Repeal the 16th Amendment of the United States Constitution and let the States take care of all things they are supposed to take care of.
At least under that model (the way it was SUPPOSED to work) I could move to another state if I did not like the way things were run and still be an American.
I started to read your comment and was impressed until you got to the "Lawmakers" part.
Dude, what makes you think the lawmakers are not PART of the "Corporate American Culture"? It was probably lawmakers at the suggestion of said same "outside consultants" who gave the idea to the paper companies to put the loophole in the law to begin with.
I don't deny that a pure Jeffersonian USA would probably of not survived the early part of the 19th century, but the result was the start down a path of Federal power trumping just about everything else.
You must be 150 years old because the last time this was a free country was BEFORE the 16th and 17th amendments to the U.S. Constitution which were pushed through the country by PROGRESSIVES (Note I don't say democrats or Republicans) at the end of the 19th and early 20th century.
The writers of the constitution KNEW that concentrated power leads to less freedom which is why they purposely tried to distribute power to the states as a check against the federal government. Once the federal government got the ability to directly tax people and take away the state's ability to decide for THEMSELVES how senators were appointed they (states) became nothing more than crack whores on federal $$$. Senators care more about their federal gigs than the states they represent (except during elections).
So now we have
1. States that can no longer check the federal gov like designed.
2. An interpretation of the constitution which means whatever the politicians and laywers want it to mean based on the idea of "implied powers of the constituion"
Notice that everybody in Washington is talking about the bailouts and expansion of federal gov in terms of MONEY and not a reduction of freedom and liberty which is more important than the gargantuan debt.
Welcome to the Alexander Hamilton's US of A. May he rot in hell for what he did to Jefferson and Madison's dream.
Really? Uh..it's been done for close to 40 years. The government has been using offsite contrators with mainframes and servers at corporate locations since the 60's.
What's the fuss? Google is a contractor like any other out there that deals with the government and has to abide by the same rules. Your data is as safe with google as it is with any other contractor that works onsite or offsite with the government.
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Everybody knows that the "Unlimited" plan is limited to 5GB a month.
So why are ya bitching?
Then you have never used round reel tapes. Tape de-magnetizes.
Ever seen a videotape recorded in the 80's? A lot of em look like static now.
Trekkie = passe 70's term. Conjures up plastic spock ears and pocket protectors.
Trekker = Enlightened fan of star trek fiction universe with life.
I am the latter...you are obviously the former. ;0
I've often wondered if a list of indexed DHT URI hashes would be any stronger in court.
I figure at some point we will have sites that don't link to or have torrents but just indexed and categorized DHT URI links.
Man...the miniseries is going to be great.
The resulting article will be better than the Daikatana story.
I've always said that te DNF gig has got to be the greatest job in the world.....Surf the web, eat cheetos and get paid for 10 years.
What a scam! Genius!
I have a better idea.
Repeal the 16th Amendment of the United States Constitution and let the States take care of all things they are supposed to take care of.
At least under that model (the way it was SUPPOSED to work) I could move to another state if I did not like the way things were run and still be an American.
I'll preface this with the points that my experience is in the U.S. and specifically this is with K-12 in Virginia.
They don't fire people, they just don't re-up their contract for the next year. That way there is no firing.
You forgot with the customer standing behind you WATCHING you code.
I started to read your comment and was impressed until you got to the "Lawmakers" part.
Dude, what makes you think the lawmakers are not PART of the "Corporate American Culture"? It was probably lawmakers at the suggestion of said same "outside consultants" who gave the idea to the paper companies to put the loophole in the law to begin with.
Government is NOT the solution to this problem.
You can't Universally define somebody as a "Monster".
The mistake everybody keeps making is that these are PERSONAL choices of action, not group ones.
You have the freedom to participate or not. Only you can define for yourself what is evil.
The only thing more despicable than hypocrites are hypocrites who accuse others of being hypocrites.
Just because somebody said that (famous or not) does not make it true.
Monsters should be treated like Monsters. There is no dishonor in that.
Cause they hold all our debt and killing our economy means we can't pay them back....
I don't deny that a pure Jeffersonian USA would probably of not survived the early part of the 19th century, but the result was the start down a path of Federal power trumping just about everything else.
Good point. But my argument still holds water :)
You must be 150 years old because the last time this was a free country was BEFORE the 16th and 17th amendments to the U.S. Constitution which were pushed through the country by PROGRESSIVES (Note I don't say democrats or Republicans) at the end of the 19th and early 20th century.
The writers of the constitution KNEW that concentrated power leads to less freedom which is why they purposely tried to distribute power to the states as a check against the federal government. Once the federal government got the ability to directly tax people and take away the state's ability to decide for THEMSELVES how senators were appointed they (states) became nothing more than crack whores on federal $$$. Senators care more about their federal gigs than the states they represent (except during elections).
So now we have
1. States that can no longer check the federal gov like designed.
2. An interpretation of the constitution which means whatever the politicians and laywers want it to mean based on the idea of "implied powers of the constituion"
Notice that everybody in Washington is talking about the bailouts and expansion of federal gov in terms of MONEY and not a reduction of freedom and liberty which is more important than the gargantuan debt.
Welcome to the Alexander Hamilton's US of A. May he rot in hell for what he did to Jefferson and Madison's dream.
How would the FBI approach this if my data was in some amorphous cloud like google? (technically and legally). Just thinking out loud...
Really? Uh..it's been done for close to 40 years. The government has been using offsite contrators with mainframes and servers at corporate locations since the 60's.
What's the fuss? Google is a contractor like any other out there that deals with the government and has to abide by the same rules. Your data is as safe with google as it is with any other contractor that works onsite or offsite with the government.
Use Google. Why spend all that money buying up equipment for a non-profit that could be spent on your REAL mission.
Do it in Google sites and dump the data center. I even think google offers google apps for free to non-profits.
OH puleeze...it's their service. They don't even have to HAVE streaming. If you don't like it then drop it.
You would need two. I hate to break it to you but just plugging into into the powerline all by itself does not make it a networking device....
NSF Grants require they choose an Open Source license. Though not necessarily GPL.
Although I'd not wish such a horrible thing on people, I've wondered if such a calamity might actually have an upside.....
please...do you REALLY think that if Russia develops a "National OS" that the FSB would NOT be involved in some way?