I'll assume that you're a bright person who was fooled by the sort of BS tactics that extremists on both sides use to "prove" their points. That interview on Breitbart's site (which he leaves undated, purposely) is from 2001 not from a couple of weeks ago.
If you'd like to hear something more recent, try this 2008 interview with Sunstein and Eugene Volokh
In fairness, Sunnstein's recent comments have been, in fact, against the idea of the "Internet Fairness Doctrine" which he discussed in his book Republic.com. Since that writing, he has said that he has been convinced by opposing arguments that such a policy would be ineffective and couterproductive. Having said that, I'm a bit astonished that he came up with it in the first place. As a Progressive, I'm perhaps still not far left enough to understand how such a policy, which seems to be unnecessarily destructive of free speech, would ever be worthwhile.
WTF? The guiding principle in government contracts should be to get the lowest practical price, not the lowest theoretical price. Otherwise the result would be that many companies will not care to bid for the government.
The guiding principle is that the government get the best combination of price, schedule, and quality. There is no theory in the TINA pricing. The company is required to say "our costs will be X and our profit Y to deliver Z to you when you want it." The government "allows" only a certain amount of profit on a contract. If you make more, perhaps a component's cost goes down hugely in the market, you are required to go back to the gov't and allow them a rebate on their cost. If you make more because you fudged the numbers, you get barred from federal contracts and may also end up behind bars.
It is for these exact reasons that many companies don't do business with the government. I should also mention (having some experience in the process) that the companies still manage to hide an awful lot of "excess profit" and I don't feel the need to cry for them.
My first job was in detailing cost estimates for a company that custom built heavy mechanical equipment. One rule there was that for any government job the cost would be higher. There's so much paperwork involved in government jobs that it's impossible to do it at the same price you charge private companies.
Don't have a GSA Schedule Contract, then. Trust me, those vendors who have them are happy to have one, but not all vendors/products work well with them. I think you're confusing contracting with the government in general with having a Most Favored Customer agreement with them. Not all (not most?) government contracts have such a clause.
Drill two relief wells at the same time as the main well and either leave the last few feet unfinished or enhance the casing to reinforce the area left open to the relief wells. When BOP fails, push through.
- Unwashed Mass
"Conspiracy theories abound as to whether networking kit vendor Huawei is owned or controlled by the Chinese government
There's no need for a conspiracy theory. All industries in China's economy are controlled by the government. The only question is the degree to which this control is exerted.
and/or the military-industrial complex.
You can only have a military-industrial complex in a country where the two aren't both arms of the government. An iron triangle can't exist when only one actor is involved.
I live in rural Texas. What you have here is a buncha people who are independent and are tired of government encroaching on civil liberty and forcing "help" on us.
Right. Those independent folks just want to be left alone to make their way. No help needed from the government.
Do you have paved roads leading to and from town? Many of those roads were paid for by folks not in your town or county. Electricity? You might want to thank those meddling bastards-- especially this one. Postal service without a drive to an actual city? Phones? Hospitals? The list goes on.
You're not independent. Like so many others, you're tired of government "help" only to the extent that you dislike the help they offer.
This scheme has no chance of success. No self-respecting Apple user would allow anything in their backdoor that didn't come dressed in a turtleneck and jeans.
Take a look at the biggest Insurance industry recipients - the majority are DEMOCRATS. Who do you think paid for this bill?
While that is true for 2010, in years prior it was not. In terms of individual numbers, Republicans are far in the lead in terms of overall insurance industry contributions.
In other words, your crooks seem to be far more effective than my crooks.
You likely are suffering from atrial fibrillation. It is most often an electrical problem with the heart and can be controlled (typically) with antiarrhythmic medication. Sometimes, as it was in my case, it can be indicative of a more serious heart problem (in my case 2 of my three major arteries were fully blocked). You need to see a cardiologist as soon as possible. This may not be, but could be, something life-threatening.
You are correct, but the GP talked about corporations which are creations of law (passed by our government) and not of simple association like the simple business you describe. These laws specifically give advantages to corporations and other legal entities which would not exist outside the law (again, passed by and enforced through our government). The greatest of these is, of course, the limitation on pass-through liability for acts of the corporation to its shareholders/owners. Nowhere in the Constitution is the right to create such entities explicitly given to the government, yet many folks seem to think their existence is just fine with them as is the shield from liability afforded to their owners (which is contrary to our legal notions of personhood and legal responsibility).
I'm fine with unlimited corporate contributions to political candidates so long as the government does not provide a protected status to corporations. Feel free to form business associations. but understand that each of the members of these associations will be fully, personally liable for all actions and debts of the association. What's that? Without protection from liability there will be no corporations? Fine by me. Until that point, entities whose existence is solely a matter of law should realize that the law can constrain as well as benefit them.
Opera is like a family grocery store that decided to make money rather than stand on principle. Greed is greed and that "everyone else is doing it" doesn't excuse them. I don't pretend that it's not their right to make this choice, but please stop pretending that it's not a choice.
The problem is, ss soon as we get a 100% effective missile shield, enemies will find a way to deliver nuclear armaments. It wouldn't even be that hard. They can just park a ship off a Manhattan and light one off if they wanted to.
Your argument is a form of the broken window theory.
I won't argue the merit of your case, but you are confusing the parable of the broken window with a sociological theory which alleges to describe the positive effect that ameliorating environmental blight can have on curbing negative social interactions (i.e. that fixing broken windows can reduce crime).
it sounds more like this is a game of chicken that NASA intends to play in order to secure more funding, either from congress or elsewhere.
It's called the "Washington Monument ploy" (briefly described here). Agencies do it all the time. It takes its name from the Park Service saying that they'll have to close down sites like the Washington Monument to make the necessary spending cuts when their budget is reduced.
It's this part: "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."
I think you missed this part "The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several states, and without regard to any census or enumeration." (Am. XVI). The tuition reimbursement comes in the form of a tax credit.
In the same way that the drinking age isn't "mandatory"?
Either is the community service. The community service is a requirement in order to get the tax break. If you don't want the dough, don't do the work.
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I'll assume that you're a bright person who was fooled by the sort of BS tactics that extremists on both sides use to "prove" their points. That interview on Breitbart's site (which he leaves undated, purposely) is from 2001 not from a couple of weeks ago.
If you'd like to hear something more recent, try this 2008 interview with Sunstein and Eugene Volokh
In fairness, Sunnstein's recent comments have been, in fact, against the idea of the "Internet Fairness Doctrine" which he discussed in his book Republic.com. Since that writing, he has said that he has been convinced by opposing arguments that such a policy would be ineffective and couterproductive. Having said that, I'm a bit astonished that he came up with it in the first place. As a Progressive, I'm perhaps still not far left enough to understand how such a policy, which seems to be unnecessarily destructive of free speech, would ever be worthwhile.
WTF? The guiding principle in government contracts should be to get the lowest practical price, not the lowest theoretical price. Otherwise the result would be that many companies will not care to bid for the government.
The guiding principle is that the government get the best combination of price, schedule, and quality. There is no theory in the TINA pricing. The company is required to say "our costs will be X and our profit Y to deliver Z to you when you want it." The government "allows" only a certain amount of profit on a contract. If you make more, perhaps a component's cost goes down hugely in the market, you are required to go back to the gov't and allow them a rebate on their cost. If you make more because you fudged the numbers, you get barred from federal contracts and may also end up behind bars. It is for these exact reasons that many companies don't do business with the government. I should also mention (having some experience in the process) that the companies still manage to hide an awful lot of "excess profit" and I don't feel the need to cry for them.
My first job was in detailing cost estimates for a company that custom built heavy mechanical equipment. One rule there was that for any government job the cost would be higher. There's so much paperwork involved in government jobs that it's impossible to do it at the same price you charge private companies.
Don't have a GSA Schedule Contract, then. Trust me, those vendors who have them are happy to have one, but not all vendors/products work well with them. I think you're confusing contracting with the government in general with having a Most Favored Customer agreement with them. Not all (not most?) government contracts have such a clause.
Nor do I - anymore. Delete Yahoo! Account
Drill two relief wells at the same time as the main well and either leave the last few feet unfinished or enhance the casing to reinforce the area left open to the relief wells. When BOP fails, push through. - Unwashed Mass
"Conspiracy theories abound as to whether networking kit vendor Huawei is owned or controlled by the Chinese government
There's no need for a conspiracy theory. All industries in China's economy are controlled by the government. The only question is the degree to which this control is exerted.
and/or the military-industrial complex.
You can only have a military-industrial complex in a country where the two aren't both arms of the government. An iron triangle can't exist when only one actor is involved.
I live in rural Texas. What you have here is a buncha people who are independent and are tired of government encroaching on civil liberty and forcing "help" on us.
Right. Those independent folks just want to be left alone to make their way. No help needed from the government.
Do you have paved roads leading to and from town? Many of those roads were paid for by folks not in your town or county. Electricity? You might want to thank those meddling bastards-- especially this one. Postal service without a drive to an actual city? Phones? Hospitals? The list goes on.
You're not independent. Like so many others, you're tired of government "help" only to the extent that you dislike the help they offer.
This scheme has no chance of success. No self-respecting Apple user would allow anything in their backdoor that didn't come dressed in a turtleneck and jeans.
This is why they can't give the iPhone away in Japan, because without the hype, the iPhone isn't really all that great compared to the competition.
Really? Are you sure about that?
Take a look at the biggest Insurance industry recipients - the majority are DEMOCRATS. Who do you think paid for this bill?
While that is true for 2010, in years prior it was not. In terms of individual numbers, Republicans are far in the lead in terms of overall insurance industry contributions. In other words, your crooks seem to be far more effective than my crooks.
You likely are suffering from atrial fibrillation. It is most often an electrical problem with the heart and can be controlled (typically) with antiarrhythmic medication. Sometimes, as it was in my case, it can be indicative of a more serious heart problem (in my case 2 of my three major arteries were fully blocked). You need to see a cardiologist as soon as possible. This may not be, but could be, something life-threatening.
You seem a little down; perhaps your humors are imbalanced. A good leeching should fix that right up!
You are correct, but the GP talked about corporations which are creations of law (passed by our government) and not of simple association like the simple business you describe. These laws specifically give advantages to corporations and other legal entities which would not exist outside the law (again, passed by and enforced through our government). The greatest of these is, of course, the limitation on pass-through liability for acts of the corporation to its shareholders/owners. Nowhere in the Constitution is the right to create such entities explicitly given to the government, yet many folks seem to think their existence is just fine with them as is the shield from liability afforded to their owners (which is contrary to our legal notions of personhood and legal responsibility). I'm fine with unlimited corporate contributions to political candidates so long as the government does not provide a protected status to corporations. Feel free to form business associations. but understand that each of the members of these associations will be fully, personally liable for all actions and debts of the association. What's that? Without protection from liability there will be no corporations? Fine by me. Until that point, entities whose existence is solely a matter of law should realize that the law can constrain as well as benefit them.
It put the fear of God into the Pakistanis.
No he spent 20 minutes in the toilet possibly preparing for the explosion.
Reminds me of a trip home from I weekend I spent in Mexico
That's why I voted for Cthulhu. Why vote for the lesser evil?
Opera is like a family grocery store that decided to make money rather than stand on principle. Greed is greed and that "everyone else is doing it" doesn't excuse them. I don't pretend that it's not their right to make this choice, but please stop pretending that it's not a choice.
Now, can someone direct me to a site showing how to setup this Encryption Garner Exemption software so that it will notify people of data breaches?
/. to hire an editor?
Or do we just need
The problem is, ss soon as we get a 100% effective missile shield, enemies will find a way to deliver nuclear armaments. It wouldn't even be that hard. They can just park a ship off a Manhattan and light one off if they wanted to.
That's when we deploy the sharks!
Your argument is a form of the broken window theory.
I won't argue the merit of your case, but you are confusing the parable of the broken window with a sociological theory which alleges to describe the positive effect that ameliorating environmental blight can have on curbing negative social interactions (i.e. that fixing broken windows can reduce crime).
it sounds more like this is a game of chicken that NASA intends to play in order to secure more funding, either from congress or elsewhere.
It's called the "Washington Monument ploy" (briefly described here). Agencies do it all the time. It takes its name from the Park Service saying that they'll have to close down sites like the Washington Monument to make the necessary spending cuts when their budget is reduced.
or nativity of some people.
In case of nativity, I'm guessing vaccines may not be necessary.
It's this part: "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."
I think you missed this part "The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several states, and without regard to any census or enumeration." (Am. XVI). The tuition reimbursement comes in the form of a tax credit.
In the same way that the drinking age isn't "mandatory"?
Either is the community service. The community service is a requirement in order to get the tax break. If you don't want the dough, don't do the work.
Me and Vinny thinks it's great!
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They can't even statuate if EULAs are binding contracts for fuck's sake
I believe that you may have envocabularized a word who existence was not heretofore knowledged.