Isn't ruling from the heart and not from the head exactly the sort of thing people rail against when it comes to Supreme Court nominees?
Following the text of the Constitution is not "reading from the heart". Regarding two rights that Ms. Kagen apparently takes issue with, the document plainly states that Congress shall make no law (1st amendment) and that the right shall not be infringed (2nd amendment).
If you read the article, Kagen seems to think that the Government should have the power to outlaw the production of pornography altogether. Significantly more troubling is the fact that she thinks we need to prohibit "hate speech".
We should be looking for new approaches, devising new arguments,” Kagan declared, according to video of the event reviewed by POLITICO. She seemed to count herself among “those of us who favor some form of pornography and hate speech regulation” and told participants that “a great deal can be done very usefully” to crack down on such evils.
“Statutes may be crafted in ways that prohibit the worst of hate speech and pornography, language that goes to sexual violence. Such statutes may still be constitutional,” Kagan assured the meeting. She pressed for “new and harsher penalties against the kinds of violence against women that takes place in producing pornography, the use of pandering statutes and pimp statutes against pornographersperhaps the initiation—the enactment of new statutes prohibiting the hiring of women for commercial purposes to engage in sexual activities.”
So, we can outlaw the production of pornography (by making it illegal to pay actresses for performing in it) and whatever the Government deems to be "hate" speech. So much for the 1st amendment. So where's the outrage from the civil libertarians in the Democratic Party? Russ Feingold, I'm looking at you.....
All the Supreme Court hearings I've heard Sotomayor take part that have been broadcasted on C-SPAN have shown that she does just what someone in her position should do: stick to the law.
Dred Scott was part of "the law" at one time. This line about respecting precedent is utter BS when the precedent was wrongly decided to begin with.
That's one of the redeeming qualities about the Northeast. Not too many natural disasters to worry about. We had tornadoes come through here a few years ago but they were rather wussy compared to the ones out West -- just knocked down a few trees and damaged some roofs. The worst thing that happens here is the occasional flood or ice storm.
Umm, I'm not trying to prove anything regarding Microsoft's position in the tablet market. I'm just taking issue your statement that Windows is "too bloated" to effectively run on tablets.
However, given the state of our government I think it's a lot more likely we'll see justice from an out of work shrimper with a sniper rifle than from our legal system.
That part I'll agree with you on. Our current political leadership is more interested in scoring points on the talk show circuit than they are in coming up with any serious solutions to the problem. It's a sad state of affairs when various local governments have to pass resolutions authorizing their people to ignore the laws because the Feds aren't getting the job done.
To the best of my knowledge there's no law requiring that you receive mail. I've rejected certified letters sent to me before back in the day when I was broke and ducking bill collectors (admittedly not the best way to handle that situation but there you go....). The mailman was annoyed with me but he didn't force me to accept the mail.
You can also refuse the delivery of any first class parcel and have it sent back to the sender. AFAIK it's also perfectly legal to move into an apartment or house and decline to put your name on the mailbox and/or forward mail from your old address.
I disagree. There's ample opportunities to listen to music before you buy it. Pandora and similar services, FM radio, radio from your cable company, the sample headphones at Barnes and Noble, etc, etc, etc.
You are just pissed because you can't buy a CD, rip it and return it for a full refund. It's ok, you can admit it -- I hate the record industry too and won't judge you for it.
I would argue that web servers do not represent a single market. There's at least two different markets for web servers -- the Windows/IIS platform and the LAMPS platform -- each market is probably close to the saturation point. Few people would be inclined to migrate away from either solution once it's established in their enterprise.
Tablets? they tried that in the '80s and failed because Windows couldn't handle the task. They then tried it just 5+ years ago and still couldn't do it because Windows was too bloated and caused the battery life and prices to be too high.
What are you talking about? My agency has over a dozen tablets running Windows XP Tablet and a few new ones running Windows 7. We haven't had any of the issues that you are mentioning. They. Just. Work. The hardware is a tad bit more expensive than a regular laptop but that's not really Microsoft's fault is it?
Great. Now some Federal bureaucrat is going to read your post and the next thing you know we'll be seeing Bill Gates accepting his appointment as the Recession Czar or some such;)
neither Microsoft's growth nor its profits are what they were like when Gates was at the helm.'"
And what do they think Gates could do differently if he was still calling the shots? For better or worse most of Microsoft's key markets are saturated.
I think you are hopelessly optimistic. Do you have any idea how many blades of grass there are in the Louisiana wetlands? Do you expect BP to scrub each and every one of them? The Alaskan coastline is still not back to normal after the Exxon Valdez disaster.
I think you grossly underestimate nature's power of recuperation, but I suppose time will tell.
My desire to wipe BP out is not out of spite, but a desire to never see anything like this happen again ever.
Wiping out BP won't accomplish that. The best way to keep this from happening in the future is for industry to figure out what went wrong and adopt their policies and procedures accordingly.
I might not have a problem with that, but my town is small enough that my zip+4 uniquely identifies my family's PO box.
Who cares? Isn't the whole point of having a PO box to keep people from determining where you live?
I have a PO box but also receive mail at home. The only people who have the home address are friends and family. The PO box gets all of my bills and most shipments from internet outfits. I'll freely give the PO box out to anyone who asks. Doesn't bother me if they send me garbage -- it gets tossed into the recycling bin right there in the post office lobby. I look upon it as an economic stimulus for the post office;)
It's amusing to see how Adult Friend Finder and similar services compute your city based on IP address. There's a small hamlet about 50 miles from where I live called Tunnel. I think a grand total of 50 people live there. If the AFF ads are any indication it would seem that 49 of them are extremely attractive women who are looking for a good time. It's my dream to move there one of these days....;)
Then I had to update my Cox billing information, and they got the new number.
You didn't have to give them your phone number, you decided to give them your phone number. Whose fault is that? AFAIK there's no law requiring you to provide the cable company with an accurate phone number. They might get pissed off if you don't but who cares? They won't terminate your service over the issue.
I can count on one hand how many outfits have my phone number and physical address. I even managed to get NYS to print my PO Box on my drivers license so I don't have to worry about every idiot that I buy beer from knowing where I live. This has caused me some grief at various times (TSA drones insist on seeing a physical address to let you board even though the passport is an acceptable form of ID and contains no address, figure that one out....) but I regard that as a fair trade in exchange for the privacy benefits.
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You are no civil libertarian if you deem a particular type of speech not to be 'legitimate'
Isn't ruling from the heart and not from the head exactly the sort of thing people rail against when it comes to Supreme Court nominees?
Following the text of the Constitution is not "reading from the heart". Regarding two rights that Ms. Kagen apparently takes issue with, the document plainly states that Congress shall make no law (1st amendment) and that the right shall not be infringed (2nd amendment).
It will be defined as whatever best suits the agenda of the base of the political party currently in power.
If you read the article, Kagen seems to think that the Government should have the power to outlaw the production of pornography altogether. Significantly more troubling is the fact that she thinks we need to prohibit "hate speech".
We should be looking for new approaches, devising new arguments,” Kagan declared, according to video of the event reviewed by POLITICO. She seemed to count herself among “those of us who favor some form of pornography and hate speech regulation” and told participants that “a great deal can be done very usefully” to crack down on such evils.
“Statutes may be crafted in ways that prohibit the worst of hate speech and pornography, language that goes to sexual violence. Such statutes may still be constitutional,” Kagan assured the meeting. She pressed for “new and harsher penalties against the kinds of violence against women that takes place in producing pornography, the use of pandering statutes and pimp statutes against pornographersperhaps the initiation—the enactment of new statutes prohibiting the hiring of women for commercial purposes to engage in sexual activities.”
So, we can outlaw the production of pornography (by making it illegal to pay actresses for performing in it) and whatever the Government deems to be "hate" speech. So much for the 1st amendment. So where's the outrage from the civil libertarians in the Democratic Party? Russ Feingold, I'm looking at you.....
All the Supreme Court hearings I've heard Sotomayor take part that have been broadcasted on C-SPAN have shown that she does just what someone in her position should do: stick to the law.
Dred Scott was part of "the law" at one time. This line about respecting precedent is utter BS when the precedent was wrongly decided to begin with.
That's one of the redeeming qualities about the Northeast. Not too many natural disasters to worry about. We had tornadoes come through here a few years ago but they were rather wussy compared to the ones out West -- just knocked down a few trees and damaged some roofs. The worst thing that happens here is the occasional flood or ice storm.
Umm, I'm not trying to prove anything regarding Microsoft's position in the tablet market. I'm just taking issue your statement that Windows is "too bloated" to effectively run on tablets.
However, given the state of our government I think it's a lot more likely we'll see justice from an out of work shrimper with a sniper rifle than from our legal system.
That part I'll agree with you on. Our current political leadership is more interested in scoring points on the talk show circuit than they are in coming up with any serious solutions to the problem. It's a sad state of affairs when various local governments have to pass resolutions authorizing their people to ignore the laws because the Feds aren't getting the job done.
I get the impression that nothing short of the firing squad for every BP employee above the level of "guy who cleans the bathrooms" would satisfy you.
Random /. guys* could probably do a better job of running the country than idiots who have been trying it for the last thirty years.
* Not inclusive of GNAA trolls, though the prospect of the GNAA getting a voice at the Federal level is mildly amusing for some strange reason.
That's more than a "cost of doing business" to them. Why don't you learn something about economics before you open your mouth?
To the best of my knowledge there's no law requiring that you receive mail. I've rejected certified letters sent to me before back in the day when I was broke and ducking bill collectors (admittedly not the best way to handle that situation but there you go....). The mailman was annoyed with me but he didn't force me to accept the mail.
You can also refuse the delivery of any first class parcel and have it sent back to the sender. AFAIK it's also perfectly legal to move into an apartment or house and decline to put your name on the mailbox and/or forward mail from your old address.
I disagree. There's ample opportunities to listen to music before you buy it. Pandora and similar services, FM radio, radio from your cable company, the sample headphones at Barnes and Noble, etc, etc, etc.
You are just pissed because you can't buy a CD, rip it and return it for a full refund. It's ok, you can admit it -- I hate the record industry too and won't judge you for it.
I would argue that web servers do not represent a single market. There's at least two different markets for web servers -- the Windows/IIS platform and the LAMPS platform -- each market is probably close to the saturation point. Few people would be inclined to migrate away from either solution once it's established in their enterprise.
Tablets? they tried that in the '80s and failed because Windows couldn't handle the task. They then tried it just 5+ years ago and still couldn't do it because Windows was too bloated and caused the battery life and prices to be too high.
What are you talking about? My agency has over a dozen tablets running Windows XP Tablet and a few new ones running Windows 7. We haven't had any of the issues that you are mentioning. They. Just. Work. The hardware is a tad bit more expensive than a regular laptop but that's not really Microsoft's fault is it?
Great. Now some Federal bureaucrat is going to read your post and the next thing you know we'll be seeing Bill Gates accepting his appointment as the Recession Czar or some such ;)
Yeah, but Elvis is still alive ;)
When will /. replace the Locutus of Microsoft icon with Ballmer throwing a chair?
neither Microsoft's growth nor its profits are what they were like when Gates was at the helm.'"
And what do they think Gates could do differently if he was still calling the shots? For better or worse most of Microsoft's key markets are saturated.
I have no reason to believe that the industry really gives a shit what went wrong
This episode is going to cost them tens of billions of dollars. If you don't think they "give a shit" about what went wrong you are sadly mistaken.
I think you are hopelessly optimistic. Do you have any idea how many blades of grass there are in the Louisiana wetlands? Do you expect BP to scrub each and every one of them? The Alaskan coastline is still not back to normal after the Exxon Valdez disaster.
I think you grossly underestimate nature's power of recuperation, but I suppose time will tell.
My desire to wipe BP out is not out of spite, but a desire to never see anything like this happen again ever.
Wiping out BP won't accomplish that. The best way to keep this from happening in the future is for industry to figure out what went wrong and adopt their policies and procedures accordingly.
They will modify the header of all requests, even those through tor.
That would be most impressive since tor encrypts all of it's traffic right up to the exit node......
I might not have a problem with that, but my town is small enough that my zip+4 uniquely identifies my family's PO box.
Who cares? Isn't the whole point of having a PO box to keep people from determining where you live?
I have a PO box but also receive mail at home. The only people who have the home address are friends and family. The PO box gets all of my bills and most shipments from internet outfits. I'll freely give the PO box out to anyone who asks. Doesn't bother me if they send me garbage -- it gets tossed into the recycling bin right there in the post office lobby. I look upon it as an economic stimulus for the post office ;)
Ah, you beat me to it.
It's amusing to see how Adult Friend Finder and similar services compute your city based on IP address. There's a small hamlet about 50 miles from where I live called Tunnel. I think a grand total of 50 people live there. If the AFF ads are any indication it would seem that 49 of them are extremely attractive women who are looking for a good time. It's my dream to move there one of these days.... ;)
Then I had to update my Cox billing information, and they got the new number.
You didn't have to give them your phone number, you decided to give them your phone number. Whose fault is that? AFAIK there's no law requiring you to provide the cable company with an accurate phone number. They might get pissed off if you don't but who cares? They won't terminate your service over the issue.
I can count on one hand how many outfits have my phone number and physical address. I even managed to get NYS to print my PO Box on my drivers license so I don't have to worry about every idiot that I buy beer from knowing where I live. This has caused me some grief at various times (TSA drones insist on seeing a physical address to let you board even though the passport is an acceptable form of ID and contains no address, figure that one out....) but I regard that as a fair trade in exchange for the privacy benefits.