It has nothing to do with the Fourth. The courts have held for centuries that the government has a right to police the borders.
Courts held for centuries that Kings were divinely ordained to rule us, and that we were all duty-bound to obey. That's the tradition that we overthrew when we got sick of the King's soldiers writing their own search warrants. We ratified the Bill of Rights because we decided that limiting what the government could do is a good idea.
There's no loophole in the fourth amendment, just a sad unwillingness to enforce it on the part of the supreme court. The fourth amendment doesn't say "except at the border, or anywhere within about a hundred miles of the border."
I'll see your Thalidomide, and raise you a Tuskeegee Syphilis Experiment, a CIA involuntary LSD dosing, and an involuntary radiation exposure experiment.
Government does not have patients' best interests at heart.
The problem is these illegals ( rrr undocumented) workers are consuming alot more tax money than they put in which is bankrupting states like California.
Very nice summary. I would add that a key Keynesian fallacy is that "aggregate demand" is a meaningful term, so hiring people to dig holes and fill them in again is good for the economy. It's where the myth about war production ending the first great depression came from.
Yes, abolishing the federal reserve, ending inflation, and letting supply and demand determine interest rates is a good idea, but the question at hand is whether sales or income taxes are more destructive.
If Washington wants Microsoft to book their sales in their state, then they should remove the disincentives in their tax code that make it worthwhile for a company to maintain a subsidiary in another state. As it is, the state of washington makes hundreds of millions of dollars from other taxes paid by microsoft and their employees.
Obviously, we should just remove all regulation and let the markets decide who lives and who dies.
More like, we should leave it up to the patients and the providers to decide what treatments they want to use, instead of having to supplicate to the commissars of the FDA and other government agencies for permission. In case you haven't noticed, governments are really noted for compassion or valuing human life.
Well see, we have this massive bureaucracy in the USA called the "Food and Drug Administration", whose job it is to kill people by impeding medical research.
Microsoft is trying its best to recruit the top salesfolk
If that's the case, then hiring people away from Apple retail is barking up the wrong tree. Apple doesn't try to hire the best sales people, it tries to hire the best customer service people.
A top-flight salesman can sell you something he knows is crap. That's what MS needs.
Oh, please. Yeah, I know Vista sucks, but there's no point in pretending that they haven't sold a hell of a lot of copies of it. My point is that it's not comparable to the Zune.
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It has nothing to do with the Fourth. The courts have held for centuries that the government has a right to police the borders.
Courts held for centuries that Kings were divinely ordained to rule us, and that we were all duty-bound to obey. That's the tradition that we overthrew when we got sick of the King's soldiers writing their own search warrants. We ratified the Bill of Rights because we decided that limiting what the government could do is a good idea.
-jcr
There's no loophole in the fourth amendment, just a sad unwillingness to enforce it on the part of the supreme court. The fourth amendment doesn't say "except at the border, or anywhere within about a hundred miles of the border."
-jcr
If you ever have occasion to meet any of the idiots who voted for the PATRIOT act without reading it, slap them good and hard.
-jcr
If Google were to do something like this with Safari, would Apple allow it?
Run WebKit inside of WebKit? It would be redundant, but I don't see why they should care.
-jcr
I'll see your Thalidomide, and raise you a Tuskeegee Syphilis Experiment, a CIA involuntary LSD dosing, and an involuntary radiation exposure experiment.
Government does not have patients' best interests at heart.
-jcr
There are only two congressmen who wouldn't support it. There are also a handful who would oppose it if and only if their party wasn't in power.
-jcr
The problem is these illegals ( rrr undocumented) workers are consuming alot more tax money than they put in which is bankrupting states like California.
[citation needed]
-jcr
And yet, inflation rates that out-pace interest rates encourage spending!
Inflation is theft.
Stop talking about the people making these rules as if they have a fucking clue what they're doing, please.
When have I done that?
-jcr
Very nice summary. I would add that a key Keynesian fallacy is that "aggregate demand" is a meaningful term, so hiring people to dig holes and fill them in again is good for the economy. It's where the myth about war production ending the first great depression came from.
-jcr
How can it be eye candy? It looks like crap.
-jcr
Keynsian hogwash is the theory that government can boost the economy by increasing its own spending.
That's part of it. Another part is the idea that the economy is driven by consumption more than production.
-jcr
Yes, abolishing the federal reserve, ending inflation, and letting supply and demand determine interest rates is a good idea, but the question at hand is whether sales or income taxes are more destructive.
-jcr
Which is precisely the opposite of what you need in a healthy economy. You want people to consume so that production can increase.
The Keynsian hogwash is strong in this one, Obi-Wan.
-jcr
And if you're seriously suggesting that a sales tax is better than an income tax of similar income, then you really need an economics lesson, badly.
No, you do. While all taxes are a disincentive to production, taxing people on what they spend instead of what they earn encourages savings.
-jcr
If Washington wants Microsoft to book their sales in their state, then they should remove the disincentives in their tax code that make it worthwhile for a company to maintain a subsidiary in another state. As it is, the state of washington makes hundreds of millions of dollars from other taxes paid by microsoft and their employees.
-jcr
Far fewer people have dies waiting on something then would ahve if they just rushed or ignored testing.
So, do you believe that you're entitled to make that decision for someone else? If you don't have the right to do it, then neither does a government.
-jcr
Obviously, we should just remove all regulation and let the markets decide who lives and who dies.
More like, we should leave it up to the patients and the providers to decide what treatments they want to use, instead of having to supplicate to the commissars of the FDA and other government agencies for permission. In case you haven't noticed, governments are really noted for compassion or valuing human life.
-jcr
Well see, we have this massive bureaucracy in the USA called the "Food and Drug Administration", whose job it is to kill people by impeding medical research.
-jcr
I see you did well at Economic Fallacy School.
-jcr
It would be rather amusing if customers walking into a Microsoft store were told "Windows seven is cheaper, and it's almost as good as a Mac!"
-jcr
So would someone please step up and tell me where I went wrong?
If you're happy with it, why should anyone try to talk you out of it?
Macs aren't for everybody.
-jcr
Microsoft is trying its best to recruit the top salesfolk
If that's the case, then hiring people away from Apple retail is barking up the wrong tree. Apple doesn't try to hire the best sales people, it tries to hire the best customer service people.
A top-flight salesman can sell you something he knows is crap. That's what MS needs.
-jcr
They should be giving out AAPL stock options, too.
-jcr
For a /. oldie, you sound remarkably naive./I
Oh, please. Yeah, I know Vista sucks, but there's no point in pretending that they haven't sold a hell of a lot of copies of it. My point is that it's not comparable to the Zune.
-jcr
This is slashdot.
Yes, this is /., where I've been signing my posts for about a decade. I'm not about to change my habit because some of you digg newbs bitch about it.
-jcr