You aren't too bright. The correct comparison is your father-in-law saying people are stealing his potatoes when they merely take a picture for their scrapbook.
Some of us care. Unfortunately, we seem to be a small minority. The typical American is happy to sit at home being spoon fed his/her weekly episode of "American Idol" and trade email chain letters that are the online equivalent of the National Equirer (think big foot, Elvis sightings, and UFOs).
when the Zionists burned down their homes in Palestine and forced them.
I see you have read the "history according to hamas" book. I bet you believe the Jews use the blood of muslim babies to make matzah.
I've long ago given up on education close minded racist fools such as yourself. No amount of evidence that refutes your preconceived notions will ever convince you to even consider the possibility that you are wrong.
I'm all for more educational loan programs, but only if that includes trade schools. Do we really need another idiot with an advanced degree in [fill in the blank] studies? Hell no. We need people with useful skills. Some people aren't cut out to tolerate four years of history and philosophy, but would thrive under an apprenticeship program. Electricians make a damn good living, so let's help the ones with the inclination for that kind of work instead of insisting they go to a university.
As for their mother. Odds are, the ones who drop out of school and rely on mom will eventually end up on welfare, so they need to learn what it's like without her help before it's too late.
I would have to agree. Up through middle school I would hold the parent responsible. Once a kid hits high-school, however, yank the truants and trouble-makers from regular classes and put them in the university of hamburgers. To really drive the point home, though, you would need to force them to live on just the wages they earn, with no help from mommy. Juggling a budget on minimum wages is a damn good learning experience.
That depends. If only students with a history of truancy are tagged, then I don't have a problem with this. However, as with all things handled by the government, they will eventually expand it to automatically tag all students, regardless of their attendance record.
Considering the violent crime rate in the UK, if the cameras deter any crime at all then the whole damn island is a complete toilet and should probably be nuked from orbit (it's the only way to be sure). The UK has the highest violent crime rate of the entire western world, fyi.
I hate press releases like this. "$435 in 10,000 quantities". How much for just one of the damn things with the software I need to fool around with it? Is that too much to ask? It would be cool to have one of these, but I'm sure it won't be worth the effort or the expense (I figure a single unit will be at least double the quantity price).
Just think, you can safely print out your "standard lobbyist price list" and it will erase itself, thus rendering it useless in corruption trials. w00t!
The meeting planning feature of Exchange is simply outstanding. Nothing else out there comes close to doing the job so well (from the user's perceptive). Security and backend stability is an entirely different matter. You couldn't pay me enough to touch an Exchange server.
I did not mean to insult any nation. The world's reaction to the relief effort made me stop for a moment and think, "damn, there's hope for the human race after all!" The UN delegation, however, was a completely different matter. I wasn't joking when I said they bitched about the hotel buffet. They did. And they didn't do a damn thing to actually help the relief effort.
BTW, according to the numbers, the average donation per capita of you Aussies was about USD 66. Holy shit, you guys ROCK!
You are joking, right? How is a reporter an essential element of a relief effort? They aren't there to save lives. In a disaster, a good news story is not a high priority to the people dying. The reporters didn't have any problems getting there, so I where's the problem?
The U.S. gives more money to countries in need than anyone other country in the world -- by a huge margin, especially if you combine government and private aid. When a disaster hits, the U.S. is often the first there with actual relief supplies. When that tsunami hit, the UN spent the first few months bitching about the quality of the hotel buffet and didn't do a damn thing about the people who needed help. The U.S. immediately sent a naval carrier task force (I think it took about a week to get there) -- which was criticized by idiots. A carrier task force gives you:
Multiple hospitals, fully stocked with everything you need. Tons of food. Enough electrical power to supply a city. The most modern communication equipment in the world. The ability to create something like 100,000 gallons of pure drinking water a day. Helicopters for transporting supplies, personal, and the injured. Construction equipment, bulldozers are handy things when buildings have collapsed. Security. Natural disasters tend to attract roving bands of thugs who take advantage of the chaos to prey upon the helpless. etc, etc, etc.
A carrier task force is about the best damn thing to have around when dealing with a disaster of that magnitude. I don't even need to list the huge sums of money and supplies donated by the American people and American businesses. I know of a lot of companies that sponsored donation matching.
Replying to my own post, I know, how tacky. I had some thoughts on whether the FCC fell under legal Federal authority (not counting the weak interstate commerce link).
1. Radio waves are simply a modern version of the printing press and newspapers, therefore the 1st Amendment forbids the Feds from interfering with freedom of speech and the press. Therefore the FCC is an illegal government agency.
or
2. Radio waves are simply a modern version of the postal system, which the Constitution specifically gives the Feds jurisdiction over. Therefore the FCC is perfectly legal and proper.
As I said before, the FCC was a poor choice on my part because it falls into that nasty "gray" zone.
The basic problem is people have been letting the Federal government overstep it's Constitutional boundaries because they liked what the government was going to do. For example, the FCC seems like a perfectly reasonable government agency. The airwaves do need oversight,otherwise it becomes an unusable mess. However, unless you are stretching "interstate commerce" to the breaking point, the Feds do not have the legal authority to get involved. A Constitutional amendment is needed to make this legal. Since my example is in a gray zone, I have a better one. Department of Education. No where does the Constitution mention a single word about education. That was always considered a local issue. Education was handled by the city or county. You can't even stretch "interstate commerce" to cover education. Therefore, everything the Department of Education does is illegal. Period.
Some people want Federal intervention. Fine. Get a damn amendment passed.
I believe at least 90% of what the Federal government does exceeds there Constitutional authority. If we could somehow get the Constitution enforced, we could shed a whole lot of government fat. There'd be a big pile of useless bureaucrats looking for honest work, but that's their problem. I understand there's good money to be made picking lettuce in California.
A possible good side-effect. They might start passing short, simple laws instead of these encyclopedia laws that no one has any hope of understanding. Imagine being able to understand the laws you are required to know! (ignorance of the law is not an excuse, etc).
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You aren't too bright. The correct comparison is your father-in-law saying people are stealing his potatoes when they merely take a picture for their scrapbook.
Some of us care. Unfortunately, we seem to be a small minority. The typical American is happy to sit at home being spoon fed his/her weekly episode of "American Idol" and trade email chain letters that are the online equivalent of the National Equirer (think big foot, Elvis sightings, and UFOs).
I see you have read the "history according to hamas" book. I bet you believe the Jews use the blood of muslim babies to make matzah.
I've long ago given up on education close minded racist fools such as yourself. No amount of evidence that refutes your preconceived notions will ever convince you to even consider the possibility that you are wrong.
I'm all for more educational loan programs, but only if that includes trade schools. Do we really need another idiot with an advanced degree in [fill in the blank] studies? Hell no. We need people with useful skills. Some people aren't cut out to tolerate four years of history and philosophy, but would thrive under an apprenticeship program. Electricians make a damn good living, so let's help the ones with the inclination for that kind of work instead of insisting they go to a university.
As for their mother. Odds are, the ones who drop out of school and rely on mom will eventually end up on welfare, so they need to learn what it's like without her help before it's too late.
I would have to agree. Up through middle school I would hold the parent responsible. Once a kid hits high-school, however, yank the truants and trouble-makers from regular classes and put them in the university of hamburgers. To really drive the point home, though, you would need to force them to live on just the wages they earn, with no help from mommy. Juggling a budget on minimum wages is a damn good learning experience.
That depends. If only students with a history of truancy are tagged, then I don't have a problem with this. However, as with all things handled by the government, they will eventually expand it to automatically tag all students, regardless of their attendance record.
nuff said.
I'd like a copy of that when you finish making it. Any opportunity to annoy hypersensitive religious assholes is time well spent.
Considering the violent crime rate in the UK, if the cameras deter any crime at all then the whole damn island is a complete toilet and should probably be nuked from orbit (it's the only way to be sure). The UK has the highest violent crime rate of the entire western world, fyi.
I hate press releases like this. "$435 in 10,000 quantities". How much for just one of the damn things with the software I need to fool around with it? Is that too much to ask? It would be cool to have one of these, but I'm sure it won't be worth the effort or the expense (I figure a single unit will be at least double the quantity price).
Just think, you can safely print out your "standard lobbyist price list" and it will erase itself, thus rendering it useless in corruption trials. w00t!
No Way! If they coded it with emacs, the average reader wouldn't know what 12 keys to hit simultaneously to get to the story.
Need I say more?
I've tried a number of different packages, mostly open source stuff. Every single one of them was a piece of crap.
I have not had the opportunity to try out the Oracle product.
Except the kids were sent to stay with their grandmother. In Russia. Funny how that worked out.
The meeting planning feature of Exchange is simply outstanding. Nothing else out there comes close to doing the job so well (from the user's perceptive). Security and backend stability is an entirely different matter. You couldn't pay me enough to touch an Exchange server.
I did not mean to insult any nation. The world's reaction to the relief effort made me stop for a moment and think, "damn, there's hope for the human race after all!" The UN delegation, however, was a completely different matter. I wasn't joking when I said they bitched about the hotel buffet. They did. And they didn't do a damn thing to actually help the relief effort.
BTW, according to the numbers, the average donation per capita of you Aussies was about USD 66. Holy shit, you guys ROCK!
They did send in a bunch of military vessels. My guess is there was no carrier close enough to send.
You are joking, right? How is a reporter an essential element of a relief effort? They aren't there to save lives. In a disaster, a good news story is not a high priority to the people dying. The reporters didn't have any problems getting there, so I where's the problem?
I must admit ignorance about what an ARG is capable of doing. A carrier task force is still pretty damn good to have around, wouldn't you agree?
The U.S. gives more money to countries in need than anyone other country in the world -- by a huge margin, especially if you combine government and private aid. When a disaster hits, the U.S. is often the first there with actual relief supplies. When that tsunami hit, the UN spent the first few months bitching about the quality of the hotel buffet and didn't do a damn thing about the people who needed help. The U.S. immediately sent a naval carrier task force (I think it took about a week to get there) -- which was criticized by idiots. A carrier task force gives you:
Multiple hospitals, fully stocked with everything you need.
Tons of food.
Enough electrical power to supply a city.
The most modern communication equipment in the world.
The ability to create something like 100,000 gallons of pure drinking water a day.
Helicopters for transporting supplies, personal, and the injured.
Construction equipment, bulldozers are handy things when buildings have collapsed.
Security. Natural disasters tend to attract roving bands of thugs who take advantage of the chaos to prey upon the helpless.
etc, etc, etc.
A carrier task force is about the best damn thing to have around when dealing with a disaster of that magnitude. I don't even need to list the huge sums of money and supplies donated by the American people and American businesses. I know of a lot of companies that sponsored donation matching.
Replying to my own post, I know, how tacky. I had some thoughts on whether the FCC fell under legal Federal authority (not counting the weak interstate commerce link).
1. Radio waves are simply a modern version of the printing press and newspapers, therefore the 1st Amendment forbids the Feds from interfering with freedom of speech and the press. Therefore the FCC is an illegal government agency.
or
2. Radio waves are simply a modern version of the postal system, which the Constitution specifically gives the Feds jurisdiction over. Therefore the FCC is perfectly legal and proper.
As I said before, the FCC was a poor choice on my part because it falls into that nasty "gray" zone.
The basic problem is people have been letting the Federal government overstep it's Constitutional boundaries because they liked what the government was going to do. For example, the FCC seems like a perfectly reasonable government agency. The airwaves do need oversight,otherwise it becomes an unusable mess. However, unless you are stretching "interstate commerce" to the breaking point, the Feds do not have the legal authority to get involved. A Constitutional amendment is needed to make this legal. Since my example is in a gray zone, I have a better one. Department of Education. No where does the Constitution mention a single word about education. That was always considered a local issue. Education was handled by the city or county. You can't even stretch "interstate commerce" to cover education. Therefore, everything the Department of Education does is illegal. Period.
Some people want Federal intervention. Fine. Get a damn amendment passed.
I believe at least 90% of what the Federal government does exceeds there Constitutional authority. If we could somehow get the Constitution enforced, we could shed a whole lot of government fat. There'd be a big pile of useless bureaucrats looking for honest work, but that's their problem. I understand there's good money to be made picking lettuce in California.
How right you are. How many systems remain unpatched because some geek doesn't want to lose his humongous uptime penis?
A possible good side-effect. They might start passing short, simple laws instead of these encyclopedia laws that no one has any hope of understanding. Imagine being able to understand the laws you are required to know! (ignorance of the law is not an excuse, etc).
Naw. It will never happen.