>>>the government has the authority to regulate commerce of both corporations and individuals. As an individual you may not like white people, and the Bill of Rights says you have the freedom to not associate with them, but if you run a taco stand, you still have to serve them because it is a commercial activity. >>>
Incorrect. Congress doesn't have the authority to regulate taco stands. Or any other business that never crosses a border. For example, Congress has outlawed natural milk, but farmers still sell it. Why? Because the farmers are not shipping the natural milk across a border. It's a "commercial activity" but Congress can not touch them.
I fail to see the need to treat corporations as persons, simply to pass around checks or contracts. They can and should be dealt with the same way you deal with a non-incorporated company.
Also I don't consider corporations a "fine idea". Neither did Jefferson. They consolidate too much power in the hands of a few. A corporation has the wealth of a small government and can use that wealth to buy power (through donations to politicians). This is true not just in the U.S. but the EU, Russia, and all around the world. The voice of the 99.9% are drowned out by the top 0.1% of corporations & their boards.
Your monopoly over all local telephone markets is hereby revoked, and they shall be open to competition from other companies desiring to provide service. Bet you wish you'd obeyed the net neutrality and common carrier rules.
>>>Linux users who crawl to Blizzard remind me of an cousin of mine who kept going back to her abusive boyfriend.
Could make the same argument about Linux (or Mac) OS. "Will it run Microsoft Visio or.vsd compatible program?" Nope. "Will it let me log to work from home?" Nope, doesn't even run the remote client. "Will it run Doors or ModelSim or Synplify?"
Nope. And to quote you: "Why not support the studios that really *DO* support Linux instead of studios that treat it like a red-headed stepchild?" Why not support OSes that really do support the program I need?
No you can't. If I went over to Usenet or Livejournal or Myspace and posted my latest status (going on vacation!), my friends would not see it because they are not members of those other websites. Therefore I post it on facebook where my friends, coworkers, colleagues are located.
Plus sending out 1000 emails isn't very practical. And would be labeled spam.
>>>Or, "It lets me find my highschool buds!" Which I did just fine without ever touching FB.
I tried but came-up with nothing... especially since many people use fake aliases, or married names, instead or real names. FB made it as easy to find HS and college students as typing names from the yearbook. And there they were.
FB also lets you discover people with similar interests. Like videogames or politics or music or......
>>>You pay, you get private care. That's the model in almost everywhere with "socialized" medicine, yet always ignored by the nay sayers.
Not how it works in the UK. Or Canada. And you missed my main point: Why introduce a 3rd party between you and your doctor? Just pay the man *directly* with cash like you do with books, DVDs, cars, homes, computers, and so on. Introducing a 3rd party (the govt) in the middle makes no sense..... just as having the government buy your food makes no sense. Instead we provide food stamps to the ~5% who need the assistance, while the rest of us just pay cash directly.
It's okay to take what you want if (1) the person isn't selling it and (2) your copying doesn't cost that person anything. Obviously it would be wrong to steal bread from Walmart, as you've deprived them of their property, but it's not wrong to copy a movie from a studio since (1) they aren't selling it and (2) they experience no loss.
Indeed. The EC's man in charge of this treaty has stated he will continue to press-forward through the EU's "supreme court" to get ACTA enforced. So basically the Parliament vote don't mean shit..... you have a law-making body that can bypassed by the executive branch. (Sounds familiar.)
When Jefferson was alive, his home state had an official religion that all taxpayers were required to support. In the 1800s Jefferson wrote an amendment to the Virginia Constitution to abolish it.
And I take Jefferson's quote from your post and modify it. If he were alive today he'd probably say, "It does me no injury for my neighbor to have insurance or no insurance. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg." He'd also probably re-publish his Kentucky Resolutions declaring that, per the 10th amendment, the power to mandate purchase of a private product is reserved to the People and their Legislatures..... not the Congress.
>>>Thank Jebus he can't see the US today
Indeed. In response to the Supreme Court decision he would declare: "When all government, domestic and foreign, in little as in great things, shall be drawn to Washington as the centre of all power, it will render powerless the checks provided of state governments on the central government, and will become as venal and oppressive as the government from which we separated â¦. â" Letter to C. Hammond, July 1821
I fear, dear Sir, we are now in such another crisis [as when the Alien and Sedition Laws were enacted], with this difference only, that the judiciary branch is alone and single-handed in the present assaults on the Constitution. But its assaults are more sure and deadly, as from an agent seemingly passive and unassuming. â" Letter to Mr. Nicholas, Dec. 1821
As the president, or member of his cabinet, you are supposed to Execute the laws even if you don't like them. The exception being unconstitutional laws (as required by your oath). Since the patent law was constitutional, Jefferson did his job and obeyed the constitution. (Something recent presidents ought to learn to do.) That doesn't mean he approved of patents as shown by the fact he could have granted one to himself but never did.
A sulky appears to be a kind of lightweight carriage. Jefferson probably used it to go driving with the single ladies (put a ring on it). Just kidding.;-) Thom was a very shy person who barely spoke.
Are you sure? Usually when TV studios negotiated music rights, they negotiated the right to air them during (1) first run (2) reruns and (3) on VHS or Betamax tape. So reruns should be showing the original songs.
Quantum Leap had the same problem. Seasons 1/2 DVD set does not have the original music, but then the fans complained so seasons 3/4/5 restored the music (and upped the pricetag). I solved the problem by recording the reruns straight off the TV.
>>>All bandwidth caps do is drive consumers to lower quality encoding
Yep. I still use 56k downloading when stuck in hotels w/ no internet. It takes about 4 hours per episode, and the quality is the same as VHS tape. That may seem like a long time but the electricity is free, and my laptop has nothing better to do anyway except download. I get six TV episodes per day to watch... plenty of entertainment.
>>>industry seems to think that $300+ per month is a reasonable price for a cable/satellite connection that has "all" the channels
Aren't you exaggerating a bit? Comcast charges around $100 and Dish just $50 for hundreds of digital channels.
That's how they dismantled wikileaks. Funny that the google would espouse the same solution for torrent sites as the government did for infoleak sites.
Oh well. (shrug). I never pay for pirate sites anyway. I figure if I'm paying to watch a movie or TV show, then I might as well just go buy the legal DVD or amazon release instead... and watch the money goto the actors, writers, artists, etc.
Because I like facebook's free service, just as I like free TV or free online magazines or free Firefox or free Opera or free Lubuntu. I just wish facebook was as competent as the other guys.
If I was paying then yes I'd certainly cancel the account, just as I canceled Comsucks. I'm more tolerant of mistakes on free services (since technically I lose nothing) than I am of mistakes for paying services.
Facebook's programmers have made one mistake after another. I first noticed it when they started redirecting my tablet from the www. to the mobile site. Bastards. They shouldn't be forcing me to a site I don't want to use.
Then they changed my email to cpu6502@facebook.com. And now this story about the programmers erasing cellphone data "by mistake". Does Facebook hire monkeys to do their coding?
This paper is just further evidence that we've already released enough CO2 to continue the warming trend. Even if all humans disappeared, like one of those History Channel Life After People episodes, the globe would continue to warm towards a non-ice age state.
Centralized healthcare interferes with the private (and very very personal) transaction between me and my doctor. It makes no more sense than centralizing foodstores, and having the government either supply or pay for everybody's food. INSTEAD it makes more sense to apply the foodstamp model to healthcare... everybody buys their own food, except for the poor ~5% that gets assistance.
The Supreme Court had no problem overturning its 1880s decision that segregation was acceptable. They should be able to overturn the 1880s corporation==person ruling too.
>>>So the enlightenment is back in Europe while the dark ages are in full throttle in the US.
Hold on with your U.S. hatred. I think you've forgotten the EU's currency is on the verge of breaking-up. Even if it manages to hold together, their economy is likely to fall into the "dark ages" before ours. Two of the EU states have already lost their democratically-elected leaders... replaced by unelected banker puppets
>>> If something is defective, the consumer should have the right to exchange it for a non-defective product. If the product functions properly (and the seller was not using deceptive trade practices), but the purchaser just doesn't really like it, it would be unethical to return the product in many cases.
I return clothes I don't like. I return stereos I don't like. I return slow underpowered phones I don't like. And so on. I fail to see how a DVD is any different. Either the store or studio can toss the DVD in a "used-like new" bin and sell it to someone else. PLUS they don't lose any money if they give me a store credit.
I've not found any that can SAVE vsd files, and if that's what your boss or professor demands, then you better produce them. Only program I ever found was Visio.
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>>>the government has the authority to regulate commerce of both corporations and individuals. As an individual you may not like white people, and the Bill of Rights says you have the freedom to not associate with them, but if you run a taco stand, you still have to serve them because it is a commercial activity.
>>>
Incorrect. Congress doesn't have the authority to regulate taco stands. Or any other business that never crosses a border. For example, Congress has outlawed natural milk, but farmers still sell it. Why? Because the farmers are not shipping the natural milk across a border. It's a "commercial activity" but Congress can not touch them.
I fail to see the need to treat corporations as persons, simply to pass around checks or contracts. They can and should be dealt with the same way you deal with a non-incorporated company.
Also I don't consider corporations a "fine idea". Neither did Jefferson. They consolidate too much power in the hands of a few. A corporation has the wealth of a small government and can use that wealth to buy power (through donations to politicians). This is true not just in the U.S. but the EU, Russia, and all around the world. The voice of the 99.9% are drowned out by the top 0.1% of corporations & their boards.
Your monopoly over all local telephone markets is hereby revoked, and they shall be open to competition from other companies desiring to provide service. Bet you wish you'd obeyed the net neutrality and common carrier rules.
Signed,
the Congress.
>>>Linux users who crawl to Blizzard remind me of an cousin of mine who kept going back to her abusive boyfriend.
Could make the same argument about Linux (or Mac) OS. "Will it run Microsoft Visio or .vsd compatible program?" Nope. "Will it let me log to work from home?" Nope, doesn't even run the remote client. "Will it run Doors or ModelSim or Synplify?"
Nope. And to quote you: "Why not support the studios that really *DO* support Linux instead of studios that treat it like a red-headed stepchild?" Why not support OSes that really do support the program I need?
>>>I can chat with them without FB too.
No you can't. If I went over to Usenet or Livejournal or Myspace and posted my latest status (going on vacation!), my friends would not see it because they are not members of those other websites. Therefore I post it on facebook where my friends, coworkers, colleagues are located.
Plus sending out 1000 emails isn't very practical. And would be labeled spam.
>>>Or, "It lets me find my highschool buds!" Which I did just fine without ever touching FB.
I tried but came-up with nothing... especially since many people use fake aliases, or married names, instead or real names. FB made it as easy to find HS and college students as typing names from the yearbook. And there they were.
FB also lets you discover people with similar interests. Like videogames or politics or music or......
>>>You pay, you get private care. That's the model in almost everywhere with "socialized" medicine, yet always ignored by the nay sayers.
Not how it works in the UK. Or Canada. And you missed my main point: Why introduce a 3rd party between you and your doctor? Just pay the man *directly* with cash like you do with books, DVDs, cars, homes, computers, and so on. Introducing a 3rd party (the govt) in the middle makes no sense..... just as having the government buy your food makes no sense. Instead we provide food stamps to the ~5% who need the assistance, while the rest of us just pay cash directly.
It's okay to take what you want if (1) the person isn't selling it and (2) your copying doesn't cost that person anything. Obviously it would be wrong to steal bread from Walmart, as you've deprived them of their property, but it's not wrong to copy a movie from a studio since (1) they aren't selling it and (2) they experience no loss.
Indeed. The EC's man in charge of this treaty has stated he will continue to press-forward through the EU's "supreme court" to get ACTA enforced. So basically the Parliament vote don't mean shit..... you have a law-making body that can bypassed by the executive branch. (Sounds familiar.)
When Jefferson was alive, his home state had an official religion that all taxpayers were required to support. In the 1800s Jefferson wrote an amendment to the Virginia Constitution to abolish it.
And I take Jefferson's quote from your post and modify it. If he were alive today he'd probably say, "It does me no injury for my neighbor to have insurance or no insurance. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg." He'd also probably re-publish his Kentucky Resolutions declaring that, per the 10th amendment, the power to mandate purchase of a private product is reserved to the People and their Legislatures..... not the Congress.
>>>Thank Jebus he can't see the US today
Indeed. In response to the Supreme Court decision he would declare: "When all government, domestic and foreign, in little as in great things, shall be drawn to Washington as the centre of all power, it will render powerless the checks provided of state governments on the central government, and will become as venal and oppressive as the government from which we separated â¦. â" Letter to C. Hammond, July 1821
I fear, dear Sir, we are now in such another crisis [as when the Alien and Sedition Laws were enacted], with this difference only, that the judiciary branch is alone and single-handed in the present assaults on the Constitution. But its assaults are more sure and deadly, as from an agent seemingly passive and unassuming. â" Letter to Mr. Nicholas, Dec. 1821
As the president, or member of his cabinet, you are supposed to Execute the laws even if you don't like them. The exception being unconstitutional laws (as required by your oath). Since the patent law was constitutional, Jefferson did his job and obeyed the constitution. (Something recent presidents ought to learn to do.) That doesn't mean he approved of patents as shown by the fact he could have granted one to himself but never did.
A sulky appears to be a kind of lightweight carriage. Jefferson probably used it to go driving with the single ladies (put a ring on it). Just kidding. ;-) Thom was a very shy person who barely spoke.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5f/Sulky_racing_Vincennes_DSC03735_cropped.JPG
Dog version: http://www.ikonsuspension.com/images/customer_projects/customer-projects-dog-sulky-4-lg.jpg
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Are you sure? Usually when TV studios negotiated music rights, they negotiated the right to air them during (1) first run (2) reruns and (3) on VHS or Betamax tape. So reruns should be showing the original songs.
Quantum Leap had the same problem. Seasons 1/2 DVD set does not have the original music, but then the fans complained so seasons 3/4/5 restored the music (and upped the pricetag). I solved the problem by recording the reruns straight off the TV.
>>>All bandwidth caps do is drive consumers to lower quality encoding
Yep. I still use 56k downloading when stuck in hotels w/ no internet. It takes about 4 hours per episode, and the quality is the same as VHS tape. That may seem like a long time but the electricity is free, and my laptop has nothing better to do anyway except download. I get six TV episodes per day to watch... plenty of entertainment.
>>>industry seems to think that $300+ per month is a reasonable price for a cable/satellite connection that has "all" the channels
Aren't you exaggerating a bit? Comcast charges around $100 and Dish just $50 for hundreds of digital channels.
That's how they dismantled wikileaks. Funny that the google would espouse the same solution for torrent sites as the government did for infoleak sites.
Oh well. (shrug). I never pay for pirate sites anyway. I figure if I'm paying to watch a movie or TV show, then I might as well just go buy the legal DVD or amazon release instead... and watch the money goto the actors, writers, artists, etc.
I wonder if anyone remembers that old Remington shaver ad? A lot of people weren't even born yet.
Because I like facebook's free service, just as I like free TV or free online magazines or free Firefox or free Opera or free Lubuntu. I just wish facebook was as competent as the other guys.
If I was paying then yes I'd certainly cancel the account, just as I canceled Comsucks. I'm more tolerant of mistakes on free services (since technically I lose nothing) than I am of mistakes for paying services.
Facebook's programmers have made one mistake after another. I first noticed it when they started redirecting my tablet from the www. to the mobile site. Bastards. They shouldn't be forcing me to a site I don't want to use.
Then they changed my email to cpu6502@facebook.com. And now this story about the programmers erasing cellphone data "by mistake". Does Facebook hire monkeys to do their coding?
This paper is just further evidence that we've already released enough CO2 to continue the warming trend. Even if all humans disappeared, like one of those History Channel Life After People episodes, the globe would continue to warm towards a non-ice age state.
Centralized healthcare interferes with the private (and very very personal) transaction between me and my doctor. It makes no more sense than centralizing foodstores, and having the government either supply or pay for everybody's food. INSTEAD it makes more sense to apply the foodstamp model to healthcare... everybody buys their own food, except for the poor ~5% that gets assistance.
The Supreme Court had no problem overturning its 1880s decision that segregation was acceptable. They should be able to overturn the 1880s corporation==person ruling too.
>>>So the enlightenment is back in Europe while the dark ages are in full throttle in the US.
Hold on with your U.S. hatred. I think you've forgotten the EU's currency is on the verge of breaking-up. Even if it manages to hold together, their economy is likely to fall into the "dark ages" before ours. Two of the EU states have already lost their democratically-elected leaders... replaced by unelected banker puppets
>>> If something is defective, the consumer should have the right to exchange it for a non-defective product. If the product functions properly (and the seller was not using deceptive trade practices), but the purchaser just doesn't really like it, it would be unethical to return the product in many cases.
I return clothes I don't like.
I return stereos I don't like.
I return slow underpowered phones I don't like.
And so on. I fail to see how a DVD is any different. Either the store or studio can toss the DVD in a "used-like new" bin and sell it to someone else. PLUS they don't lose any money if they give me a store credit.
I've not found any that can SAVE vsd files, and if that's what your boss or professor demands, then you better produce them. Only program I ever found was Visio.
>>>Why would a government want to see your smart meter usage? please.
God you're dumb. Have you been living under a rock like that Geico caveman? Quote: "Utility consumption records can be sought which could be one indicator police use to get 'probable cause' to go search the place." http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/8347690-smart-meters-help-cops-identify-and-bust-indoor-marijuana-growing-operations
ALSO: http://blogs.computerworld.com/17896/will_the_smart_grid_become_the_dea_s_new_best_friend