Our country has a very real interest in making sure that all children have access to quality education,
Yeah, how's that working out for you? Here on earth, American public schools are a ridiculously overfunded disaster. We've doubled spending per student since the 1970s, and we sure as hell aren't getting what we pay for.
As long as there's a monopoly on schooling, what gets taught in those schools will be a political issue. End the monopoly, let's have school competition, and we'll see that schools that teach hogwash will be less successful than schools that teach science.
Incidentally, the lack of any further attempts at hijacking since the underpants bomber, would seem to indicate that the perps have decided that their chances of success in attacking a plane are too low now. If they attack planes in the future, they’ll probably revert to the Libyan bomb-in-the-luggage strategy, or using the shoulder-launched missiles that the USA once gave to Al-Queda.
I’m not sure it was leadership or just the fact that the people on the fourth plane had found out that the perps intended to crash the plane somewhere in DC, and they realized they had nothing to lose. The 9/11 perps pretty much ended hijacking as we had known it up to that point. It used to be that “just do what the bad man says” left a plausible chance of survival. Since 9/11 though, passengers are no longer docile, as was demonstrated by the reaction to the shoe bomber and the underpants bomber.
The way it works is that if enough government agents die in the course of violating the Fourth Amendment, maybe individual agents will begin to consider it too much of a risk to continue doing so.
Solzhenitsyn made the point in The Gulag Archipelago, in the chapter called “the arrest”, that the men who showed up at the door to kidnap people and send them to Stalin’s death camps had no fear of being shot by their victims. He wondered how many instances of people fighting back would have been enough to stop the slaughter.
On a related note, when De Tocqueville said: "“The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money”, he wasn't expecting the public’s money to go to the rich.
According to legal precedent, the Fourth Amendment — the right to be free from unreasonable searches and seizures — does not apply along the border.
The failure of the court to enforce the fourth amendment against government usurpation does not change what it says. There is no "border exception" in the bill of rights.
He sounds to me like someone who was a Dell customer a long time ago. Don't forget, they used to have the best-rated customer service in the whole PC market. I was quite happy with them myself back around '96 or so when I was using Dell machines to run NeXTSTEP.
If you're a student looking for an internship, find out all you can about what they'd have you doing. At Apple, interns are writing code that ships. At other companies, you might end up getting treated like a data-entry temp.
I used to ridicule GUIs (as an old-time CLI jockey) as "point and grunt" interfaces.
Heh.. I remember the wave before that, when mainframers derided any attempt to make software easier to use. There were raging controversies over numbered menus..
Not everyone fits into one of the two boxes in your tiny little mind, sunshine.
Like any other Libertarian, I'm no fan of GWB, and as it happens my distaste for the current teleprompter-in-chief is due to his failure to reverse any of Bush's power grabs.
Not sure how long ago it happened, but I became aware of CBS's complete lack of journalistic standards when Dan Rather tried to scuttle the Bush campaign with forged documents.
The "war on drugs" would come to a screeching halt if every person accused of breaking unconstitutional prohibitions demanded a trial. Most of them would have to be sprung just because the system would violate their right to a speedy, public trial.
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Banking _de_regulation caused the world crisis.
What's your next guess?
We were regulated right into this crisis. Read and learn.
-jcr
Our country has a very real interest in making sure that all children have access to quality education,
Yeah, how's that working out for you? Here on earth, American public schools are a ridiculously overfunded disaster. We've doubled spending per student since the 1970s, and we sure as hell aren't getting what we pay for.
-jcr
The cost of higher ed is due to government loan programs removing the market forces to hold the prices down.
-jcr
That's worked so well for energy policy and banking.
Energy and banking are two of the most-regulated industries in this country. What point are you trying to make?
-jcr
As long as there's a monopoly on schooling, what gets taught in those schools will be a political issue. End the monopoly, let's have school competition, and we'll see that schools that teach hogwash will be less successful than schools that teach science.
-jcr
Incidentally, the lack of any further attempts at hijacking since the underpants bomber, would seem to indicate that the perps have decided that their chances of success in attacking a plane are too low now. If they attack planes in the future, they’ll probably revert to the Libyan bomb-in-the-luggage strategy, or using the shoulder-launched missiles that the USA once gave to Al-Queda.
-jcr
I’m not sure it was leadership or just the fact that the people on the fourth plane had found out that the perps intended to crash the plane somewhere in DC, and they realized they had nothing to lose. The 9/11 perps pretty much ended hijacking as we had known it up to that point. It used to be that “just do what the bad man says” left a plausible chance of survival. Since 9/11 though, passengers are no longer docile, as was demonstrated by the reaction to the shoe bomber and the underpants bomber.
-jcr
The way it works is that if enough government agents die in the course of violating the Fourth Amendment, maybe individual agents will begin to consider it too much of a risk to continue doing so.
Solzhenitsyn made the point in The Gulag Archipelago, in the chapter called “the arrest”, that the men who showed up at the door to kidnap people and send them to Stalin’s death camps had no fear of being shot by their victims. He wondered how many instances of people fighting back would have been enough to stop the slaughter.
-jcr
A power to control the borders doesn’t imply a license to ignore the bill of rights.
-jcr
On a related note, when De Tocqueville said: "“The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money”, he wasn't expecting the public’s money to go to the rich.
-jcr
According to legal precedent, the Fourth Amendment — the right to be free from unreasonable searches and seizures — does not apply along the border.
The failure of the court to enforce the fourth amendment against government usurpation does not change what it says. There is no "border exception" in the bill of rights.
-jcr
Yeah, they really pissed away everything that got them to the top in the first place.
-jcr
You still sound like a shill.
He sounds to me like someone who was a Dell customer a long time ago. Don't forget, they used to have the best-rated customer service in the whole PC market. I was quite happy with them myself back around '96 or so when I was using Dell machines to run NeXTSTEP.
-jcr
Gosh, with condescension like that, you must be all kinds of awesome. Please, regale us with tales of your achievements.
FYI, the interns' code goes through review just like anyone else's does.
-jcr
Yeah, they screwed up DAT the same way. Made them both useless for sound editing.
-jcr
If you're a student looking for an internship, find out all you can about what they'd have you doing. At Apple, interns are writing code that ships. At other companies, you might end up getting treated like a data-entry temp.
-jcr
Google should have just told them "you don't want us showing your links? Ok, have it your way", and dropped them into oblivion.
-jcr
Bush couldn't even use a teleprompter.
It saddens me that you don't even realize how pathetic it is to make excuses for Obama by comparing him to Bush.
-jcr
From a software engineer who has never lived in Silicon Valley, the whole idea is ridiculous to me.
It's ridiculous to me too, and I've been here since 1993 or so.
-jcr
I used to ridicule GUIs (as an old-time CLI jockey) as "point and grunt" interfaces.
Heh.. I remember the wave before that, when mainframers derided any attempt to make software easier to use. There were raging controversies over numbered menus..
-jcr
>you're a right-winger.
Not everyone fits into one of the two boxes in your tiny little mind, sunshine.
Like any other Libertarian, I'm no fan of GWB, and as it happens my distaste for the current teleprompter-in-chief is due to his failure to reverse any of Bush's power grabs.
-jcr
> you still want to defend George W.
When did I say anything of the kind?
-jcr
Not sure how long ago it happened, but I became aware of CBS's complete lack of journalistic standards when Dan Rather tried to scuttle the Bush campaign with forged documents.
-jcr
>gold-worshiping cult online
Straw man much?
> I guess none of them have studied enough history to know about the great depression or what backed the currency at the time.
I'm very familiar with it, and I suggest you educate yourself on the subject. Read and learn
-jcr
The "war on drugs" would come to a screeching halt if every person accused of breaking unconstitutional prohibitions demanded a trial. Most of them would have to be sprung just because the system would violate their right to a speedy, public trial.
-jcr