But marriage per se, or civil union, or whatever else you want to call it, should not have any government involvement beyond what the government normally does to help enforce private contracts.
Ahhh yes, a very libertarian perspective. However, this assumes that the government (or by proxy the people or society) have no interest in seeing well-established unions between couples. I think you will find by reading the rest of the comments on this article that many folks are arguing their points from the basic assumption that there is a societal interest in these unions.
The government uses tax-breaks and differential tax treatments as incentives or disincentives for behaviors that it (or the people) wish to encourage or discourage. In this case, the cause, in the end, is stable families (with or without children, but even more so with). The benefit to society is an eventual lower burden on the welfare system, the educational system, etc.
There could be a legal tax (or other) difference for people who are dependents.
Allowing folks to take dependents as deductions more or less does address this and, IMHO, should be greater for dual-parent joint filings (whether hetero or homosexual) in civil unions than for single parents. Single parents need it more, but you have to encourage multi-parent (again hetero or homosexual) families.
we had about 8 kids get on the wrong buses and another 5 or so who were new bus riders and didn't know where they lived exactly
Hence you should use biometrics... We are implementing fingerprint readers on the buses that wirelessly send student embark/disembark info back to the central database. Anyone can query where a child is getting on or off the bus and/or alarm on condition violations.
Heh. Then you don't qualify to ask questions either, since you aren't 18.;-)
I'll quote the Slashdot Article at the TOP OF YOUR SCREEN:
Note that the idea here is to solicit questions specifically from voters 18 - 35, because this age group tends to vote less than older Americans, plus questions from people 13 - 17 who will be voters before long
Actually you and your parent poster are BOTH wrong because neither S.89 or H.R.163 have anything to do with a 'draft'.
Dictionary.com: draft...
"To select from a group for some usually compulsory service: drafted into the army."
This is right along the lines of the name "Selective Service", a service that is "selective" meaning you are "selected" from the population to serve in times of need.
What the above bills propose is "Mandatory Service" for EVERYONE, not "Selective" for those unfortunate enough to be chosen and/or not to have valid reasons to avoid it.
Civil unions will give you all the tax breaks you want.
Exactly. And the same applies for heterosexual couples. So, get the government out of marriage altogether!! The Government should perform Civil Unions for both heterosexual and homosexual couples alike. Marriage should be left to the couple's religious institution of choice.
Just playing DA here:
If the definition of marriage is to move away from the union of a man and a woman, and instead be two consenting people, then why not three?
The government shouldn't be in the "marriage" business, so to speak. The government should perform "civil unions" for heterosexual and homosexual couples alike. But "Marriage" should be left to the whatever church the couple chooses to belong to. That way, if my church doesn't recognize your church's marriage, it has no legal repurcussions....
Now, as for civil unions, you can be polygamous there... Just form a partnership, LLP or incorporate.;)
they DID have experience with the alien computer, as they had captured one of the alien ships...
Well, assuming the captured ship had full access to the same computer system, you are right. But they still had (IIRC) less than 24 hours experience with it as it only regained power when the aliens arrived back.
Confirmed! I saw a beta test of this product. It was used during the filming of Independence Day. They successfully used the program to upload and execute a virus from a Mac to a never-before-seen Alien computer system. It was even able to display graphics without having prior experience with the displays in question!
I probably represent a pocket of the population not often here on Slashdot. I happen to love Enterprise and most of the other ST stuff that has been put out. I don't take it nearly as seriously as some Trekkers (probably the real reason you see so many calls for it to die is that they took it TOO seriously).
I also find it amusing that there are SO MANY commenters saying things like: "I haven't even watched the last 3 movies or the latest series" or "I only watched the premier of Enterprise" and then calling for the ST franchise' demise. If you haven't watched it, you aren't qualified to comment.
BTW -- I have friends that love FireFly. Guess what? I watched the first episode on TV and was unimpressed. I haven't watched it since. That hasn't made me go all over the net posting that it sucked and deserved death.
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These guys came in from Germany??? How did they get that through TSA? I guess it probably wasn't a "carry-on"...
Ok, let me quote a couple spots to see if I understand this correctly...
The technology is designed to stop outsiders gaining access to a secure network by using Wi-Fi networks casually set up by workers at the office.
Ok, so we are talking about stopping "casually set up" convenience networks, not hackers.
But it is also the work of moments then for an outsider to breach that company's computer security using the Wi-Fi connection.
Ok, so it only takes moments to detect if an employee has done this.
Until now, the only way to ensure people are not illicitly gaining access to company secrets has been to turn offices into a signal-proof "Faraday cage", by lining the walls with aluminium foil, and using glass that absorbs radio waves in the windows.
Clearly this solution is expensive and unsightly.
The wall covering can be mass produced at relatively low cost. A square metre will cost about £500: peanuts to big business.
$921 / square meter?!?!?! That's what, roughly $175,000 worth of wallpaper for a 200 square meter open cubicle-filled office space.
If you want to prevent rape you put a car with cops there. If you put cameras you get videotaped rape.
Ok, your solution costs about $100,000 and the camera costs maybe $1000. If the existence of the camera is clear and widely published, chances are the rapist will, at least, avoid those areas, making them safer.
Try approaching it with your headlights off next time. (That is, in the middle of the night when nobody is around) The results could be interesting to note. If it isn't light sensitive, try driving on the other side of the street to avoid a weight sensor.;)
It's safe to consider a box compromised if they try to send data to an address that isn't used.
Technically I wouldn't agree with the above statement. Haven't you ever mistyped an IP address? That doesn't mean my box is "compromised", unless you mean by a faulty user.:)
Another scenario could involve someone spoofing a source IP and, by random chance, picks yours. The system that gets that spoofed stuff may try to verify it or contact back, but that doesn't mean they are compromised.
Still, an interesting tool. I think there are better uses for the amounts of IPv4 address out there though.
Eventually, as standards are created and applied to the airwaves just as they've been applied to the Net, things will settle down without a governing body of old farts who are easily bought.
OK, now I'm just as big a fan of standards as the next guy, but standards would NOT work in this case. What we are talking about is the use of a limited resource -- you need laws, regulation and enforcement. We aren't talking about getting your cell phone to talk to your computer, we're talking about when a misguided startup launches a new wireless internet service that interferes with the local air traffic control tower's broadcast and causes a plane collision.
Think of national parks. We don't NEED the US Forest Service, right? We should just open the parks, abolish all the current rules and let all the tourists/loggers/environmentalists work out standards amongst themselves to protect the land and best use it? RIIIIIIGGHHT...
Even if Linux or Mac was 80% the of desktops, you would still have people not bothering to patch their computers, and have the same problem. It might be as easy to infect the computers, but the problems would still be there. Stupid users will exist no matter what operating system you give them.
I'm amazed that more folks haven't written virus software to go out and patch these systems. I'm not that skilled a coder, but if the vulnerability is published by MS, why doesn't someone write an exploit for the vulnerability that patches the system?
Or, if someone can figure out how these zombies are contacted to send out their spam, get them to start sending out patch reminders.
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But CO2 isn't really dangerous anyway, right? Remember this Bush Administration EPA ruling?
Heck, a space elevator to send large containers of CO2 up, a very small nuclear explosion to initiate trajectory to the Sun and you're golden!
The government uses tax-breaks and differential tax treatments as incentives or disincentives for behaviors that it (or the people) wish to encourage or discourage. In this case, the cause, in the end, is stable families (with or without children, but even more so with). The benefit to society is an eventual lower burden on the welfare system, the educational system, etc.
Allowing folks to take dependents as deductions more or less does address this and, IMHO, should be greater for dual-parent joint filings (whether hetero or homosexual) in civil unions than for single parents. Single parents need it more, but you have to encourage multi-parent (again hetero or homosexual) families.
Dictionary.com: draft... "To select from a group for some usually compulsory service: drafted into the army."
This is right along the lines of the name "Selective Service", a service that is "selective" meaning you are "selected" from the population to serve in times of need.
What the above bills propose is "Mandatory Service" for EVERYONE, not "Selective" for those unfortunate enough to be chosen and/or not to have valid reasons to avoid it.
BTW -- I'm against both.
The government shouldn't be in the "marriage" business, so to speak. The government should perform "civil unions" for heterosexual and homosexual couples alike. But "Marriage" should be left to the whatever church the couple chooses to belong to. That way, if my church doesn't recognize your church's marriage, it has no legal repurcussions....
;)
Now, as for civil unions, you can be polygamous there... Just form a partnership, LLP or incorporate.
Confirmed! I saw a beta test of this product. It was used during the filming of Independence Day. They successfully used the program to upload and execute a virus from a Mac to a never-before-seen Alien computer system. It was even able to display graphics without having prior experience with the displays in question!
I probably represent a pocket of the population not often here on Slashdot. I happen to love Enterprise and most of the other ST stuff that has been put out. I don't take it nearly as seriously as some Trekkers (probably the real reason you see so many calls for it to die is that they took it TOO seriously).
I also find it amusing that there are SO MANY commenters saying things like: "I haven't even watched the last 3 movies or the latest series" or "I only watched the premier of Enterprise" and then calling for the ST franchise' demise. If you haven't watched it, you aren't qualified to comment.
BTW -- I have friends that love FireFly. Guess what? I watched the first episode on TV and was unimpressed. I haven't watched it since. That hasn't made me go all over the net posting that it sucked and deserved death.
These guys came in from Germany??? How did they get that through TSA? I guess it probably wasn't a "carry-on"...
Wouldn't it be easier and less expensive to:
Do you not have the right to obtain said video camera footage? Either by subpoena or something akin to the US Freedom of Information Act?
Come to think of it, is gov't owned US camera footage subject to FOIA requests?
Try approaching it with your headlights off next time. (That is, in the middle of the night when nobody is around) The results could be interesting to note. If it isn't light sensitive, try driving on the other side of the street to avoid a weight sensor. ;)
Another scenario could involve someone spoofing a source IP and, by random chance, picks yours. The system that gets that spoofed stuff may try to verify it or contact back, but that doesn't mean they are compromised.
Still, an interesting tool. I think there are better uses for the amounts of IPv4 address out there though.
Think of national parks. We don't NEED the US Forest Service, right? We should just open the parks, abolish all the current rules and let all the tourists/loggers/environmentalists work out standards amongst themselves to protect the land and best use it? RIIIIIIGGHHT...
Or, if someone can figure out how these zombies are contacted to send out their spam, get them to start sending out patch reminders.
C'mon tiger teams, where are you?