smitty, did you read the page that you just linked to? What does a drooling McCarthy-era rant about Moscow-controlled Communists under our beds have to do with what we're talking about?
In the context of the accusation of mental midgetry for appealing to federalism, I'm theorizing that I'm on the receiving end of some dezinformatsiya here.
At this point, in a bizarre and tasteless trans-Atlantic timewarp, Dr. Johnny Fever, Venus Flytrap, Herb Tarlek, and Jeffifer Marlow, dressed as the Spanish Inquisition, burst in, and say, in chorus:
"NO! One expects Les Nessman!"
They bundle up Eugene and haul him off to stunned looks from all present.
We've been trained by 27 years of "Conservative" control of government and media to see "government" as some alien entity over which we have no control and which only acts to make our lives unpleasant. St. Ronald was the first to really market this erroneous notion, and it really disrespects the clever and elegant plan our founding fathers laid out for us.
"'Conservative' control of government and media" is some sweet flamebait. It clearly explains why, to drop just a couple of examples, you had Dan Rather pushing bogus documents about National Guard service during the 2004 election, or this current departure from reality that supposes Karl Rove was inciting investigations in the South.
If anything, the internet has revealed that there is a certain unstated orthodoxy (and certainly not a conservative one) driving things along a definite path.
This meme of "drowning government in a bathtub" is so ubiquitous that even some smart people are lazily spreading it, as you have done.
The meme I've sought to spread is one of "reading the Constitution as written", not as some would re-write it according to whim, without proper review.
If you've recently driven on a US highway, or if you're one of the unlucky ones under whom a bridge recently collapsed in Minnesota, you know first-hand what happens when "the commons" are neglected.
I realize that the whole Blame BeelzeBush angle is diminished, but some findings of fact did come out about Minnesota.
I'm not sure if its a bug or a feature that, after the "mixed results" of the Big Dig, that the Fed seems to be taking a more cautious look at funding projects, e.g. the Dulles Metro Extension in my area.
This real question is: What is the appropriate level for funding this stuff?
It is simply Un-American to me that the Fed be treated as the only source of leadership in the country.
The strangest thing about this whole story is that we are constantly told that the US is a "Christian Nation" yet the idea of "care in common" which is anathema to Republicans is a most Christian notion. But I guess it's to be expected when hypocrisy is the new black.
I suppose we could scuttle the First Amendment and set the Fed up as God, and then have "care in common" aplenty.
Because the State loves you and will hug you and pet you and offer a life free of fear pain.
Typically, Ben Franklin is invoked against the Bush Administration in general, and the Global War on Terror in Particular. But let's review those oft-quoted words again, anyway:
He who would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will lose both and deserve neither.
These words would also seem a caution about the Imperial Fed.
At the risk of sounding a total shill, I logged in under lynx just to see how the new Yoyodyne-powered/. holds up under character-mode browsing, and the answer is: no' so bad.
As with the original purchase, I always get the feeling that much of the real business going on is not exactly public information.
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Why, exactly?
It seems to offer a valuable service at a reasonable rate, although I've only ever been a customer.
Sometimes an idea, like a jet engine, needs a few thousands RPMs to get it up to speed.
While correctly applauding the Cro Magnon for "holding against the evils of technology and actually making life worthwhile",
you forgot to request that the Cro Magnon come and thrash all of the people within your society that actually want to prevent those evils from causing further debasement of your society.
This would give you more violence to decry, while increasing your power.
Proper Political Correctness must ensconce wrong things for apparently right reasons.
This is a valid point. If a blind person is taxed, and part of those taxes fund a government web site,
and the law mandates that the blind get something for their investment,
then there seems room for complaint.
Using the government to enforce a standard for private websites does nothing but disadvantage the smaller vendor, and is thus a market control mechanism for Big Business.
Of course, such patterns are commonplace.
ISTR that iSQL is the name of the command-line client for Sybase.
How about SQOOLMy? (pronounced 'school me')
Same letters as before, only with some leftover 'OO' pixie dust from the Clinton Administration mixed in.
Just no way to work XML in there while remaining mellifluous, alas.
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What's the difference between a country lawyer and a rural juror? The urban fervor?
JC: your mood is quite chipper.
Glad to see you're not, like, bummed out, or something, dude.
How can you possibly combine two to one by rounding up?
Oh, I get it: government context.
At this point, in a bizarre and tasteless trans-Atlantic timewarp, Dr. Johnny Fever, Venus Flytrap, Herb Tarlek, and Jeffifer Marlow, dressed as the Spanish Inquisition, burst in, and say, in chorus:
"NO! One expects Les Nessman!"
They bundle up Eugene and haul him off to stunned looks from all present.
A reasoned plea for federalism means I'm an intellectual midget? The Gramscian Damage is worse than I feared.
Crowd of corpulent Southerners at a Crawfish Tail Fry somewhere on the Redneck Rivera dropping trou' to moon a luxury liner passing by.
If anything, the internet has revealed that there is a certain unstated orthodoxy (and certainly not a conservative one) driving things along a definite path.
The meme I've sought to spread is one of "reading the Constitution as written", not as some would re-write it according to whim, without proper review. I realize that the whole Blame BeelzeBush angle is diminished, but some findings of fact did come out about Minnesota.
I'm not sure if its a bug or a feature that, after the "mixed results" of the Big Dig, that the Fed seems to be taking a more cautious look at funding projects, e.g. the Dulles Metro Extension in my area.
This real question is: What is the appropriate level for funding this stuff?
It is simply Un-American to me that the Fed be treated as the only source of leadership in the country. I suppose we could scuttle the First Amendment and set the Fed up as God, and then have "care in common" aplenty.
Because the State loves you and will hug you and pet you and offer a life free of fear pain.
Typically, Ben Franklin is invoked against the Bush Administration in general, and the Global War on Terror in Particular. But let's review those oft-quoted words again, anyway:
He who would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will lose both and deserve neither.
These words would also seem a caution about the Imperial Fed.
Thanks for dropping a quarter in me, boss.
Well, anything to reduce the overall "surface area" of the governmentium is a good idea.
You omit the fact that we've also made some strides in predicting what the past should have been.
At the risk of sounding a total shill, I logged /. holds up under character-mode browsing, and the
in under lynx just to see how the new Yoyodyne-powered
answer is: no' so bad.
As with the original purchase, I always get the feeling that much of the real business going on is not exactly public information.
Why, exactly?
It seems to offer a valuable service at a reasonable rate, although I've only ever been a customer.
Sometimes an idea, like a jet engine, needs a few thousands RPMs to get it up to speed.
Because Chirac was not as cozy as Sarkozy.
Don't leave out the sycophants and the cretins!
While correctly applauding the Cro Magnon for "holding against the evils of technology and actually making life worthwhile",
you forgot to request that the Cro Magnon come and thrash all of the people within your society that actually want to prevent those evils from causing further debasement of your society.
This would give you more violence to decry, while increasing your power.
Proper Political Correctness must ensconce wrong things for apparently right reasons.
To make it lazier, of course.
Also, this study of bots takes place in "the wild", as if the environment were somehow not a 100% human production.
Not Usable 'Less Lifted?
...you'll need a little Viagra first.
This is a valid point. If a blind person is taxed,
and part of those taxes fund a government web site,
and the law mandates that the blind get something for their investment,
then there seems room for complaint.
Using the government to enforce a standard for private websites does nothing but disadvantage the smaller vendor, and is thus a market control mechanism for Big Business.
Of course, such patterns are commonplace.
It does run a dose, sode tsurikomi goshi-style, through virtualization, e.g. kvm.
I've always favored PostGreSQL. The whole My* naming thing seems so last decade, whereas PostGreSQL jumps back over a score of years.
Go retro!
ISTR that iSQL is the name of the command-line client for Sybase.
How about SQOOLMy? (pronounced 'school me')
Same letters as before, only with some leftover 'OO' pixie dust from the Clinton Administration mixed in.
Just no way to work XML in there while remaining mellifluous, alas.
"IShOt the standard, but I did not shoot A-N-S-I"