Returning to the Articles of Confederation, but solving the funding problem should do it. All the social programs should be moved to the state governments, where they belong.
Well, if you aren't interested in defending the rights of "bosses", who I assume to mean "employers", then there's that. Remember, "employer" is not synonymous with "corporation"-- so no need to break out the "corporations shouldn't be people" straw man, because sole proprietors and partnerships ARE people. The end result of that would be the confiscation of the people's property rights by putting the means of production into the hands of the government. After all, if I'm not allowed to run a business, then someone has to do it! At that point, the only alternative is fascism, where I technically own my business but the government is my boss.
Mandating overtime pay means taking rights away from employers. Should I pay people extra for overtime? Yes. Should the government make this decision? No, not while people are free to enter into and exit from employment agreements.
Mandating single-payer health care means having no say in your care. It also means paying for health care through taxes even if you don't want or need it. Single-payer health care reduces rights.
Paid vacations "of a decent length" means turning over the judgement of "decent length" to the government. Should the government make this decision? No, not while people are free to enter into and exit from employment agreements.
Poor, middle class, and rich people are still going to steal from you even if their needs are taken care of. We're used to labeling all "rich" people thieves when we hear about corrupt CEOs or Bernie Madoffs. They are rich, yet they steal. Why would a poor person be assumed to have any more morals?
Strict environmental laws can remove the right of property owners to use their land as long as it doesn't impact anyone else's freedom. You may scoff, but the EPA prevents people from doing anything with land features (like lakes or wetland) that is entirely contained within their property and doesn't harm anyone. Should the plants and animals be protected, too? Yes, but this is a moral decision, and government has no morals. The US government long ago passed from being conservationist with public lands, and fascist-environmentalist by taking de facto control of private property, yet expecting the property owner to still pay for its upkeep and taxes.
Perhaps you don't know the history of the Americas, but when European settlers came they tended to push indigenous peoples out of their territory; eventually, the US government made the minimal concession of relinquishing territory in the form of reservations. The Navaho Nation is just that: an autonomous entity within the USA, organized much like similar entities within Canada. There is nothing racist about this, although the concept of a "Navajo Nation" is, by definition, both cultural and nationalist.
Consider yourself lucky that you weren't modded down to oblivion, because your thinking is a bit out of line with reality. This isn't like someone building infrastructure in a neighborhood just so the particular ethnic group in that neighborhood can use it-- you might have an argument there.
Man, that thing was a tank for an inkjet. I bought mine (a 500C) used in the mid 1990s and only retired it because it was annoying having to swap carts to print color, and being an early color inkjet the color prints were as blurry as an old Polaroid print.
Maybe if the medical community had explained how someone who responded to stimuli (like people speaking around her) wasn't really conscious, instead of using hand-waving and insulting the skeptics, they wouldn't have turned this into a total fiasco.
Yes, let's fire up the printing presses and make some magical fairy money. Don't mind the fact that the few of us who have continued to work hard, be fiscally responsible and fight to build assets instead of relying on government services will have our wealth wiped out by your hyperinflation.
Why is the left so obsessed with those guys? Really, you are all mentally ill. There is so much more out there past the confines of The Daily Kos and Slashdot.
If you think voting for the Green Party is a way to secure your personal freedoms, you are sadly mistaken. If there was a name for an environmental-socialist "theocracy", their platform would be it.
I'm just stunned at the incompetence. To decide that an employee's contributions are irrelevant and fire him because he broke some unwritten "no cameras" rule is spiteful and hurts the company-- let alone a human being who didn't even do anything wrong. Even Genghis Khan would be appalled.
The blackberry is the most counter-intuitive, unfriendly phone I've ever used. Its killer app is email, but being that it's a PHONE, functions like SMS/MMS, phone, and voice mail should be just as easy to use. No, instead the text messages disappear into a mess once you've read them, you have to dig through menus to access your voice mail number, and you accidentally dial people all the time because touching a phone entry, or pushing the nav button, or pushing the dial button all dial the phone. I have three different one-touch ways of dialing someone, but have to press three times to get to voice mail.
If it's so important to keep monitoring stations away from human and plant influence, why is it that most temperature monitoring stations are in the middle of towns and cities? It's great that the Muana Loa CO2 monitoring station has been deemed accurate, but what about the hundreds of monitoring stations that are in cities, placed near the exhaust of air conditioners, obsolete, uncalibrated, in direct sunlight, in the reflection of glass skyscrapers, on black-rooftopped buildings, etc.? This is why a significant number of people are skeptics. If you want people to buy into the AGW scenario, you have to show all of 1. Increasing CO2 trend, 2. Increasing global mean temperature trend, 3. Human influence. Instead, we have pseudo-scientists on talking head shows saying, "It's hot! That's AGW!" or "CO2 keeps going up! That's AGW!" or "We burn too many fossil fuels! That's AGW!"
Even if they were young-earth creationists, what does that have to do with their opinions on global warming? Your argument is fallacious, and the Scopes monkey trial was a long time ago.
In addition to this head-scratcher in the linked article:
For all you music buffs out there, Jacklin also mentions that he wanted the sound to have a happy vibe, so he particularly experimented with "notes from the major scale, focusing on I, III, IV, V, and VIII" octaves.
I'm guessing the article writer isn't a musician, not knowing that the VIII and the octave mean the same (although I never hear anyone use VIII; it's octave or in notation "8va" because harmonically the I and the VIII are the same).
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Or at least I shouldn't have to pay for ESPN 8, "The Ocho".
Returning to the Articles of Confederation, but solving the funding problem should do it. All the social programs should be moved to the state governments, where they belong.
WOW... Linux has no bugs? The documentation-- haha, man pages-- is 100% correct?
Well, if you aren't interested in defending the rights of "bosses", who I assume to mean "employers", then there's that. Remember, "employer" is not synonymous with "corporation"-- so no need to break out the "corporations shouldn't be people" straw man, because sole proprietors and partnerships ARE people. The end result of that would be the confiscation of the people's property rights by putting the means of production into the hands of the government. After all, if I'm not allowed to run a business, then someone has to do it! At that point, the only alternative is fascism, where I technically own my business but the government is my boss.
Mandating overtime pay means taking rights away from employers. Should I pay people extra for overtime? Yes. Should the government make this decision? No, not while people are free to enter into and exit from employment agreements.
Mandating single-payer health care means having no say in your care. It also means paying for health care through taxes even if you don't want or need it. Single-payer health care reduces rights.
Paid vacations "of a decent length" means turning over the judgement of "decent length" to the government. Should the government make this decision? No, not while people are free to enter into and exit from employment agreements.
Poor, middle class, and rich people are still going to steal from you even if their needs are taken care of. We're used to labeling all "rich" people thieves when we hear about corrupt CEOs or Bernie Madoffs. They are rich, yet they steal. Why would a poor person be assumed to have any more morals?
Strict environmental laws can remove the right of property owners to use their land as long as it doesn't impact anyone else's freedom. You may scoff, but the EPA prevents people from doing anything with land features (like lakes or wetland) that is entirely contained within their property and doesn't harm anyone. Should the plants and animals be protected, too? Yes, but this is a moral decision, and government has no morals. The US government long ago passed from being conservationist with public lands, and fascist-environmentalist by taking de facto control of private property, yet expecting the property owner to still pay for its upkeep and taxes.
No, I blame them on Yahoo, which broke its RSS feed weeks ago and hasn't fixed it. I have a job, so I haven't had time to redo the page yet.
Perhaps you don't know the history of the Americas, but when European settlers came they tended to push indigenous peoples out of their territory; eventually, the US government made the minimal concession of relinquishing territory in the form of reservations. The Navaho Nation is just that: an autonomous entity within the USA, organized much like similar entities within Canada. There is nothing racist about this, although the concept of a "Navajo Nation" is, by definition, both cultural and nationalist.
Consider yourself lucky that you weren't modded down to oblivion, because your thinking is a bit out of line with reality. This isn't like someone building infrastructure in a neighborhood just so the particular ethnic group in that neighborhood can use it-- you might have an argument there.
Man, that thing was a tank for an inkjet. I bought mine (a 500C) used in the mid 1990s and only retired it because it was annoying having to swap carts to print color, and being an early color inkjet the color prints were as blurry as an old Polaroid print.
Maybe if the medical community had explained how someone who responded to stimuli (like people speaking around her) wasn't really conscious, instead of using hand-waving and insulting the skeptics, they wouldn't have turned this into a total fiasco.
If you hold little value in the autonomy of your city or your country, what do you think your own autonomy is worth in a "democratic Europe"?
Yes, let's fire up the printing presses and make some magical fairy money. Don't mind the fact that the few of us who have continued to work hard, be fiscally responsible and fight to build assets instead of relying on government services will have our wealth wiped out by your hyperinflation.
Of course, when you're out of the recession but aren't recovering, it doesn't mean much.
Why is the left so obsessed with those guys? Really, you are all mentally ill. There is so much more out there past the confines of The Daily Kos and Slashdot.
They worked for the government.
Dancing with the devil.
I didn't know genital wigs were afraid of anything.
No he didn't, so please stop being stupid.
His monsterdom was apparent to anyone who looked at the organizations he was associated with, the company he kept, and the speeches he made.
If you think voting for the Green Party is a way to secure your personal freedoms, you are sadly mistaken. If there was a name for an environmental-socialist "theocracy", their platform would be it.
Agreed. As long as we keep throwing our hands up in defeat, we can absolve ourselves of any responsibility for our government.
I'm just stunned at the incompetence. To decide that an employee's contributions are irrelevant and fire him because he broke some unwritten "no cameras" rule is spiteful and hurts the company-- let alone a human being who didn't even do anything wrong. Even Genghis Khan would be appalled.
The blackberry is the most counter-intuitive, unfriendly phone I've ever used. Its killer app is email, but being that it's a PHONE, functions like SMS/MMS, phone, and voice mail should be just as easy to use. No, instead the text messages disappear into a mess once you've read them, you have to dig through menus to access your voice mail number, and you accidentally dial people all the time because touching a phone entry, or pushing the nav button, or pushing the dial button all dial the phone. I have three different one-touch ways of dialing someone, but have to press three times to get to voice mail.
The kind that doesn't look at their charts and say, "oh, that result isn't what we'd expect. Let's "normalize" it.
If it's so important to keep monitoring stations away from human and plant influence, why is it that most temperature monitoring stations are in the middle of towns and cities? It's great that the Muana Loa CO2 monitoring station has been deemed accurate, but what about the hundreds of monitoring stations that are in cities, placed near the exhaust of air conditioners, obsolete, uncalibrated, in direct sunlight, in the reflection of glass skyscrapers, on black-rooftopped buildings, etc.? This is why a significant number of people are skeptics. If you want people to buy into the AGW scenario, you have to show all of 1. Increasing CO2 trend, 2. Increasing global mean temperature trend, 3. Human influence. Instead, we have pseudo-scientists on talking head shows saying, "It's hot! That's AGW!" or "CO2 keeps going up! That's AGW!" or "We burn too many fossil fuels! That's AGW!"
Even if they were young-earth creationists, what does that have to do with their opinions on global warming? Your argument is fallacious, and the Scopes monkey trial was a long time ago.
I'm getting nostalgic for a good-old game of "Snakes".
I'm guessing the article writer isn't a musician, not knowing that the VIII and the octave mean the same (although I never hear anyone use VIII; it's octave or in notation "8va" because harmonically the I and the VIII are the same).