My take on the 10th Amendment is that all levels of government must be granted power before that power can be exercised.
The Commerce Clause is the eye of a needle through which our elected representatives have successfully pushed an elephant. Which is a pity - it's essentially the nullification of the 10th Amendment.
Still, I guess at least part of my original point stands, at least in part. Namely, that the FCC has to have explicit authorization to do the things it does.
The various doings of the US Government pale by comparison with the sins of the kleptocracies, despotisms, satrapies, and assorted other tyrannies that make up most ot the UN's membership.
The UN may not have a monopoly on bureaucratic cockups, but it is the one place on earth where, for example, Robert Mugabe's lackeys are the nominal equals of George Bush's representatives.
Just as a donut that's composed 70% of dogshit will probably taste like dogshit, the UN - composed as it is mostly of kleptocracies, despotisms, satrapies, and assorted other tyrannies - will probably destroy anything it touches.
If the 10th Amendment were strictly applied, we'd probably have only departments of State, Treasury, Defense, and Justice. We wouldn't have a Federal budget that's basically a transfer pump of wealth from young to old. The Federal Government would be much, much smaller than it is now.
Still, it's in the nature of things: entropy will out. We started with a pretty good government, and then came to realize we could vote oursleves bread and circuses. It's a short step from there to masses of unelected officials exercising power they don't have - for our own good.
"The FCC's lawyer, Jacob Lewis, acknowledged the agency never had exercised such ancillary power but maintained it was permitted by Congress since lawmakers didn't explicitly outlaw it."
Especially since the 10th amendment to the US Constitution says:
"The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people."
Got that, FCC boy? If you're not explicitly given the power, you can't exercise it.
OK, let's see. In the last year, we've heard about the UN Oil-for-Palaces program, UN peacekeepers in central Africa running underage prostitutes, UN bureaucrats sexually assaulting junior employees, etc., etc.
Mind you, all is not lost. If the UN does get this role, then the Internet as we know it will become a shambolic mess, and the US will just have to invent something else.
Bolld will flow, and heads will roll for what I have to say, but it's nowhere.
I mean, today, I got an email attachment from one of the office Linux bigots, AND I HAD TO DO A GIGANTIC DOWNLOAD (OpenOffice) TO READ WHAT HE HAD TO SAY!!!!!!!
OK, I didn't have to pay, but I did have to figure out what application generated the doc (the little twat would supply no clues), then I had to do the rest........, then I could communicate with him on his terms.
There he was (Clarke), sitting in the smokey fleshpots of Burkino Faso (or, wherever,) after smoking a load of Bolivian prayer hash and worshipping a marzipan effigy of the Fonz he'd accidentally created, and it occurred to him to project his thoughts at Iraq, AND THEY OBEYED HIM!!!!
We Americans should get ready to bow down to our (slightly deranged) lizard masters...
My wife recently co-sponsored a visit by North African businesswomen to Atlanta.
To support her, I volunteered to give a talk about what could be accomplshed with Java, MySQL, OpenOffice, Apache, JBoss, Eclipse, etc. Initially the response was positive. In the end I was disinvited.
Talking to my wife afterwards, she just commented that there was a lot of fear and confusion over oopen source software.
What can I say? There's a lot of disinformation out there, I guess.
Well, of course, the first thing that will happen is the squabble over the billions he'd salted away. Short-term end result: dead widow and dead child. Mid-term end result: expensive villas for successful hangers-on; expensive funerals for non-successful hangers-on. Long-term result: life in the Gaze Strip and West Bank remains unchanged.
Well, yes, but since they've remilitarized the Rhineland, they'll be advancing to the Vistula and the Channel Ports pretty soon now, and it'll be all downhill from there.
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...let's remember that European courts are nothing like American ones.
Unlike American courts, which do their own thing (e.g., compare the 9th and 11th Federal Circuit courts), European court decisions mostly reflect what the local government wants.
Also, European Governments - especially France - have recently shown themselves to be massively susceptible to bribery. Witness MEMRI's stories about how Saddam traded oil for positive opinions from leftists all across Europe.
This will be no different. Should Microsoft not get a positive decision, it simply means that it failed to pay off enough government hacks.
Condider a loss in this court case to be the end of one round of negotiations. Nothing more.
First, WIRED predicts all our jobs are going overseas.
Then, IHT parrots the story, and adds that Americans are chasing the jobs.
Pheeeewwwwwwwww! My worries are over.
Here's the deal:
1. Americans will not move to India. It's too smelly. Plus, the Indians don't worship us.
2. In the last few year, every time WIRED reports a "The Sky is Falling" trend, the sky is soon thereafter observed to be remaining in place, and the trend goes into a death spiral.
The worst thing that could be happening is that the opportunists who got into Java development during the 90's are realizing that they should have stayed in merchant banking - where Daddy is placing them now - and the rest of us are waiting on the end of the upheaval to continue making more and more money.
How far behind the curve can /. get?
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"I don't believe there's a NASA culture. There is, however, a Shuttle cult. It is practiced like a religion by space policy makers who simply cannot imagine an American space agency without the Shuttle. Well, I can, and it's a space agency which can actually fly people and cargoes into orbit without everybody involved being terrified of imminent destruction every time there's lift-off. With some reservations, written in the politest language, the CAIB recommended to keep Shuttles flying but with more inspections, more bureaucracy (an outside safety agency), and more money. But piling on more inspections, people and dollars won't make the Shuttle safer. Neither will the safety sensitivity training that will probably be dumped on top of the overworked, disillusioned NASA engineers. My God, they've already dedicated their very souls to keep the Shuttle flying safely! The truth is, no amount of arm-waving about "culture" can fix a flawed design."
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My take on the 10th Amendment is that all levels of government must be granted power before that power can be exercised.
The Commerce Clause is the eye of a needle through which our elected representatives have successfully pushed an elephant. Which is a pity - it's essentially the nullification of the 10th Amendment.
Still, I guess at least part of my original point stands, at least in part. Namely, that the FCC has to have explicit authorization to do the things it does.
The various doings of the US Government pale by comparison with the sins of the kleptocracies, despotisms, satrapies, and assorted other tyrannies that make up most ot the UN's membership.
The UN may not have a monopoly on bureaucratic cockups, but it is the one place on earth where, for example, Robert Mugabe's lackeys are the nominal equals of George Bush's representatives.
Just as a donut that's composed 70% of dogshit will probably taste like dogshit, the UN - composed as it is mostly of kleptocracies, despotisms, satrapies, and assorted other tyrannies - will probably destroy anything it touches.
I agree with you completely.
If the 10th Amendment were strictly applied, we'd probably have only departments of State, Treasury, Defense, and Justice. We wouldn't have a Federal budget that's basically a transfer pump of wealth from young to old. The Federal Government would be much, much smaller than it is now.
Still, it's in the nature of things: entropy will out. We started with a pretty good government, and then came to realize we could vote oursleves bread and circuses. It's a short step from there to masses of unelected officials exercising power they don't have - for our own good.
This rocked me back on my heels:
"The FCC's lawyer, Jacob Lewis, acknowledged the agency never had exercised such ancillary power but maintained it was permitted by Congress since lawmakers didn't explicitly outlaw it."
Especially since the 10th amendment to the US Constitution says:
"The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people."
Got that, FCC boy? If you're not explicitly given the power, you can't exercise it.
Lawyers! Damn their oily hides!
I think what you're reaching for is the Senate's filibuster.
In a perfect world, the Supreme Court would be doing what you propose.
Ultimately, the French just want the world back where it was when Louis XIV was at the height of his powers.
If you want to imagine a future that would suit the French, imagine a perfumed, bewigged fop, pressing a ballet shoe on a human face - forever.
OK, let's see. In the last year, we've heard about the UN Oil-for-Palaces program, UN peacekeepers in central Africa running underage prostitutes, UN bureaucrats sexually assaulting junior employees, etc., etc.
Mind you, all is not lost. If the UN does get this role, then the Internet as we know it will become a shambolic mess, and the US will just have to invent something else.
...the joke was that we should buy MCI so we could FORCE someone to buy our transport devices (OC-192). MCI was the target.
The world we live in dictates that you can only sell what others will buy. I dount Bill's ability to sell IPTV, so there goes IPTV.
What got me here was that $20 Billion would have bought MCI in, like, 1996. Now?....
We have plenty of room, we're close to both Atlantic and Gulf ports, hell yeah!!!!!! bring on those SUVs.
And bring brains. Brains....
Bolld will flow, and heads will roll for what I have to say, but it's nowhere.
I mean, today, I got an email attachment from one of the office Linux bigots, AND I HAD TO DO A GIGANTIC DOWNLOAD (OpenOffice) TO READ WHAT HE HAD TO SAY!!!!!!!
OK, I didn't have to pay, but I did have to figure out what application generated the doc (the little twat would supply no clues), then I had to do the rest........, then I could communicate with him on his terms.
I will never hire a Linux bigot.
There he was (Clarke), sitting in the smokey fleshpots of Burkino Faso (or, wherever,) after smoking a load of Bolivian prayer hash and worshipping a marzipan effigy of the Fonz he'd accidentally created, and it occurred to him to project his thoughts at Iraq, AND THEY OBEYED HIM!!!!
We Americans should get ready to bow down to our (slightly deranged) lizard masters...
Let the brain drain begin!
We here in GA welcome our new CA overlords!
Y'all want grits, right?
Pretty fuckin' useless troll. Certainly not up to GT standards, you lying weasel.
My wife recently co-sponsored a visit by North African businesswomen to Atlanta.
To support her, I volunteered to give a talk about what could be accomplshed with Java, MySQL, OpenOffice, Apache, JBoss, Eclipse, etc. Initially the response was positive. In the end I was disinvited.
Talking to my wife afterwards, she just commented that there was a lot of fear and confusion over oopen source software.
What can I say? There's a lot of disinformation out there, I guess.
Well, of course, the first thing that will happen is the squabble over the billions he'd salted away. Short-term end result: dead widow and dead child. Mid-term end result: expensive villas for successful hangers-on; expensive funerals for non-successful hangers-on. Long-term result: life in the Gaze Strip and West Bank remains unchanged.
What?!?!!? You wanted good news?
It's a real shame they have to use a leftist swamp as a broadcast mechanism.
The don't trust Real, and I mostly don't trust NPR. I hope they'll be able to get on an actual profit-motivated network sometime soon.
Well, yes, but since they've remilitarized the Rhineland, they'll be advancing to the Vistula and the Channel Ports pretty soon now, and it'll be all downhill from there.
What a collection of fascist morons.
...let's remember that European courts are nothing like American ones.
Unlike American courts, which do their own thing (e.g., compare the 9th and 11th Federal Circuit courts), European court decisions mostly reflect what the local government wants.
Also, European Governments - especially France - have recently shown themselves to be massively susceptible to bribery. Witness MEMRI's stories about how Saddam traded oil for positive opinions from leftists all across Europe.
This will be no different. Should Microsoft not get a positive decision, it simply means that it failed to pay off enough government hacks.
Condider a loss in this court case to be the end of one round of negotiations. Nothing more.
First, WIRED predicts all our jobs are going overseas.
Then, IHT parrots the story, and adds that Americans are chasing the jobs.
Pheeeewwwwwwwww! My worries are over.
Here's the deal:
1. Americans will not move to India. It's too smelly. Plus, the Indians don't worship us.
2. In the last few year, every time WIRED reports a "The Sky is Falling" trend, the sky is soon thereafter observed to be remaining in place, and the trend goes into a death spiral.
The worst thing that could be happening is that the opportunists who got into Java development during the 90's are realizing that they should have stayed in merchant banking - where Daddy is placing them now - and the rest of us are waiting on the end of the upheaval to continue making more and more money.
Subject line says it all.
The IDF deliveries to Fatah (et al.) got delivered elsewhere by mistake!
Whoops! Next: Suicide murderers in Helsinki.
(Where's Mannerheim when you need him?)
OK, mostly the cowed population of Fascist Europe.
"I don't believe there's a NASA culture. There is, however, a Shuttle cult. It is practiced like a religion by space policy makers who simply cannot imagine an American space agency without the Shuttle. Well, I can, and it's a space agency which can actually fly people and cargoes into orbit without everybody involved being terrified of imminent destruction every time there's lift-off. With some reservations, written in the politest language, the CAIB recommended to keep Shuttles flying but with more inspections, more bureaucracy (an outside safety agency), and more money. But piling on more inspections, people and dollars won't make the Shuttle safer. Neither will the safety sensitivity training that will probably be dumped on top of the overworked, disillusioned NASA engineers. My God, they've already dedicated their very souls to keep the Shuttle flying safely! The truth is, no amount of arm-waving about "culture" can fix a flawed design."
Now, go fuck yourself.