You can tell that to Paul F. Little (a.k.a. Max Hardcore) when he gets out of federal prison next year.
From the article you linked:
Based on Max Extreme 4, the city of Los Angeles in 1998 charged him with child pornography and distribution of obscenity. The fact that the actress was over the age of 18 was not disputed; they brought charges based solely on the fact that the actress was portraying a character who was underage. Just before the case was brought to trial in 2002, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the statute prohibiting adults from portraying children in films and books was unconstitutional (See Ashcroft v. Free Speech Coalition). Based on this ruling, the child pornography charges against Little were dismissed.
So what does that have to do with unconstitutional Federal laws? That is, it seems that my statement is entirely correct, but you want to point out that some overzealous prosecutors can still railroad people into prison. That may be an issue, but it has nothing to do with limiting the Federal government to its enumerated powers, or violating its Constitutional mandate not to interfere with free speech.
If you don't like it, you should get involved and ask the SCOTUS to reverse their opinion of obscenity.
The Miller Test precedent covers something completely different.
It had nothing to do with Federal law or the expansion of Federal authority. To the contrary, it allowed local communities to govern themselves - which is exactly as it should be. That is, control should flow from the people upward, not the other way around.
The Fed's attempt to regulate "obscenity", the Communications Decency Act, was declared unconstitutional within a year of passage, and the SCOTUS let that ruling stand, invalidating the Fed's attempt to control speech from the top down, consistent with Constitutional protections.
If you don't like the way your own local community governs its public environs, it's very easy to get involved and make changes. Lots of other communities around, too, that don't try to dictate "decency" to each other.
[the Secretary of HHS] argues, requiring advance purchase of insurance based upon a future contingency is an activity that will inevitably affect interstate commerce. Of course, the same reasoning could apply to transportation, housing, or nutritional decisions. This broad definition of the economic activity subject to congressional regulation lacks logical limitation and is unsupported by Commerce Clause jurisprudence.
I couldn't have said it better myself. (But, then, I'm not a Judge on a Federal District Court).
Insurance is not and cannot be a competitive industry.
So Geico, Progressive, and State Farm are wasting their money on cutesy ads to encourage people to shop insurance because their industry "cannot" be competitive.
Pretty sure you lost touch with reality, there. You might also want to read up on the actual mechanisms implemented by the written health care law, rather than relying on nebulous ideas that could work, if only they were implemented properly.
So, from what I understand, if one part is thrown out, the whole law is thrown out.
Not exactly. Congress didn't specifically include a severability clause, but that just means it's up to the court to decide what to invalidate. In this case, the District Court decision, was:
... the bill embraces far more than health care reform. It is laden with provisions and riders patently extraneous to health care - over 400 in all.... Therefore, this Court will hew closely to the time-honored rule to sever with circumspection... Accordingly, the Court will sever only Section 1501 and directly-dependent provisions which make specific reference to Section 1501.
I don't really get all the hate for Exim. I've been using it exclusively on mail servers for about 10 years, and I've never had a problem. I do remember going through a lot of reading and learning (and sometimes experimenting) the first few times I set it up (and of course when implementing a major feature change). But, for me, the task was less daunting than the alternatives. I don't really remember whether postfix was one of those alternatives I explored at the time, but now that I'm familiar with Exim, I see no reason to change.
Well hopefully their online / mailbox service will continue. I haven't been in a rental store for years, but I've had the Blockbuster mail service for a long time, and I've been much more satisfied with it than Netflix. It's cheaper, and I've never had my rentals "throttled".
Besides, if it dies there will be no competition for Netflix, and monopolies are never cheap or kind to their customers.
To be fair, there is no evidence that Northrop is doing worse than anyone else would have done.
They are doing significantly worse than the state's internal people before NG took over. And at a much higher price. There were lotsof other inexcusable outages and failures before this one.
The worst part is that even knowing what a terrible deal VA was getting from NG, the governor decided to extend the contract for another 3 years and allow NG to increase their fees. If these guys had been working for a private company, they would have been thrown out long ago, and any executive suggesting they should get an extension and a pay increase would have been quickly dismissed by the board.
Well, since Goldman Sachs has now had a successful merger with the federal government,
No, it wasn't a merger. It was a hostile takeover of the US government.
And it's been going on for decades. September, 2008 was just the closing party.
LOL! That's rich! Most of those Goldman Sachs executives got their Federal administrator positions as appointments by Obama. That's not a hostile takeover at all, it was by mutual agreement, and it wasn't closed in September, that was just the IPO.
Well, since Goldman Sachs has now had a successful merger with the federal government, the Bush/Obama plan for Amerika is on schedule and working as expected.
How is it insightful to make a comment that is obviously wrong to anyone that had RTFA, (or even looked at the pictures in the article, for that matter)? Oh, wait... it's/. Not even the mods do that.
To clarify (repeat what was mentioned in TFA): The graphics brands "Radeon" and FirePro" will have new logos with the "AMD" branding, but they will also have logos with no "AMD" branding on them (just generic "graphics" instead), for use in Intel systems.
I haven't seen any hint that AMD will drop their line of processors that do not have integrated graphics. So there is no limiting of consumers choice that I can see.
Even better is the close button is provided at the upper-left corner of the preview. So I can close windows that I don't need anymore by mousing over the preview, and close it without even raising it at all.
Don't like it. I played around with the preference quite a bit, but I can't seem to get it to do an actual preview, it just shows a big window with an icon in the middle, and generally doesn't behave like I want it to.
I really don't want my gnome desktop to look like (or behave like) Windows 7, but having the little preview when you hover over the taskbar item is the one feature I'd really like to have in gnome. Unfortunately, DockbarX just isn't it.
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Under section 2.1.6 Memory Management and Garbage Collection and I quote:
Java technology completely removes the memory management load from the programmer.
This white paper was written in 1996 by James Gosling and Henry McGilton. M-M-M-MONSTER FAIL!
What, you don't know the difference between a "programmer" and a "system administrator"?
You can tell that to Paul F. Little (a.k.a. Max Hardcore) when he gets out of federal prison next year.
From the article you linked:
So what does that have to do with unconstitutional Federal laws? That is, it seems that my statement is entirely correct, but you want to point out that some overzealous prosecutors can still railroad people into prison. That may be an issue, but it has nothing to do with limiting the Federal government to its enumerated powers, or violating its Constitutional mandate not to interfere with free speech.
If you don't like it, you should get involved and ask the SCOTUS to reverse their opinion of obscenity.
The Miller Test precedent covers something completely different.
It had nothing to do with Federal law or the expansion of Federal authority. To the contrary, it allowed local communities to govern themselves - which is exactly as it should be. That is, control should flow from the people upward, not the other way around.
The Fed's attempt to regulate "obscenity", the Communications Decency Act, was declared unconstitutional within a year of passage, and the SCOTUS let that ruling stand, invalidating the Fed's attempt to control speech from the top down, consistent with Constitutional protections.
If you don't like the way your own local community governs its public environs, it's very easy to get involved and make changes. Lots of other communities around, too, that don't try to dictate "decency" to each other.
FTFO:
I couldn't have said it better myself. (But, then, I'm not a Judge on a Federal District Court).
I'm not going to quote the relevant parts of the opinion here, but the "it's a tax" argument was thrown out on very reasoned and clear grounds.
Read it for yourself right here.
Insurance is not and cannot be a competitive industry.
So Geico, Progressive, and State Farm are wasting their money on cutesy ads to encourage people to shop insurance because their industry "cannot" be competitive.
Pretty sure you lost touch with reality, there. You might also want to read up on the actual mechanisms implemented by the written health care law, rather than relying on nebulous ideas that could work, if only they were implemented properly.
So, from what I understand, if one part is thrown out, the whole law is thrown out.
Not exactly. Congress didn't specifically include a severability clause, but that just means it's up to the court to decide what to invalidate. In this case, the District Court decision, was:
Take "obscenity" laws for instance, blatantly unconstitutional
IIRC, the most recent Federal law passed that tried to outlaw "obscenity" was indeed struck down as unconstitutional.
Exim can also easily hook into spamassassin, which can also filter spam at the connection level.
I don't really get all the hate for Exim. I've been using it exclusively on mail servers for about 10 years, and I've never had a problem. I do remember going through a lot of reading and learning (and sometimes experimenting) the first few times I set it up (and of course when implementing a major feature change). But, for me, the task was less daunting than the alternatives. I don't really remember whether postfix was one of those alternatives I explored at the time, but now that I'm familiar with Exim, I see no reason to change.
Where can I find some of this high-speed tail? Or, are Chinese girls in the mountains just desperate?
Forget about it. I've been getting high-speed tail for 20 years - and I have the patent!
I'm assuming you don't work for Kelly Services - or any similar kind of body shop.
And of course, the American people collectively took it up the ass during the 8 years he was there.
Not that any of that has changed much... maybe now they're getting a reach-around?
Well hopefully their online / mailbox service will continue. I haven't been in a rental store for years, but I've had the Blockbuster mail service for a long time, and I've been much more satisfied with it than Netflix. It's cheaper, and I've never had my rentals "throttled". Besides, if it dies there will be no competition for Netflix, and monopolies are never cheap or kind to their customers.
To be fair, there is no evidence that Northrop is doing worse than anyone else would have done.
They are doing significantly worse than the state's internal people before NG took over. And at a much higher price. There were lotsof other inexcusable outages and failures before this one.
The worst part is that even knowing what a terrible deal VA was getting from NG, the governor decided to extend the contract for another 3 years and allow NG to increase their fees. If these guys had been working for a private company, they would have been thrown out long ago, and any executive suggesting they should get an extension and a pay increase would have been quickly dismissed by the board.
So Virginia taxpayers will continue to get screwed, but Northrop Grumman has now extended a reach-around?
No, it wasn't a merger. It was a hostile takeover of the US government.
And it's been going on for decades. September, 2008 was just the closing party.
LOL! That's rich! Most of those Goldman Sachs executives got their Federal administrator positions as appointments by Obama. That's not a hostile takeover at all, it was by mutual agreement, and it wasn't closed in September, that was just the IPO.
Well, since Goldman Sachs has now had a successful merger with the federal government, the Bush/Obama plan for Amerika is on schedule and working as expected.
You're reading it wrong.
How is it insightful to make a comment that is obviously wrong to anyone that had RTFA, (or even looked at the pictures in the article, for that matter)? Oh, wait... it's /. Not even the mods do that.
To clarify (repeat what was mentioned in TFA): The graphics brands "Radeon" and FirePro" will have new logos with the "AMD" branding, but they will also have logos with no "AMD" branding on them (just generic "graphics" instead), for use in Intel systems.
I haven't seen any hint that AMD will drop their line of processors that do not have integrated graphics. So there is no limiting of consumers choice that I can see.
If you had RTFA, you would have noted that AMD is only able to have a level playing field to compete because the FTC has put a stop to Intel's unfair trade practices.
Even better is the close button is provided at the upper-left corner of the preview. So I can close windows that I don't need anymore by mousing over the preview, and close it without even raising it at all.
LostLyrics, is that you?
Don't like it. I played around with the preference quite a bit, but I can't seem to get it to do an actual preview, it just shows a big window with an icon in the middle, and generally doesn't behave like I want it to.
I really don't want my gnome desktop to look like (or behave like) Windows 7, but having the little preview when you hover over the taskbar item is the one feature I'd really like to have in gnome. Unfortunately, DockbarX just isn't it.
Sorry, but your theory lacks any supporting observations.