"Americans don't have a right to own dangerous radioactive components. "
I believe you misspoke, when you used the word "right" there.
Perhaps, you meant to say, "Americans aren't PERMITTED to possess dangerous radioactive components?"
While the "Right to Keep and Bear Property" isn't one of the explicitly enumerated ones in the Bill of Rights, the "Right to Keep and Bear Property" is the Right upon which *all* other Rights are founded.
Without that absolute right, the notion of having any Freedom or Liberty is ludicrous.
Yes, there's an obvious contradiction in being told that one is Free and at Liberty, but also told that they cannot own, possess or use property without obtaining prior permission from their Masters.
My only advice is: When presented with this historical opportunity to watch a civilization fall, enjoy the show!
If Microsoft's Email Server and Client lived up to their ADVERTISING, then recovering the relevant email evidence should be fairly straightforward and simple.
Saturday Night Live Transcripts
Season 2: Episode 1
76a: Lily Tomlin / James Taylor
The Phone Company
Ernestine.....Lily Tomlin
Ernestine: We handle eighty-four billion calls a year. Serving everyone from presidents and kings to the scum of the earth. We realize that every so often you can't get an operator, for no apparent reason your phone goes out of order, or perhaps you get charged for a call you didn't make.
We don't care.
Watch this.. [ she hits buttons maniacally ]..just lost Peoria.
You see, this phone system consists of a multibillion-dollar matrix of space age technology that is so sophisticated, even we can't handle it. But that's your problem, isn't it? Next time you complain about your phone service, why don't you try using two Dixie cups with a string?
We don't care. We don't have to. We're the Phone Company.
I'm not disputing its usefulness as a tool. But we cannot lose sight of the essential nature of the transaction.
Under Incorporation, the primary effect is that The State gains Regulatory Control of the Artificial Legal Entity (ALE). Your own example points out the Business Continuity benefits to Employees provided by that Regulation.
In the traditional sense, "Rights" are given us by "Our Creator". In that context, an ALE has only the "Rights" which The State ( its creator ) decide to give it. If they can buy enough corrupt and unethical legislators ( redundant, innit? ) and endow enough memorials to Supreme Court Justices, we can see how they'd end up being considered EQUAL to Us Real People(TM).
They ain't. Those (lower-case) rights are not (upper case) Rights, like Us Real People(TM) have.
Everything gets fixed when that gets resolved. I'm not holding my breath.
You're falling for the propaganda. While there are many small corporations, the majority of the assets are held by the huge ones.
"What is the benefit to The People of this arrangement?"
The answer is simple. In exchange for the benefits of incorporation, the ALE agrees to obey not just the Law, but Regulations promulgated by The People.
The Individual Rights of the owners, have been EXCHANGED for the privilege of Incorporation.
And if they don't like the Regulations, they don't have to Incorporate, do they?
These ALEs are Second Class Citizens at best, but I think of them as Slaves who have forgotten their place at The People's Bitch.
And if it doesn't set it as a Bookmark, and it gets preference over all the other gazillion items selected...
First I thought, "Cool".
Then I thought, "That's not what I wanted"
THEN I thought, "OK, I can live with this. [ctrl]+[k] still gets me to Google Search, and with bookmarking, I can get the location bar to behave."
*THEN* I realized that/. &tc. were in a bookmark labelled "Favorite Sites", and I always just opened all the tabs on that bookmark, watched them spin, and then zipped through the tabs as I had free time.
1. I can't do *WHAT I WANT TO*. --- Whether it's "His Job" is a false assumption. Some would suggest that since Congress hasn't appropriated any money, *BY DEFINITION* it's Not His Job.
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DON'T talk about Deniable Encryption.
Second rule of Deniable Encryption:
DON'T visit the Wikipedia on deniable encryption!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deniable_encryption
It does sound like time to renegotiate your contract!
I wonder what 'Loyal Bushie Companies' are being paid back with the contracts for this work?
Add to that the simple fact that Fedora is there for those who want a "Red Hat Style" Linux desktop.
It's like we're living in the world of Verhooven's Robocop. Or maybe Miller's cause he's so much cooler...
What kind of oversight do Loyal Bushies give???
None.
That's why the control network can be exploited using web resources.
It's probably going to be the equivalent of "Duck and Cover", rather than "Stop, Drop and Roll"...
Sounds like classic payback by some "Loyal Bushies", doesn't it?
These ISPs should be freaking out if they're not getting their full CIR *before* any traffic shaping kicks in.
Damn you...
You should probably start advocating for the Bill of Rights to get updated to agree with your philosophy.
Adapt or Die.
There's always the BDSM market, and I hear they're paying a premium for quality work!
"Americans don't have a right to own dangerous radioactive components. "
I believe you misspoke, when you used the word "right" there.
Perhaps, you meant to say, "Americans aren't PERMITTED to possess dangerous radioactive components?"
While the "Right to Keep and Bear Property" isn't one of the explicitly enumerated ones in the Bill of Rights, the "Right to Keep and Bear Property" is the Right upon which *all* other Rights are founded.
Without that absolute right, the notion of having any Freedom or Liberty is ludicrous.
Yes, there's an obvious contradiction in being told that one is Free and at Liberty, but also told that they cannot own, possess or use property without obtaining prior permission from their Masters.
My only advice is: When presented with this historical opportunity to watch a civilization fall, enjoy the show!
And that's what they're on the hook for, spying unlawfully on you.
Multiply that by everyone with a phone or internet connection, and you have a statutory fine which exceeds AT&T market valuation.
10 minutes +/- 10% ?
Check out http://www.archive.org/ 's live music archive.
.torrent floating around.
*THAT'S* how you do it.
Anyway, anyone who wants their Beatles collection on their iPod has already ripped it, and/or grabbed it from a discography
If Microsoft's Email Server and Client lived up to their ADVERTISING, then recovering the relevant email evidence should be fairly straightforward and simple.
But that's another lawsuit, isn't it?
Saturday Night Live Transcripts
..just lost Peoria.
Season 2: Episode 1
76a: Lily Tomlin / James Taylor
The Phone Company
Ernestine.....Lily Tomlin
Ernestine: We handle eighty-four billion calls a year. Serving everyone from presidents and kings to the scum of the earth. We realize that every so often you can't get an operator, for no apparent reason your phone goes out of order, or perhaps you get charged for a call you didn't make.
We don't care.
Watch this.. [ she hits buttons maniacally ]
You see, this phone system consists of a multibillion-dollar matrix of space age technology that is so sophisticated, even we can't handle it. But that's your problem, isn't it? Next time you complain about your phone service, why don't you try using two Dixie cups with a string?
We don't care. We don't have to. We're the Phone Company.
"Why are we as a society wasting our time on this?"
There is surplus Labor. Either just give them welfare dollars, or hire them into pointless make-work jobs.
Every TSA Employee hassling a Taxpayer is one less welfare check which needs to be cut.
Pournelle's Iron Law of Bureaucracy in practice.
I'm not disputing its usefulness as a tool. But we cannot lose sight of the essential nature of the transaction.
Under Incorporation, the primary effect is that The State gains Regulatory Control of the Artificial Legal Entity (ALE). Your own example points out the Business Continuity benefits to Employees provided by that Regulation.
In the traditional sense, "Rights" are given us by "Our Creator". In that context, an ALE has only the "Rights" which The State ( its creator ) decide to give it. If they can buy enough corrupt and unethical legislators ( redundant, innit? ) and endow enough memorials to Supreme Court Justices, we can see how they'd end up being considered EQUAL to Us Real People(TM).
They ain't. Those (lower-case) rights are not (upper case) Rights, like Us Real People(TM) have.
Everything gets fixed when that gets resolved. I'm not holding my breath.
You're falling for the propaganda. While there are many small corporations, the majority of the assets are held by the huge ones.
"What is the benefit to The People of this arrangement?"
The answer is simple. In exchange for the benefits of incorporation, the ALE agrees to obey not just the Law, but Regulations promulgated by The People.
The Individual Rights of the owners, have been EXCHANGED for the privilege of Incorporation.
And if they don't like the Regulations, they don't have to Incorporate, do they?
These ALEs are Second Class Citizens at best, but I think of them as Slaves who have forgotten their place at The People's Bitch.
And now please list the BENEFITS to The People for providing the mechanism for Incorporating Artificial Legal Entities.
It's a love/hate relationship. They do build 'em to last exactly *one* warranty cycle, don't they...
And if it doesn't set it as a Bookmark, and it gets preference over all the other gazillion items selected...
/. &tc. were in a bookmark labelled "Favorite Sites", and I always just opened all the tabs on that bookmark, watched them spin, and then zipped through the tabs as I had free time.
First I thought, "Cool".
Then I thought, "That's not what I wanted"
THEN I thought, "OK, I can live with this. [ctrl]+[k] still gets me to Google Search, and with bookmarking, I can get the location bar to behave."
*THEN* I realized that
1. I can't do *WHAT I WANT TO*. --- Whether it's "His Job" is a false assumption. Some would suggest that since Congress hasn't appropriated any money, *BY DEFINITION* it's Not His Job.