As someone who has owned an FLGS, has friends who are publishers and writers of gaming material. Helped start AWA, Project A-kon and staffed decades of DragonCon
I hereby promise to never attend another GenCon.
People should be able to serve whom they want and I refuse to bow down to the tyranny of the minority
To those who modded me as a troll, I am aware you do not know what trolling is. I expressed a dissenting opinion, and you chose to bury it rather than respond. You are cowards.
I stand by my right to chose what business I do. If you do not want to do business with me, that is fine, but I have the legal right, as does any closely held company in the US to do business within my religious parameters. The US Supreme Court has already backed up that opinion. Feel free to boycott me, I am good at what I do and my skills are in more demand than I can reply to anyways, and I could retire now should I want to. I will stand by my freedom.
You dislike me, you feel I am a bigot and misanthrope, why would you want to give me your money to begin with? Further were the shoe on the other foot, do you want the government telling you that you must do business with me? I did not think so.
You are full of vitriol and shame, I am full of neither.
As someone who has owned an FLGS, has friends who are publishers and writers of gaming material. Helped start AWA, Project A-kon and staffed decades of DragonCon
I hereby promise to never attend another GenCon.
People should be able to serve whom they want and I refuse to bow down to the tyranny of the minority
Social values by community? Are you *trying* to push us back into the era of segregation?
Sorry, that was a silly question, of course you are, because you're an idiot troll. Try harder next time.
What has segregation got to do with social values by community?
Social values by community is like obscenity, the values are set by the people of that community. So: Do you take off your hat when you enter a building? Social value by community. Do you hold the door open for a female? SVxC. Do you use sir when addressing an older individual? SVxC.
Racists see racism in everything. Those of us who are not, do not.
Rather than simply make a quip, would you care to show a general trend of neglect in the pharmaceutical industry? While there are instances of abuse, the over all standards for pharmaceuticals in the US for safety is far better than what one would expect from your comment.
That's 3 extra years that American health was at-risk because the pharmaceutical industry was allowed to rely on non-government, private safety inspectors.
You can 'beg to differ" all you want to, but you made my point for me with "FDA enforcements were only started after the pharma giant had been documented by private auditing firms".
In fact, I am well aware of that case and it was the specific case I had in mind when I mentioned the exception that proves the rule.
Are you certain you are responding to me in this stream? It seems more in place with another comment I made about the Interstate Commerce Clause which is Article I, Section 8, Clause 3 of the US Constitution. Regardless, it is at best a red herring.
I am not certain why you think my ideas are Libertarian, especially given that I rate libertarians somewhere along the lines of neocons (I agree with them about 50%).
You make several comments that are absolutely falsifiable however. such as: "government agency is always more trustworthy than a private company"
I do find it interesting that you accuse me of being, or at least having, libertarian [ideas] and then go on to describe a libertarian viewpoint. Not being Libertarian, I do not agree with that viewpoint.
In any case, you have failed to make you case with me, I see that you are simply going to be dogmatic and provide neither reason nor proof. I suspect it is because we have very different qualifications for what is a "reason" and what is "proof". So how about we simply agree to disagree? You can think I am a libertarian, and I will think you are wrong. One of us will be correct.
Thank you for providing another viewpoint. I do appreciate other people rephrasing things within their own experience as I know my own view points are only expressed through my own lenses. Diversity helps people get past hangups they may have with my particular affectations.
Actually no I did not say that. Again you are making a link that private regulation is no regulation, and even in the OP I did not say simply private regulation I said with oversight. It is really no different that hiring contractors, which is something we do frequently via the Federal Government and in private industry.
I have already given a simple example of how it could work, twice now you have simply responded with a dogmatic statement and no connecting evidence or reason.
If you do not provide any I will have to infer three things: 1) You simply believe only the government is capable of doing the work 2) All government workers must be actual government works and not contractors 3) The government is incorruptible.
Since I know that all 3 of these are historically and factually false we will have no where left to go.
How does the existence of radium products grant a power to the Federal Givernment? {spelling intentional). I was under the impression that we had things called laws that laid out what the government could and could not do.. but I already said that when I went into the difference between regulative and normative.
Maybe you are an ends justifies the means kind of person.. I am a deontologist.
If that phraseology works for you.. fine. I tried to make it as generic as possible and actually just grabbed the Wikipedia summary and the begthequestion.info tail.
If you really want to understand it then go look at J Woods / D Walton article which is a nice basic intro to the subject.
In other words, provide no oversight at all while an "independent" firm rubber stamps all the industry's apps for a completely legal fee which ends up going to the executives of the fake company via bonuses, then let it fold and start up a new one.
Privatized enforcement is no enforcement. If it can't be overseen by the government it needs to either be banned. You can open up the question of if it needs to be regulated at all, but providing the illusion of safety and regulation when there is none is far worse.
Nowhere does the OP say that, you are jumping way down an argument and not providing your work in between. How I read the OP is that private contractors do the heavy lifting and then the FDA comes back in and audits the results. If you audit one in 3, then see a group fails to catch something so you audit their entire batch, that is still substantial oversight.
I also would be willing to jump in and say the FDA is overstepping what little role it should have and might be provided by the ICC (Article I, Section 8, Clause 3) and would even be willing to say that it may only regulate the actual commerce and not the actual products, however I think the OP is a step in the right direction.
How is this a long term bad thing? Either the industry will come up with an idea that will allow a marketable solar power system sans subsidies and thus thrive, or it will die and we can move on to the next idea instead of wasting engineering hours on a failed/NRFPT energy source. In either case we win.
You know you have read too much Sci Fi when: You misread the headline of "Computer-Controlled Cyborg Yeast" as "Computer Controlled Cyborg Yeats" and start looking over your shoulder for the Shrike's 3rd cousin and the Shrubbery of annoyance.
I doubt it id ton try and get people to subscribe, more likely it is to 'develop' a seperate business line so it can be jettisoned and not as negatively affect stock prices.
Obtaining an iris scan is probably invasive enough to require a compelling reason to perform it, and my guess is that under most circumstances that means that one is either 1) already being arrested, or 2) being served a warrant for the collection of it.
The Supreme Court has said that individuals do not possess an expectation of privacy in their personal characteristics (see United States v. Dionisio, 410 U.S. 1 [1973]). Thus, the police may require individuals to give handwriting and voice exemplars, as well as hair, blood, DNA, and fingerprint samples, without complying with the Fourth Amendment's requirements.
Delkin offers Archival Quality Disks tested via ISO 18927-2002 standards with an estimated life expectancy of 200 years. You can buy them at most any mid to high end photography supply store for around $10 each for 24GB of storage. I use them for all of my research projects.
Better yet use a wet saw and keep water running over it the entire time. Then you can filter the water but particulates should never become airborne and so you will never inhale them. You should also be wearing thick non porous gloves what handling them and make certain any think you work with is lead free if you plan on making jewelry out of it.
Actually you are wrong, Currently SSA takes in MORE money than they pay out. There is no "Fund" as Congress has been "Borrowing" it to fund other parts of the budget. The best way to maintain benefits after the switchover occurs (when more money is being paid out than put in) is to raise SSA taxes now and feather the retirement age again.
Social Security brought in an excess of 68.6 Billion dollars last year. (thats what remained after all payouts were made)
I have to disagree. Politicians are using Global warming as a grab for power, scientists & academics are using it as a grab for funding. The entire situation is hyper politicized.
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As someone who has owned an FLGS,
has friends who are publishers and writers of gaming material.
Helped start AWA, Project A-kon and staffed decades of DragonCon
I hereby promise to never attend another GenCon.
People should be able to serve whom they want and I refuse to bow down to the tyranny of the minority
To those who modded me as a troll, I am aware you do not know what trolling is. I expressed a dissenting opinion, and you chose to bury it rather than respond. You are cowards.
I stand by my right to chose what business I do. If you do not want to do business with me, that is fine, but I have the legal right, as does any closely held company in the US to do business within my religious parameters. The US Supreme Court has already backed up that opinion. Feel free to boycott me, I am good at what I do and my skills are in more demand than I can reply to anyways, and I could retire now should I want to. I will stand by my freedom.
You dislike me, you feel I am a bigot and misanthrope, why would you want to give me your money to begin with? Further were the shoe on the other foot, do you want the government telling you that you must do business with me? I did not think so.
You are full of vitriol and shame, I am full of neither.
As someone who has owned an FLGS,
has friends who are publishers and writers of gaming material.
Helped start AWA, Project A-kon and staffed decades of DragonCon
I hereby promise to never attend another GenCon.
People should be able to serve whom they want and I refuse to bow down to the tyranny of the minority
Social values by community? Are you *trying* to push us back into the era of segregation?
Sorry, that was a silly question, of course you are, because you're an idiot troll. Try harder next time.
What has segregation got to do with social values by community?
Social values by community is like obscenity, the values are set by the people of that community.
So: Do you take off your hat when you enter a building? Social value by community.
Do you hold the door open for a female? SVxC.
Do you use sir when addressing an older individual? SVxC.
Racists see racism in everything. Those of us who are not, do not.
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress.
I agree with your description of the situation as accurate, I however do not agree the situation is uncorrectable or right however.
Back to being AC again, but I am the one you were replying too.
Rather than simply make a quip, would you care to show a general trend of neglect in the pharmaceutical industry? While there are instances of abuse, the over all standards for pharmaceuticals in the US for safety is far better than what one would expect from your comment.
I beg to differ. Are you unaware of the 6+ year history of enforcement actions against the pharmaceutical giant Ranbaxy for gross violations of health and safety standards? http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/01/24/us-ranbaxy-ban-idUSBREA0N06Z20140124. And the FDA enforcements were only started after the pharma giant had been documented by private auditing firms as intentionally neglecting health and safety standards in their drug production processes. http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2013-05-28/news/39580238_1_ranbaxy-case-us-drug-regulator-paonta-sahib
That's 3 extra years that American health was at-risk because the pharmaceutical industry was allowed to rely on non-government, private safety inspectors.
You can 'beg to differ" all you want to, but you made my point for me with "FDA enforcements were only started after the pharma giant had been documented by private auditing firms".
In fact, I am well aware of that case and it was the specific case I had in mind when I mentioned the exception that proves the rule.
Are you certain you are responding to me in this stream? It seems more in place with another comment I made about the Interstate Commerce Clause which is Article I, Section 8, Clause 3 of the US Constitution. Regardless, it is at best a red herring.
I am not certain why you think my ideas are Libertarian, especially given that I rate libertarians somewhere along the lines of neocons (I agree with them about 50%).
You make several comments that are absolutely falsifiable however. such as: "government agency is always more trustworthy than a private company"
I do find it interesting that you accuse me of being, or at least having, libertarian [ideas] and then go on to describe a libertarian viewpoint. Not being Libertarian, I do not agree with that viewpoint.
In any case, you have failed to make you case with me, I see that you are simply going to be dogmatic and provide neither reason nor proof. I suspect it is because we have very different qualifications for what is a "reason" and what is "proof". So how about we simply agree to disagree? You can think I am a libertarian, and I will think you are wrong. One of us will be correct.
Thank you for providing another viewpoint. I do appreciate other people rephrasing things within their own experience as I know my own view points are only expressed through my own lenses. Diversity helps people get past hangups they may have with my particular affectations.
Actually no I did not say that. Again you are making a link that private regulation is no regulation, and even in the OP I did not say simply private regulation I said with oversight. It is really no different that hiring contractors, which is something we do frequently via the Federal Government and in private industry.
I have already given a simple example of how it could work, twice now you have simply responded with a dogmatic statement and no connecting evidence or reason.
If you do not provide any I will have to infer three things:
1) You simply believe only the government is capable of doing the work
2) All government workers must be actual government works and not contractors
3) The government is incorruptible.
Since I know that all 3 of these are historically and factually false we will have no where left to go.
How does the existence of radium products grant a power to the Federal Givernment? {spelling intentional). I was under the impression that we had things called laws that laid out what the government could and could not do .. but I already said that when I went into the difference between regulative and normative.
Maybe you are an ends justifies the means kind of person.. I am a deontologist.
If that phraseology works for you .. fine. I tried to make it as generic as possible and actually just grabbed the Wikipedia summary and the begthequestion.info tail.
If you really want to understand it then go look at J Woods / D Walton article which is a nice basic intro to the subject.
In other words, provide no oversight at all while an "independent" firm rubber stamps all the industry's apps for a completely legal fee which ends up going to the executives of the fake company via bonuses, then let it fold and start up a new one.
Privatized enforcement is no enforcement. If it can't be overseen by the government it needs to either be banned. You can open up the question of if it needs to be regulated at all, but providing the illusion of safety and regulation when there is none is far worse.
Nowhere does the OP say that, you are jumping way down an argument and not providing your work in between. How I read the OP is that private contractors do the heavy lifting and then the FDA comes back in and audits the results. If you audit one in 3, then see a group fails to catch something so you audit their entire batch, that is still substantial oversight.
I also would be willing to jump in and say the FDA is overstepping what little role it should have and might be provided by the ICC (Article I, Section 8, Clause 3) and would even be willing to say that it may only regulate the actual commerce and not the actual products, however I think the OP is a step in the right direction.
How is this a long term bad thing? Either the industry will come up with an idea that will allow a marketable solar power system sans subsidies and thus thrive, or it will die and we can move on to the next idea instead of wasting engineering hours on a failed/NRFPT energy source. In either case we win.
You know you have read too much Sci Fi when:
You misread the headline of "Computer-Controlled Cyborg Yeast" as "Computer Controlled Cyborg Yeats" and start looking over your shoulder for the Shrike's 3rd cousin and the Shrubbery of annoyance.
I doubt it id ton try and get people to subscribe, more likely it is to 'develop' a seperate business line so it can be jettisoned and not as negatively affect stock prices.
Repeat after me: There ain't no such thing as a free lunch
This is why I linked to the actual Supreme Court decision in Google Scholar (2nd link). The summary is in fact correct.
Obtaining an iris scan is probably invasive enough to require a compelling reason to perform it, and my guess is that under most circumstances that means that one is either 1) already being arrested, or 2) being served a warrant for the collection of it.
Sorry but you would be incorrect.
The Supreme Court has said that individuals do not possess an expectation of privacy in their personal characteristics (see United States v. Dionisio, 410 U.S. 1 [1973]). Thus, the police may require individuals to give handwriting and voice exemplars, as well as hair, blood, DNA, and fingerprint samples, without complying with the Fourth Amendment's requirements.
Iris Scans fall into the same category.
Delkin offers Archival Quality Disks tested via ISO 18927-2002 standards with an estimated life expectancy of 200 years. You can buy them at most any mid to high end photography supply store for around $10 each for 24GB of storage. I use them for all of my research projects.
Better yet use a wet saw and keep water running over it the entire time. Then you can filter the water but particulates should never become airborne and so you will never inhale them. You should also be wearing thick non porous gloves what handling them and make certain any think you work with is lead free if you plan on making jewelry out of it.
Actually you are wrong, Currently SSA takes in MORE money than they pay out. There is no "Fund" as Congress has been "Borrowing" it to fund other parts of the budget. The best way to maintain benefits after the switchover occurs (when more money is being paid out than put in) is to raise SSA taxes now and feather the retirement age again.
Social Security brought in an excess of 68.6 Billion dollars last year. (thats what remained after all payouts were made)
Don't believe me?
The data is here: http://www.ssa.gov/oact/progdata/assets.html
Name one with sufficient funning.
I have to disagree. Politicians are using Global warming as a grab for power, scientists & academics are using it as a grab for funding. The entire situation is hyper politicized.
...tarily,
Where else could they get funding?
Thanks for the link though, I will take a look at it.