So, what you're prescribing is to be "forever bitter"?
Forgive and forget is a phrase with a purpose. While those that do not "forgive" or "forget" are relegated to living in the past, I choose to move forward.
Don't expect me to continue to revisit some past discriminations.... there is plenty to be concerned about right now!
Screwing employees, screwing customers, screwing the government, screwing the entire US economy, and screwing the environment is all just good business.
I wouldn't say that. But that is the problem with today's economy. When only Price matters, it is easy to become Walmart. And it is easier to screw people. You get what you pay for.
I'm one of those "smaller" government types. And yes, 10,194 members would provide a better sampling of Americans.
I realize the size is huge, but I bet the cost savings by not having stupid legislation being approved by bought and paid members of congress would be much larger. Additionally, we wouldn't need as many staffers per, because they would represent smaller number of people.
It would be much easier to recall, replace members as well. Campaigns would be much lower cost as well, and any average Joe would be able to run for office.
It is currently too easy to buy congress critters and get rid of the rascals.
Other than for the Huge number (and associated problems) what is wrong with it?
free speech is when I ask you a question and you are allowed to answer and not fear for your life.
How about the recent " Papers please" attempt by certain Politicians?
free speech is NOT the right to call me and force some stupid idea down my throat.
Free speech doesn't mean you're we have to listen. Free speech means that you are free to speak, and we are free to not want to listen. Quite frankly, I would classify Robocalls as nothing short of disturbing the peace or harrassment. Just because I have a phone doesn't mean you can call it when you want.
in no reasoning person's mind could a robocall, or ANY kind of political call, be called 'protected'.
Sure there is, it is selfish reasoning of the politicians, who seem to always exempt themselves from the laws they expect everyone else to follow. Hypocrites.
they want access to us? give us parity and we'll talk. so to speak.
Now we're talking!
time to redo the system. maybe from scratch, if that's what it takes.
No, what we need is to go back to the 30,000:1 ratio for representation found in the original constitution.
The problem is, I'm not sure that a House Member can adequately represent their constituents. If you look at the Constitution (original) you can see that the number of people represented by a House Member was 30,000, which seems like a reasonable that one person can represent adequately.
The number of Representatives shall not exceed one for every thirty thousand
The small city I live in, would have 3 Representatives just for itself, which would probably represent the varied interests of my city quite well.
Now I realize that this would make the current house of representatives the size of my city, which is obviously problematic in and of itself.
However, there would be a huge side benefit to having that many representatives, in that it would be very difficult for special interest groups to buy favors.
It would solve many of the problems we currently face (career politicians, greed, non-representation of the people). Other than for the size of the body it would be beneficial to our society. It might even allow for more third party candidates and get us out of the (D) good/bad | (R) bad/good false dichotomy.
People get hung up on "unreasonable" of the phrase quoted above...
The problem is, we forget the PURPOSE which is defined by
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects
How secure are the rights of the people if simply crossing a border causes a violation of the 4th amendment's purpose?
Sorry, but as the Federal Government of the US continues to erode all the rights enumerated in the Bill of Rights, all in the name of "security" (border searches), "welfare" (Universal HealthCare), "protection" (Gun Control), and neither of the two big parties really fighting for these rights, I'm left wondering what's next?
Oh right, totalitarianism under the rule of the Chinese (who own the US). Guess what folks, the (R) and (D) are killing us slowly, and most Americans don't care because they see one side or the other as "good" when in reality they are both evil.
You are the government (at least you're supposed to be) here in the US, so if you're afraid of the government, you're afraid of yourself. How is that for recursive fear?:-D
I'm dealing with this at my work right now. We have WAPs set with WEP all over the place, and yes, I know WEP has been cracked for a while and is trivial to break. However trying to secure WAPs while the rest of our infrastructure is wide open is as stupid as putting a bars and locks on the windows while the doggy door is unsecured.
We're a school district, so I'm not worried about people hacking into the network via WAPs, especially when it would be easier to enter into an unoccupied classroom and plug right into the network jack.
I don't trust professional journalists. Sorry, but too many "professional" journalists skew reporting to one side or another, all in the name of "ratings" or circulation or whatever is being measured.
From NBC's exploding trucks, to Fox, to the latest MSNBC Gun toting white racist at Obama's rally in AZ who happens to be a black guy (carefully hidden by editing), I think is all crap.
And just remember it wasn't professional journalists that exposed Dan Rather's famous expose on Bush, it was a BLOGGER! And remember, it was National Inquirer who reported on John Edwards Affair and bastard child, when nobody else would.
That is not to say that bloggers or alternative news sources don't have their share of problems, because they do.
The point being, get your reporting by several independent sources, and I mean INDEPENDENT. And just because it isn't "traditional" doesn't mean it is wrong.
All it does is provide doubt to the evidence. One cannot prove a negative ("I wasn't there"), which is why we assume innocence, and guilt must be proved beyond REASONABLE doubt.
To prove you "weren't there" you would have to have an alibi; evidence you were somewhere else.
Each page was was broken at logical point too. Sure, they could have done the same in 6 pages that didn't have logical breaks, but you know, some people think that everything should be on one long page. Yay for them.
things just actually aren't quite as you expected them to be
This goes along with some of the greatest scientific discoveries.... "HUH!?!?!?!?! THATS ODD?!?!?!"
It is these moments of Whiskey Tango Foxtrot that often give us the greatest insights. The ramifications of these types of discoveries can take decades to fully decode and understand.
I love it when experiments have unexpected results, because those are the most exciting to a scientist.
Okay, the Geek in me wants to take the YouTube Video of this thing, and put it ON this thing, make a video Youtube of the new video on the thing, and then video that and put it on it and then get a video of that, and put it on it....
I see where you're going with this! George Lucas should have built the DSII as a cube, with decentralized structure. And Perhaps used artificial augmentations to humanoids to staff this new battle station. YES, we should get right on that! Not only that, they should replace the Emperor with.... a QUEEN!
And here, I thought it had to do with 365 days to circle the sun, which is relatively close to 360 degrees, which is an easily divisible number (2,3,4,5,6,8,9,10,12...). If you look at the base 10 sequence in the Parens, you will no doubt see that there is only ONE number missing(2-9), which the ancients thought to be magical (7), which probably explains part of the fascination with that number (and 11, 13 as well).
I would think that dividing a year would be more useful to early mathematicians than approximating Pi via a fraction.
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That sounds like the end of an "In Soviet Russia" Joke
I bet there is even an Apple store near there!
So, what you're prescribing is to be "forever bitter"?
Forgive and forget is a phrase with a purpose. While those that do not "forgive" or "forget" are relegated to living in the past, I choose to move forward.
Don't expect me to continue to revisit some past discriminations .... there is plenty to be concerned about right now!
Yes, I think he used the word correctly, even giving link to it.
On the other hand ... Beware the Imposter! You can clearly see, he can't even spell his nick right.
I wouldn't say that. But that is the problem with today's economy. When only Price matters, it is easy to become Walmart. And it is easier to screw people. You get what you pay for.
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I'm one of those "smaller" government types. And yes, 10,194 members would provide a better sampling of Americans.
I realize the size is huge, but I bet the cost savings by not having stupid legislation being approved by bought and paid members of congress would be much larger. Additionally, we wouldn't need as many staffers per, because they would represent smaller number of people.
It would be much easier to recall, replace members as well. Campaigns would be much lower cost as well, and any average Joe would be able to run for office.
It is currently too easy to buy congress critters and get rid of the rascals.
Other than for the Huge number (and associated problems) what is wrong with it?
You're not looking at the budget deficit are you?
If this were GWB the left would be (Rightfully) screaming at the top of their lungs. I'm not going to hold my breath though.
Because we all know that GWB = Evil and BHO is just misguided but good hearted.
How about the recent " Papers please" attempt by certain Politicians?
Robocalls = robopoliticians
The problem is, I'm not sure that a House Member can adequately represent their constituents. If you look at the Constitution (original) you can see that the number of people represented by a House Member was 30,000, which seems like a reasonable that one person can represent adequately.
The small city I live in, would have 3 Representatives just for itself, which would probably represent the varied interests of my city quite well.
Now I realize that this would make the current house of representatives the size of my city, which is obviously problematic in and of itself.
However, there would be a huge side benefit to having that many representatives, in that it would be very difficult for special interest groups to buy favors.
It would solve many of the problems we currently face (career politicians, greed, non-representation of the people). Other than for the size of the body it would be beneficial to our society. It might even allow for more third party candidates and get us out of the (D) good/bad | (R) bad/good false dichotomy.
People get hung up on "unreasonable" of the phrase quoted above ...
The problem is, we forget the PURPOSE which is defined by
How secure are the rights of the people if simply crossing a border causes a violation of the 4th amendment's purpose?
Sorry, but as the Federal Government of the US continues to erode all the rights enumerated in the Bill of Rights, all in the name of "security" (border searches), "welfare" (Universal HealthCare), "protection" (Gun Control), and neither of the two big parties really fighting for these rights, I'm left wondering what's next?
Oh right, totalitarianism under the rule of the Chinese (who own the US). Guess what folks, the (R) and (D) are killing us slowly, and most Americans don't care because they see one side or the other as "good" when in reality they are both evil.
Exactly. Now who wants Universal Government Health Care?
I can only imagine the dialog ....
"I'm here to probe your ports"
"I think you need to check out my cable"
"This Male end, needs to be inserted into the female socket"
You are the government (at least you're supposed to be) here in the US, so if you're afraid of the government, you're afraid of yourself. How is that for recursive fear? :-D
Bingo.
I'm dealing with this at my work right now. We have WAPs set with WEP all over the place, and yes, I know WEP has been cracked for a while and is trivial to break. However trying to secure WAPs while the rest of our infrastructure is wide open is as stupid as putting a bars and locks on the windows while the doggy door is unsecured.
We're a school district, so I'm not worried about people hacking into the network via WAPs, especially when it would be easier to enter into an unoccupied classroom and plug right into the network jack.
The problem with "multitasking" is that it shouldn't be attempted unless you're already good at something.
My mother-in-law can knit a sweater, watch a movie and talk to my wife all at the same time, and not miss anything. She is simply amazing at times.
Other times she tries to multitask and it comes out to be the biggest clusterfuck of all time. Especially anything that has to do with computers.
The trick is that to truly multitask well, requires mindless tasks that just occupy time.
Spammers vs Litigators = Alien vs Predator
Who ever wins, we lose!
Journalism is dead. Long live Journalism.
I don't trust professional journalists. Sorry, but too many "professional" journalists skew reporting to one side or another, all in the name of "ratings" or circulation or whatever is being measured.
From NBC's exploding trucks, to Fox, to the latest MSNBC Gun toting white racist at Obama's rally in AZ who happens to be a black guy (carefully hidden by editing), I think is all crap.
And just remember it wasn't professional journalists that exposed Dan Rather's famous expose on Bush, it was a BLOGGER! And remember, it was National Inquirer who reported on John Edwards Affair and bastard child, when nobody else would.
That is not to say that bloggers or alternative news sources don't have their share of problems, because they do.
The point being, get your reporting by several independent sources, and I mean INDEPENDENT. And just because it isn't "traditional" doesn't mean it is wrong.
No (And spanking the monkey is not "fake DNA")
All it does is provide doubt to the evidence. One cannot prove a negative ("I wasn't there"), which is why we assume innocence, and guilt must be proved beyond REASONABLE doubt.
To prove you "weren't there" you would have to have an alibi; evidence you were somewhere else.
Each page was was broken at logical point too. Sure, they could have done the same in 6 pages that didn't have logical breaks, but you know, some people think that everything should be on one long page. Yay for them.
Is it too hard to click "next" ???? REALLY???
This goes along with some of the greatest scientific discoveries .... "HUH!?!?!?!?! THATS ODD?!?!?!"
It is these moments of Whiskey Tango Foxtrot that often give us the greatest insights. The ramifications of these types of discoveries can take decades to fully decode and understand.
I love it when experiments have unexpected results, because those are the most exciting to a scientist.
Okay, the Geek in me wants to take the YouTube Video of this thing, and put it ON this thing, make a video Youtube of the new video on the thing, and then video that and put it on it and then get a video of that, and put it on it ....
I see where you're going with this! George Lucas should have built the DSII as a cube, with decentralized structure. And Perhaps used artificial augmentations to humanoids to staff this new battle station. YES, we should get right on that! Not only that, they should replace the Emperor with .... a QUEEN!
I propose that we call 2Pi .... CHERRY PI or perhaps APPLE PI
Definitely not MINCEMEAT PI.
And here, I thought it had to do with 365 days to circle the sun, which is relatively close to 360 degrees, which is an easily divisible number (2,3,4,5,6,8,9,10,12 ...). If you look at the base 10 sequence in the Parens, you will no doubt see that there is only ONE number missing(2-9), which the ancients thought to be magical (7), which probably explains part of the fascination with that number (and 11, 13 as well).
I would think that dividing a year would be more useful to early mathematicians than approximating Pi via a fraction.