I believe that would be covered under cruel and unusual punishment.
If I could sentence you, I would would sentence you to be followed by someone humming the Love Boat theme song for the rest of your life -- surely that is less cruel and unusual than monitoring/tracking somone? So why would you possibly want to object?
FINITE punishment (or in some statements FINAL) are requisite under the ban on cruel and unusual punishment.
This kind of sneaking shit into the legal code under the guise of policy and/or department rules is the primary I dont pay attention to the law anymore.
Support a reasonable, minimalistic, non-trivial legal code. 100% of your population is currently criminals in some form or another. I do *not* support discretionary prosecution - to easy to abuse.
Dont ever go near accounting - its called accounts payable. You purchase a good, the account (less terms or more exotic terms) becomes due upon purchase date.
he's out 50 + the cost of replacement (if he chooses to replace).
Personally I *didn't* replace after my ipod broke (or rather I got a cheap-ass mp3 player for free somebody won).
That sort of mark-to-market valuation (the price of the asset is what the market will bear or in this case, what the customer is willing to pay for it) is what got us into this mess.
I'ld settle for letting natural selection work - take the warning stickers off everything and repeal all the laws that are there to protect you from yourself.
and yes, I begrudge having to budge-an-inch for a law passed in the interest of ignorant, delerious or pious fellow-citizens. If you have to enforce it at gunpoint or by involuntary imprisonment or death on a *societal* level (rather than say, discourse and persuasion) then I'ld say its a law I'm not even remotely interested in following. Leges sin moribus vanae - spend more money on analytical thinking, history, philosophy and experimental science and a decent chance at a livelihood and I'ld say you would have a better society than what passes for it these days.
'course I have a bias towards individualism:P but then again that doesn't mean I'm not right;)
life is a time sink; knowledge is never wasted. and I never read technocrat so if your comment was in strictly in relation to the website, my apologies - I read your comment out of context. as to policy setting, it hasn't been we-the-people in some time, and sadly sociopathic, belief-orient and/or ignorant people prosper more under the current system than knowledgeable, rational and/or ethical people. Such is life (for the moment).
minimum personal tax rate for any sort of salary worth talking about is 25%.
to put it in context, One out of every four years of your work is for the government.
Please keep in mind a tour of duty is 2-4 years in length, *and* you get paid for it.
Methinks the meximum any sort of government should be getting (under any aegis, fines, local + state + federal + property + sales + insurance etc) should be around 10%.
Clearly prior generations should get whipped for letting the taxation rates come to this level.
Question becomes should we be whipped (my generation) for not reversing the trend, and instead, treading underneath a burden sans complaint?
Clearly you dont read the interesting discussions - half the time I'm not saving the slashdot story link so much as saving a useful user comment I found informative.
'course I'm accused of being a troll on account of my penchants but then again, they're my penchant so nyaa:P:)
Trolling is over-rated at any rate - if you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem....
thats the part I found fascinating - miniscule variations on-chip leading to an unportable design:P Thanks for the info though, I love GA's + hardware:P
I'm more interested in the report than the statistical graphics - yay she plotted x vs y and overlayed. 830 critical analysis of medicinal topics as it relates to military and military campaigns is way more fascinating. As to your point about women, their are far more salient examples (say the Nobel prize for crystalizing HIV and analyzing it overlooking a significant female co-discoverer and awarding it 3 men, one of whom who's claim was weaker).
But then you didn't bring that one up, you chose *this* as your example.
Which is why men rock and women suck:P Just kidding.
Maybe. --
All joking aside, as a fairly analytical person, get over it. The sooner you stop paying attention to gender as it relates to academic research the sooner you will concentrate on the quality of your work rather than who did it. and maybe *next time*, you'll get the Nobel. once you break the glass ceiling honey, its over.
Depends on what state you are in, non-competes are invalid in some states if they would deprive you of earning a living (California pioneered this for obvious reasons).
wuss:P thats just a bad a dodge as a bad explanation. There's nothing random about randomness, and just 'cause somethings here doesn't alway mean it was.
"Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good." Mohandas Gandhi -- Gandhi's idea was a nationwide protest against the Rowlatt Acts. All offices and factories would be closed. Indians would be encouraged to withdraw from Raj-sponsored schools, police services, the military and the civil services, and lawyers to leave the Raj's courts. Public transportation, English-manufactured goods, especially clothes would be boycotted.
"All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing". -- The underground economy or black market is a market consisting of all commerce on which applicable taxes and/or regulations of trade are being avoided. The term is also often known as the underdog, shadow economy, black economy or parallel economy. In modern societies the underground economy covers a vast array of activities. It is generally smallest in countries where economic freedom is greatest, and becomes progressively larger in those areas where corruption, regulation, or legal monopolies restrict legitimate economic activity.
if you were an engineer, you would realize they optimize all the variables including cost of production -- who's to say they made a conscious decision not to run hotter simply because they would have to charge X amount of dollars more per chip? For a company specializing in data-centers, trading in a variable cost for a fixed cost, its a win-win situation;)
Clearly you are out of touch. I judge my poverty using my patented "hookers-scale" - when the price of a blowjob goes down then you know there's a trouble a brewin':P
Jokes aside, the young (at this point) are screwed - currency deflates; prices inflate, wages stay the same. The only way (for middle class, not even lower class) to try and keep up with it is the price of your home (which like the "booming" stock market) generally tracks inflation (over the long run) - and young people can't afford to qualify for a home on the salaries they're making. The middle-class is evaporating even as we speak, and the wealth is concentrating in near-Europaen measures. The FDIC (which was created in part because of runs on bank, see panics and the economic havocs they cause) is underinsured, and the real problems (fannie may is chump change) haven't hit the balance sheets yet (though they will, just one more tier of mortgages to get through and boom, the house of cards come down).
And the reasons that people don't revolt are simple - the majority is disarmed (re:population centers & gun-carrying laws), criminalized (re: being popped left and right under some psychotic regime of "if you breathe you're breaking the law"), propagandized (Hollywood + The Media), dumbed down [Public Education/Dumbing Down {by young inexperienced teachers} + the death of engineering/science {would you like fries with that} + parents working two jobs (Where's joey? I haven't seen him in 2 days)], surveiled (You're on slashdot so I know you know all the crap they're pulling now to save the children / find the weapons of mass distruction) and blown by a two-party system of crooks legalizing corporate theft (see this article + the billions lost by this administration).
SO.
Having said that, I could see some riots taking place in maybe six-ten months. Do I think this knucklehead Obama is going to change anything? Absolutely not. And that my friend, is the problem, 'cause things gotta change soon (and for the better).
the problem is that an idea or a signal should not inherently be owneable; in this case they're not upset because the idea is being consumed - they're upset because its not being consumed through a channel in which you have to pay to get access to it. Should they have legal recourse? Perhaps (in the case of a privately owned cable network), theft of signal should be prosecuteable - but on a public network? or by public private-to-private party transfer?
>My view is that it means that the people are far more in control of the government than vice versa. That is both the cause and the result of their rioting.
>Rioting has a strong cultural component, is all I'm saying.
Naw - its just that the gestapo tactics have escalated here and most Americans don't feel connected to the actions of their government anymore. Look at our voter turn-out rate.
Americans *used* to enjoy civil liberties. Generations of immigration from authoritarian regimes (in Europe) have degraded the idea of "we the people" into "the government is always right".
My school's motto (started by Benjamin Franklin) was leges sin moribus vanae - Laws without Morality are in Vain. Nowadays there is a whole class of citizens who think laws establish morality. There was a sense of personal responsiblity for our actions, and accountability at the top echelons of the government for their actions. Now most people don't even have a basis in what their civil rights are much less their civil *duties*.
Nope. its because people feel the need to riot and break windows its ok to break windows of innocent local business.
Which do you think (based on my comments) I care about; some windows being replaced (property damage) or social ills finally being redressed with a minimum of violence (loss of human life)?
Its a human thing...now if you happen to be in the property rights before human rights category, I'm sure I'm a heretic worth burning for suggesting otherwise.
> I happened to be in Louisiana during Katrina and happened to be working for the government at the time... starts an anecdotal proof of facts; since s/he hasn't claimed to be involved in state/federal response to Katrina, he is as informed as you or me.
Normally I wouldn't even bother replying (since as far as I am concerned s/he isn't a conduit to a primary historical source) but the repetition of "funnily enough" struck me as funny;)
If it bothers you so much, go look for yourself. I fail to see where asking me to do research on a topic *you* are personally vested in is a reasonable request.
Its called humor.;) and I didn't attack you - that statement applies to anyone who starts with "funnily enough" and doesn't lead to a punch-line. As to the veracity of your statements/me shrugs. I neither live in New Orleans nor suffer hurricanes.
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I believe that would be covered under cruel and unusual punishment.
If I could sentence you, I would would sentence you to be followed by someone humming the Love Boat theme song for the rest of your life --
surely that is less cruel and unusual than monitoring/tracking somone? So why would you possibly want to object?
FINITE punishment (or in some statements FINAL) are requisite under the ban on cruel and unusual punishment.
This kind of sneaking shit into the legal code under the guise of policy and/or department rules is the primary I dont
pay attention to the law anymore.
Support a reasonable, minimalistic, non-trivial legal code. 100% of your population is currently criminals in some form or another.
I do *not* support discretionary prosecution - to easy to abuse.
Dont ever go near accounting - its called accounts payable.
You purchase a good, the account (less terms or more exotic terms)
becomes due upon purchase date.
he's out 50 + the cost of replacement (if he chooses to replace).
Personally I *didn't* replace after my ipod broke (or rather I got
a cheap-ass mp3 player for free somebody won).
That sort of mark-to-market valuation (the price of the asset is what
the market will bear or in this case, what the customer is willing to
pay for it) is what got us into this mess.
I'ld settle for letting natural selection work - take the warning stickers off
everything and repeal all the laws that are there to protect you from yourself.
and yes, I begrudge having to budge-an-inch for a law passed in the interest of
ignorant, delerious or pious fellow-citizens. If you have to enforce it at gunpoint
or by involuntary imprisonment or death on a *societal* level (rather than say,
discourse and persuasion) then I'ld say its a law I'm not even remotely interested
in following. Leges sin moribus vanae - spend more money on analytical thinking,
history, philosophy and experimental science and a decent chance at a livelihood
and I'ld say you would have a better society than what passes for it these days.
'course I have a bias towards individualism :P but then again that doesn't mean ;)
I'm not right
life is a time sink; knowledge is never wasted.
and I never read technocrat so if your comment was in strictly
in relation to the website, my apologies - I read your comment
out of context. as to policy setting, it hasn't been we-the-people
in some time, and sadly sociopathic, belief-orient and/or ignorant
people prosper more under the current system than knowledgeable,
rational and/or ethical people. Such is life (for the moment).
minimum personal tax rate for any sort of salary worth talking about is 25%.
to put it in context,
One out of every four years of your work is for the government.
Please keep in mind a tour of duty is 2-4 years in length, *and* you get paid for it.
Methinks the meximum any sort of government should be getting (under any aegis, fines, local + state + federal + property + sales + insurance etc) should be around 10%.
Clearly prior generations should get whipped for letting the taxation rates come to this level.
Question becomes should we be whipped (my generation) for not reversing the trend, and instead, treading underneath a burden sans complaint?
At some point, the sleepers must awaken.
Clearly you dont read the interesting discussions - half the time I'm not saving the slashdot story link so much as saving a useful user comment I found informative.
'course I'm accused of being a troll on account of my penchants but then again, they're my penchant so nyaa :P :)
Trolling is over-rated at any rate - if you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem....
thats the part I found fascinating - miniscule variations on-chip leading to an unportable design :P Thanks for the info though, I love GA's + hardware :P
Damn it, get one!
At least a name for christs sake!
I'm more interested in the report than the statistical graphics - yay she plotted x vs y and overlayed.
830 critical analysis of medicinal topics as it relates to military and military campaigns is way more fascinating.
As to your point about women, their are far more salient examples (say the Nobel prize for crystalizing HIV and analyzing it overlooking
a significant female co-discoverer and awarding it 3 men, one of whom who's claim was weaker).
But then you didn't bring that one up, you chose *this* as your example.
Which is why men rock and women suck :P
Just kidding.
Maybe.
--
All joking aside, as a fairly analytical person, get over it. The sooner you stop paying attention to gender
as it relates to academic research the sooner you will concentrate on the quality of your work rather than
who did it. and maybe *next time*, you'll get the Nobel. once you break the glass ceiling honey, its over.
Depends on what state you are in, non-competes are invalid in some states if they would deprive you of earning a living (California pioneered this for obvious reasons).
In this case I'ld be supplying them with the finger ;)
I'ld be more impressed if you first committed to *no-one* owning a signal.
wuss :P thats just a bad a dodge as a bad explanation. There's nothing random about randomness, and just 'cause somethings here doesn't alway mean it was.
"Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good."
Mohandas Gandhi
--
Gandhi's idea was a nationwide protest against the Rowlatt Acts. All offices and factories would be closed. Indians would be encouraged to withdraw from Raj-sponsored schools, police services, the military and the civil services, and lawyers to leave the Raj's courts. Public transportation, English-manufactured goods, especially clothes would be boycotted.
"All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing".
--
The underground economy or black market is a market consisting of all commerce on which applicable taxes and/or regulations of trade are being avoided. The term is also often known as the underdog, shadow economy, black economy or parallel economy. In modern societies the underground economy covers a vast array of activities. It is generally smallest in countries where economic freedom is greatest, and becomes progressively larger in those areas where corruption, regulation, or legal monopolies restrict legitimate economic activity.
if you were an engineer, you would realize they optimize all the variables including cost of production -- who's to say they made a conscious decision not to run hotter simply because they would have to charge X amount of dollars more per chip? For a company specializing in data-centers, trading in a variable cost for a fixed cost, its a win-win situation ;)
And very much a loss for us and his republican party.
lawyers, accountants, hr - wait, our jobs actually require knowledge! JOKE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Stop dropping bombs and maybe we might have a conversation about it :)
Clearly you are out of touch. I judge my poverty using my patented "hookers-scale" - when the price of a blowjob goes down then you know there's a trouble a brewin' :P
Jokes aside, the young (at this point) are screwed - currency deflates; prices inflate, wages stay the same. The only way (for middle class, not even lower class) to try and keep up with it is the price of your home (which like the "booming" stock market) generally tracks inflation (over the long run) - and young people can't afford to qualify for a home on the salaries they're making. The middle-class is evaporating even as we speak, and the wealth is concentrating in near-Europaen measures. The FDIC (which was created in part because of runs on bank, see panics and the economic havocs they cause) is underinsured, and the real problems (fannie may is chump change) haven't hit the balance sheets yet (though they will, just one more tier of mortgages to get through and boom, the house of cards come down).
And the reasons that people don't revolt are simple - the majority is disarmed (re:population centers & gun-carrying laws), criminalized (re: being popped left and right under some psychotic regime of "if you breathe you're breaking the law"), propagandized (Hollywood + The Media), dumbed down [Public Education/Dumbing Down {by young inexperienced teachers} + the death of engineering/science {would you like fries with that} + parents working two jobs (Where's joey? I haven't seen him in 2 days)], surveiled (You're on slashdot so I know you know all the crap they're pulling now to save the children / find the weapons of mass distruction) and blown by a two-party system of crooks legalizing corporate theft (see this article + the billions lost by this administration).
SO.
Having said that, I could see some riots taking place in maybe six-ten months. Do I think this knucklehead Obama is going to change anything? Absolutely not. And that my friend, is the problem, 'cause things gotta change soon (and for the better).
the problem is that an idea or a signal should not inherently be owneable; in this case they're not upset because the idea is being consumed - they're upset because its not being consumed through a channel in which you have to pay to get access to it. Should they have legal recourse? Perhaps (in the case of a privately owned cable network), theft of signal should be prosecuteable - but on a public network? or by public private-to-private party transfer?
but not necessary ;)
>My view is that it means that the people are far more in control of the government than vice versa. That is both the cause and the result of their rioting.
>Rioting has a strong cultural component, is all I'm saying.
Naw - its just that the gestapo tactics have escalated here and most Americans don't feel connected to the actions of their government anymore. Look at our voter turn-out rate.
Americans *used* to enjoy civil liberties. Generations of immigration from authoritarian regimes (in Europe) have degraded the idea of "we the people" into "the government is always right".
My school's motto (started by Benjamin Franklin) was leges sin moribus vanae - Laws without Morality are in Vain. Nowadays there is a whole class of citizens who think laws establish morality. There was a sense of personal responsiblity for our actions, and accountability at the top echelons of the government for their actions. Now most people don't even have a basis in what their civil rights are much less their civil *duties*.
Nope. its because people feel the need to riot and break windows its ok to break windows of innocent local business.
Which do you think (based on my comments) I care about; some windows being replaced (property damage) or social ills finally being redressed with a minimum of violence (loss of human life)?
Its a human thing...now if you happen to be in the property rights before human rights category, I'm sure I'm a heretic worth burning for suggesting otherwise.
> I happened to be in Louisiana during Katrina and happened to be working for the government at the time ... starts an anecdotal proof of facts; since s/he hasn't claimed to be involved in state/federal response to Katrina, he is as informed as you or me.
Normally I wouldn't even bother replying (since as far as I am concerned s/he isn't a conduit to a primary historical source) but the repetition of "funnily enough" struck me as funny ;)
If it bothers you so much, go look for yourself. I fail to see where asking me to do research on a topic *you* are personally vested in is a reasonable request.
Its called humor. ;) and I didn't attack you - that statement applies to anyone who starts with "funnily enough" and doesn't lead to a punch-line. As to the veracity of your statements /me shrugs. I neither live in New Orleans nor suffer hurricanes.
Yelling fire in a crowded theater is indeed permissible under free speech. look it up on wikipedia.