No argument, I am clearly in the Madisonian camp, and have been for years. Hamilton, however, also indicates that there are limits to even his expanded view of the clause, and I daresay that neither Hamilton nor Madison would at all be pleased with the direction we have allowed our governance to take.
AS usual, the usual liberal dumbasses have no idea how to read the Constitution and do not recognize that The United States is a separate class indicating the STATES THEMSELVES and not THE PEOPLE (which is, obviously enough, who the identifier The People refers to).
Um. Yes. Food subidies are about 2.5% of the federal budget. On an income of $75K, that is about $250. Feel free to call that insignficant, but I don't. Sorry pudge, but your math is wrong.
2.5% of 75k = $1875.
And that IS significant.
Strict interpretation has failed because of folks like you that undermine it wherever possible, and have been doing so for 150 years.
By the by, the 17th Amendment has had a lot to do with the fucked up situation at the Federal level, as well. The entire purpose of the Senate was for it to counter the popularly elected House and prevent much of the bullshit that has been fed to us for the last 90 years.
I believe, at this point, that we are quibbling on the definition of 'general Welfare', of which I do NOT believe Social Security, Medicare and the specific granting of public monies to individuals is a part.
Specifically, you are referring to the "general Welfare of the United States" NOT "the People", which is a distinctly separate class within the Constitution that DOES refer to individuals.
see http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3aa699b23882.htm if you're further confused on the specific meaning of this clause. In particular, read Mr Madison's comments specifically regarding the 'general Welfare' clause in which he eviscerates any attempt at misreading the clause such that it applies to individuals.
It absolutely does not, and this is a very specific example of why the 'living, breathing Constitution' 'idea' is so abhorrent, and further, why political litmus tests have so thoroughly permitted the judiciary to, themselves, permit the entirety of the Federal government to ignore the document under which our Republic was founded.
Hey! and if I add in everything else the government spends money on except for defense, it results in closer to everything the government spends money on other than defense!
Throwing in more stuff doesn't make the defense budget any smaller.
Considering the parent decided to roll in all supplemental and emergency military spending into their post, I believe it appropriate that all social programs be rolled in to mine.
Don't like it? Then don't get involved in the argument.
When you speak of social program expenditures, please also include that for Medicare/Medicaid, SCHIP, and HUD.
The combined total of which results in closer to 45% of the total budget.
The last time I checked, SSA, Medicare/Medicaid and HUD were not explicitly mentioned as a role of our government in the Constitution, while Defense most certainly is. Unlike so many wrong-headed individuals, I believe that unless the Constitution actually grants a power to the Federal government, then it DOES NOT have it, regardless of what others may wish to be the case.
I'm 31 (will be 32 this year), and learned C as my first 'official' language in College.
That said - I'm probably about as young as you're going to see who had C or Pascal as their primary learning language in College (well, maybe as young as 29-30ish). Even in 1994-1996 there was hype over Java and it was going to revolutionize everything -_-
Administration, however, is necessary to a business operating.
Do you really, seriously expect a business to hire people, and not place demands and deadlines on them, and -expect- results within that time frame? A business does not exist solely to make its employees money. It exists -primarily- to make it's owner(s)/investor(s)/shareholders money. The employees get paid as a necessity.
Yep. Normal is 2 weeks. I even had one joke of a place (USI, you guys SUCK:) offer me 90k/yr and -1- week of vacation, knowing I had a 90 minute commute each way. I laughed when I told them "uh, no."
I had the equivalent of 4 weeks when I worked at Johns Hopkins. I'm back down to 2 weeks (2 jobs, and 2 years later), but I'm far happier where I'm at. Even if it DID mean moving to Texas.
Considering that Sir Paul is worth an estimated 1.5 to 2billion, $US, you might want to rethink that.
The Beatles have seen an obscene amount of money from what they produced in the 60's. I'd love to know exact figures, as I'd like to know what the exact figures are for what Elvis' estate has brought in.
But keep in mind, that for every Beatles, there are hundreds, if not thousands, of bands that never even get to their first gig, let alone repeats after that one.
You get what you pay for, and in this case, you get a home broadband style "unlimited", where you won't know what your limits really are until you hit them.
And these are -explicitly- shared hosting accounts, and there are some restrictions - including how quickly you can grow your disk usage, and if you are using too much bandwidth you'll be flagged. Another is that they explicitly are saying that it's not to be used as a datawarehousing resource.
All things that a large business is going to want to do.
IMO, it's more than likely marketing. Everyone already knows that these resources are oversold, so it really was just a matter of time before someone said "fuck this, all the bandwidth/disk/whatever you can use on a shared server for one low monthly fee".
The catch is that they =will= shunt people off onto dedicated servers if/when the need arises, and then they'll crucify them costs-wise (and I wouldn't be surprised to find in the small print that they have the right to move your account, at whim, to best serve their needs to balance the load).
I'd LOVE to know how they plan on making money with this, too.
Because in this case it's true. Asian players -do- typically have a preference towards grind games (or more specifically - games where the time/reward ratio is -heavily- in favor of time). FFXI, for example, has a very large Asian (Japanese, specifically) playerbase. There are a lot of EU/NA players, as well, but the majority (IIRC) are JP. NOONE is going to contradict the statement that FFXI is anything but a huge grindfest and time sink (it takes literally a year or more to 'earn' the Epic weapons for each job if you don't purchase currency in quantity from other players running Dynamis).
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The Chinese/Korean/Japanese/Asian market, in general, pays per hour, not per month. And it's some minimal cost per hour, too, from what I understand.
Over =average= MRR is around 10-11 per paying account.
That's still a ton of money.
No argument, I am clearly in the Madisonian camp, and have been for years.
Hamilton, however, also indicates that there are limits to even his expanded view of the clause, and I daresay that neither Hamilton nor Madison would at all be pleased with the direction we have allowed our governance to take.
AS usual, the usual liberal dumbasses have no idea how to read the Constitution and do not recognize that The United States is a separate class indicating the STATES THEMSELVES and not THE PEOPLE (which is, obviously enough, who the identifier The People refers to).
Quite correct, my apologies on the misread.
Like Obama is any different from the rest of the idiots mentioned.
Strict interpretation has failed because of folks like you that undermine it wherever possible, and have been doing so for 150 years.
By the by, the 17th Amendment has had a lot to do with the fucked up situation at the Federal level, as well. The entire purpose of the Senate was for it to counter the popularly elected House and prevent much of the bullshit that has been fed to us for the last 90 years.
I believe, at this point, that we are quibbling on the definition of 'general Welfare', of which I do NOT believe Social Security, Medicare and the specific granting of public monies to individuals is a part.
Specifically, you are referring to the "general Welfare of the United States" NOT "the People", which is a distinctly separate class within the Constitution that DOES refer to individuals.
see http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3aa699b23882.htm if you're further confused on the specific meaning of this clause. In particular, read Mr Madison's comments specifically regarding the 'general Welfare' clause in which he eviscerates any attempt at misreading the clause such that it applies to individuals.
It absolutely does not, and this is a very specific example of why the 'living, breathing Constitution' 'idea' is so abhorrent, and further, why political litmus tests have so thoroughly permitted the judiciary to, themselves, permit the entirety of the Federal government to ignore the document under which our Republic was founded.
Considering the parent decided to roll in all supplemental and emergency military spending into their post, I believe it appropriate that all social programs be rolled in to mine.
Don't like it? Then don't get involved in the argument.
When you speak of social program expenditures, please also include that for Medicare/Medicaid, SCHIP, and HUD.
The combined total of which results in closer to 45% of the total budget.
The last time I checked, SSA, Medicare/Medicaid and HUD were not explicitly mentioned as a role of our government in the Constitution, while Defense most certainly is. Unlike so many wrong-headed individuals, I believe that unless the Constitution actually grants a power to the Federal government, then it DOES NOT have it, regardless of what others may wish to be the case.
omg. I wish my mod points hadn't expired last night.
Funny +1
I'm 31 (will be 32 this year), and learned C as my first 'official' language in College.
That said - I'm probably about as young as you're going to see who had C or Pascal as their primary learning language in College (well, maybe as young as 29-30ish). Even in 1994-1996 there was hype over Java and it was going to revolutionize everything -_-
As soon as I read the blurb I kinda figured it was Ft Sam.
They just uploaded, recently, San Antonio street-level pics (like, over the last couple weeks), so it makes sense, just due to timing.
And while Sam might be open, it's still generally not kosher to be taking pictures of everything.
Administration, however, is necessary to a business operating.
Do you really, seriously expect a business to hire people, and not place demands and deadlines on them, and -expect- results within that time frame? A business does not exist solely to make its employees money. It exists -primarily- to make it's owner(s)/investor(s)/shareholders money. The employees get paid as a necessity.
Yep. :) offer me 90k/yr and -1- week of vacation, knowing I had a 90 minute commute each way. I laughed when I told them "uh, no."
Normal is 2 weeks.
I even had one joke of a place (USI, you guys SUCK
I had the equivalent of 4 weeks when I worked at Johns Hopkins. I'm back down to 2 weeks (2 jobs, and 2 years later), but I'm far happier where I'm at. Even if it DID mean moving to Texas.
Considering that Sir Paul is worth an estimated 1.5 to 2billion, $US, you might want to rethink that.
The Beatles have seen an obscene amount of money from what they produced in the 60's. I'd love to know exact figures, as I'd like to know what the exact figures are for what Elvis' estate has brought in.
But keep in mind, that for every Beatles, there are hundreds, if not thousands, of bands that never even get to their first gig, let alone repeats after that one.
17-20 years from time of issuance, IIRC.
This is, of course, why software patents are bad - they're usually obviated in fewer than 5.
Exactly :)
You get what you pay for, and in this case, you get a home broadband style "unlimited", where you won't know what your limits really are until you hit them.
Gotta love it.
NOT
This won't meet the needs of large businesses.
not even remotely.
And these are -explicitly- shared hosting accounts, and there are some restrictions - including how quickly you can grow your disk usage, and if you are using too much bandwidth you'll be flagged. Another is that they explicitly are saying that it's not to be used as a datawarehousing resource.
All things that a large business is going to want to do.
IMO, it's more than likely marketing.
Everyone already knows that these resources are oversold, so it really was just a matter of time before someone said "fuck this, all the bandwidth/disk/whatever you can use on a shared server for one low monthly fee".
The catch is that they =will= shunt people off onto dedicated servers if/when the need arises, and then they'll crucify them costs-wise (and I wouldn't be surprised to find in the small print that they have the right to move your account, at whim, to best serve their needs to balance the load).
I'd LOVE to know how they plan on making money with this, too.
They already are moving into this area.
What do you think they're building all those shiny new datacenters for?
And one that I would love to have as a boss. :_)
Lame attempt at being funny.
I have 2 kids to prove that I'm NOT a virgin.
HAH!
As has already been stated - trial accounts aren't included in the supscriber counts.
Because in this case it's true.
Asian players -do- typically have a preference towards grind games (or more specifically - games where the time/reward ratio is -heavily- in favor of time). FFXI, for example, has a very large Asian (Japanese, specifically) playerbase. There are a lot of EU/NA players, as well, but the majority (IIRC) are JP. NOONE is going to contradict the statement that FFXI is anything but a huge grindfest and time sink (it takes literally a year or more to 'earn' the Epic weapons for each job if you don't purchase currency in quantity from other players running Dynamis).
I played FFXI for 3 years. I still twitch.