2. The government writes a budget that says "Next year we're spending $100 on roads, even though we only have $50 of actual income devoted to it.. we'll borrow the rest." That's not a debt, it's a projection. The next year comes and they say, "We changed our minds, we're spending $50 on roads." That's not a default, it's a change of budget.
Hmmm...I'd have to read the exact wording in the budget passed to verify this. I suspect you're correct as it is a projection, but there is the detail of the actual appropriation. Does each budgeted item get appropriated separately, in groups or en masse?
The actual appropriation could be construed as an authorizing law.
And, if you want to quibble, the budget itself can still be read to imply it authorizes the necessary debt via specific appropriations. None of the numbers are real surprises when the budget is passed, and they know damn well it is deficit spending at that time.
As far the Cato link...we're talking at cross purposes. "Entitlements" is a word with bad connotation. There is *mandatory* spending defined by specific laws and this includes SS and Medicare among other things.
The Budget that is debated by Congress is the discretionary part, which excludes mandatory spending.
As far as the SCOTUS ruling, all that means is the current law MAY be changed to not pay benefits regardless of contributions. However, it would require a law change as currently on the books it is *mandatory* spending.
Correction. Warren G. Harding was the one who signed the Budget and Accounting Act of 1921. That requires the President to transmit a budget to Congress.
A quick reading of the Act bears up my assertion that it is merely a request for appropriations and not a binding document. It is a starting place.
The 2011 budget was enacted on April 15, 2011, as Public Law 112-10. The 2012 budget will most likely start in September.
FYI - The President does not pass a budget, Congress does starting with the House and moving on to the Senate. The President then signs the passed budget into law.
The requested budget the President submits to Congress is a courtesy that started in 1921 by Warren G. Harding. It is not required by the Constitution, nor is it legally binding in any sense. It is an informal "this is what I'd like to see" document only.
Expenses over and above income are debts, unless I'm missing something basic and need more caffeine.
The budget is the law that specifies the expenditures for the coming fiscal year. It has two parts, referred to entitlement and discretionary spending. Additional spending comes in the form of appropriations, which are themselves laws.
If spending through budget or appropriation is legislated, and it is over income and requires taking on debt, it would then be authorized by law and meet the wording of the 14th Amendment. The budget or appropriation itself is the law authorizing the public debt.
As far as SS goes, the law that created SS in the first place mandates the spending. That is why it is called an "entitlement".
By my strict reading (and IANACL), all Entitlements would have to be paid regardless. However, and discretionary spending and extra-budgetary appropriations would be possibly eligible for the chopping block. They -- including ALL military spending -- would have to be bottom of the priority list, coming in after the Entitlements of SS and Medicare, plus a few others.
The biting humor is you also spelled it wrong. Considering it was a reference to The Highlander, the correct spelling would be with only one "L", not two. MacLeod.
It seems to me that getting rid of DNS would mean named-based shared-hosting would cease to work. That would certainly increase IPv6 adoption since if every name-based host all of a sudden needed a unique IP address, they'd be totally depleted by sometime before I finish typing this message.
No, he was assuming that the administrative costs and overhead of the two data plans are identical. Considering the only thing that changes is the bandwidth or data cap, it is a reasonable assumption. Actual operation of the service is automated and doesn't have proportionate cost increases.
For example, a sysadmin that can manage a 100 Mbps Fast Ethernet switch doesn't cost 10x less than one that can manage a GbE switch. Nor is there 10x the work involved.
Yes, there is a different capital cost, but ongoing administrative costs are the same.
How exactly does a 2.4 GHz signal that can't penetrate a couple of sheets of drywall go thru meters of hard rock and quartz mineralization?
Current underground radio technology uses backpack-sized VLF transceivers and is designed for surface-to-subsurface communications. Subsurface-to-subsurface is currently not really available without wires, as far as I can find.
The American automotive industry is slowly but inexorably moving towards increased automation through robotics. The number of human workers per automobile has done nothing but decline in recent decades.
I study history quite a bit. Feel free to look at the British Pound for a good example of where the US Dollar is likely to head.
The Dollar will not sink low enough to make US labor competitive for mass market goods. Even in a scenario of hyper-inflation, it won't happen. Look at how Germany ended up after the hyper-inflation of the Wiemar Republic. (Hint: Hyper-inflation only lasts for a very brief time and if the country itself is basically sound -- and the U.S. is -- it'll bounce back quickly.)
We know how to make them now, it is just cheaper to outsource the low-skill labor necessary. No, people as a whole will not pay the major extra costs associated with "Made in America" for mass produced goods.
Fantasize all you want about bringing mass manufacturing back to the United States, but it is gone for good. It is time to face reality. The future of America is in creativity and brains, not low-skilled labor.
If you can do your job with a pair of headphones on, listening to music and not thinking about your work -- your job is going away. If you aren't using your brain for the main part of your job, it is going away or will be so low-paying no one wants it.
Labor that has to be performed locally, such as construction or transportation, will eventually be replaced by robots and automated labor systems.
Solution to big problem -- use hydrogen. On an unmanned balloon launch platform, 100 Km in the air, who the hell cares if an accident catches it on fire?
The only reason the Hindenburg was a disaster is because there were people on it. Remove the people and it isn't a disaster, it is an expense. An insurable expense.
Every time I think people on/. can't get any more clueless, I read posts like this and my faith is restored.
NIC cards? All data is encrypted at Layer 3 or 4 (SSL/TLS or IPSEC), so all a NIC is going to see is encrypted Ethernet frames.
Storage adapters? So? Feel free to read the publicly-available ISO from the CD-ROM drive. In fact, just go download your own copy. No other storage adapters are used.
Hardware Key-loggers? Stopped by multi-factor smart cards (aka CAC and PIV cards). That is, they can't snarf passwords. They might gather other keystrokes, though.
LCD monitors with whatever magic paranoid shit you can dream up? Stop getting your tech ideas from Hollywood fantasies. Can you please point me to any of these so I can see one in the wild? Are they just randomly scattered around at Holiday Inns?
The access these things get you to is non-classified networks. Not for public consumption, but non-classified. Like access to office webmail or VPN, except using smart-cards to replace RSA tokens.
You're childish assertion of essentially "if it isn't absolutely 100% secure against anything I can imagine, it is worthless" shows you don't know shit about security.
The CAC readers we are working with also work on Linux and Mac. Every laptop we buy now has a built-in smartcard reader.
We're putting a lot of effort into making these work right now. The big driver is being able to dump RSA tokens and replace them with the CAC cards. We're counting down the days we can tell EMC/RSA "Fuck you very much" for their bullshit.
I was in firehose (recent) last night and of the 30 articles I rated, 27 were binspam, 2 were off topic but not spam, and 1 was worthy of a recommend.
I'm beginning to wonder if Slashdot's way of promoting stories doesn't *encourage* spam. While it might not make it to the front page, how many moderator eyeballs does it get before getting removed?
Nah, he's Brasilian and is just looking to vent after their implosion at the 2010 World Cup. That, and after watching the walking ego that is Maradona, I'd vote for nuking them just so he doesn't get any more airtime.
Then forget the logging part and just do the SSID and password bits. Those only have to be done on setup and can pretty much be forgotten about. The only other time you'd touch it would be adding a new device to the network, which isn't an everyday occurrence.
Debian is running out of Toy Story names, so they're planning on using the next release to segue over to 1970s sitcoms. Wheezy will be followed by George and Florence. That will in turn lead to Greg, Peter, Bobby, Jan, Cindy and finally Marcia, Marcia, Marcia.
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2. The government writes a budget that says "Next year we're spending $100 on roads, even though we only have $50 of actual income devoted to it.. we'll borrow the rest." That's not a debt, it's a projection. The next year comes and they say, "We changed our minds, we're spending $50 on roads." That's not a default, it's a change of budget.
Hmmm...I'd have to read the exact wording in the budget passed to verify this. I suspect you're correct as it is a projection, but there is the detail of the actual appropriation. Does each budgeted item get appropriated separately, in groups or en masse?
The actual appropriation could be construed as an authorizing law.
And, if you want to quibble, the budget itself can still be read to imply it authorizes the necessary debt via specific appropriations. None of the numbers are real surprises when the budget is passed, and they know damn well it is deficit spending at that time.
As far the Cato link...we're talking at cross purposes. "Entitlements" is a word with bad connotation. There is *mandatory* spending defined by specific laws and this includes SS and Medicare among other things.
The Budget that is debated by Congress is the discretionary part, which excludes mandatory spending.
As far as the SCOTUS ruling, all that means is the current law MAY be changed to not pay benefits regardless of contributions. However, it would require a law change as currently on the books it is *mandatory* spending.
Correction. Warren G. Harding was the one who signed the Budget and Accounting Act of 1921. That requires the President to transmit a budget to Congress.
A quick reading of the Act bears up my assertion that it is merely a request for appropriations and not a binding document. It is a starting place.
The 2011 budget was enacted on April 15, 2011, as Public Law 112-10. The 2012 budget will most likely start in September.
FYI - The President does not pass a budget, Congress does starting with the House and moving on to the Senate. The President then signs the passed budget into law.
The requested budget the President submits to Congress is a courtesy that started in 1921 by Warren G. Harding. It is not required by the Constitution, nor is it legally binding in any sense. It is an informal "this is what I'd like to see" document only.
Expenses over and above income are debts, unless I'm missing something basic and need more caffeine.
The budget is the law that specifies the expenditures for the coming fiscal year. It has two parts, referred to entitlement and discretionary spending. Additional spending comes in the form of appropriations, which are themselves laws.
If spending through budget or appropriation is legislated, and it is over income and requires taking on debt, it would then be authorized by law and meet the wording of the 14th Amendment. The budget or appropriation itself is the law authorizing the public debt.
As far as SS goes, the law that created SS in the first place mandates the spending. That is why it is called an "entitlement".
By my strict reading (and IANACL), all Entitlements would have to be paid regardless. However, and discretionary spending and extra-budgetary appropriations would be possibly eligible for the chopping block. They -- including ALL military spending -- would have to be bottom of the priority list, coming in after the Entitlements of SS and Medicare, plus a few others.
Except the budget itself is law, and it authorized the debt by requiring more expenses than are supported by income.
The biting humor is you also spelled it wrong. Considering it was a reference to The Highlander, the correct spelling would be with only one "L", not two. MacLeod.
Okay, Slashdot really botched that IPv6 address...
ht tp://2001:4860:800c::6a
It seems to me that getting rid of DNS would mean named-based shared-hosting would cease to work. That would certainly increase IPv6 adoption since if every name-based host all of a sudden needed a unique IP address, they'd be totally depleted by sometime before I finish typing this message.
Of course, good luck getting people to remember http://20014860800c6a/ for Google.
How about 4.7? I haven't installed it yet, but the release announcement lists many bugs fixed.
Han? Is that you?
Let me guess...
There's an app for that.
No, he was assuming that the administrative costs and overhead of the two data plans are identical. Considering the only thing that changes is the bandwidth or data cap, it is a reasonable assumption. Actual operation of the service is automated and doesn't have proportionate cost increases.
For example, a sysadmin that can manage a 100 Mbps Fast Ethernet switch doesn't cost 10x less than one that can manage a GbE switch. Nor is there 10x the work involved.
Yes, there is a different capital cost, but ongoing administrative costs are the same.
Reading the U.S. Constitution for a modern era. Bring on the digital Letters of Marque and Reprisal!
Avast, matey! Batten down the routers and prepare to repel boarders!
I'm in.
Sort of what I was thinking, but...
How exactly does a 2.4 GHz signal that can't penetrate a couple of sheets of drywall go thru meters of hard rock and quartz mineralization?
Current underground radio technology uses backpack-sized VLF transceivers and is designed for surface-to-subsurface communications. Subsurface-to-subsurface is currently not really available without wires, as far as I can find.
I'm sorry. This opportunity doesn't come along very often, so I need to exploit it now.
The current front-page article here on /. titled "Foxconn To Employ 1 Million Robots" screams LISTEN TO CHILL on this thread. :-)
The American automotive industry is slowly but inexorably moving towards increased automation through robotics. The number of human workers per automobile has done nothing but decline in recent decades.
I study history quite a bit. Feel free to look at the British Pound for a good example of where the US Dollar is likely to head.
The Dollar will not sink low enough to make US labor competitive for mass market goods. Even in a scenario of hyper-inflation, it won't happen. Look at how Germany ended up after the hyper-inflation of the Wiemar Republic. (Hint: Hyper-inflation only lasts for a very brief time and if the country itself is basically sound -- and the U.S. is -- it'll bounce back quickly.)
We know how to make them now, it is just cheaper to outsource the low-skill labor necessary. No, people as a whole will not pay the major extra costs associated with "Made in America" for mass produced goods.
Fantasize all you want about bringing mass manufacturing back to the United States, but it is gone for good. It is time to face reality. The future of America is in creativity and brains, not low-skilled labor.
If you can do your job with a pair of headphones on, listening to music and not thinking about your work -- your job is going away. If you aren't using your brain for the main part of your job, it is going away or will be so low-paying no one wants it.
Labor that has to be performed locally, such as construction or transportation, will eventually be replaced by robots and automated labor systems.
Solution to big problem -- use hydrogen. On an unmanned balloon launch platform, 100 Km in the air, who the hell cares if an accident catches it on fire?
The only reason the Hindenburg was a disaster is because there were people on it. Remove the people and it isn't a disaster, it is an expense. An insurable expense.
And nothing of value was lost.
Every time I think people on /. can't get any more clueless, I read posts like this and my faith is restored.
NIC cards? All data is encrypted at Layer 3 or 4 (SSL/TLS or IPSEC), so all a NIC is going to see is encrypted Ethernet frames.
Storage adapters? So? Feel free to read the publicly-available ISO from the CD-ROM drive. In fact, just go download your own copy. No other storage adapters are used.
Hardware Key-loggers? Stopped by multi-factor smart cards (aka CAC and PIV cards). That is, they can't snarf passwords. They might gather other keystrokes, though.
LCD monitors with whatever magic paranoid shit you can dream up? Stop getting your tech ideas from Hollywood fantasies. Can you please point me to any of these so I can see one in the wild? Are they just randomly scattered around at Holiday Inns?
The access these things get you to is non-classified networks. Not for public consumption, but non-classified. Like access to office webmail or VPN, except using smart-cards to replace RSA tokens.
You're childish assertion of essentially "if it isn't absolutely 100% secure against anything I can imagine, it is worthless" shows you don't know shit about security.
The CAC readers we are working with also work on Linux and Mac. Every laptop we buy now has a built-in smartcard reader.
We're putting a lot of effort into making these work right now. The big driver is being able to dump RSA tokens and replace them with the CAC cards. We're counting down the days we can tell EMC/RSA "Fuck you very much" for their bullshit.
I was in firehose (recent) last night and of the 30 articles I rated, 27 were binspam, 2 were off topic but not spam, and 1 was worthy of a recommend.
I'm beginning to wonder if Slashdot's way of promoting stories doesn't *encourage* spam. While it might not make it to the front page, how many moderator eyeballs does it get before getting removed?
Nah, he's Brasilian and is just looking to vent after their implosion at the 2010 World Cup. That, and after watching the walking ego that is Maradona, I'd vote for nuking them just so he doesn't get any more airtime.
Then forget the logging part and just do the SSID and password bits. Those only have to be done on setup and can pretty much be forgotten about. The only other time you'd touch it would be adding a new device to the network, which isn't an everyday occurrence.
Debian is running out of Toy Story names, so they're planning on using the next release to segue over to 1970s sitcoms. Wheezy will be followed by George and Florence. That will in turn lead to Greg, Peter, Bobby, Jan, Cindy and finally Marcia, Marcia, Marcia.