The clause in question does NOT really criminalize failure to get insurance, it simply requires those that fail to buy a insurance to pay the government cash.
I think the distinction between unbounded taxation and compulsion can be a false one.
For example, if the government taxes me at 100% because I don't (for example) want to wear pink pajamas, then I'll be unable to provide adequate care for my children, and they can be taken away. Or it could make me homeless, which coupled with anti-loitering laws could essentially banish me from a city for now wearing pink pajamas, and it could all be done using the tax code.
So really, in the end, when the government can punish me with a ruinuos tax rate for doing something for which they can't throw me in prison, the distinction seems fairly moot.
I don't know if this counts, but I'd pay $5 for a movie involving a resurrected JarJar Binks and the guy from Temple of Doom who rips out beating hearts.
Illegal interference of a business relationship (between for example Amazon and a Comcast customer)?
Simple fraud and wire fraud, by telling customers that they're getting access to the Internet, when in fact Comcast knows its delivering only a subset of the Internet?
Copyright violation, because by filtering out some content, it loses Common Carrier status under the DMCA, and is thus liable for any coyright violations passing through its network?
Antitrust, because they're abusing their local near-monopoly on broadband internet into other areas of commerce.
The necessity of functional programming when presented with highly parallel computers has been argued for literally decades, and yet it still hasn't taken over the world.
It's not really clear to me why imperative languages have such sticking power in HPC programming, but they do.
...is what they are! This shows how dangerously crazy these people are. They are the enemies of freedom like all religious fanatics! Anybody who thinks people should be locked up for life or even murdered because of antireligious religious statements are people that are enemies of western values. The problem is that we have no good way of dealing with these lunatics when large parts of entire societies are thinking like this. It's like the West in the Middle Ages.
Oh my gosh. That was the most brilliantly self-attacking post ever. My admiration for what you accomplished is without limit.
Don't you realize that your whole post ammounts to indicating that the primary difference between you and Hammas is that that have effective tools for going after people whose views they find dangerous?
I'm wondering if the Ubuntu crowd isn't letting their success go to their heads just a tad. Just because they're the most popular distribution doesn't mean that they can start changing everything around and have everyone else follow their lead.
If you're right, it's creepy how much it parallels Obama's and the Democratic party's ambitions over the past two years.
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I think the distinction between unbounded taxation and compulsion can be a false one.
For example, if the government taxes me at 100% because I don't (for example) want to wear pink pajamas, then I'll be unable to provide adequate care for my children, and they can be taken away. Or it could make me homeless, which coupled with anti-loitering laws could essentially banish me from a city for now wearing pink pajamas, and it could all be done using the tax code.
So really, in the end, when the government can punish me with a ruinuos tax rate for doing something for which they can't throw me in prison, the distinction seems fairly moot.
Ron Paul is my biggest... fucking... hero.
My only regret is that he's not 30 years younger, so that he'd have the energy and lifespan needed to better advance his goals.
Oh come on baby, don't be like that. I swear I was just fixing her sink...
Good point. I might simply be outside Google's target demographic.
I trust me more than I trust Google.
I need to apply for patent lawyer school, pronto.
I hate eggplant even more than I hate lunh cancer!
So the virus is still 2/4 in my book. Still not a scourge.
Sorry, I don't consider a virus that primarily damages tobacco plants to be a scourge.
Cancer, heart disease, and emphasema, now those are scourges. But a virus that kills their primary pathogen? Nope.
I don't know if this counts, but I'd pay $5 for a movie involving a resurrected JarJar Binks and the guy from Temple of Doom who rips out beating hearts.
Who's with me!?
Hello?
Goddam it, why do all Slashdot discussions end up discussing the Nazis???
I demand the Australian Government sends a strong message that this won't be tolerated. They must dissolve the Australian Tax Office.
... "And it wasn't even that good!"
Do any of these hold water?
Illegal interference of a business relationship (between for example Amazon and a Comcast customer)?
Simple fraud and wire fraud, by telling customers that they're getting access to the Internet, when in fact Comcast knows its delivering only a subset of the Internet?
Copyright violation, because by filtering out some content, it loses Common Carrier status under the DMCA, and is thus liable for any coyright violations passing through its network?
Antitrust, because they're abusing their local near-monopoly on broadband internet into other areas of commerce.
Well, he couldn't really object if you tried waterboarding him.
The necessity of functional programming when presented with highly parallel computers has been argued for literally decades, and yet it still hasn't taken over the world.
It's not really clear to me why imperative languages have such sticking power in HPC programming, but they do.
He heard Al Quaida's threat of "death by a thousand paper cuts" and thought, "amateurs."
Sure, but where does the basic inclination come from? I.e., why are they so much less interested in civil liberties than conscientious citizens are?
are so many governments so assholish?
Oh my gosh. That was the most brilliantly self-attacking post ever. My admiration for what you accomplished is without limit.
Don't you realize that your whole post ammounts to indicating that the primary difference between you and Hammas is that that have effective tools for going after people whose views they find dangerous?
"In the barrio like Mario"?
"Goin' to Fiji like Louigi"?
The State Department getting a diplomatic communication from China or Russia that just says, "Don't fuck with us."
Not real until you post its operational semantics!
The obvious solution is to release radioactive foxes to hunt them down.
So basically we're FPGAs?
If you're right, it's creepy how much it parallels Obama's and the Democratic party's ambitions over the past two years.