Article I, Section 8 - the legislative branch has the authority:
To regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several states, and with the Indian tribes;
The first line is entirely applicable because the ID and baggage check is only required to be checked on commercial flights. The vast majority of commercial flight itineraries cross state lines so a flight is interstate commerce.
To provide for calling forth the militia to execute the laws of the union, suppress insurrections and repel invasions;
This is valid because this is the exact purpose of the security checks.
Can the constitution be construed to limit the powers of the Federal Government to ask for IDs and restrict and inspect the contents of our baggage in exchange for the privilige of being allowed to step onto a commercial airliner with 200 other souls on board?
Not only is this within the confines of the text of the constitution, it is within the spirit of the constitution and the mantra of "Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness". Like it or not, liberty demands security.
a) The judge's responsibility is to interpret existing laws, not create brand new ones. Whenever a judge's decision makes or strikes down a law, the decision must have basis in the the http://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/constituti on.overview.html/constitution, cultural standards, other laws, or precedent.
b) I haven't found anywhere in the bill or rights that mentions that we have any right to privacy outside of our own homes. Yes, the fourth amendment protects you from unreasonable search or seizure. There is a huge difference between being stopped on the street and having your trunk search for meth just because you're ugly and having your ID checked and bag x-rayed at the airport. Meth is harmful to a small group of people while a terroist attack is fatal to thousands and devestating to millions. I'll gladly give up my ID to buy psuedoephedrine if it will help stop meth production, and I'll gladly give up my ID and have my toothpaste x-rayed if it will help me get home safely.
c) Where is anonymity guranteed? Where is it even hinted at? Just because you find it to be unfavourable doesn't mean your rights are violated.
d) Assuming that our freedom of movement is guranteed (IANAL, but I think that that is a reasonable extension of the freedom of assembly in the first amendment), is the goverment required to provide you with the means to travel? Transportation is amoung the most safety critical functions of society, and it depends on everybody following the rules. To have everyone following the rules demands law enforcement.
e) We live in a complex society where the vast majority of us are good natured and want our fellow man to live and love in peace, but there are the odd individuals that want nothing but to cause harm. We pay taxes so that we can have an airport and roads to get to it. We have police watch over us, but this allows us to have cars and jewelry and walk the streets at night without fear. We give up IDs to ensure our safe flight.
If we do not allow the government to take reasonable measures to protect us, we lose our freedom of movement -- not to the government, but to criminals.
I usually fly every week, I have Executive Platinum status with American Airlines, and I want the freedom to move. Giving up my ID is far less of a restriction on my movement than having to trust every single one of the other 200 people on the plane.
The better way to put it is that Hydrogen can come from electricity. The are are other sources of Hydrogen and electrolysing water is actually very inefficient. The more common and less costly method and easier to do on a large scale is exctracting it from coal. USA has immense coal reserves. The only byproduct of Hydrogen production from coal is carbon dioxide.
Because all the CO2 that is produced from this is produce in bulk quantities at a central location, rather than by millions of individual automobiles, it is practical to collect the CO2 and pump it back into the ground. On top of that, pumping CO2 into an oil reserve reduced the viscosity of the oil, allowing it to be pumped at a greater rate, creating an economic benefit and our foreign oil dependency is reduced in two different ways.
So, the benefits are both in the environment, the economy, and in national security.
Imagine if Apple became the dominant force in the IT industry? Would they rest on their laurels like Microsoft and focus more on increasing the cost of change than on quality of software?
I just have a feeling that if the revolution came all that would mean is the old boss gets replaced by a new boss and were still fucked by an unresponsive company.
Hey - remember when IBM was the ugly monopoly and Microsoft was the hero that saved the day?
(For the record, I am a proud Mac and Linux user.)
The WMV format competes with AAC - if a person buys and iPod, Microsftisn't getting royalties for the WMV format. Also iPod users are more likely to buy tunes from iTMS, not Microsoft's competeing music store.
On a side note, though, I am so not looking foreward to the day that Microsoft starts making auto parts to "compete" with Honda.
At a recent computer expo (COMDEX), Bill Gates reportedly compared the computer industry with the auto industry and stated "If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving twenty-five dollar cars that got 1000 mi/gal."
Recently General Motors addressed this comment by releasing the statement "Yes, but would you want your car to crash twice a day?"
So here's what would happen if Microsoft made cars:
Every time they repainted the lines on the road you would have to buy a new car.
Occasionally your car would die on the freeway for no reason, and you would just accept this, restart and drive on.
Occasionally, executing a manoeuvre would cause your car to stop and fail and you would have to re-install the engine. For some strange reason, you would accept this too.
You could only have one person in the car at a time, unless you bought "Car95" or "CarNT". But, then you would have to buy more seats.
Macintosh would make a car that was powered by the sun, was reliable, five times as fast, twice as easy to drive, but would only run on five percent of the roads.
The Macintosh car owners would get expensive Microsoft upgrades to their cars, which would make their cars run much slower.
The oil, gas and alternator warning lights would be replaced by a single "general car default" warning light.
New seats would force everyone to have the same size butt.
The airbag system would say "are you sure?" before going off.
If you were involved in a crash, you would have no idea what happened.
It's quite simple. When life gives you lemons, make lemonade.
Perhaps I will explain using examples on a smaller scale.
Do you criticize the autobody man that makes a buck off someone haveing a car accident? Yes, he profits off someone's misery, but he fills a need.
Do you criticize a factory that starts making jerry cans and body bags because a nearby country got washed out by a tsunami? Yes, the factory makes money out of the misery of others. They also fill a need.
Melting ice caps and the openning of the northwest passage is an issue of national security in Canada - our waterways and shores need to be protected and that is incredibly difficult to do if the north is unpopulated.
Nobody will pretend that the tsunami is a good thing and nobody will pretend that global warming is good, but every challenge presents a need and every need presents an opporunity and that is the essence of capitalism.
These kites could never replace traditional (ie coal) plants anyways - they can't be flown during storms or when the wind is too calm, etc.
The benefit of these is that while they are flying, the coal plants don't need to work as hard.
The reference below describes each cable link being 200 meters. Thats one for every 2.2 American football fields or two Canadian footbal fields (excluding the end zones). If you put them too close together they start to interfere with each other. IIRC, traditional windmills need about five units of space between if one unit is the diameter of the rotation disc of the blades.
I'm not sure if I believe the claim about there being no damage done if a cable link breaks. I sure wouldn't want a 200m cable being dragged across the hood of my new truck and I think if the kite stalls it might do a nose dive and it won't be nice to be under that.
Space? Most of the American heartland or Canadian prairies should be usable for this - the air traffic density and population density is quite low in these areas so it's easy to give up the air space and keep the plants far enough from population centres. And right now farmers are struggling so I'm sure that many would welcome the opportunity to lease the little bit of land that this would require... maybe make a few bucks on the side by providing meals for the workers.
USA is a very large country and Canada is tiny by comparison. USA has much more economic power, military power, clout in international affairs, and media power. Canada, being very small, very close (90% of Canada is within 160km of the border [CIA World Factbook]), and historicly tied together, is generally culturally dominated by the USA, and it's very difficult for Canadians to hold onto our identity.
Anywhere in the world where a small country or region is culturally dominated by a large neighbour (Canada vs United States, Ukraine vs Russia, Quebec vs English Canada, Korea vs Japan, New Zealand vs Australia), there is always a form of closet resentment towards the larger neighbour and the larger neighbour never understands why or can ever really do anything about it. Does India have any Hindu-dominated neighbours? How do they feel about the Indian juggernaut?
Plagues and wars are kind of a gray area. While the interviewee described only geological events, there are many biologically-caused event that cause mass death - how many millions were wiped out in the influenza epidemic of 1918? How many millions were wiped out in WWI, WWII, Korea, Viet Nam, Iraq? What if some lifeform's finger hit that shiny red "blow up earth" button and brought on a nuclear (or is it "nuke-you-lar"?) holocaust?
As for geological events? Normally an extinction level asteroid impact happends about every 26 million years. The last one was about 26 million years ago.
I believe that that might be an being exageration (see point 9). Come to think of it, though, I think the bin Laden mask might make me invisible to the authorities:)
IAACWIUBIHBPMGC (I am another Canadian working in USA but I haven't been pursuing my green card).
I work under TN-1 status (trade professional under NAFTA) instead of H1-B which allows me to renew as many times as I want for up to a year each time. With this kind of status, there is little incentive to pursue a green card, especially if I plan to eventually return to the promised land.
The biggest challenge is actually social. I don't have a home any more. I live in USA but I am a foreigner - I do something eccentric or make a mistake and hear "Is that how Canadians do it?" That doesn't bather me because usually it's in jest. The more troublesome part is when I go back to Canada to visit family.
Even in my own extended family I have become one of those Americans in their eyes. These are people that have known me since I wore diapers, but now they see me differently. They vent on me for everything that pisses them off about USA. The don't necessarily treat me as if I am complicite, but I still seem to be a target of their ventilation.
In Canada I am an American, in USA I am Canadian. The funny thing is, Canadians don't want to be considered foreign to USA, and I definately don't want to be considered foreign in Canada - that's my country!
Parent Poster: do you have family in Canada? do you go back to visit? What province (or territory)? I wonder if people from the three cities or southern lattitudes (I'm from near Edmonton and my family is Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Northwest Territories) have a similar experience as me?
The password policy for my client site is every 180 days, which is reasonable. The difficulty with haveing to change too often is that I have to access dozens of different applications that each have their own password protection - my PC, unix, the intranet, all the AS/400 machines, the build repository, the source control, my lotus notes, the list goes on. Some items I access frequently, others I do not. When the passwords have to change frequently, they are likely to become more and more out of synch. If I have to guess which passwords I have changed and how many password cycles ago I changed them, I may run out of guesses before my account is locked out. If my account gets locked out, I have to change the password again, to something different, which puts the passwords even farther out of synch, which makes me guess more often.... it's a vicious cycle.
Yes, every 60 days is too freaking hard, even for intelligent people.
Quality standards in Linux would go against the mantra of "Release early and release often". A good open source project shoul dbe first release at the time it shows promise, even if it has kinks in it to allow other open source developers to pick it up and contribute. Once the project is matured, then it is okay to add a "stable" release stream (like Linux even-versions) to complement the "hacker" releases (like Linux odd-versions), but in order for an open source project to produce quality code, it must release code that isn't ready for prime time in order to allow peer review and to reduce duplicate effort. This is how the bazaar works.
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- Thomas;
Can the constitution be construed to limit the powers of the Federal Government to ask for IDs and restrict and inspect the contents of our baggage in exchange for the privilige of being allowed to step onto a commercial airliner with 200 other souls on board?
Not only is this within the confines of the text of the constitution, it is within the spirit of the constitution and the mantra of "Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness". Like it or not, liberty demands security.
- Thomas;
I'm actually with the judge on this one.
a) The judge's responsibility is to interpret existing laws, not create brand new ones. Whenever a judge's decision makes or strikes down a law, the decision must have basis in the the http://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/constitut
b) I haven't found anywhere in the bill or rights that mentions that we have any right to privacy outside of our own homes. Yes, the fourth amendment protects you from unreasonable search or seizure. There is a huge difference between being stopped on the street and having your trunk search for meth just because you're ugly and having your ID checked and bag x-rayed at the airport. Meth is harmful to a small group of people while a terroist attack is fatal to thousands and devestating to millions. I'll gladly give up my ID to buy psuedoephedrine if it will help stop meth production, and I'll gladly give up my ID and have my toothpaste x-rayed if it will help me get home safely.
c) Where is anonymity guranteed? Where is it even hinted at? Just because you find it to be unfavourable doesn't mean your rights are violated.
d) Assuming that our freedom of movement is guranteed (IANAL, but I think that that is a reasonable extension of the freedom of assembly in the first amendment), is the goverment required to provide you with the means to travel? Transportation is amoung the most safety critical functions of society, and it depends on everybody following the rules. To have everyone following the rules demands law enforcement.
e) We live in a complex society where the vast majority of us are good natured and want our fellow man to live and love in peace, but there are the odd individuals that want nothing but to cause harm. We pay taxes so that we can have an airport and roads to get to it. We have police watch over us, but this allows us to have cars and jewelry and walk the streets at night without fear. We give up IDs to ensure our safe flight.
If we do not allow the government to take reasonable measures to protect us, we lose our freedom of movement -- not to the government, but to criminals.
I usually fly every week, I have Executive Platinum status with American Airlines, and I want the freedom to move. Giving up my ID is far less of a restriction on my movement than having to trust every single one of the other 200 people on the plane.
- Thomas;
There was a January 0 in year 1900? Hmm found no mention of it here.
- Thomas;
The better way to put it is that Hydrogen can come from electricity. The are are other sources of Hydrogen and electrolysing water is actually very inefficient. The more common and less costly method and easier to do on a large scale is exctracting it from coal. USA has immense coal reserves. The only byproduct of Hydrogen production from coal is carbon dioxide.
Because all the CO2 that is produced from this is produce in bulk quantities at a central location, rather than by millions of individual automobiles, it is practical to collect the CO2 and pump it back into the ground. On top of that, pumping CO2 into an oil reserve reduced the viscosity of the oil, allowing it to be pumped at a greater rate, creating an economic benefit and our foreign oil dependency is reduced in two different ways.
So, the benefits are both in the environment, the economy, and in national security.
- Thomas;
- Thomas;
Me too!
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Wow! Does the Prius explode when it gets wet?
- Thomas;
Microsoft would never surrendur!
-Thomas;
Imagine if Apple became the dominant force in the IT industry? Would they rest on their laurels like Microsoft and focus more on increasing the cost of change than on quality of software?
I just have a feeling that if the revolution came all that would mean is the old boss gets replaced by a new boss and were still fucked by an unresponsive company.
Hey - remember when IBM was the ugly monopoly and Microsoft was the hero that saved the day?
(For the record, I am a proud Mac and Linux user.)
- Thomas;
On a side note, though, I am so not looking foreward to the day that Microsoft starts making auto parts to "compete" with Honda.
It's only $99? Wow! I was thinking $500 or mayeb $1000! Cool!
- Thomas;
Shit - the mac will turn 21 - it can drink!
- Thomas
It's quite simple. When life gives you lemons, make lemonade.
Perhaps I will explain using examples on a smaller scale.
Do you criticize the autobody man that makes a buck off someone haveing a car accident? Yes, he profits off someone's misery, but he fills a need.
Do you criticize a factory that starts making jerry cans and body bags because a nearby country got washed out by a tsunami? Yes, the factory makes money out of the misery of others. They also fill a need.
Melting ice caps and the openning of the northwest passage is an issue of national security in Canada - our waterways and shores need to be protected and that is incredibly difficult to do if the north is unpopulated.
Nobody will pretend that the tsunami is a good thing and nobody will pretend that global warming is good, but every challenge presents a need and every need presents an opporunity and that is the essence of capitalism.
- Thomas;
These kites could never replace traditional (ie coal) plants anyways - they can't be flown during storms or when the wind is too calm, etc.
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The benefit of these is that while they are flying, the coal plants don't need to work as hard.
The reference below describes each cable link being 200 meters. Thats one for every 2.2 American football fields or two Canadian footbal fields (excluding the end zones). If you put them too close together they start to interfere with each other. IIRC, traditional windmills need about five units of space between if one unit is the diameter of the rotation disc of the blades.
I'm not sure if I believe the claim about there being no damage done if a cable link breaks. I sure wouldn't want a 200m cable being dragged across the hood of my new truck and I think if the kite stalls it might do a nose dive and it won't be nice to be under that.
Space? Most of the American heartland or Canadian prairies should be usable for this - the air traffic density and population density is quite low in these areas so it's easy to give up the air space and keep the plants far enough from population centres. And right now farmers are struggling so I'm sure that many would welcome the opportunity to lease the little bit of land that this would require... maybe make a few bucks on the side by providing meals for the workers.
(reference: http://home-14.tiscali-business.nl/~ockels/simple
Just my $0.02
- Thomas;
They should start with a certain ranch in Crawford.
- Thomas;
Why not some 360 beats? Then you can simply add or subtract your longitude to get your solar time.
- Thomas;
USA is a very large country and Canada is tiny by comparison. USA has much more economic power, military power, clout in international affairs, and media power. Canada, being very small, very close (90% of Canada is within 160km of the border [CIA World Factbook]), and historicly tied together, is generally culturally dominated by the USA, and it's very difficult for Canadians to hold onto our identity.
Anywhere in the world where a small country or region is culturally dominated by a large neighbour (Canada vs United States, Ukraine vs Russia, Quebec vs English Canada, Korea vs Japan, New Zealand vs Australia), there is always a form of closet resentment towards the larger neighbour and the larger neighbour never understands why or can ever really do anything about it. Does India have any Hindu-dominated neighbours? How do they feel about the Indian juggernaut?
Cheers, mate,
- Thomas;
Plagues and wars are kind of a gray area. While the interviewee described only geological events, there are many biologically-caused event that cause mass death - how many millions were wiped out in the influenza epidemic of 1918? How many millions were wiped out in WWI, WWII, Korea, Viet Nam, Iraq? What if some lifeform's finger hit that shiny red "blow up earth" button and brought on a nuclear (or is it "nuke-you-lar"?) holocaust?
As for geological events? Normally an extinction level asteroid impact happends about every 26 million years. The last one was about 26 million years ago.
- Thomas;
I believe that that might be an being exageration (see point 9). Come to think of it, though, I think the bin Laden mask might make me invisible to the authorities :)
- Thomas;
IAACWIUBIHBPMGC (I am another Canadian working in USA but I haven't been pursuing my green card).
I work under TN-1 status (trade professional under NAFTA) instead of H1-B which allows me to renew as many times as I want for up to a year each time. With this kind of status, there is little incentive to pursue a green card, especially if I plan to eventually return to the promised land.
The biggest challenge is actually social. I don't have a home any more. I live in USA but I am a foreigner - I do something eccentric or make a mistake and hear "Is that how Canadians do it?" That doesn't bather me because usually it's in jest. The more troublesome part is when I go back to Canada to visit family.
Even in my own extended family I have become one of those Americans in their eyes. These are people that have known me since I wore diapers, but now they see me differently. They vent on me for everything that pisses them off about USA. The don't necessarily treat me as if I am complicite, but I still seem to be a target of their ventilation.
In Canada I am an American, in USA I am Canadian. The funny thing is, Canadians don't want to be considered foreign to USA, and I definately don't want to be considered foreign in Canada - that's my country!
Parent Poster: do you have family in Canada? do you go back to visit? What province (or territory)? I wonder if people from the three cities or southern lattitudes (I'm from near Edmonton and my family is Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Northwest Territories) have a similar experience as me?
Thomas;
Actually, I was thinking of an Osama bin Laden mask - that will guarantee your package gets checked at customs!
nuke their nukes. Then there's no problem :)
- Thomas;
Flamebait, but I'll bite.
The password policy for my client site is every 180 days, which is reasonable. The difficulty with haveing to change too often is that I have to access dozens of different applications that each have their own password protection - my PC, unix, the intranet, all the AS/400 machines, the build repository, the source control, my lotus notes, the list goes on. Some items I access frequently, others I do not. When the passwords have to change frequently, they are likely to become more and more out of synch. If I have to guess which passwords I have changed and how many password cycles ago I changed them, I may run out of guesses before my account is locked out. If my account gets locked out, I have to change the password again, to something different, which puts the passwords even farther out of synch, which makes me guess more often.... it's a vicious cycle.
Yes, every 60 days is too freaking hard, even for intelligent people.
- Thomas;
Quality standards in Linux would go against the mantra of "Release early and release often". A good open source project shoul dbe first release at the time it shows promise, even if it has kinks in it to allow other open source developers to pick it up and contribute. Once the project is matured, then it is okay to add a "stable" release stream (like Linux even-versions) to complement the "hacker" releases (like Linux odd-versions), but in order for an open source project to produce quality code, it must release code that isn't ready for prime time in order to allow peer review and to reduce duplicate effort. This is how the bazaar works.
- Thomas;