The decision I believe you are referring to (Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission) applies to the unlimited use of money in political campaigns by corporations. It was a decision that overturned a lot of thinking on campaign finance that had built up post WWII. It will be interesting to see how it turns out.
Otherwise though the first amendment rights of corporations to free speech in a generalized sense is far older and not generally controversial.
From The Federalist No. 10 (Nov 22, 1787) by James Madison "Factions will necessarily form in our Republic, but the remedy of 'destroying the liberty' of some factions is 'worse than the disease' . . . Factions should be checked by permitting them all to speak . . . and by entrusting the people to judge what is true and what is false."
I actually like having Verizon FIOS around. Yes they are dirtbags and I wouldn't be a customer of theirs unless I was desperate, but having two carriers available is WAY WAY better than having just one. I've been able to negotiate better pricing from my cable provider as a result, and service upgrades are a pretty regular event. My internet access is now 60Mbps/8Mbps partly due to pressure from FIOS I am sure.
The word "God" does not appear in the US Constitution, nor is there any other reference to a deity except in the date on the document "In the year of our Lord 1787".
Jefferson and Madison (primary author of the Constitution) had the opinion that there needed to be a very strong separation between state and religion. Madison wrote a famous petition when Virginia was considering the issue of state support of religion which included the phrase "not three pence" which has been cited in several Supreme Court decisions regarding the state support of religion.
The concept of Jefferson granting money to missionaries to spread the gospel to Indians is a MAJOR distortion of the intent. Jefferson needed to convert the Indians from hunter-gatherers to farmers to be able to use the land they owned for the growth of the United States. This required educating the Indians in a new way of life. The fact that the money was granted to missionaries is simply because they were the low bidders; that is they were willing to take less money than anyone else to undertake the job because they had an ulterior motive.
> It is no exaggeration to say that on Sundays in Washington during the administrations of Thomas Jefferson (1801-1809) and of James Madison (1809-1817) the state became the church
Actually that is a gross exaggeration and something both Jefferson and Madison would have been horrified with if anyone had suggested it.
One needs to understand the physical realities of Washington DC in the early days of the Republic. It was in fact generally a wilderness with a few large buildings dropped in. It wasn't a developed city with substantial infrastructure. If you wanted to hold services the only physical structures available were in fact the government buildings.
Also - are you aware that Jefferson and Madison were Deists who denied the divinity of Christ and much of the Bible?
The Constitution contains a clause empowering the government to establish a system of weights and measures.
Jefferson, in part because of his experience as a surveyor using chains divided into 100 links, and also from reading 'Disme: the art of tenths by Simon Stevin' was familiar with the benefits of doing measurement calculations in decimal units, and proposed that the US adopt a decimal system of weights and measures.
Unfortunately Congress did not appreciate the usefulness of this idea and failed to act on the proposal setting a really bad precedent.
As ambassadors to France he and Ben Franklin had access to French intellectuals and brought up this topic to the French. Whether the French would have developed this independently or not I don't know. Certainly they may have known about the idea from other sources.
But if Congress had heeded his ideas the US would have had a decimal measurement system before any other nation. Jefferson may also have been the catalyst for the French adoption of their decimal measurement system.
Because of Jefferson the US had the first decimal system of any type in its currency thanks to Jefferson, predating the metric system.
So please add this quote to your list:
⦠every branch to the same decimal ratio, thus bringing the calculations of the principal affairs of life within the arithmetic of every man who can multiply and divide plain numbers.
- Thomas Jefferson
If you do a little research on burglaries you'll find that that is a large distribution of skill levels and planning sophistication used. The idea that they are just crimes of opportunity is not right at all. Some are quite sophisticated if the motivation is there. Experienced thieves definitely target affluent neighborhoods.
As far as SCADA systems I would hope they are secured by an air gap plus physical hardware access control on a need basis. Like classified systems are. Obviously you can't do that for a web accessible system.
The phrase "practical security" all too often means completely naive security because we didn't budget for real security. Passwords per se - well how many sites are compromised weekly by a social engineering attack that causes a site to cough up a lightly encrypted password file? Or accessible through SQL parameter injection like Citibank's MasterCard site was.
It needs to be two factor at least with https and serious encryption of strong passwords. And not fakey two factor i.e. wot's your pet's name as one of the factors. And some serious external review of the server side application for issues like keeping passwords around in memory.
Seriously this is good advice. Being able to get a TS/SCI is a meal ticket. It eliminates all competition from outsourcing, offshoring and non-citizens.
Plus the wage scale is better.
Since you don't own a house, moving is easier too.
The work is interesting, highly mathematical and isn't likely to be downsized much if at all in the upcoming DOD downsizing if the wars wind down.
There was never a time when X-Rays were considered completely safe. Roentgen and Thompson both issued warnings regarding overexposure. Within a year of their discovery reports of injuries started appearing.
With the sort of logic that is popular these days we would have rejected fire as unsafe (radiation from a fire is higher frequency than this THz - i.e. very far infrared) and still be eating our food raw in unheated caves.
There is no such thing as "completely safe". The idea is preposterous. It is even more preposterous that we can prove something to be completely safe. Every heartbeat or breath you take is at great risk.
It's all about rational risk assessment and testing. Given the fundamentals here there is no reason to be concerned about the safety of terahertz radiation. It is certainly far safer than the alternatives which have large known risks.
The Supreme Court, under their own longstanding precedent is required to be constructive and evaluate the law under the entire Constitution before rejecting legislation as being unconstitutional.
This is exactly what happened.
Those whom are claiming this is a rewrite of the legislation are barking mad.
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The decision I believe you are referring to (Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission) applies to the unlimited use of money in political campaigns by corporations. It was a decision that overturned a lot of thinking on campaign finance that had built up post WWII. It will be interesting to see how it turns out.
Otherwise though the first amendment rights of corporations to free speech in a generalized sense is far older and not generally controversial.
From The Federalist No. 10 (Nov 22, 1787) by James Madison "Factions will necessarily form in our Republic, but the remedy of 'destroying the liberty' of some factions is 'worse than the disease' . . . Factions should be checked by permitting them all to speak . . . and by entrusting the people to judge what is true and what is false."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federalist_No._10
I actually like having Verizon FIOS around. Yes they are dirtbags and I wouldn't be a customer of theirs unless I was desperate, but having two carriers available is WAY WAY better than having just one. I've been able to negotiate better pricing from my cable provider as a result, and service upgrades are a pretty regular event. My internet access is now 60Mbps/8Mbps partly due to pressure from FIOS I am sure.
> So, the question is: If you are granted a monopoly do you forfeit certain rights to your private property?
The FCC certainly seems to think so, after all it regulates speech over broadcast radio and TV.
Just send the head back in a flat rate postal box. Save on postage. coffin &ct.
The word "God" does not appear in the US Constitution, nor is there any other reference to a deity except in the date on the document "In the year of our Lord 1787".
Jefferson and Madison (primary author of the Constitution) had the opinion that there needed to be a very strong separation between state and religion. Madison wrote a famous petition when Virginia was considering the issue of state support of religion which included the phrase "not three pence" which has been cited in several Supreme Court decisions regarding the state support of religion.
The concept of Jefferson granting money to missionaries to spread the gospel to Indians is a MAJOR distortion of the intent. Jefferson needed to convert the Indians from hunter-gatherers to farmers to be able to use the land they owned for the growth of the United States. This required educating the Indians in a new way of life. The fact that the money was granted to missionaries is simply because they were the low bidders; that is they were willing to take less money than anyone else to undertake the job because they had an ulterior motive.
> It is no exaggeration to say that on Sundays in Washington during the administrations of Thomas Jefferson (1801-1809) and of James Madison (1809-1817) the state became the church
Actually that is a gross exaggeration and something both Jefferson and Madison would have been horrified with if anyone had suggested it.
One needs to understand the physical realities of Washington DC in the early days of the Republic. It was in fact generally a wilderness with a few large buildings dropped in. It wasn't a developed city with substantial infrastructure. If you wanted to hold services the only physical structures available were in fact the government buildings.
Also - are you aware that Jefferson and Madison were Deists who denied the divinity of Christ and much of the Bible?
The Constitution contains a clause empowering the government to establish a system of weights and measures.
Jefferson, in part because of his experience as a surveyor using chains divided into 100 links, and also from reading 'Disme: the art of tenths by Simon Stevin' was familiar with the benefits of doing measurement calculations in decimal units, and proposed that the US adopt a decimal system of weights and measures.
Unfortunately Congress did not appreciate the usefulness of this idea and failed to act on the proposal setting a really bad precedent.
As ambassadors to France he and Ben Franklin had access to French intellectuals and brought up this topic to the French. Whether the French would have developed this independently or not I don't know. Certainly they may have known about the idea from other sources.
But if Congress had heeded his ideas the US would have had a decimal measurement system before any other nation. Jefferson may also have been the catalyst for the French adoption of their decimal measurement system.
Because of Jefferson the US had the first decimal system of any type in its currency thanks to Jefferson, predating the metric system.
So please add this quote to your list:
⦠every branch to the same decimal ratio, thus bringing the calculations of the principal affairs of
life within the arithmetic of every man who can multiply and divide plain numbers.
- Thomas Jefferson
> Isn't funny how a post that makes you like him makes me dislike him?
If you find yourself disliking Thomas Jefferson you need to rethink your life.
If you do a little research on burglaries you'll find that that is a large distribution of skill levels and planning sophistication used. The idea that they are just crimes of opportunity is not right at all. Some are quite sophisticated if the motivation is there. Experienced thieves definitely target affluent neighborhoods.
As far as SCADA systems I would hope they are secured by an air gap plus physical hardware access control on a need basis. Like classified systems are. Obviously you can't do that for a web accessible system.
The phrase "practical security" all too often means completely naive security because we didn't budget for real security. Passwords per se - well how many sites are compromised weekly by a social engineering attack that causes a site to cough up a lightly encrypted password file? Or accessible through SQL parameter injection like Citibank's MasterCard site was.
It needs to be two factor at least with https and serious encryption of strong passwords. And not fakey two factor i.e. wot's your pet's name as one of the factors. And some serious external review of the server side application for issues like keeping passwords around in memory.
No, it isn't. The sun is the number one source of disease caused by radiation exposure.
See that hot yellow ball in the sky? That's the biggest source of radiation in your life.
Smite that.
Please stop. You are hurting me.
Obviously that's a burglar's wet dream. High usage = lots of expensive home electronics, and use patterns tell you when to pay a visit.
"secure as practical" is not an acceptable criterion. It has to be secure.
Passwords and web portals have already shown to be very problematic.
Seriously this is good advice. Being able to get a TS/SCI is a meal ticket. It eliminates all competition from outsourcing, offshoring and non-citizens.
Plus the wage scale is better.
Since you don't own a house, moving is easier too.
The work is interesting, highly mathematical and isn't likely to be downsized much if at all in the upcoming DOD downsizing if the wars wind down.
Are you saying Roentgen isn't credible? In most places those things are still called Roentgen rays.
The guy was only the first Noble laureate in Physics.
Man that has to be one of the biggest FRSTS.
There was never a time when X-Rays were considered completely safe. Roentgen and Thompson both issued warnings regarding overexposure. Within a year of their discovery reports of injuries started appearing.
http://goatrevolution.com/blog2/2006/11/10/radiation-part-cinque-further-uses-and-discoveries-of-x-ray-radiation/
With the sort of logic that is popular these days we would have rejected fire as unsafe (radiation from a fire is higher frequency than this THz - i.e. very far infrared) and still be eating our food raw in unheated caves.
There is no such thing as "completely safe". The idea is preposterous. It is even more preposterous that we can prove something to be completely safe. Every heartbeat or breath you take is at great risk.
It's all about rational risk assessment and testing. Given the fundamentals here there is no reason to be concerned about the safety of terahertz radiation. It is certainly far safer than the alternatives which have large known risks.
Let me guess - in 19 other studies on the same group no effect was observed at to a 95% confidence.
Given the relative costs of the two systems I'd have to say the Brits have the edge on efficiency.
If they spent what we do it would be Bollinger's on the dinner tray in the wards.
Hey we are getting universal health care now. God help us.
The Supreme Court, under their own longstanding precedent is required to be constructive and evaluate the law under the entire Constitution before rejecting legislation as being unconstitutional.
This is exactly what happened.
Those whom are claiming this is a rewrite of the legislation are barking mad.
Because a lot of people who currently do not have insurance are young and relatively healthy.
Once they start paying into the pool the overall rates should decrease.
Wrong. The tax is the PENALTY if you do not get insurance, not the insurance payment.
Nonsense.
There are all sorts of contingent taxes.
In the US it is quite clear that there is legal liability for law enforcement agents for exceeding their authority.
Suits based on civil rights violations by law enforcement do happen.
http://www.courthousenews.com/2011/06/07/37170.htm
Given NZ is a civilized nation I would hope the same applies there.
Yes, but this is not a general principle. The law regarding underage sex is pretty much unique. Otherwise it's local laws that apply.
Cancun is safe.