloads of riders that suck in general. Good proposals for legislation should be able to stand on their own and get passed by themselves. The vast majority of riders are bad ideas that needs to be put in as riders because otherwise it wouldn't be passed. I really despise this cheap tactic by the Congresscritters and remain utterly unimpressed by any of the few exceptions you can point out.
A line item veto doesn't mean lines of text so the executive gets to rewite the thing. It means the ability to delete individual riders. Your objection is therefore seems to be from a misunderstanding and my proposal addresses your complaint. Congress can feel free to insert irrelevant riders but they can be stuck out easily.
Tribal societies and their precursors have been around far longer than the lock. The idea of ownership and "lock and key" is generally a by-product of civilization and its immediate pre-cursors
Only as long as you're talking about one small tribe. As soon as wandering neolithic tribe #1 accidentally meets up with wandering neolithic tribe #2 then there's definitely a concept of ownership. Just check into how the Ice Man from the Italian Alps died. Your rose colored view of primitive tribal society leaves out a lot of reality.
Every time one of these controversial rider bills comes up it should underscore to everyone the need for a line item veto on for the Federal executive. And this shouldn't be a partisan issue; I want this for the Prez regardless of which party controls which branch.
I've never heard either presidents Bush claim there are communists working at the State department.
You then get a PR coup for MS and the Vietnamese officials
You seem innocently naive of southeast Asian politics. A foriegn company asking for human rights improvements would be a HUGE insult to said Vietnamese officials. They'd probably go home and kick a few peasants just for spite.
How is it then that the detainees haven't been granted POW status?
Why do you bother to ask when the link you've given spells it out in plain English?!?
I recommend everyone babbling about inhumane treatment read that link; see esp. the list of what all detainees are being provided daily. Compare with treatment of Americans captured in Iraq. Note that "Heads sawed off with knives" is not on the GB prisoner's list.
Americans compaining about other country's human rights records
Yeah, the same Americans who 35 years ago were protesting the US's attempt to keep the communists from taking over Vietnam are now complaining that said communists are running a repressive regime.
Gets your card number out there so you don't have to bother giving it to retailers - they already have it
First of all, the hacked system in question belonged to a payment processor, not a merchant. Second, merchants already do keep them. Walmart's central data warehouse has a consumer's entire transaction, including credit card number, within 15 minutes of the POS transaction. I went to Home Depot to make a return without a receipt and with a swipe of my cc the cashier had the transaction on screen in just a couple of seconds. Scary! Cash at HD from now on for me!
the tech who does the work is probably only seeing about $10.00/hr
An employee who gets $10 per hour costs the company another $10 in behind the scenes employment taxes.
Look on the up side: It's hard to outsource come-to-your-house tech support to India.
Well, I guess if you're determined to work at company X and there aren't any openings in your field but there is one in marketing / whatever then you might take that and apply to transfer internally to a more preferred department. Larger companies like to shuffle people around more than getting someone from the outside.