This is an obvious violation of privacy. If a private citizen isn't entitled to look up this data, then the government's not entitled to do it without a warrant.
You really think you could get single payer through the United States Senate or even the House if it wasn't for the insurance companies?
Don't forget the AMA, the trial lawyers, the HMOs, the hospitals, and the drug companies. The status quo was created by decades of bribes for special-interest legislation to prevent competition.
Jonathan Schwartz is some sort of magical pirate ninja.
He did a lousy job of running Sun, but he did Oracle to fork over far more than Sun's ruined carcass was worth. That probably makes up for a couple percent of the losses that shareholders suffered from his incompetence.
James Madison accepts that economic regulation is the primary function of government.
You're glossing over the difference between regulation and seizing control. Government should be the referee if people can't resolve their disputes. It shouldn't be telling people what to do otherwise, and that's the position that Madison and Jefferson held to.
Every new regulation concerning commerce or revenue; or in any manner affecting the value of the different species of property, presents a new harvest to those who watch the change and can trace its consequences; a harvest reared not by themselves but by the toils and cares of the great body of their fellow citizens. This is a state of things in which it may be said with some truth that laws are made for the few not for the many.
What Madison meant by regulation, and what our government does today, are greatly divergent. To Madison, "regulation" meant to keep commerce regular, by enforcing the rule of law, and providing a court system to adjudicate contract disputes.
The reason they want to H.264 to win out is because all of their embedded products (iPod Touch, iPhone, and soon iPad) have hardware specifically for H.264 decoding.
Actually, they have hardware decoders for H.264 because Apple evaluated all of the alternatives, and decided that H.264 was the best way to go. This decision was made before any Apple products had any hardware support for it.
Oh, there were dozens. TurboPascal, Aztec C, Lightspeed C, and all of the compilers that the various minicomputer vendors offered on their products spring to mind.
It's not the nudity that's shameful, it's the submission to an unreasonable demand from the brain-dead security theater assholes who pretend that obedience is the way to safety.
The right I was referring to is the right to be free of unreasonable searches and seizures. Do you actually equate privacy with violence, or are you just trolling in a particularly stupid manner?
Hey, it's not like anyone was using their civil rights anyway, right? Why should anyone care when government becomes even more obnoxious and intrusive?
You didn't say anything about Republicans, you specifically targeted Democrats.
The subject at hand was the Detroit bailouts. I have condemned the TARP debacle too, on many occasions. Seems to me that you're the partisan, trying to fit me into your opposition camp.
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This is an obvious violation of privacy. If a private citizen isn't entitled to look up this data, then the government's not entitled to do it without a warrant.
-jcr
They won their case. Appealing it is not only churlish, it could wind up seriously biting them in the ass.
-jcr
Too bad the current legislation does nothing more than codify the broken system into law.
Actually, it's rather worse than that. It also makes it illegal to opt out altogether.
-jcr
You really think you could get single payer through the United States Senate or even the House if it wasn't for the insurance companies?
Don't forget the AMA, the trial lawyers, the HMOs, the hospitals, and the drug companies. The status quo was created by decades of bribes for special-interest legislation to prevent competition.
-jcr
Jonathan Schwartz is some sort of magical pirate ninja.
He did a lousy job of running Sun, but he did Oracle to fork over far more than Sun's ruined carcass was worth. That probably makes up for a couple percent of the losses that shareholders suffered from his incompetence.
-jcr
I do not want this great country to start managing my life choices.
You're about a century late on that. This business of government trying to make us better people goes back a loooong way.
-jcr
Better for them to go broke online, than run up a debt with a local bookie who'll have their legs broken if they don't pay up.
-jcr
James Madison accepts that economic regulation is the primary function of government.
You're glossing over the difference between regulation and seizing control. Government should be the referee if people can't resolve their disputes. It shouldn't be telling people what to do otherwise, and that's the position that Madison and Jefferson held to.
-jcr
From Federalist #62:
Every new regulation concerning commerce or revenue; or in any manner affecting the value of the different species of property, presents a new harvest to those who watch the change and can trace its consequences; a harvest reared not by themselves but by the toils and cares of the great body of their fellow citizens. This is a state of things in which it may be said with some truth that laws are made for the few not for the many.
-jcr
you can be basically ignored by the NHS until your condition becomes debilitating.
Political medicine sucks when you're only one voter.
-jcr
It has been shown several times that single-payer care costs far, far less in the long run, ...Unless you value your life, that is.
-jcr
Depends on how you define and measure "charity".
Charity is voluntary, by definition.
-jcr
What Madison meant by regulation, and what our government does today, are greatly divergent. To Madison, "regulation" meant to keep commerce regular, by enforcing the rule of law, and providing a court system to adjudicate contract disputes.
-jcr
>Really, what is so damned scary about a national health care system.
Rationing by congestion is no walk in the park. You should do a bit of research on it.
-jcr
The reason they want to H.264 to win out is because all of their embedded products (iPod Touch, iPhone, and soon iPad) have hardware specifically for H.264 decoding.
Actually, they have hardware decoders for H.264 because Apple evaluated all of the alternatives, and decided that H.264 was the best way to go. This decision was made before any Apple products had any hardware support for it.
-jcr
Why is this better than existing solid-state lasers?
-jcr
Also, what would be your base for comparison?
Oh, there were dozens. TurboPascal, Aztec C, Lightspeed C, and all of the compilers that the various minicomputer vendors offered on their products spring to mind.
-jcr
OK, they had a good compiler and toolchain in the '70s
I don't recall their compilers and tools ever being more than mediocre.
-jcr
I wouldn't trust anyone else do it right.
-jcr
Where do you work, and is your company publicly traded?
-jcr
It's just a penis, there's no shame about this.
It's not the nudity that's shameful, it's the submission to an unreasonable demand from the brain-dead security theater assholes who pretend that obedience is the way to safety.
-jcr
The right I was referring to is the right to be free of unreasonable searches and seizures. Do you actually equate privacy with violence, or are you just trolling in a particularly stupid manner?
-jcr
I want it to be a hot chick, and I want her to be naked, too.
-jcr
>Jeez, what's the big deal?
Hey, it's not like anyone was using their civil rights anyway, right? Why should anyone care when government becomes even more obnoxious and intrusive?
-jcr
You didn't say anything about Republicans, you specifically targeted Democrats.
The subject at hand was the Detroit bailouts. I have condemned the TARP debacle too, on many occasions. Seems to me that you're the partisan, trying to fit me into your opposition camp.
-jcr