You're way off base. It is not the role of the judiciary in this specific case to decide the (US) constitutionality of the law. It was their job to interpret the law and decide if the law covered a telecommuter, and was allowed under the NY constitution. They decided that it did and is. The appeals, in Federal court, will test if this interpretation of the law is consistent with the US Constitution.
There was no law "made up from thin air" here. It was an interpretation of an existing law.
This decision was about interpretation of NYS tax law (i.e., does NYS tax law cover a telecommuter?). The jurisdiction for such a decision would be state court. A Federal court, likely SCOTUS, will ultimately decide if that state law, as interpreted by the state court, is constitutional.
If she is representing NYS, as she is, why would she do anything about this? It means extra income for NYS, at the expense of people who don't live there. I would say that is properly representing the interests of NYS.
Now, as to the constitutional question, I think Sen. Clinton will let the SCOTUS decide that. Oddly enough, the Constitution specifies that this is the role of the judiciary, not the legislature. ("The judicial Power shall extend to all Cases... to Controversies between two or more States... between a State and Citizens of another State...")
Do you have any real argument as to why Sen. Clinton should act on this, or are you just another mindless Hillary basher?
I don't see anything that leads me to believe that Senator Clinton would support legislation banning such games.. so I'm not sure what all the knee-jerks are frothing about.
What they are doing is studying the effect on children. Gathering more data is never a bad thing, although I am concerned that it's not really an appropriate use of government money (especially $100 million or so).
In the end, this is extremely similar to Bill's pitch for the V-Chip in the 96 election.. right down to Dick Morris.
I'll pound you as often as I have to to get it through your skull: It's not the same.
It's a major pain in the butt to backup/replace/restore harddrives, so I'm not going to do just because wastefulness is fashionable.
I really don't see how this applies. When I, and the rest of the world, back things up, I don't backup apps because they are easily reinstalled from media or Internet. Maybe it's you who is wasteful in the way you back things up?
I have yet to figure out what mapquest/yahoo thinks US Route 1 (a major transportation route in my part of the country) is called.
From my experience with Mapquest in NJ, it will almost always use numbers (and only numbers) when they exist. This includes US, State, and County roads.
It's a little frustrating because county designations are rarely used by people in most areas. Luckily, they are required to be on the signs. There are also some state designations that have fallen by the wayside in everyday use, but are still on the books, so Mapquest uses them.
Yes, there are counter-examples to what I've just said. Note the words "almost always", "most" and "some".
What right do you yourself have to choose the gender of the child?
That fact that you're going to carry it for ~9 months, and (assumedly) care for it for ~18 years?
The fact that this option didn't exist in the past really isn't relevant, imo. It exists now.
Even with medical advances, you'd a damn hard time getting a (legit) abortion just because your baby "was a boy/girl".
It's my understanding, and belief, that abortion is a woman's personal decision. If a woman wants to have an abortion because the child was conceived under a full moon, or something else similarly arbitrary (like the sex of the child), that's fine with me. It's her choice, not anyone else's.
Just how the hell is this insightful? GP's point is right on: 100 MB of space is nothing today, with the exception of some niche areas.
Analogies are supposed to be used so that people can understand an unfamiliar situation. I think we're all familiar with how drive space works around here. This analogy is not just unnecessary, it also doesn't make any sense.
If you disable AX in the internet zone, bye-bye security patches.
Should read: If you disable AX in the internet zone, bye-bye easy security patches.
Patches are available at the Microsoft Download center as regular downloads. However, this will obviously not scan your system and tell you which patches you need to download.
Regulations are promulgated by Executive level entities. Congress provides these entities the authority to promulgate regulations in order to enforce laws that Congress passes.
For example, Congress may say that no one can dump Substance A without a permit, and give the Environmental Protection Agency the authority to regulate the permitting process and enforcement of permits. The EPA would then draft regulations that set up the permitting system. These regulations are subject to public comment. Agencies can ignore public comments, but they do listen from time to time (generally when a business concern objects strongly to a regulation).
The reason this is done is because Congress cannot spend the time learning the ins and outs of everything that goes on in the nation. Using laws, they set broad goals, and the agencies use regulations to achieve these goals.
I think it would be great to require a semester of media literacy in high school, where students learn all the classic propaganda techniques and how to spot them.
My public school education covered this.
In 7th grade.
We went over numerous examples of propaganda (political and commercial) and participated in group and individual exercises that consisted of creating our own propaganda. It was extremely beneficial, imo.
Some folks speculate the only reason many products *cough*DVD*cough* survive today is because customers know they can get around supposed restrictions.
And those folks would be wrong. Joe User has little idea, if any, about Macrovision, CSS, and DVD Regions. The majority of players sold fully implement these restrictions.
DVD survives because it is a vast improvement over VHS for a multitude of reasons, including: non-linearity (no rewind/ff), improved quality, extra features, smaller media size, improved durability of media, coolness factor, etc.
You're like the people who bitch about gas prices going up but keep driving your cars.
No, it's not at all like that. Gas, unlike music, is not a luxury item in this country. With the exception of some areas of some cities, it is very difficult to practically live without buying gasoline.
They couldn't take me to task on copyright law, because instead of Park Avenue I'd have "The Park Street Dealer;" instead of community chest, "the weird hippie gather in the park," et cetera. No copyright infringement; Marvin Gardens doesn't appear anywhere on the board.
If I read you correctly, Parker Brothers has copyright on the names of streets in AC?
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You're way off base. It is not the role of the judiciary in this specific case to decide the (US) constitutionality of the law. It was their job to interpret the law and decide if the law covered a telecommuter, and was allowed under the NY constitution. They decided that it did and is. The appeals, in Federal court, will test if this interpretation of the law is consistent with the US Constitution.
There was no law "made up from thin air" here. It was an interpretation of an existing law.
This decision was about interpretation of NYS tax law (i.e., does NYS tax law cover a telecommuter?). The jurisdiction for such a decision would be state court. A Federal court, likely SCOTUS, will ultimately decide if that state law, as interpreted by the state court, is constitutional.
If she is representing NYS, as she is, why would she do anything about this? It means extra income for NYS, at the expense of people who don't live there. I would say that is properly representing the interests of NYS.
Now, as to the constitutional question, I think Sen. Clinton will let the SCOTUS decide that. Oddly enough, the Constitution specifies that this is the role of the judiciary, not the legislature. ("The judicial Power shall extend to all Cases... to Controversies between two or more States... between a State and Citizens of another State...")
Do you have any real argument as to why Sen. Clinton should act on this, or are you just another mindless Hillary basher?
Does Senator Clinton advocate banning GTA? Did I miss something in the article?
Put your jump to conclusions mat away, dumbass.
I don't see anything that leads me to believe that Senator Clinton would support legislation banning such games.. so I'm not sure what all the knee-jerks are frothing about.
What they are doing is studying the effect on children. Gathering more data is never a bad thing, although I am concerned that it's not really an appropriate use of government money (especially $100 million or so).
In the end, this is extremely similar to Bill's pitch for the V-Chip in the 96 election.. right down to Dick Morris.
That's not perspective. That's a quote with no context (and, IIRC, it was about taxes, but I could be mistaken).
There's a huge difference.
I've never read one of their rulings and thought "man this is stupid".
You must never have read a Thomas decision. Oh, and surely you missed one.
There is no arbitrary cut-off. You have to factor in how much space you have, how much space you need, how much you need the program, etc.
Furthermore, I never said that 100 MB wasn't bloated. My argument is that the analogy to $100 was inappropriate.
I'll pound you as often as I have to to get it through your skull: It's not the same.
It's a major pain in the butt to backup/replace/restore harddrives, so I'm not going to do just because wastefulness is fashionable.
I really don't see how this applies. When I, and the rest of the world, back things up, I don't backup apps because they are easily reinstalled from media or Internet. Maybe it's you who is wasteful in the way you back things up?
I have yet to figure out what mapquest/yahoo thinks US Route 1 (a major transportation route in my part of the country) is called.
From my experience with Mapquest in NJ, it will almost always use numbers (and only numbers) when they exist. This includes US, State, and County roads.
It's a little frustrating because county designations are rarely used by people in most areas. Luckily, they are required to be on the signs. There are also some state designations that have fallen by the wayside in everyday use, but are still on the books, so Mapquest uses them.
Yes, there are counter-examples to what I've just said. Note the words "almost always", "most" and "some".
See: Adam West, Family Guy.
No, that's stupid thinking. ITS NOT $100, ITS 100 MB.
They are very different concepts, which is why this analogy is incorrect.
If you install acroread, and need that 100mb later, DELETE IT. If you spend $100, you're not getting it back.
What right do you yourself have to choose the gender of the child?
That fact that you're going to carry it for ~9 months, and (assumedly) care for it for ~18 years?
The fact that this option didn't exist in the past really isn't relevant, imo. It exists now.
Even with medical advances, you'd a damn hard time getting a (legit) abortion just because your baby "was a boy/girl".
It's my understanding, and belief, that abortion is a woman's personal decision. If a woman wants to have an abortion because the child was conceived under a full moon, or something else similarly arbitrary (like the sex of the child), that's fine with me. It's her choice, not anyone else's.
Just how the hell is this insightful? GP's point is right on: 100 MB of space is nothing today, with the exception of some niche areas.
Analogies are supposed to be used so that people can understand an unfamiliar situation. I think we're all familiar with how drive space works around here. This analogy is not just unnecessary, it also doesn't make any sense.
Such ignorance.
Yes, IE uses DLLs used by the rest of Windows so most of IE's code is generally always in memory.
No, there is no IE code in the kernel.
As another poster noted, it is trivial to do this in Windows with a ramdisk and a batch file to copy the files from disk to ram.
If you disable AX in the internet zone, bye-bye security patches.
Should read: If you disable AX in the internet zone, bye-bye easy security patches.
Patches are available at the Microsoft Download center as regular downloads. However, this will obviously not scan your system and tell you which patches you need to download.
Therefore, no one knows how to spell "their," "there," or "they're" anymore. Same with your/you're and many others.
Actually, they know how to spell them. They just don't know which homonym is appropriate to use.
Regulations are promulgated by Executive level entities. Congress provides these entities the authority to promulgate regulations in order to enforce laws that Congress passes.
For example, Congress may say that no one can dump Substance A without a permit, and give the Environmental Protection Agency the authority to regulate the permitting process and enforcement of permits. The EPA would then draft regulations that set up the permitting system. These regulations are subject to public comment. Agencies can ignore public comments, but they do listen from time to time (generally when a business concern objects strongly to a regulation).
The reason this is done is because Congress cannot spend the time learning the ins and outs of everything that goes on in the nation. Using laws, they set broad goals, and the agencies use regulations to achieve these goals.
Great, so i can use Firefox for Windows updates?
Sure you can. You just can't use the Windows Update ActiveX control. You can use the MS Download Center site to find the direct patch downloads.
Lesson: Sure, IE isn't part of the operating system, provided you don't count a working TCP/IP stack as a necessary part of the OS.
more like.. Lesson: Once your machine is infected with spyware, only a complete reinstall will ensure proper operation.
Reinstall, then try removing IE and get back to us.
I think it would be great to require a semester of media literacy in high school, where students learn all the classic propaganda techniques and how to spot them.
My public school education covered this.
In 7th grade.
We went over numerous examples of propaganda (political and commercial) and participated in group and individual exercises that consisted of creating our own propaganda. It was extremely beneficial, imo.
Some folks speculate the only reason many products *cough*DVD*cough* survive today is because customers know they can get around supposed restrictions.
And those folks would be wrong. Joe User has little idea, if any, about Macrovision, CSS, and DVD Regions. The majority of players sold fully implement these restrictions.
DVD survives because it is a vast improvement over VHS for a multitude of reasons, including: non-linearity (no rewind/ff), improved quality, extra features, smaller media size, improved durability of media, coolness factor, etc.
You're like the people who bitch about gas prices going up but keep driving your cars.
No, it's not at all like that. Gas, unlike music, is not a luxury item in this country. With the exception of some areas of some cities, it is very difficult to practically live without buying gasoline.
They couldn't take me to task on copyright law, because instead of Park Avenue I'd have "The Park Street Dealer;" instead of community chest, "the weird hippie gather in the park," et cetera. No copyright infringement; Marvin Gardens doesn't appear anywhere on the board.
If I read you correctly, Parker Brothers has copyright on the names of streets in AC?