I see a coming resurgence in 100% analog appliances
Not with thermostats. Those have gone digital and programmable for many years. Even a non-Nest thermostat will fail to operate when its battery dies (though they usually give plenty of warning). My fridge has digital controls, and even though I'm not a huge fan of the overpriced behemoth (it came with the house), I never want a fridge with a "warmer-cooler" knob again. Digital is here to stay.
IoT? Yeah, I can see the appeal of turning on your heat from afar, but the issues you raise are significant.
Even Wisconsin v. Yoder only applies to kids over 8th grade. That's a teenager.
Anyway, the supreme court held this was a 1st Amendment case - religious freedom. It also found that the Amish children are, in fact, educated - but vocationally rather than formally - therefore the state did not really have a case.
I don't see how this supports your contention that the 14th Amendment protects parental rights.
I'm a little bit baffled as to how you could justify fighting "you must supervise your minor" with an amendment meant to confer citizenship rights. That's a stretch far beyond the intention of the text.
I just re-read my comment and I agree that my wording makes no sense. Don't know where my head was at.
Anyway, this particular law does not even touch upon the boundary between federal and state - it is entirely federal and in fact explicitly forbids the Secretary of Education from messing with any local rules. The writer of TFA has zero reading comprehension skills.
I may have overstated things a bit. The landfill I'm most familiar with does this, but it's not yet standard. Apparently only the newest and/or most experimental landfills are taking these measures. There are perhaps a dozen.
It turns out, after reading the law, that the author of TFA is a nitwit. This law only directs the Education Secretary not to take any action - it even specifically forbids the Secretary from interfering with local and state laws.
Yes, but it is still power of the purse. Look at the penalties - they are all civil fines. Any criminal penalties will be state or local. And then companies wishing to do interstate business fall into that clause.
This is all through power of the purse. The feds mandate the states comply or they don't get funding. All states comply, thus it becomes the law of the land. They can't get too eager with this, or the courts slap them down - as when the feds tried to enforce Obamacare on the states by withdrawing all Medicare funding. But they were allowed by the courts to force states to enact a 21 year old drinking age by withholding 5% of federal highway dollars.
So you are invoking the equal protection clause? That's a tough sell.
Even if it were a constitutional right, it would not be congress's job to take specific action, only to enable (or require) the executive to take action. Congress cannot direct local legislatures to do anything. The 14th Amendment does not override the normal constitutional process.
I consider the legislative branch legislating to be a normal function, but fully recognize that everything is intertwined. It still does not apply here, since this part of the law being discussed only applies to the Department of Education. TFA was written by someone who can't even interpret a simple 3 paragraph clause.
That's not entirely state-of-the-art information. Current landfill technique is to indeed seal the contents from the groundwater - but they now encourage the contents to rot. In the 80s, they developed a technique of burying in layers, putting down a membrane, and then putting down another layer, etc. until the landfill is "full". At that point they cap it. Anything that leaches out of the bottom is hauled to a treatment plant. Over the last 10 years, they have modified this technique. Now between each layer they take the leech water and pour it back over the landfill. This encourages the landfill itself to become bio-reactive and to eat the nutrients in the leech water. They pretty much do this until the leech water runs more or less clear, and then they move on to the next step. This has several benefits: 1. Future leech water is much less nasty 2. Volume is reduced significantly, so more trash will fit. 3. It encourages methane production, which is captured and often used onsite or burned rather than slowly released into the atmosphere.
This - along with much improved recycling - is why we don't hear much about "running out of landfill space" anymore like we did in the 80s and 90s.
The check on executive and judicial power is not legislation (which can, after all be vetoed by the executive and nullified by the judicial). The checks available to the legislative branch are impeachment and conviction, and approval of appointments. Legislation is not a "check" - it just changes the rules that the executive can operate under - usually with the executive's agreement. But man, we have gotten off topic. The legislation in question does not even do anything to require localities to leave parents alone. In fact, it specifically prevents the Secretary of Education from meddling with local laws.
If "upholding the constitution" is the argument, then that is a job for the executive and judicial branches. You can uphold the constitution by passing unconstitutional legislation.
It's all academic anyway, as the law in question (despite TFA's assertion) does not affect local communities at all - it is only aimed at the feds.
They still can't make a law outside of their jurisdiction. And they don't - can you find me an example of a federal law that tells a locality what laws it can and cannot pass without using the power of the purse or one of the civil rights amendments?
It is exactly the people I know who I fear. We live in a small neighborhood without a lot of "strangers" passing through. Lots of people who know who my children are and know their routine. They know exactly where they will be and when. Since they are somewhat familiar faces, the kids might respond to a plea to "help find my dog" or some such ploy rather than coming to find me. The risk is not high, but it is easy and harmless to mitigate until my kids learn a little more about how shitty people they know can be.
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I see a coming resurgence in 100% analog appliances
Not with thermostats. Those have gone digital and programmable for many years. Even a non-Nest thermostat will fail to operate when its battery dies (though they usually give plenty of warning). My fridge has digital controls, and even though I'm not a huge fan of the overpriced behemoth (it came with the house), I never want a fridge with a "warmer-cooler" knob again. Digital is here to stay.
IoT? Yeah, I can see the appeal of turning on your heat from afar, but the issues you raise are significant.
Python, where a typical copy from a webpage and paste into the IDE will destroy the code? No, Javascript is fucking brilliant compared to that.
That's a feature meant to catch Stack Overflow coding. :)
If it is MIT/BSD, companies can pull things like this.
As the creator and owner of the code, MS can do this even with GPL. They don't have to "license" the code that they use on their own projects.
I hate to tell you this, but the last line was not, in fact, a joke.
Military grade just means it won't change for 30 years or so. :)
Good luck in your budding legal career.
Even Wisconsin v. Yoder only applies to kids over 8th grade. That's a teenager.
Anyway, the supreme court held this was a 1st Amendment case - religious freedom. It also found that the Amish children are, in fact, educated - but vocationally rather than formally - therefore the state did not really have a case.
I don't see how this supports your contention that the 14th Amendment protects parental rights.
I'm a little bit baffled as to how you could justify fighting "you must supervise your minor" with an amendment meant to confer citizenship rights. That's a stretch far beyond the intention of the text.
I just re-read my comment and I agree that my wording makes no sense. Don't know where my head was at.
Anyway, this particular law does not even touch upon the boundary between federal and state - it is entirely federal and in fact explicitly forbids the Secretary of Education from messing with any local rules. The writer of TFA has zero reading comprehension skills.
I may have overstated things a bit. The landfill I'm most familiar with does this, but it's not yet standard. Apparently only the newest and/or most experimental landfills are taking these measures. There are perhaps a dozen.
It turns out, after reading the law, that the author of TFA is a nitwit. This law only directs the Education Secretary not to take any action - it even specifically forbids the Secretary from interfering with local and state laws.
This is why its a really good idea not to have your money's value dependent on some arbitrary commodity value.
Yes, but it is still power of the purse. Look at the penalties - they are all civil fines. Any criminal penalties will be state or local. And then companies wishing to do interstate business fall into that clause.
This is all through power of the purse. The feds mandate the states comply or they don't get funding. All states comply, thus it becomes the law of the land. They can't get too eager with this, or the courts slap them down - as when the feds tried to enforce Obamacare on the states by withdrawing all Medicare funding. But they were allowed by the courts to force states to enact a 21 year old drinking age by withholding 5% of federal highway dollars.
I'm only seeing vehicle requirements?
So you are invoking the equal protection clause? That's a tough sell.
Even if it were a constitutional right, it would not be congress's job to take specific action, only to enable (or require) the executive to take action. Congress cannot direct local legislatures to do anything. The 14th Amendment does not override the normal constitutional process.
I consider the legislative branch legislating to be a normal function, but fully recognize that everything is intertwined. It still does not apply here, since this part of the law being discussed only applies to the Department of Education. TFA was written by someone who can't even interpret a simple 3 paragraph clause.
That's not entirely state-of-the-art information. Current landfill technique is to indeed seal the contents from the groundwater - but they now encourage the contents to rot. In the 80s, they developed a technique of burying in layers, putting down a membrane, and then putting down another layer, etc. until the landfill is "full". At that point they cap it. Anything that leaches out of the bottom is hauled to a treatment plant. Over the last 10 years, they have modified this technique. Now between each layer they take the leech water and pour it back over the landfill. This encourages the landfill itself to become bio-reactive and to eat the nutrients in the leech water. They pretty much do this until the leech water runs more or less clear, and then they move on to the next step. This has several benefits:
1. Future leech water is much less nasty
2. Volume is reduced significantly, so more trash will fit.
3. It encourages methane production, which is captured and often used onsite or burned rather than slowly released into the atmosphere.
This - along with much improved recycling - is why we don't hear much about "running out of landfill space" anymore like we did in the 80s and 90s.
No, I read the law and all it does is prevent the feds from getting involved either way. The localities can still do whatever they want.
The check on executive and judicial power is not legislation (which can, after all be vetoed by the executive and nullified by the judicial). The checks available to the legislative branch are impeachment and conviction, and approval of appointments. Legislation is not a "check" - it just changes the rules that the executive can operate under - usually with the executive's agreement. But man, we have gotten off topic. The legislation in question does not even do anything to require localities to leave parents alone. In fact, it specifically prevents the Secretary of Education from meddling with local laws.
We'll be wrapping warships in these.
And the Dreamliner will want to relocate it's black boxes inside of the battery array.
If "upholding the constitution" is the argument, then that is a job for the executive and judicial branches. You can uphold the constitution by passing unconstitutional legislation.
It's all academic anyway, as the law in question (despite TFA's assertion) does not affect local communities at all - it is only aimed at the feds.
They still can't make a law outside of their jurisdiction. And they don't - can you find me an example of a federal law that tells a locality what laws it can and cannot pass without using the power of the purse or one of the civil rights amendments?
Are women really more likely to be attacked by random people on the street?
No, because they travel in groups. Men are more likely to walk alone, and therefore are more likely to be targets of street crime.
It is exactly the people I know who I fear. We live in a small neighborhood without a lot of "strangers" passing through. Lots of people who know who my children are and know their routine. They know exactly where they will be and when. Since they are somewhat familiar faces, the kids might respond to a plea to "help find my dog" or some such ploy rather than coming to find me. The risk is not high, but it is easy and harmless to mitigate until my kids learn a little more about how shitty people they know can be.
Courts have repeatedly found that minors do not enjoy full citizenship protections. The constitution even has age discrimination built in to it.