The tenth amendment was ignored. If the courts didn't ignore it, many federal laws would have been thrown out.
Also, I don't believe the 14th amendment can be improved upon much. The real problem is courts interpreting the constitution according to their agenda, rather than what it actually says.
Unfortunately since the New Deal, and probably before then, the 10th amendment, which is the greatest limit on federal government's power, and thus our greatest protection from corruption, has been ignored.
2. Only people registered with a party could donate money to that party. Partys could not give money to candidates; they could only use the money to recruit new members, run issue ads, and finance their conventions (i.e. party business).
What if I like the Democratic presidential candidate, but the republican candidate for the senate?
You should instead limit it to one candidate per race(I don't mean as in black or white, I mean as in president, Senator, etc.).
That's because they don't care who you are, they just want the money. Thus the other two are irrelevant. Applications where the persons identity matters require, or at least should require, as many of them as possible(remote logins can only require something you know, and in the case of accept only certain IP addresses, something you are).
and I don't think I could get rid of all the evidence, short of dd'ing my entire HD/dev/zero after each session.
<PARANOIA>That won't do it, in fact that would be trivial to recover. Even dd if=/dev/random of=/dev/hda 20 times won't prevent a skilled expert with an electron microscope from recovering the data. You should thermite your HD if your dumb enough not to put your browser cache on a RAM disk and disable swap. Also you should burn your memory as well(Regular memory, Video memory, Processor Cache etc.) Better yet burn your comp after each browsing session.</PARANOIA>
1. Insulted him repeatedly about his penis size. Thus making the internet a hostile and intimidating place.
2. They made his computer unuseable causing a loss of income.
3. They intruded into his home and refused to leave his personal property alone.
Life, Liberty and the pursuit of happiness, all of these were infringed by the spammers.
Which of the three killed him, and which one of them enslaved him? You may be right about them infringing the right to pursuit of happiness, but not the other two.
...this is about a guy who made fairly severe death threats against the company concerned.
How could he follow up on that threat; in other words, how exactly would one go about killing a company? Does it mean to put them out of business? Was he just boycotting the company in question?
Did he give it that name? Is "Star Wars" being used to refer to a competitor of the movie? If the answer to either question is no he's not guilty of trademark infringement,
Then rights were effectively taken only from a few wealthy elite(those with a printing press). Now copyright takes the right to copy from everyone. In other words it does more harm to society(much more if you also consider extended copyright terms), for the same benefit. Whether or not copyright was good then, it isn't anymore.
Writers such as Homer, and Shakespeare wrote before copyright. Mozart, Beethoven, and Bach did not rely on copyright. Neither the cave painters, nor Rennaisance sculpters & painters, such as Michelangelo or Leonardo Da Vinci, used copyright. Artistic works are created without copyright laws.
All thats needed are the Navier-stokes equations, for the wind, and the heat equation for the temperature. Predicting the rain is rather simple given the temperature and pressure everywhere. The only problem is due to chaos, so inaccurate measurements will give very bad predictions. No geology is required, All thats needed is 19th century physics.
- Better Earthquake, volcano and other natural disaster prediction
At present, we can determine which areas of the Earth have the most potential for damage, but we cannot determine within a short time when a major earthquake will occur. We know from historical records and observation how often many faults move, thus we can tell which are due to move next. However, we can only guess with an accuracy of +/- 50 to 150 years; not very useful for evacuating towns before a quake. Narrowing the window of earthquake occurence to a few hours or days would be extremely useful, but at the same time is the hardest part of earthquake prediction.
It doesn't sound terribly useful to me.
More accurate mapping
If you are talking about GPS, that was from the space program, not geologists. The techniques used before were millenia old.
Geology has saved millions of lives, billions of dollars and created millions of jobs.
The advances you list have not saved millions of lives, and probably not billions of dollars either. If any come close why didn't you list them?
Creating jobs does not mean its useful. If people were paid to sit around and do nothing, would that be useful? We could have full employment, while still having people starving, with nothing produced.
Physics advances in the past century gave us lasers, LEDs, superconductors, semiconductors, and much more. We haven't yet utilized most of those discoveries.
Physics advances in the 1700s and 1800s taught us how to build more sturdy buildings(theory of elasticity), and gave us such things as antireflection coatings, motors, electromagnets, speakers/microphones, telephones, and radios.
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His statement does not say anything about bad things. A statement does not imply its converse, or the contrapositive of its converse.
Also, I don't believe the 14th amendment can be improved upon much. The real problem is courts interpreting the constitution according to their agenda, rather than what it actually says.
Unfortunately since the New Deal, and probably before then, the 10th amendment, which is the greatest limit on federal government's power, and thus our greatest protection from corruption, has been ignored.
What if I like the Democratic presidential candidate, but the republican candidate for the senate?
You should instead limit it to one candidate per race(I don't mean as in black or white, I mean as in president, Senator, etc.).
Whats the point of paying you to pay them?
The 14th amendment requires states to grant all citizens equal protection of the law; the federal government can discriminate all it wants.
Because there are some morons who dont realize they can do that.
That's because they don't care who you are, they just want the money. Thus the other two are irrelevant. Applications where the persons identity matters require, or at least should require, as many of them as possible(remote logins can only require something you know, and in the case of accept only certain IP addresses, something you are).
thus the tag
<PARANOIA>That won't do it, in fact that would be trivial to recover. Even dd if=/dev/random of=/dev/hda 20 times won't prevent a skilled expert with an electron microscope from recovering the data. You should thermite your HD if your dumb enough not to put your browser cache on a RAM disk and disable swap. Also you should burn your memory as well(Regular memory, Video memory, Processor Cache etc.) Better yet burn your comp after each browsing session.</PARANOIA>
Why not add reckless driving and indecent exposure?
2. They made his computer unuseable causing a loss of income.
3. They intruded into his home and refused to leave his personal property alone.
Life, Liberty and the pursuit of happiness, all of these were infringed by the spammers.
Which of the three killed him, and which one of them enslaved him? You may be right about them infringing the right to pursuit of happiness, but not the other two.
How could he follow up on that threat; in other words, how exactly would one go about killing a company? Does it mean to put them out of business? Was he just boycotting the company in question?
I think he's referring to Darl's father.
Did he give it that name? Is "Star Wars" being used to refer to a competitor of the movie? If the answer to either question is no he's not guilty of trademark infringement,
Writers such as Homer, and Shakespeare wrote before copyright. Mozart, Beethoven, and Bach did not rely on copyright. Neither the cave painters, nor Rennaisance sculpters & painters, such as Michelangelo or Leonardo Da Vinci, used copyright. Artistic works are created without copyright laws.
Yeah, but what about the BSD is dying posts?
They may have been planning it that long.
No, Microsoft payed for a license.
If a large amount of mass is moved, it may change the orbits, but they will be in a new stable state.
My point still stands because:
1. They weren't done by geologists.
2. They weren't done in the past 50 years
it's C#
All thats needed are the Navier-stokes equations, for the wind, and the heat equation for the temperature. Predicting the rain is rather simple given the temperature and pressure everywhere. The only problem is due to chaos, so inaccurate measurements will give very bad predictions. No geology is required, All thats needed is 19th century physics.
- Better Earthquake, volcano and other natural disaster prediction
This article states:
At present, we can determine which areas of the Earth have the most potential for damage, but we cannot determine within a short time when a major earthquake will occur. We know from historical records and observation how often many faults move, thus we can tell which are due to move next. However, we can only guess with an accuracy of +/- 50 to 150 years; not very useful for evacuating towns before a quake. Narrowing the window of earthquake occurence to a few hours or days would be extremely useful, but at the same time is the hardest part of earthquake prediction.
It doesn't sound terribly useful to me.
More accurate mapping
If you are talking about GPS, that was from the space program, not geologists. The techniques used before were millenia old.
Geology has saved millions of lives, billions of dollars and created millions of jobs.
The advances you list have not saved millions of lives, and probably not billions of dollars either. If any come close why didn't you list them?
Creating jobs does not mean its useful. If people were paid to sit around and do nothing, would that be useful? We could have full employment, while still having people starving, with nothing produced.
Physics advances in the 1700s and 1800s taught us how to build more sturdy buildings(theory of elasticity), and gave us such things as antireflection coatings, motors, electromagnets, speakers/microphones, telephones, and radios.
What advances have we obtained from geology?
Thats muons, not protons.