to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts and excises, to pay the debts and provide for the common defense and general welfare of the United States; but all duties, imposts and excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;
To make all laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into execution the foregoing powers, and all other powers vested by this Constitution in the government of the United States, or in any department or officer thereof.
Yet he wants to eliminate the income tax and most federal departments. I would like to know, however, his Constitutional basis for introducing the Sanctity of Life Act, which defines human life as beginning at conception. And, most egregiously, the We the People Act, which would
forbid all federal courts from hearing cases on abortion, same-sex marriage, sexual practices, and government display of religious symbols, texts, and images. The Act would make federal court decisions on those subjects nonbinding as precedent in state courts,[86] and would forbid federal courts from spending money to enforce their judgments.
That's not defending the Constitution, that's gutting it. Much like Republican braying about "small government" and "family values", Mr. Paul's "Constitutionalist" image is nothing more than a marketing slogan based on talking points and hand waving.
In reality, Ron Paul wants to use the government to support the things he likes and limit the things he doesn't. Democrats are the same way, of course, but at least they aren't two-faced about it. And while a Libertarian approach would be great for pushing back the fascist neocons, it is completely incapable of handling issues like health care, global warming, and the growing income divide in this country.
According to science, at conception a zygote is a new and distinct organism, that organism is human, and that human is alive. There is no way around it. There is no scientific disagreement blah blah blah.
That argument is just as valid is saying an abortion two minutes before birth isn't killing a child because it hasn't been born yet. Both arguments are equally valid...and equally asinine. An earthworm has more thoughts and feelings than a zygote, but I don't see Republicans leading Save the Earthworms campaigns. They are, however, perfectly happy to eliminate social spending while banning abortions. Ebullshit99, why are blobs of a few dozen cells of sacrosanct importance to the GOP, but once that baby is born it can go fuck itself?
The media have made it impossible for candidates for major office (who are almost by definition smart, personable people) to do anything but recite polished talking points.
Yeah, and I continue to think that this statement of "groupthink" as a given is overblown and always has been.
Yup. In any story remotely critical of Apple, you can count on someone to say "now if this were Microsoft, you'd all be up in arms over this..." You could find these comments even in stories like when iCon was banned from Apple stores, where a lot of highly modded posts were calling Jobs a consummate asshole.
The worst is when companies engage in mass layoffs and still use H1-b's. I think some Democrats tried to pass legislation to keep companies from doing that, but was shot down by by the industry's locally owned and operated representatives.
A little history lesson for you son, the Wii controller is just an incremental improvement over the joystick, the gamepad, the light gun I used to play Duck Hunt and Hogan's Alley
You didn't swing around the joystick, the gamepad, or the light gun to play the game, dumbass.
Sure, Vista is great - if you hated the actually useful features that were promised for Longhorn that were stipped out, having your OS use fifteen frikkin gigabytes of space, a big performance downgrade, and DRM hooks all over the operating system as Microsoft puts the MPAA over you.
To be on the ACLU's side on this one you have to first believe that the government listening in on phone calls to or from overseas endpoints or foreign suspected terrorists in the U.S. is a civil liberties issue. I don't happen to believe it is.
Then you're an un-American ankle grabber.
This guy (and I wish I could think of his name) ought to be tried for treason for revealing this
Do you have a hard time telling the difference between arson and cannibalism? No? Then why do you have a hard time telling the difference between copyright infringement and theft?
but we both know that is not only poor people that pirate.
Pirating isn't about getting stuff for "free", it's about convenience. If you make decent money and don't have a lot of debt, it is more convenient to buy than to deal with the hassle of searching for the file you want, cracks, dealing with slow seeders, people who disconnect on you, incomplete files, incorrect files, badly encoded files, or fake ones. If you don't make decent money or do have a lot of debt (in which case you are a good little consumer anyway), you aren't going to be buying the stuff anyway so their is zero difference to the content creator.
You see, it's not just economics and legality that are at issue here, it's innovation and incentive for those who produce these things.
1) I find it funny that you mention innovation and Madden in the same breath. 2) Ever bought anything used, Ryo?
There is zero functional difference between someone who will not buy something and someone who will not buy something and download it for "free". Either way the company sees no money. Piracy hasn't prevented PC games from making tons of cash, despite the fact that their DRM is far more easily bypassed.
So, if I can't afford a Ferrari, I should be able to have one, anyway? Sweet, I'm going to go find and take the first Ferrari I see, because even though I'm penniless, I should be able to have it, anyway.
If you made an exact copy of a Ferrari with your own parts, no that would not be a problem, and would have zero impact on the company since you wouldn't buy one anyway.
Ok, i'm not quite well informed in US politics, but when was the last time (before Bush), that the president pardoned someone already convicted in a government conspiracy. (the Plame story).
Oh, here we go. Bill Clinton pardoned Marc Rich
And what conspiracy was Rich involved with, exactly? And while the pardon was questionable given the conflicts of interest, when wingnuts bring up Rich they conveniently forget to mention the fact that he had to pay a $100 million fine and not use the pardon as a defense if sued in civil court. And when using the horrible, horrible Marc Rich pardon as a defense for the Scooter Libby commutation, they also conveniently forget to mention that Rich's lawyer was one....Scooter Libby.
and a few terrorists already convicted for plotting to blow up police.
The FALN members weren't convicted of making bombs or injuring people, but of conspiracy and sedition charges and sentenced to 35 to 105 years, longer than the usual sentence for such crimes.
In any case, none of Clinton's pardons could testify against him in a criminal trial. Like oh, say, one Scooter Libby could against either Cheney or Bush II. Nothing this bad has happened since....Bush I pardoned people in the Iran Contra scandal that could have testified against him.
to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts and excises, to pay the debts and provide for the common defense and general welfare of the United States; but all duties, imposts and excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;
To establish post offices and post roads;
To make all laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into execution the foregoing powers, and all other powers vested by this Constitution in the government of the United States, or in any department or officer thereof.
How do you like them apples? And note that it's a little hard to provide for the common defense with no infrastructure to raise those defenses, and that the Internet got started as a communication network for the military.
And we provoked the Japs to attack us because we were disrupting their trade in the South Pacific.
Who provoked the "Japs" to attack is utterly irrelevant to the question of who was going to stop them.
At least in the store in my town, they have signs in the software aisle stating to the effect that "due to copyright laws, we cannot take back opened software." Assholes.
I have returned DVD's for a refund because they wouldn't let you skip previes (and yes, I did eventually get the refund, though it took considerable time), and I encourage everyone else to do the same.
How'd you manage that? Aside from also wanting to return a disc for unskippable ads, I'm afraid I'll buy a Sony DVD sometime with "copyright protection" that means the disk wont work in some players.
I can see a lot of people, myself included, saying "well, they're going to be making money from pain in the ass in game advertisements, so at least the game itself should be free." Much like onerous copy protection schemes that provide an incentive to pirate the game (so it actually works and you don't have to have the damn cd in the drive to play).
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Easy: the 16th Amendment and the parts of Article 9, Section 8 that every Libertarian ignores:Yet he wants to eliminate the income tax and most federal departments. I would like to know, however, his Constitutional basis for introducing the Sanctity of Life Act, which defines human life as beginning at conception. And, most egregiously, the We the People Act, which wouldThat's not defending the Constitution, that's gutting it. Much like Republican braying about "small government" and "family values", Mr. Paul's "Constitutionalist" image is nothing more than a marketing slogan based on talking points and hand waving.
In reality, Ron Paul wants to use the government to support the things he likes and limit the things he doesn't. Democrats are the same way, of course, but at least they aren't two-faced about it. And while a Libertarian approach would be great for pushing back the fascist neocons, it is completely incapable of handling issues like health care, global warming, and the growing income divide in this country.
The two parties do tend to position themselves opposite each other
Nope. We have one party that's conservative, and one party that is ultra-conservative with quite a few members wading in fascism territory.
If the Republicans saw the light, embraced evolution, the Dempcrats would promptly shift their position.
What a stupid, baseless argument.
According to science, at conception a zygote is a new and distinct organism, that organism is human, and that human is alive. There is no way around it. There is no scientific disagreement blah blah blah.
That argument is just as valid is saying an abortion two minutes before birth isn't killing a child because it hasn't been born yet. Both arguments are equally valid...and equally asinine. An earthworm has more thoughts and feelings than a zygote, but I don't see Republicans leading Save the Earthworms campaigns. They are, however, perfectly happy to eliminate social spending while banning abortions. Ebullshit99, why are blobs of a few dozen cells of sacrosanct importance to the GOP, but once that baby is born it can go fuck itself?
Sadly, only one candidate knows anything about the subject.
Except like any good Republican or Libertarian, he just ignores the parts he doesn't like.
Yeah, and I continue to think that this statement of "groupthink" as a given is overblown and always has been.
Yup. In any story remotely critical of Apple, you can count on someone to say "now if this were Microsoft, you'd all be up in arms over this..." You could find these comments even in stories like when iCon was banned from Apple stores, where a lot of highly modded posts were calling Jobs a consummate asshole.
The worst is when companies engage in mass layoffs and still use H1-b's. I think some Democrats tried to pass legislation to keep companies from doing that, but was shot down by by the industry's locally owned and operated representatives.
A little history lesson for you son, the Wii controller is just an incremental improvement over the joystick, the gamepad, the light gun I used to play Duck Hunt and Hogan's Alley
You didn't swing around the joystick, the gamepad, or the light gun to play the game, dumbass.
How is anything the Wii does not old rehashes only with a new remote.
I suppose the invention of the mouse was no big deal to you either, eh?
Sure, Vista is great - if you hated the actually useful features that were promised for Longhorn that were stipped out, having your OS use fifteen frikkin gigabytes of space, a big performance downgrade, and DRM hooks all over the operating system as Microsoft puts the MPAA over you.
To be on the ACLU's side on this one you have to first believe that the government listening in on phone calls to or from overseas endpoints or foreign suspected terrorists in the U.S. is a civil liberties issue. I don't happen to believe it is.
Then you're an un-American ankle grabber.
This guy (and I wish I could think of his name) ought to be tried for treason for revealing this
And a jackass.
but then why steal them?
Do you have a hard time telling the difference between arson and cannibalism? No? Then why do you have a hard time telling the difference between copyright infringement and theft?
but we both know that is not only poor people that pirate.
Pirating isn't about getting stuff for "free", it's about convenience. If you make decent money and don't have a lot of debt, it is more convenient to buy than to deal with the hassle of searching for the file you want, cracks, dealing with slow seeders, people who disconnect on you, incomplete files, incorrect files, badly encoded files, or fake ones. If you don't make decent money or do have a lot of debt (in which case you are a good little consumer anyway), you aren't going to be buying the stuff anyway so their is zero difference to the content creator.
You see, it's not just economics and legality that are at issue here, it's innovation and incentive for those who produce these things.
1) I find it funny that you mention innovation and Madden in the same breath.
2) Ever bought anything used, Ryo?
Well, it's gone now, so the cock gobbling shithead must have been negated by meta-mods. :)
There is zero functional difference between someone who will not buy something and someone who will not buy something and download it for "free". Either way the company sees no money. Piracy hasn't prevented PC games from making tons of cash, despite the fact that their DRM is far more easily bypassed.
So, if I can't afford a Ferrari, I should be able to have one, anyway? Sweet, I'm going to go find and take the first Ferrari I see, because even though I'm penniless, I should be able to have it, anyway.
If you made an exact copy of a Ferrari with your own parts, no that would not be a problem, and would have zero impact on the company since you wouldn't buy one anyway.
This is a perfect example of how trademark should be applied.
No, it isn't.
Mod abuse much?
And what conspiracy was Rich involved with, exactly? And while the pardon was questionable given the conflicts of interest, when wingnuts bring up Rich they conveniently forget to mention the fact that he had to pay a $100 million fine and not use the pardon as a defense if sued in civil court. And when using the horrible, horrible Marc Rich pardon as a defense for the Scooter Libby commutation, they also conveniently forget to mention that Rich's lawyer was one....Scooter Libby.
and a few terrorists already convicted for plotting to blow up police.
The FALN members weren't convicted of making bombs or injuring people, but of conspiracy and sedition charges and sentenced to 35 to 105 years, longer than the usual sentence for such crimes.
In any case, none of Clinton's pardons could testify against him in a criminal trial. Like oh, say, one Scooter Libby could against either Cheney or Bush II. Nothing this bad has happened since....Bush I pardoned people in the Iran Contra scandal that could have testified against him.
So all those troops on location in hot zones that will get massacred just don't matter anymore?
If we minded our own business we wouldn't have troops in hot zones to attack.
Alright, alright, let's stick with Article 1, Section 8: How do you like them apples? And note that it's a little hard to provide for the common defense with no infrastructure to raise those defenses, and that the Internet got started as a communication network for the military.
And we provoked the Japs to attack us because we were disrupting their trade in the South Pacific.
Who provoked the "Japs" to attack is utterly irrelevant to the question of who was going to stop them.
At least in the store in my town, they have signs in the software aisle stating to the effect that "due to copyright laws, we cannot take back opened software." Assholes.
I have returned DVD's for a refund because they wouldn't let you skip previes (and yes, I did eventually get the refund, though it took considerable time), and I encourage everyone else to do the same.
How'd you manage that? Aside from also wanting to return a disc for unskippable ads, I'm afraid I'll buy a Sony DVD sometime with "copyright protection" that means the disk wont work in some players.
In case you couldn't tell, the above was sarcasm
I would hope so if you think 100,000+ counts as "low".
I can see a lot of people, myself included, saying "well, they're going to be making money from pain in the ass in game advertisements, so at least the game itself should be free." Much like onerous copy protection schemes that provide an incentive to pirate the game (so it actually works and you don't have to have the damn cd in the drive to play).