Erecting a gate to prevent casual access to your private property is a ridiculous extreme?
How about just stringing a chain with a reflective triangle on it across the private road? You don't even have to padlock it.
The point is that if someone *needs* to do something before they can just drive on up, they *won't* just drive on up. Otherwise you need to accept the price of being lazy is that you need to clean up the mess after the fact...
I'm not convinced the votes are even being *counted* in the first place, so I think we need to have spotters at every step of the process to ensure it's fairness in the first place.
Once we have the ability to actually tell what is going on, *THEN* we can start patching the bugs.
Rockbox is an open source firmware for mp3 players, written from scratch. It runs on a wide range of players:
* Apple: 1st through 5.5th generation iPod, iPod Mini and 1st generation iPod Nano
(not the Shuffle, 2nd/3rd gen Nano, Classic or Touch)
* Archos: Jukebox 5000, 6000, Studio, Recorder, FM Recorder, Recorder V2 and Ondio
* Cowon: iAudio X5, X5V, X5L, M5, M5L, M3 and M3L
* iriver: H100, H300 and H10 series
* Olympus: M:Robe 100
* SanDisk: Sansa c200, e200 and e200R series (not the v2 models)
* Toshiba: Gigabeat X and F series (not the S series)
So, in theory, you can have that wicked cool Apple hardware, and the ability to play oggs, flacs, wavs, all sorts of games, video if you have the horsepower, and anything else you want to compile.
There's a THREE DAY grace period between when the spies can start spying, and they have to get their spying rubber-stamped by a Judge.
So, there is NO LAW ENFORCEMENT BENEFIT to this bill. It is purely there to provide cover for CRIMINALS.
Remember that: Anyone who voted for this bill is SOFT ON CRIME and HATES THE AMERICAN VALUES OF FREEDOM AND LIBERTY, EQUAL PROTECTION UNDER THE LAW, AND DUE PROCESS OF THE LAW.
You can associate all you want. You don't get limited liability, tax benefits, existence in perpetuity, etc. unless you agree to The People's Regulation. Part-and-Parcel with that, I'd suggest, is the requirement to act in Good Faith, and generally to benefit The People.
You don't HAVE TO ENJOY those benefits.
You don't have to incorporate to conduct business. If you're going to take advantage of the supposed benefits, don't bitch about the cost. Caveat Emptor.
Just like those who marry, shouldn't complain about the price of divorce.
those entities are created to provide some organization to the collective exercise of natural rights by groups of real people
I disagree. Artificial Legal Entities are created to provide PRIVILEGES to the Corporation (e.g.: Limited Liability ) .
But what I think people forget, ( and it's in the corporation's best interests, if not Good Faith that The People do forget this fact ) is that those PRIVILEGES carry DUTIES. Such as admitting the Health and OSHA inspectors onto the property, and obeying their instructions. Paying a lot of extra taxes, etc.
Now, we're back to my point. It *seems* that the so-called-rights of a Corporation are in fact a subset of their Creators ( The State ).
And I ask again, anyone have any citations for the counter argument?
Consistent with libertarian beliefs would be if they didn't incorporate in the first place. Once a corporation exchanges their rights for the benefits of incorporation, they really shouldn't complain.
A corporation, by definition is an Artificial Legal Entity ( ALE ). Which means, that is is CREATED not by Natural Persons, but by another Artificial Entity. ( The State )
Given our State Constitutions, it's CREATED by The People of the Great State of whatever, by way of the Secretary of State's office.
Now, turning to examine the Declaration of Independence, we see that RIGHTS COME FROM OUR CREATOR.
So, we have a situation where the "rights" of an Artificial Legal Entity are *EXACTLY* what the Secretary of State's office ( their Creator in the context of "rights" w.r.t the Declaration of Independence ) gives them.
Now, with all this in mind, answer the following question:
Since the Secretary of State's office is limited by constitutional prohibitions, can that office confer on its own creation *more* authority than it, itself has?
I offer that , SoS > ALE , and therefore ALE's are automatically bound by the constitutional prohibitions of its creator.
I see NOTHING in the Declaration of Independence OR any Constitution saying otherwise. Anyone have citations to support the counter-argument?
GEO is where we build the Solar Power stations to beam the FREE solar energy to the ground stations, situated on the grid where the old fossil fuel plants are.
Once we have a ready supply of cheap, affordable energy *AND* proven heavy lift systems, then we work on going to interesting places.
It is a *lot* easier to ask ONE company to conspire with certain Government Officials to unlawfully spy on innocent citizens without warrant or oversight, than to ask HUNDREDS of little ISPs.
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Is that CNN's "Crack Team of Reporters" can't discover the responsible parties.
Erecting a gate to prevent casual access to your private property is a ridiculous extreme?
How about just stringing a chain with a reflective triangle on it across the private road? You don't even have to padlock it.
The point is that if someone *needs* to do something before they can just drive on up, they *won't* just drive on up. Otherwise you need to accept the price of being lazy is that you need to clean up the mess after the fact...
In the case of military, CIA, NSA, &tc. there are fences, gates, guards, dogs and suchlike preventing your access to what they don't want pictures of.
That said, if these people *really* cared about privacy, they could have put up a gate across the road to ensure no-one just wandered in.
I'm not convinced the votes are even being *counted* in the first place, so I think we need to have spotters at every step of the process to ensure it's fairness in the first place.
Once we have the ability to actually tell what is going on, *THEN* we can start patching the bugs.
I loved the seamless way you could navigate the entire directory structure, and dip down into the files themselves without waiting around.
Someone handed me a Sansa e270 they couldn't get to do what they wanted.
I looked around, and found http://www.rockbox.org./
From their site:
Rockbox is an open source firmware for mp3 players, written from scratch. It runs on a wide range of players:
* Apple: 1st through 5.5th generation iPod, iPod Mini and 1st generation iPod Nano
(not the Shuffle, 2nd/3rd gen Nano, Classic or Touch)
* Archos: Jukebox 5000, 6000, Studio, Recorder, FM Recorder, Recorder V2 and Ondio
* Cowon: iAudio X5, X5V, X5L, M5, M5L, M3 and M3L
* iriver: H100, H300 and H10 series
* Olympus: M:Robe 100
* SanDisk: Sansa c200, e200 and e200R series (not the v2 models)
* Toshiba: Gigabeat X and F series (not the S series)
So, in theory, you can have that wicked cool Apple hardware, and the ability to play oggs, flacs, wavs, all sorts of games, video if you have the horsepower, and anything else you want to compile.
I love it.
Steampunkgasm.
Maybe what we really need, is to get the price of shipping stuff to orbit in line with other shipping destinations.
And the 'killer app' for jumpstarting a heavy-lift industry is Space Based Solar Power...
That's horseshit. ALREADY all forms of surveillance are covered by current US Law, up to and including the 4th Amendment.
Of course, the REAL question is "How much Is AT&T billing the US Governement to conduct the surveillance?"
Even a hundredth of a penny per intecept really adds up when you're tapping *EVERYONE*.
"The Few Good Men" at the Department of Justice were all replaced with Loyal Bushies.
There's a THREE DAY grace period between when the spies can start spying, and they have to get their spying rubber-stamped by a Judge.
So, there is NO LAW ENFORCEMENT BENEFIT to this bill. It is purely there to provide cover for CRIMINALS.
Remember that: Anyone who voted for this bill is SOFT ON CRIME and HATES THE AMERICAN VALUES OF FREEDOM AND LIBERTY, EQUAL PROTECTION UNDER THE LAW, AND DUE PROCESS OF THE LAW.
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You say yer life's a bum deal
'N yer up against the wall
Well, people, you ain't even got no kinda
Deal at all
Cause what they do
In Washington
They just takes care
Of Number One
An' Number One ain't you
You ain't even Number Two
Yes it does.
Otherwise explain how the Government gets to tell you how to use your personal property. Like a car.
It's YOURS, but you don't have absolute property rights in it because you AGREED to give them up for a driver's license and registration.
"It's something that already exists partially with the FCC, why give the government that power over the web too?"
Herein is the essential point.
FCC LICENSEES ARE VOLUNTEERS. As are the people who beg the Secretary of State for permission to Incorporate.
No-one is holding a gun to anyone's head MAKING them join up.
You can associate all you want. You don't get limited liability, tax benefits, existence in perpetuity, etc. unless you agree to The People's Regulation. Part-and-Parcel with that, I'd suggest, is the requirement to act in Good Faith, and generally to benefit The People.
You don't HAVE TO ENJOY those benefits.
You don't have to incorporate to conduct business. If you're going to take advantage of the supposed benefits, don't bitch about the cost. Caveat Emptor.
Just like those who marry, shouldn't complain about the price of divorce.
The assumption there being that The People have control over their States, and that they can exert due influence on the Federal Level..
Damn 17th Amendment.
I disagree. Artificial Legal Entities are created to provide PRIVILEGES to the Corporation (e.g.: Limited Liability ) .
But what I think people forget, ( and it's in the corporation's best interests, if not Good Faith that The People do forget this fact ) is that those PRIVILEGES carry DUTIES. Such as admitting the Health and OSHA inspectors onto the property, and obeying their instructions. Paying a lot of extra taxes, etc.
Now, we're back to my point. It *seems* that the so-called-rights of a Corporation are in fact a subset of their Creators ( The State ).
And I ask again, anyone have any citations for the counter argument?
Consistent with libertarian beliefs would be if they didn't incorporate in the first place. Once a corporation exchanges their rights for the benefits of incorporation, they really shouldn't complain.
A corporation, by definition is an Artificial Legal Entity ( ALE ). Which means, that is is CREATED not by Natural Persons, but by another Artificial Entity. ( The State )
Given our State Constitutions, it's CREATED by The People of the Great State of whatever, by way of the Secretary of State's office.
Now, turning to examine the Declaration of Independence, we see that RIGHTS COME FROM OUR CREATOR.
So, we have a situation where the "rights" of an Artificial Legal Entity are *EXACTLY* what the Secretary of State's office ( their Creator in the context of "rights" w.r.t the Declaration of Independence ) gives them.
Now, with all this in mind, answer the following question:
Since the Secretary of State's office is limited by constitutional prohibitions, can that office confer on its own creation *more* authority than it, itself has?
I offer that , SoS > ALE , and therefore ALE's are automatically bound by the constitutional prohibitions of its creator.
I see NOTHING in the Declaration of Independence OR any Constitution saying otherwise. Anyone have citations to support the counter-argument?
You misspelled phreaking.
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"That said, Microsoft _is_ a great place to work, if you can ignore the bureaucracy. "
Doesn't that describe *everywhere*?
And we must never forget Pournelle's Iron Law of Bureaucracy. The Bureaucrats always take over....
GEO is where we build the Solar Power stations to beam the FREE solar energy to the ground stations, situated on the grid where the old fossil fuel plants are.
Once we have a ready supply of cheap, affordable energy *AND* proven heavy lift systems, then we work on going to interesting places.
Cool. But isn't the *REAL* metric for rockets US$/kg lifted?
All the capacity in the world won't matter if we can only launch one a month and it costs a billion dollars a launch...
e.g.: The shuttle's payload is 22,700kg. At a billion a shot, that's $44053.00/kg.
What's it cost to ship a kg of mass via UPS?
It is a *lot* easier to ask ONE company to conspire with certain Government Officials to unlawfully spy on innocent citizens without warrant or oversight, than to ask HUNDREDS of little ISPs.