I'd love to see this challenged. Legal Tender laws were passed to force people to accept paper money instead of demanding gold or silver as payment. As in what is stated in the Constitution. Prior to the Federal Reserve paper money used to say "In Gold we Trust" and it used to be redeemable for gold. That changed with the Federal Reserve and it was forced down our throat with the legal tender laws that said we had to accept Federal Reserve Notes as payment for all debt, public and private, and that is what is printed on all paper notes. You should point that out to the housing department. A lawsuit is only $30 in most jurisdictions and you can sue for damages so sue for the $1.50 the money order costs plus the gas to drive there the time it takes and all the expenses associated with filing the lawsuit. It won't cost that much to push this issue and it should be an easy victory. I know many here said that if you already owe the money then the legal tender laws apply but if you have not yet incurred the debt then they don't. I can't help but thinking that someone would have still insisted upon gold being paid in advance of making any transaction in an attempt to avoid accepting the new notes of the private for profit corporation named "The Federal Reserve". (Yes it is private, it was incorporated in 1914 in Puerto Rico, no it is no more federal then Federal Express, and no it doesn't have any reserves.) I think you would have an easy win and perhaps a good story for the college newspaper.
The Honorable Ron Paul tried to have the Legal Tender Laws repealed on July 25, 2003, when he spoke from The Well of The House of Representatives and stated:
Legal tender laws disadvantage ordinary citizens by forcing them to use money that is vulnerable to vast depreciation. As Stephen T. Byington wrote in the September 1895 issue of the American Federationist: "No legal tender law is ever needed to make men take good money; its only use is to make them take bad money. Kick it out!" Similarly, the American Federation of Labor asked: If money is good and would be preferred by the people, then why are legal tender laws necessary? And, if money is not good and would not be preferred by the people, then why in a democracy should they be forced to use it?
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While harming ordinary citizens, legal tender laws help expand the scope of government beyond that to which it is authorized under the Constitution. However, the primary beneficiaries of legal tender laws are financial institutions, especially banks, which have been improperly granted the special privilege of creating fiat irredeemable electronic money out of thin air through a process commonly called "fractional reserve lending." According to the Federal Reserve, since 1950, these private companies (banks) have created almost $8 trillion out of nothing. This has been enormously advantageous to them.
HR 2779 (source)
Had his resolution passed then they would have legally been able to tell you what form of payment they would accept. This did not pass and they are required to take legal tender a/k/a cash as payment. This will be an easy case for you to win. Just like going into a drive through in the middle of the night and reading the sign no bills over $20 accepted and handing them a $50. This was the intention of these laws to prevent them from saying payment in gold or silver only. This is the main reason that I so strongly support Dr. Ron Paul for President.
Undernet will not let you register a nick name from a Google mail account. My ISP, Qwest, really thought that they were going to get me to use a msn account on my Linux box. I'm not sure if it is even possible but I've been bitten too many times by the M$ beast to ever want to try again. There are other places that don't like you using 'free' email services either.
Now where this will get interesting is that as high school students they are still underage and as such cannot enter into a legal agreement without the consent of their parents (or guardian but that is usually the parents) so the school can try to force this on the students but it wouldn't be binding. Now what happens if the student is a ward of the state? If the state forces them to sign away their rights to personal property that can be considered a taking and subject to eminent domain or reimbursement by the government. In fact that argument could probably be extended to any public school or university that demands that you sign it over to get a grade. the government simply cannot take private property without reimbursement.
Dr. Paul is a different style of Republicn! He wants to eliminate the Federal Reserve, which is no more Federal than Federal Express and has no reserves, and put an end to the fiat money system that is systematically stealing the wealth of Americans. There are some links to his efforts towards that end here: http://dailypaul.com/node/16
Dr. Paul is against the Hypocrisy in the Middle East as can be seen in his Weekly Column here: http://www.house.gov/paul/tst/tst2007/tst022607.ht m
Basically he wants to quit funding the military build up in the region and "We should stop propping up dictators and putting band-aids on festering problems." as he says.
Another site that is keeping track of him is: http://dailypaul.com/ You guys should pop in there for a quick read and then determine if he is really the same old tired Republicans that we have had recently or if he truly has some "Direction of the Country" altering ideas as I know that he does.
I truly do encourage you guys to read and not let the main stream media tell you what to think. That is the root of most of the country's problems right there. People need to start getting informed on their own and making decisions for themselves. If Dr. Paul doesn't get the nomination (which unfortunately he probably won't) then I will be voting for a third party. Neither the Democrans nor the Republicrats are doing what they promised to do when elected and the only thing one party has to do to get elected is screw you less than the other party. Let's face it, the Democrats didn't win in November as much as the Bush led Republicans lost. The only thing that will change this is if a third party actually starts to gain some ground and threaten the two existing parties. Let's face it, the problem with only having only two parties is being forced to choose the lesser of two evils.
I think Dr. Ran Paul is the best person for the job even though he is only exploring the possibility of a run at the moment. I hope people take the time to visit his sight and consider voting for him.
http://www.ronpaulexplore.com/
You can get an idea of his political leanings from some of the MANY videos of him that are on the web. Most can be found here:
http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=Ron+Paul
He is against a war with Iran, wants to leave Iraq, and has a real plan to fix the Government's entitlement program. He first ran for President in 1988 as a Libertarian. Even though he is a Republican now he is an old fashioned one that believes in a small Federal government that is responsive to the people.
I was actually reading the debunking of the CERA report a couple of hours before I checked/. for the evening. It is an interesting read and well worth the time. I just love this site's name;-)
From the article:
I happen to know that the organizers of the recent meeting of the U.S. chapter of the Association for the Study of Peak Oil & Gas (ASPO), conveniently held in Boston, sent invitations to the principals of CERA, whose offices are just up the road from the ASPO convention site at Boston University. The invitations politely asked CERA to send representatives to attend and participate in the ASPO discussions. However, to the best of my knowledge, no one from CERA attended the ASPO event (I have seen a list of registered attendees) and no CERA spokesperson took advantage of the occasion to address the room full of 500 ASPO conference attendees. I wonder why not? Didn't get the invitation?
My Attitude is that if you feel strongly about someting then you should be able to debate your position. Apparently the CERA cannot.
Skip over the incessant advertising in the article.
Different things at different times. That time I was coding in asm and searching for things that made the call in question. It is much easier to just middle click everything Google returns sometimes and then scan through them later. Slashdot usually ends up in its own window and sometimes I click stories and don't read them for a few days; that can be 10 20 tabs right there. Same thing with Linux Weekly News and The Register. My point is that I open things often and don't close them that often.:/ As I said, I'm a freak.:)
I'm probably on the far side of the issue as I use Enlightenment-0.16 on Linux and have 3 multiple desktops with 12 virtual desktops in each. In those 36 desktops I usually have 5+ browser windows with anywhere from 1-30 tabs in each. I once counted over 200 tabs open before I got irritated and started closing them. I have one desktop for music with a player, mixer, and file-broswer in it. Another desktop to monitor the logs, and another for email. If I'm coding I have the development desktop, another desktop to compile/run the program in and possibly a third to debug it. I could also have a few desktops open with documentation to assist me. I just checked and I have 41 terminals opened most I'm done with but never closed. It all breaks down to memory available; until the machine starts to slow down I don't go closing windows. It helps when my machine is up for an average of a month between reboots. (39 days currently with only about 3 unused desktops) Needless to say, it takes quite a bit of time for me to reboot my machine and when X starts it starts 19 windows before it ever gives me control. Yes, I know I'm a freak.:P
I've posted on this topic before here in this article. They can be used as a semiconductor material and achieve speeds of 81GHz. And don't forget the older Wired article about The New Diamond Age either.:) Cheers.
It's more like time shares. You can sell a property 12 times over and give people the right to use the property for one month a year or 52 times over if each person uses it for only. With broadband the time shares are sliced a bit thinner, somewhere in the milliseconds range, and you can have lots of them, but, there are still a limited number of them to go around and the providers count on a customer consuming x% of that amount. What you are asking for is like taking your weekend at the lakefront cottage and then wanting to park an RV on the beach during everyone else's week.
Linux Weekly News' articles are only available to subscribers the first week they come out. After that they are available to all. Kudos to the editor, Jon Corbet, for finding a solution that enables the content that he creates (and that of other contributers) to be available to all. Albiet after a slight delay.:)
I'm a little worried as I have ops in a few channels. And the security is going to change. I know that one of the staffers is going to push for host based O-line privs for all staffers as that seems to have been the way in. There are many channels and many ops in those channels so even if freenode staffers have recovered all their access rights that doesn't mean that some others with ops in some channels haven't been taken to be used later.
Well I was getting ready to say the very same thing and post the same information. I'll just add a link to the Library and the contact information but you have already added the information from those pages.:-)
Well thanks for some details from the other side of the issue. I can see how it wouldn't be in their best interests to persue something for less than $1000 dollars but how can they turn around and charge the retailer a charge-back? Is this something that hits the off-line world as much as the online world or is that not your department? Another question, since this thread was really about the loss and subsequent theft of ID's, as an officer of the law, how many times did you see fraudulnt IDs used for something other than CC purchases? In other words, how many crooks tried to give you false ID when you asked for ID? Was it just imigrants or were citizens doing it too? (thanks for the info.:)
That's right, when a card is fradulently used they charge the purchase back to the retailer. That way they get a transaction fee on the original sale and then a bonus transaction fee when they carge the retailer for the fraud that they allowed to happen. The trick to wiping it out overnight is make the fraud cost the credit-card company money. As it stands now they have absolutely no insentive to do much about it. Did they not issue the fradulent card to someone other than you after your identity is stolen? Do they have no responsibility to verify the information they receive? Do they not have a responsibility to the retailer to honor debts that they authorize? (Well not really, that's what the merchant agreement is for. You don't like it? Don't accept credit cards.) It is no wonder that the most profitable industry last year was the banking/finance industry. It is also no wonder that they contribute the most to the politicians. On one side they change the bankruptsy laws so you can't get out of debit and start over and on the other they are pushing off the responsibility to the merchants as much as possible too. More reading:
Unfortunately banks are no longer required to keep any meaningful amount of reserves.:( An excellent essay explaining how this is going to become a problem very soon can be found here:
http://www.kitco.com/ind/Daughty/apr122006.html
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Ok, I've quit replying to most of the slashdot stories but I can't pass this one up. Someone needs to ask if Open Source Media, Inc. licenses their content under an open source license. If not they need to get sued for fraud. They should seek remedial relief (ask for a remedy) and ask the judge to re-license everything they own under the Free Document License. Just my $0.02 worth.
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HR 2779 (source)The Honorable Ron Paul tried to have the Legal Tender Laws repealed on July 25, 2003, when he spoke from The Well of The House of Representatives and stated:
Had his resolution passed then they would have legally been able to tell you what form of payment they would accept. This did not pass and they are required to take legal tender a/k/a cash as payment. This will be an easy case for you to win. Just like going into a drive through in the middle of the night and reading the sign no bills over $20 accepted and handing them a $50. This was the intention of these laws to prevent them from saying payment in gold or silver only. This is the main reason that I so strongly support Dr. Ron Paul for President.
Undernet will not let you register a nick name from a Google mail account. My ISP, Qwest, really thought that they were going to get me to use a msn account on my Linux box. I'm not sure if it is even possible but I've been bitten too many times by the M$ beast to ever want to try again. There are other places that don't like you using 'free' email services either.
I was one of the oldest in my class and I turned 18 just short of 1/2 through the year.
Now where this will get interesting is that as high school students they are still underage and as such cannot enter into a legal agreement without the consent of their parents (or guardian but that is usually the parents) so the school can try to force this on the students but it wouldn't be binding. Now what happens if the student is a ward of the state? If the state forces them to sign away their rights to personal property that can be considered a taking and subject to eminent domain or reimbursement by the government. In fact that argument could probably be extended to any public school or university that demands that you sign it over to get a grade. the government simply cannot take private property without reimbursement.
And how do the buses get connected? If they are the providers of content then they aren't getting it through WiFi themselves.
"Would you prefer to have a beautiful eight lane superhighway with a 20 MPH speed limit? Of course people are going to break that one!"
Dr. Paul is against the Hypocrisy in the Middle East as can be seen in his Weekly Column here: http://www.house.gov/paul/tst/tst2007/tst022607.ht m
Basically he wants to quit funding the military build up in the region and "We should stop propping up dictators and putting band-aids on festering problems." as he says.
Another site that is keeping track of him is: http://dailypaul.com/ You guys should pop in there for a quick read and then determine if he is really the same old tired Republicans that we have had recently or if he truly has some "Direction of the Country" altering ideas as I know that he does.
http://www.house.gov/paul/legis_tst.htm His weekly Column
http://www.house.gov/paul/legis_congrec.htm His Speeches and Statements on the Record and on The House floor.
http://www.house.gov/paul/legis_press.htm His Press Releases.
I truly do encourage you guys to read and not let the main stream media tell you what to think. That is the root of most of the country's problems right there. People need to start getting informed on their own and making decisions for themselves. If Dr. Paul doesn't get the nomination (which unfortunately he probably won't) then I will be voting for a third party. Neither the Democrans nor the Republicrats are doing what they promised to do when elected and the only thing one party has to do to get elected is screw you less than the other party. Let's face it, the Democrats didn't win in November as much as the Bush led Republicans lost. The only thing that will change this is if a third party actually starts to gain some ground and threaten the two existing parties. Let's face it, the problem with only having only two parties is being forced to choose the lesser of two evils.
I think Dr. Ran Paul is the best person for the job even though he is only exploring the possibility of a run at the moment. I hope people take the time to visit his sight and consider voting for him. http://www.ronpaulexplore.com/ You can get an idea of his political leanings from some of the MANY videos of him that are on the web. Most can be found here: http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=Ron+Paul He is against a war with Iran, wants to leave Iraq, and has a real plan to fix the Government's entitlement program. He first ran for President in 1988 as a Libertarian. Even though he is a Republican now he is an old fashioned one that believes in a small Federal government that is responsive to the people.
Skip over the incessant advertising in the article.
Different things at different times. That time I was coding in asm and searching for things that made the call in question. It is much easier to just middle click everything Google returns sometimes and then scan through them later. Slashdot usually ends up in its own window and sometimes I click stories and don't read them for a few days; that can be 10 20 tabs right there. Same thing with Linux Weekly News and The Register. My point is that I open things often and don't close them that often. :/ As I said, I'm a freak. :)
I'm probably on the far side of the issue as I use Enlightenment-0.16 on Linux and have 3 multiple desktops with 12 virtual desktops in each. In those 36 desktops I usually have 5+ browser windows with anywhere from 1-30 tabs in each. I once counted over 200 tabs open before I got irritated and started closing them. I have one desktop for music with a player, mixer, and file-broswer in it. Another desktop to monitor the logs, and another for email. If I'm coding I have the development desktop, another desktop to compile/run the program in and possibly a third to debug it. I could also have a few desktops open with documentation to assist me. I just checked and I have 41 terminals opened most I'm done with but never closed. It all breaks down to memory available; until the machine starts to slow down I don't go closing windows. It helps when my machine is up for an average of a month between reboots. (39 days currently with only about 3 unused desktops) Needless to say, it takes quite a bit of time for me to reboot my machine and when X starts it starts 19 windows before it ever gives me control. Yes, I know I'm a freak. :P
An intelligent first post!! OMG, what is becoming of the slashdot we all know and love to hate? :)
I've posted on this topic before here in this article. They can be used as a semiconductor material and achieve speeds of 81GHz. And don't forget the older Wired article about The New Diamond Age either. :) Cheers.
It's more like time shares. You can sell a property 12 times over and give people the right to use the property for one month a year or 52 times over if each person uses it for only. With broadband the time shares are sliced a bit thinner, somewhere in the milliseconds range, and you can have lots of them, but, there are still a limited number of them to go around and the providers count on a customer consuming x% of that amount. What you are asking for is like taking your weekend at the lakefront cottage and then wanting to park an RV on the beach during everyone else's week.
Linux Weekly News' articles are only available to subscribers the first week they come out. After that they are available to all. Kudos to the editor, Jon Corbet, for finding a solution that enables the content that he creates (and that of other contributers) to be available to all. Albiet after a slight delay. :)
Yeah, it made TheRegister last week. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/06/30/419_plonke r/
I'm a little worried as I have ops in a few channels. And the security is going to change. I know that one of the staffers is going to push for host based O-line privs for all staffers as that seems to have been the way in. There are many channels and many ops in those channels so even if freenode staffers have recovered all their access rights that doesn't mean that some others with ops in some channels haven't been taken to be used later.
http://www.bccls.org/hasbrouck/
http://www.bccls.org/hasbrouck/contactus.htm
Well thanks for some details from the other side of the issue. I can see how it wouldn't be in their best interests to persue something for less than $1000 dollars but how can they turn around and charge the retailer a charge-back? Is this something that hits the off-line world as much as the online world or is that not your department? Another question, since this thread was really about the loss and subsequent theft of ID's, as an officer of the law, how many times did you see fraudulnt IDs used for something other than CC purchases? In other words, how many crooks tried to give you false ID when you asked for ID? Was it just imigrants or were citizens doing it too? (thanks for the info. :)
http://www.smithfam.com/news2/july02a.html ;-)
http://www.answers.com/topic/credit-card-fraud
One of the two (answers/wikipedia) plagerized the other.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Credit_card_fraud
Make the credit card companies take responsibility. Make it them that has to pay for fraud and the situation will rememdy itself overnight!
You should say you were banned from #ubuntu as freenode has no such policy. And come on over to #gentoo; we let people recommend su all the time. :)
Unfortunately banks are no longer required to keep any meaningful amount of reserves. :( An excellent essay explaining how this is going to become a problem very soon can be found here:
http://www.kitco.com/ind/Daughty/apr122006.html
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Ok, I've quit replying to most of the slashdot stories but I can't pass this one up. Someone needs to ask if Open Source Media, Inc. licenses their content under an open source license. If not they need to get sued for fraud. They should seek remedial relief (ask for a remedy) and ask the judge to re-license everything they own under the Free Document License. Just my $0.02 worth.
I've installed Gentoo from ancient Slakware boot floppies. You just need tar & chroot and your good to go.