I'm speaking of Federal programs that appear to violate
Amendment 10 - Powers of the States and People.
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.
It strikes me that adherence to this would obviate a substantial chunk of the problems besetting the polity.
In the long term, since FDR, the country has moved in the direction of socialism.
At what point should this drift be made explicit via Constitutional Amendment, to shut up the cranks like me who think that Social Security is a 10th Amendment violation?
Background
It was a crappy web-enabled database application.
Oracle on the back end, ASP on the front end.
User queries would return rows in the thousands and wipe out the WinNT4.0 web server, or time out.
I implemented what was essentially a pre-compiler in.asp for the SQL that used the rowid and MINUS operators in Oracle to pluck a subset of the rows.
To say it saved the project is an overstatement, but that one.asp file was quickly used everywhere. It also included a debug flag that would let someone integrating it see a thorough debug trace of just how the black magic was progressing. The Point
One of the coders on the project, heaven bless the fellow, just couldn't get it.
Despite two or three walk-throughs, serious coaching, and tons of encouragement, he insisted on putting Response.Write calls all throughout that file whenever he would use it.
His intellectual bandwidth did not extend to learning how to read others' code.
Which is a shame, because he worked really hard and remains an excellent human being.
Could math have helped him? Maybe. Would spending a lot of time trying to teach him math have worked? "They's some men you just cain't reach"
Yep. Money is pretty much the only metric upon which most agree.
Are we allowed to chuckle at the drift away from Wikipedia's original, relatively anarchist philosophy?
So you're saying that all you have to do is pass some 'notability' threshold, or buy the necessary media coverage (don't bore me with claims of journalistic integrity), and you're done?
Great. We all know what kind of site Wikipedia has evolved into, we just haven't settled on the price.
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Amendment 10 - Powers of the States and People.
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.
It strikes me that adherence to this would obviate a substantial chunk of the problems besetting the polity.
That link may contain a disturbing impressionist view the taxpayer position on the Wall Street Bailout.
A side effect of the blurring of the public/private sector distinction, indeed.
Meaning may elude.
What cannot be misconstrued:
The tax axe bite, dude.
In the long term, since FDR, the country has moved in the direction of socialism.
At what point should this drift be made explicit via Constitutional Amendment,
to shut up the cranks like me
who think that Social Security is a 10th Amendment violation?
How would you help break the deadlock on the Get Up/Get Down issue?
So you seem to be moving into a general point about organizational behavior.
Are you familiar with Pournelle's Iron Law?
Background .asp for the SQL that used the rowid and MINUS operators in Oracle to pluck a subset of the rows. .asp file was quickly used everywhere. It also included a debug flag that would let someone integrating it see a thorough debug trace of just how the black magic was progressing.
It was a crappy web-enabled database application.
Oracle on the back end, ASP on the front end.
User queries would return rows in the thousands and wipe out the WinNT4.0 web server, or time out.
I implemented what was essentially a pre-compiler in
To say it saved the project is an overstatement, but that one
The Point
One of the coders on the project, heaven bless the fellow, just couldn't get it.
Despite two or three walk-throughs, serious coaching, and tons of encouragement, he insisted on putting Response.Write calls all throughout that file whenever he would use it.
His intellectual bandwidth did not extend to learning how to read others' code.
Which is a shame, because he worked really hard and remains an excellent human being.
Could math have helped him? Maybe. Would spending a lot of time trying to teach him math have worked? "They's some men you just cain't reach"
No, it means that the prediction for last week, a raging financial crapflood, will have increased accuracy.
The mondo-flop race,
As the hair on your face,
You yearn to displace,
So do it with grace.
Burma Shave
I would hate the SSA a lot less if I could opt out.
Don't Rely on the Market?
Yeah, Washington DC says that all the time.
And of course it's *really hard* to sync all your data like on Palm.
Haven't noticed that one, sorry.
Play the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecological_fallacy card on me. ;)
Well, if Brittanica spends a lot of ad money, and gets its Wikipedia and Google page rankings up there, then we might notice.
Everyone likes a big target. Note the amount of US bashing that goes on.
Yeah, but you're still pulling an initramfs, and then doing a regular init, which my method avoids.
The form is a standard US military jape, though 2.5 Dudes would have been entirely in character to employ it.
But is the US on the standard continuum?
http://actionamerica.org/fun/tytler.shtml
Alliterations are asinine: assonance always.
(Is it funny that 'alliteration' begins with a vowel?)
really a social experiment that's going into uncharted territory
What part of basic organizational behavior do you find so uncharted?
An orthodoxy evolves, controlled by a core group, and heretics are pilloried.
The question is: can Wikipedia become a sufficiently elitist snob-club to give Brittanica a chance for a comeback?
Yep. Money is pretty much the only metric upon which most agree.
Are we allowed to chuckle at the drift away from Wikipedia's original, relatively anarchist philosophy?
Fret ye not the mods. The whole thing was very arguably offtopic and trollish. And I'd friggin' do it again, too. Mwahahahaha.
So you're saying that all you have to do is pass some 'notability' threshold, or buy the necessary media coverage (don't bore me with claims of journalistic integrity), and you're done?
Great. We all know what kind of site Wikipedia has evolved into, we just haven't settled on the price.