We can do a civil suit for this sort of thing, but that's expensive and allows only civil penalties, not criminal penalties.
A side effect of being one of the oldest continuous governments extant, I think. (think about it: most current governments in the world are younger than the USA. A large minority, if not a majority, are 100 years old).
How the US pretty much stole money from it's allies by spying on their negotiators so they would get a better trade deal.
Whatever gives you the notion that espionage is only done against enemies, not allies? Sorry, in the Real World (tm), a government spies on pretty much every other government that they can get away with as a matter of course.
Because, after all, this year's ally may be next year's enemy (note the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact as a classic example. Two years after it was signed, Operation Barbarossa began)....
Tho in the vowles it also says the woman must obey
Umm, no. As I was told 30+ years ago when I asked the pastor to leave out the "obey" part of the vows, "that hasn't been part of the vows since you were a child"
It also specifically mentions "a well regulated militia" but most gun rights advocates conveniently forget that part.
Never read the Militia Act, I see.
Hint: The Militia Act defines the Militia. The definition is basically "every adult male in the USA".
Which makes me a member, and probably the overwhelming majority of/. members as well.
Note that later laws regarding women in the Military could be used to argue that every adult female is also a member of the militia. Which would make my wife, my daughter, and my mother members as well.
And you don't want to be the target when my Mom shoots. Better shot than my Dad, who was Regular Army for 20+ years....
Note, however, that the "well regulated militia" (as an aside, "well regulated" meant something different then than it does now - "regulated" was a verbing of "regular") was a REASON for the granting of the Right. It wasn't a requirement for the Right to exist.
Pistols were standard weapons for cavalry of the period. Usually two of them, in saddle holsters.
Note also that rifled weapons were in use from the sixteenth century forward. More often as hunting weapons, but snipers (or the period equivalents) used them.
Smoothbore muskets dominated battlefields because they were relatively easy to use, and relatively quick to load (rifling slowed down reloading of a muzzleloader, up to the invention of the Minie Ball, which allowed rifled guns to reload as quickly as smoothbores).
Considering the year the Constitution was ratified, a baseball bat is also a "thoroughly modern invention". I don't think that argument holds much water.
Umm, no.
Baseball (an early form) was being played in the eighteenth century. It was at least contemporary with the Constitution (it had at least been around long enough to be banned in certain places as of the ratification of the Constitution).
That aside, I agree that the argument doesn't hold water. This is just Massachusetts continuing its long tradition of trying to disarm its citizenry....
So the idea is to make working always desireable and lessen bureaucracy.
Can't argue with the objective. And if it works even approximately as designed, it'll be a good thing.
Just keep in mind that bureaucrats like their perks and will fight to keep them. So make damn sure that the same law that creates this new program eliminates the old bureaucracy. Or it'll be with you forever.
On the gripping hand, it can be argued that keeping that sort (bureaucrats) harmlessly amused isn't a bad thing, so maybe keeping them in a useless bureaucracy might be a perfectly acceptable price for the new system.
You seem to believe that adding a new government program will end a bunch of other, similar, programs.
The evidence of history is that the new program will just sit atop the older programs, adding complexity without a corresponding decrease in complexity elsewhere....
Making them smarter would only be useful for something like "avoid this area"; what other uses do you foresee could be applied, other than "don't go there" and "frequency of operation for a given area"? I suppose you could have "delay operation on Saturdays for 2 hours, as I will be hung over", and other scheduling stuff...
Hmm, my Roomba allows for different scheduling each day of the week, so the Saturday thing isn't a big deal. The 'virtual lighthouse" and "virtual wall" (one unit, with a switch to select mode) allows you to do the "don't go there" or "avoid this area". There's even a widget (virtual wall variant) that can be set up near the cat/dog dish/bed to keep the Roomba away from there if you'd like.
IOW, I'm failing to see the problem with the Roomba.
someone please help me to understand why there are people in the world's leading nation - the one that all others look up to - who would blatantly disregard the principles on which the U.S. Constitution is founded.
The Constitution was designed to LIMIT the power of the Federal Government. It has been extended in ways that also limit the power of State governments (14th Amendment, for example).
There are people in the world to whom POWER is everything. You can frequently identify them by looking at a ballot in an election - you run for office not to "serve" the public, but to "master" them. Yes, "civil servant" is pretty much equivalent to "civil master" in most situations...
In other words, never trust a politician - he/she didn't run for office for the pay, but for the perks (getting to tell other people what to do)....
Stealth and VTOL. both of these things make a plane slower, less maneuverable in dog fights, and able to carry less weaponry.
While I can't argue with "slower" and "able to carry less weaponry", VTOL tends to make a plane better in dog fights, not worse. The ability to exert thrust at right angles to the "usual" direction makes for...unexpected possibilities when evading another plane's attacks or bringing your guns to bear on another plane trying to evade your attacks.
Note, by the way, that this isn't the first time the US DoD has found itself trying to develop a single aircraft to serve the varying needs of three different services (US Army doesn't have fighters since the Key West Accords, but the Navy, Marines, and Air Force do. And all three have different ideas of what their aircraft need to be able to do). The last time, we got the Phantom. Which had no gun, and maneuvered about as well as a moving van....
What's the point of sending humans to mars when people die from bad roads and failing bridges everyday?
Well, considering that "bad roads and failing bridges" generally comes out of State budgets, and "sending humans to Mars" would come out of Federal budgets, I'm not seeing anything mutually exclusive about the two.
Sort of like my neighbor choosing to put in a pool doesn't actually impact me buying a new car....
Fortunately for the Third World, FDA approval isn't required there.
Also do note that a 3D Printer can make other things. So the question is "is it better to buy a 3D printer, and use it more or less constantly making assorted stuff, or to buy (possibly) better product(s) as needed?"
Alas, I don't know the answer. I doubt you do either, when you frame things in terms of FDA approval for countries other than the USA....
If you're assuming that we're not part of nature, and that our variations are "unnatural", as opposed to the "natural" changes made by every other animal on the planet, then that's your problem.
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Right up till the moment it hits something....
You don't think that a blackmailable act could have seriously affected his ability to lead the country?
Or do you live in a place where sex with your employees is perfectly fine? Note that in the USA, that fits the definition of "sexual assault"....
In a word, "no".
We can do a civil suit for this sort of thing, but that's expensive and allows only civil penalties, not criminal penalties.
A side effect of being one of the oldest continuous governments extant, I think. (think about it: most current governments in the world are younger than the USA. A large minority, if not a majority, are 100 years old).
If it were said at a cocktail party, I imagine it would be different. If it were said from the Bench, not so much....
To take just a single item:
Whatever gives you the notion that espionage is only done against enemies, not allies? Sorry, in the Real World (tm), a government spies on pretty much every other government that they can get away with as a matter of course.
Because, after all, this year's ally may be next year's enemy (note the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact as a classic example. Two years after it was signed, Operation Barbarossa began)....
Umm, no. As I was told 30+ years ago when I asked the pastor to leave out the "obey" part of the vows, "that hasn't been part of the vows since you were a child"
Never read the Militia Act, I see.
Hint: The Militia Act defines the Militia. The definition is basically "every adult male in the USA".
Which makes me a member, and probably the overwhelming majority of /. members as well.
Note that later laws regarding women in the Military could be used to argue that every adult female is also a member of the militia. Which would make my wife, my daughter, and my mother members as well.
And you don't want to be the target when my Mom shoots. Better shot than my Dad, who was Regular Army for 20+ years....
Note, however, that the "well regulated militia" (as an aside, "well regulated" meant something different then than it does now - "regulated" was a verbing of "regular") was a REASON for the granting of the Right. It wasn't a requirement for the Right to exist.
It's an Austin-class ship. Which means it's named for a city or town. In this case, Ponce is a city in Puerto Rico, so it's a Spanish name....
Umm, no.
Pistols were standard weapons for cavalry of the period. Usually two of them, in saddle holsters.
Note also that rifled weapons were in use from the sixteenth century forward. More often as hunting weapons, but snipers (or the period equivalents) used them.
Smoothbore muskets dominated battlefields because they were relatively easy to use, and relatively quick to load (rifling slowed down reloading of a muzzleloader, up to the invention of the Minie Ball, which allowed rifled guns to reload as quickly as smoothbores).
There are people who own artillery pieces. And I'm not talking Revolutionary War artillery. I'm talking 105/155/8" howitzers from WW2.
And tanks. You can own them, too.
Given, of course, that you have the metric fuckton of money needed to purchase, store, license, etc.
Umm, no.
Baseball (an early form) was being played in the eighteenth century. It was at least contemporary with the Constitution (it had at least been around long enough to be banned in certain places as of the ratification of the Constitution).
That aside, I agree that the argument doesn't hold water. This is just Massachusetts continuing its long tradition of trying to disarm its citizenry....
Can't argue with the objective. And if it works even approximately as designed, it'll be a good thing.
Just keep in mind that bureaucrats like their perks and will fight to keep them. So make damn sure that the same law that creates this new program eliminates the old bureaucracy. Or it'll be with you forever.
On the gripping hand, it can be argued that keeping that sort (bureaucrats) harmlessly amused isn't a bad thing, so maybe keeping them in a useless bureaucracy might be a perfectly acceptable price for the new system.
The evidence of history is that the new program will just sit atop the older programs, adding complexity without a corresponding decrease in complexity elsewhere....
It's obviously funded by CATO because it disagrees with OP's deeply held beliefs...
Hmm, my Roomba allows for different scheduling each day of the week, so the Saturday thing isn't a big deal. The 'virtual lighthouse" and "virtual wall" (one unit, with a switch to select mode) allows you to do the "don't go there" or "avoid this area". There's even a widget (virtual wall variant) that can be set up near the cat/dog dish/bed to keep the Roomba away from there if you'd like.
IOW, I'm failing to see the problem with the Roomba.
And most could spell "were"....
The Constitution was designed to LIMIT the power of the Federal Government. It has been extended in ways that also limit the power of State governments (14th Amendment, for example).
There are people in the world to whom POWER is everything. You can frequently identify them by looking at a ballot in an election - you run for office not to "serve" the public, but to "master" them. Yes, "civil servant" is pretty much equivalent to "civil master" in most situations...
In other words, never trust a politician - he/she didn't run for office for the pay, but for the perks (getting to tell other people what to do)....
What, Bush's Secretary of State was using a private email server too?!? Didn't know that.
No, I am not payback. Are you payback?
While I can't argue with "slower" and "able to carry less weaponry", VTOL tends to make a plane better in dog fights, not worse. The ability to exert thrust at right angles to the "usual" direction makes for...unexpected possibilities when evading another plane's attacks or bringing your guns to bear on another plane trying to evade your attacks.
Note, by the way, that this isn't the first time the US DoD has found itself trying to develop a single aircraft to serve the varying needs of three different services (US Army doesn't have fighters since the Key West Accords, but the Navy, Marines, and Air Force do. And all three have different ideas of what their aircraft need to be able to do). The last time, we got the Phantom. Which had no gun, and maneuvered about as well as a moving van....
Well, considering that "bad roads and failing bridges" generally comes out of State budgets, and "sending humans to Mars" would come out of Federal budgets, I'm not seeing anything mutually exclusive about the two.
Sort of like my neighbor choosing to put in a pool doesn't actually impact me buying a new car....
One more case for you: when the bookshelves in your house are filled to overflowing, and the attic is getting pretty full of books too.
Which situation I reached five or six years ago. I no longer buy dead-tree books because I don't have a place to keep them....
Fortunately for the Third World, FDA approval isn't required there.
Also do note that a 3D Printer can make other things. So the question is "is it better to buy a 3D printer, and use it more or less constantly making assorted stuff, or to buy (possibly) better product(s) as needed?"
Alas, I don't know the answer. I doubt you do either, when you frame things in terms of FDA approval for countries other than the USA....
If you're assuming that we're not part of nature, and that our variations are "unnatural", as opposed to the "natural" changes made by every other animal on the planet, then that's your problem.
You think that your wife will screw speed limit Nazis? I suppose that's possible...
On the other hand, you might have meant cold-cocked instead....