Long ago it came to me, "If you give them ammunition, they will shoot it at you".
It helps remember that freedom, tempered with good taste, is something that keeps us all mellow.
A re-examination of the Constitution would be a fine laxative for the Fed.
While the document contained glaring flaws like the 3/5 Compromise, the Bill of Rights, if followed, would actually support protection of individuals from states and states from the Fed.
Just have to have a reasonable transition plan to ease the country out of the velvet handcuffs of entitlements.
Some of the presidential candidates are out to worsen the problem. Watch out for them.
All of these services are unregulated, which means there are no demands on reliability, other than what the marketplace demands.
How about analysis showing that regulation stifles innovation?
Small business owners have long memories, at least when it comes to Hillary Clinton and the health care reform plan she developed during her husband's administration.
The plan required all businesses to provide health insurance, but many small companies said they would not be able to afford the coverage. Clinton made few friends when she dismissed that complaint with a curt, "I can't go out and save every undercapitalized entrepreneur in America." http://www.bizjournals.com/specials/pages/131.html
The article goes on to say, more or less 'she got better'.
Government regulation takes as much as it gives, and is only a good hammer on Nailworld.
Did the Founding Fathers err with the limitless Freedom of Speech, or are we interpreting it too widely and are forced to reinterpret chunks of it away, when dealing with abusers?
I don't think the First Amendment was in error.
The concept of limiting government was clear to them.
Unfortunately, the idea of government as solution has been growing cancerously since the late 1800's, in the form of progressivism.
The Second Amendment is clear and simply, yet they would love to re-engineer it to mean something else.
McCain-Feingold is another example of wrongheadedness.
The only solution to spam and progressivism is maturity in the population, though how to encourage people to "friggin' grow up" is an intractable problem.
Here is an interesting post WRT programming languages:
I was struck with how many of the good ideas in programming languages were discovered early on. The decade 1964-1974 seems to have been a "Golden Age": most of the good ideas of programming languages appeared then.
http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/2059
Maybe we could start with the birth of, say, Unix and pick our way forward in time, cataloging the various ideas, a la Aristotle. I think a graph of the count of genuinely new discoveries per year would drop off at a brisk pace.
But I don't think the USPTO can handle that sort of truth. Truth has deleterious effects on business models, you know.
If you RTFGP, you'd see that TFGP assumed the VA decision would be appealed to TFSC.
My (possibly awkward) attempt at a jape was based on the concept that the spammer would attack TFSC inboxes until they agreed to hear the appeal, which would be an obnoxious, counter-productive, and quintessentially American approach to the problem.
Neither thing, or it's offshoots (telemarketing, junk FAX, etc) should exist, simply because they're all so highly abused, and it's basically impossible IMHO to regulate them.
Which is why I'm saying to admit that legal regulation is a largely a waste of time. What we're after here is a negative feedback signal into the system, and I'm contending that costs to the spammer are worth considering. Requiring a physical component could open up new ways to a) monitor the spammers, and b) hold them accountable, or c) make operations less profitable.
...so long as there is one corresponding piece of regular mail, sent to "Resident" if nothing else, at a distinct address in another zip code, for every email.
That would let people express themselves with all sincerity, and help keep the postal system afloat.
An all-around Win!
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Ballmer is clearly re-tossing the deck chairs on RMS Vis^Titanic.
Even in the presence of severe deflation?
Um, you are deaf?
Long ago it came to me, "If you give them ammunition, they will shoot it at you".
It helps remember that freedom, tempered with good taste, is something that keeps us all mellow.
...was speculating about some political/social networking site for extremist drag queens; a sort or "Ru Paul meets Ron Paul".
Should I get more sleep?
I'm tempted to accuse your Sturgeon's Law reference of being in the majority group of /. postings, but that would be kind of mean.
A re-examination of the Constitution would be a fine laxative for the Fed.
While the document contained glaring flaws like the 3/5 Compromise, the Bill of Rights, if followed, would actually support protection of individuals from states and states from the Fed.
Just have to have a reasonable transition plan to ease the country out of the velvet handcuffs of entitlements.
Some of the presidential candidates are out to worsen the problem. Watch out for them.
In "make it up as you go" legal theory, it's all "intellectual property".
Welcome to the best legal system money can buy.
No, Afghanistan was properly spelt.
Ah, the Republican symbolism...how could I have missed that pachyderm in the room?
The Trinitron
Be dead and gone
Though large and dense
As beard, no defense.
Burma Shave
Give them a couple of weeks, and the mohawk will grow out.
Birdy, birdy, in the sky
Dropped some whitewash in my eye
I'm a big kid, I won't cry
I'm just glad elephants can't fly.
The peer review will render it less connected with reality, I'd expect.
Government regulation takes as much as it gives, and is only a good hammer on Nailworld.
The concept of limiting government was clear to them.
Unfortunately, the idea of government as solution has been growing cancerously since the late 1800's, in the form of progressivism.
The Second Amendment is clear and simply, yet they would love to re-engineer it to mean something else.
McCain-Feingold is another example of wrongheadedness.
The only solution to spam and progressivism is maturity in the population, though how to encourage people to "friggin' grow up" is an intractable problem.
Kaufman, IHMO, is best understood as dada, and best enjoyed in little bits.
The betrayal of "I trusted you" manages to work well alongside Ballmer.
http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/2059
Maybe we could start with the birth of, say, Unix and pick our way forward in time, cataloging the various ideas, a la Aristotle. I think a graph of the count of genuinely new discoveries per year would drop off at a brisk pace.
But I don't think the USPTO can handle that sort of truth. Truth has deleterious effects on business models, you know.
If you RTFGP, you'd see that TFGP assumed the VA decision would be appealed to TFSC.
My (possibly awkward) attempt at a jape was based on the concept that the spammer would attack TFSC inboxes until they agreed to hear the appeal, which would be an obnoxious, counter-productive, and quintessentially American approach to the problem.
...all of whose inboxes will receive a merciless pounding until they agree to hear the appeal.
...so long as there is one corresponding piece of regular mail, sent to "Resident" if nothing else, at a distinct address in another zip code, for every email.
That would let people express themselves with all sincerity, and help keep the postal system afloat.
An all-around Win!
Steven King reference? He was reported dead this morning, you know. Truly an American icon.
So, you're saying there may be a connection between the software borg and the political borg?