Meh, the time is rapidly coming where Cable/Satellite will be obsolete. Just look at http://revision3.com/ and see where we are headed. Hell, if you want shows from broadcast tv, most of the stations offer their shows online (I know ABC does). Just embed a browser that can handle a flash plugin and bingo, you can watch any show you want, directly from the networks.
I am all for deregulation (ya ya mod me down), but AT&T needs to expect that if the market becomes deregulated, that means anybody should be able to lay line down and offer services.
If AT&T starts double (and triple dipping) Google (just an example) could come in, lay down a combination of fiber and wireless and offers a services that are pro network neutrality.
Then the market could let consumers decide which one they want. Instead of government bureaucrats in a city trying to second guess a thousand miles away.
If you goto a grocery store in the US, and look at the "juices" 99% of them have no greater than ~30% "juice". Most of what makes up the "juice" is high fructose corn syrup, that yucky Type II Diabetes enabling crap. It is hard to find, but you can find the 100% juice stuff which has the natural sugers that are easier for you body to digest.
Actually, pure unmineralized water is not very good in combating thirst - your body loses salts with sweat so unmineralized water causes electrolyte imbalance.
Cause we all know electrolyte's are good for everything!
However, I still firmly believe that a violent sex offender should be jailed for life.
Violent sex offenders deserve the death penalty, period. I don't want to pay to incarcerate someone who molested a 5 year old (or an infant, yes it happens). First we need to put some close-in-age exceptions into our laws so two teenagers who have sex are not charged as sex offenders, but once that is done, warm up the electric chair, hypodermic needle, etc.
No, if Americans had to pay for the roads they would be forced to quit their jobs or not eat.
Americans already pay for the roads, they just don't know it. Turning the roads into toll roads, and getting rid of the tax on gasoline would probably make driving more affordable because gas would probably be around $1 a gallon if it wasn't for all of the tax that was put on it and the cost of the upkeep of the road would be directly proportional to the use of the road. The more the road is used, the more money it gets for upkeep.
Keeping the roads private would allow them to be managed better by getting rid of the bureaucratic red tape that government tends to bring in with it's subsidized offerings.
The city planning was carried out fairly well and the suburbs aren't too sprawled compared to other US cities and everything's pretty decent.
You can thank Brigham Young for that one. Not only to he plan the city on a grid, but also made it so you could do a U turn with a team of oxen with out having to back up.
From the transit plan I have seen for the wasatch mountain area, they plan on eventually having commuter rail going from Provo to Ogden, starting in Ogden first. They are also planning on expanding light rail out to west valley and other 'suburbs'.
I served an LDS mission in SLC (from 1999-2001) and would always use the light rail to get downtown to the temple every monday (our 'day off'). In general, I found the public transit system in the salt lake valley very good. I never understood why the mission office gave almost every LDS missionary a car when our areas where at most 4 blocks and could be transversed by foot in under an hour.
I think you've hit the nail on the head here. The road system in America is significantly subsidized, yet the rail system and public transportation systems are expected to make a profit! What. The. Fuck?!
Which is why I personally believe all public roads should be toll roads. Repeal the tax on gasoline entirly, and all other taxes that go into keeping up the roads. Use the tolls that are generated to fix the roads. Hell, Roads could even be entirely private, and *gasp* could be made to be profitable! (I know, asserting that profit making is good is blasphemy in slashdot's eyes).
If Americans had to pay for the use of the roads, explicitly, they may turn to public transportation. At least pay per use would bring the costs out in the open and allow the two to compete on the open market. (Oh wait, another slashdot faux pas, the market is evil because it allows corporations to make profit! on noes!)
The only significant mistake, in my mind, is that the founding fathers designed an election system which favors a two-party system, which does not represent the will of the people nearly as well as newer systems do.
The "founding fathers" were against parties, or as they called them factions. Getting rid of parties would do a lot to reform this country to what the "founding fathers" intended.
Now with BSG out of the way (and SG-1 going the way of direct-to-DVD movies) it is only going to be a matter of time before Atlantis gets canned. I didn't even know when to watch BSG for the second part of season three because they changed the damn time slot! I eventually caught up via bit torrent, but I was glad I could skip a view episodes.
American Sci FI sucks. As long as the BBC keeps Russell T. Davies on board I will be guaranteed some entertainment.
Get rid of the parties, on the presidential level. Period. Make a law (would most likely have to be a constitutional amendment) that would make the election process of the president non-partisan. Then that would force candidates to tackle the issue's and not pander to the extreme wings of the party to get votes.
Just doing that would not be enough, I agree that we would need some changes to our electoral system. I am not an advocate for getting rid of the electoral college simple because it forces candidates to go states they normally would not visit (if we get rid of the electoral college, candidates would only focus on the most populous states). Instead, I would advocate for a change in the method of counting votes, something like Instant Run Off voting, or my preferred method, Condorcet.
This would address the problem of many people appearing on the ballot, because both methods deal with ranking of candidates, if some candidates don't get ranked they don't get counted. Which should happen if one does not have hold of a majority of voters. Yet, tyrrany of the majority is held in check because we would still have three equal branches of goverment.
Also, these methods are very good for single seat elections, such as for president. I do not believe this method should be used for electing members of the House. In fact, parties could be useful with in the republic in the house. The house should be elected by Proportional representation. This would help with the current problem of gerrymandering of districts if at every election we have districts align themselves to how the people voted. This would also lead to a more balanced representation of the peoples house. In this way, third parties could actually have a chance to be elected. Much like in the rest of the western world.
In my opinion, members of the Senate need to go back to being appointed by the State Legislatures, the people have the House to represent them, the States have had their representation taken away from them. Hence why we have seen an erosion of States rights over the years. If the States had representation with in the Federal government, we would see less violations of state sovereignty (the 9th and 10th amendments).
No, we don't. We need to get rid of all parties. The American political system was not built for parties. If you read the Federalist papers, and other writings, the founders where very weary of parties, or 'factions'. Specifically in Federalist Paper number 10 where Madison declares that the system of checks and balances set up in the Constitution is meant to limit the power of factions to rule of the majority, giving rise to wait has been describe as tyranny of the minority.
Get rid of parties and you will get rid of a good deal of the crap that has come into the Republic.
That is how non-utah mormons refer to Utah mormons. Most likly there is a reason we decide to not live in Utah and that is because the people are very backward. They can not think for themseleves, and have to be told over the pulpit how to think.
Mind you this is not the religion Joseph Smith re-organized. He made it clear man has to get knowledge from God, not from man. The current state of Utah Mormonism is due to years of isolation. Utah Mormons form a tight cliche and as a result, it is hard to break into that cliche for those who are not Mormons, or recent converts into Mormonism.
Sometimes I think if would be good for Utah Mormons to actually leave Utah, and live somewhere else where Mormons are in the minority. Then they would be forced to live with people who do not agree with them, and be able to expand there knowledge of the outside world.
At least that is why I am not in Utah.
(I served an LDS mission in Salt Lake City, which would take a novel to even summerize).
Re:I were one of the cracking groups...
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AACS Cracked Again
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...a massive beowolf cluster cracking the whole thing...
If it was that simple to crack AES, we would all be in a world of shit.
If driving while talking on a hands free setup is dangerous, surely driving while talking to someone else in the car is equally as dangerous. So in your perfect world would you ban people from talking while in the car?
Unions are evil, just like business monopolies are evil. We tend to sympathize more with unions because they are suppose to be for the working man and not the fat cat executive. However unions are just the same as a business monopoly. Unions have a monopoly on wages just the same as a business monopoly has a monopoly on their specific business. Both screw with Adam Smiths "invisible hand".
The minimum wage is the worst form of socialism ever invented because it keeps low skilled workers from entry into the market place because they may not be "worth" whatever the minimum wage is. Further reading here.
What needs to be done is to eliminate both unions and business monopolies, and the minimum wage. Let rational people negotiate their own wage, and stop focusing on the AMOUNT of money one gets, but how much the money is WORTH.
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Meh, the time is rapidly coming where Cable/Satellite will be obsolete. Just look at http://revision3.com/ and see where we are headed. Hell, if you want shows from broadcast tv, most of the stations offer their shows online (I know ABC does). Just embed a browser that can handle a flash plugin and bingo, you can watch any show you want, directly from the networks.
In fact, a line item veto was also included, Article I, Section VII, Paragraph 2 reads:
http://www.law.ou.edu/ushistory/csaconstitution/
I am all for deregulation (ya ya mod me down), but AT&T needs to expect that if the market becomes deregulated, that means anybody should be able to lay line down and offer services.
If AT&T starts double (and triple dipping) Google (just an example) could come in, lay down a combination of fiber and wireless and offers a services that are pro network neutrality.
Then the market could let consumers decide which one they want. Instead of government bureaucrats in a city trying to second guess a thousand miles away.
Here, Here, The media is so damned left anything slightly to the center looks like a damned Nürnberg Rally.
DOH! Damn Godwin's law!
If you goto a grocery store in the US, and look at the "juices" 99% of them have no greater than ~30% "juice". Most of what makes up the "juice" is high fructose corn syrup, that yucky Type II Diabetes enabling crap. It is hard to find, but you can find the 100% juice stuff which has the natural sugers that are easier for you body to digest.
Cause we all know electrolyte's are good for everything!
and once Oral Sex is given, arrested and charged as a "sex offender"!
Violent sex offenders deserve the death penalty, period. I don't want to pay to incarcerate someone who molested a 5 year old (or an infant, yes it happens). First we need to put some close-in-age exceptions into our laws so two teenagers who have sex are not charged as sex offenders, but once that is done, warm up the electric chair, hypodermic needle, etc.
Americans already pay for the roads, they just don't know it. Turning the roads into toll roads, and getting rid of the tax on gasoline would probably make driving more affordable because gas would probably be around $1 a gallon if it wasn't for all of the tax that was put on it and the cost of the upkeep of the road would be directly proportional to the use of the road. The more the road is used, the more money it gets for upkeep.
Keeping the roads private would allow them to be managed better by getting rid of the bureaucratic red tape that government tends to bring in with it's subsidized offerings.
The city planning was carried out fairly well and the suburbs aren't too sprawled compared to other US cities and everything's pretty decent.
You can thank Brigham Young for that one. Not only to he plan the city on a grid, but also made it so you could do a U turn with a team of oxen with out having to back up.From the transit plan I have seen for the wasatch mountain area, they plan on eventually having commuter rail going from Provo to Ogden, starting in Ogden first. They are also planning on expanding light rail out to west valley and other 'suburbs'.
I served an LDS mission in SLC (from 1999-2001) and would always use the light rail to get downtown to the temple every monday (our 'day off'). In general, I found the public transit system in the salt lake valley very good. I never understood why the mission office gave almost every LDS missionary a car when our areas where at most 4 blocks and could be transversed by foot in under an hour.
I think you've hit the nail on the head here. The road system in America is significantly subsidized, yet the rail system and public transportation systems are expected to make a profit! What. The. Fuck?!
Which is why I personally believe all public roads should be toll roads. Repeal the tax on gasoline entirly, and all other taxes that go into keeping up the roads. Use the tolls that are generated to fix the roads. Hell, Roads could even be entirely private, and *gasp* could be made to be profitable! (I know, asserting that profit making is good is blasphemy in slashdot's eyes).
If Americans had to pay for the use of the roads, explicitly, they may turn to public transportation. At least pay per use would bring the costs out in the open and allow the two to compete on the open market. (Oh wait, another slashdot faux pas, the market is evil because it allows corporations to make profit! on noes!)
Sense when did wifi start using tachyon's? That must be why 802.11n has taken so long to get to spec...
The "founding fathers" were against parties, or as they called them factions. Getting rid of parties would do a lot to reform this country to what the "founding fathers" intended.
Thats like throwing a Level 1 Fighter against a CR 300 Red Dragon and then expecting a dozen or so 5th level fighters to kill said dragon.
;-)
Plus, that would be an evil act. Better hope one of those 5th level fighters wasn't a paladin
Now with BSG out of the way (and SG-1 going the way of direct-to-DVD movies) it is only going to be a matter of time before Atlantis gets canned. I didn't even know when to watch BSG for the second part of season three because they changed the damn time slot! I eventually caught up via bit torrent, but I was glad I could skip a view episodes.
American Sci FI sucks. As long as the BBC keeps Russell T. Davies on board I will be guaranteed some entertainment.
See my response to this comment.
Get rid of the parties, on the presidential level. Period. Make a law (would most likely have to be a constitutional amendment) that would make the election process of the president non-partisan. Then that would force candidates to tackle the issue's and not pander to the extreme wings of the party to get votes.
Just doing that would not be enough, I agree that we would need some changes to our electoral system. I am not an advocate for getting rid of the electoral college simple because it forces candidates to go states they normally would not visit (if we get rid of the electoral college, candidates would only focus on the most populous states). Instead, I would advocate for a change in the method of counting votes, something like Instant Run Off voting, or my preferred method, Condorcet.
This would address the problem of many people appearing on the ballot, because both methods deal with ranking of candidates, if some candidates don't get ranked they don't get counted. Which should happen if one does not have hold of a majority of voters. Yet, tyrrany of the majority is held in check because we would still have three equal branches of goverment.
Also, these methods are very good for single seat elections, such as for president. I do not believe this method should be used for electing members of the House. In fact, parties could be useful with in the republic in the house. The house should be elected by Proportional representation. This would help with the current problem of gerrymandering of districts if at every election we have districts align themselves to how the people voted. This would also lead to a more balanced representation of the peoples house. In this way, third parties could actually have a chance to be elected. Much like in the rest of the western world.
In my opinion, members of the Senate need to go back to being appointed by the State Legislatures, the people have the House to represent them, the States have had their representation taken away from them. Hence why we have seen an erosion of States rights over the years. If the States had representation with in the Federal government, we would see less violations of state sovereignty (the 9th and 10th amendments).
No, we don't. We need to get rid of all parties. The American political system was not built for parties. If you read the Federalist papers, and other writings, the founders where very weary of parties, or 'factions'. Specifically in Federalist Paper number 10 where Madison declares that the system of checks and balances set up in the Constitution is meant to limit the power of factions to rule of the majority, giving rise to wait has been describe as tyranny of the minority.
Get rid of parties and you will get rid of a good deal of the crap that has come into the Republic.
so they can find out who runs linux and extort $699 out of them?
That is how non-utah mormons refer to Utah mormons. Most likly there is a reason we decide to not live in Utah and that is because the people are very backward. They can not think for themseleves, and have to be told over the pulpit how to think.
Mind you this is not the religion Joseph Smith re-organized. He made it clear man has to get knowledge from God, not from man. The current state of Utah Mormonism is due to years of isolation. Utah Mormons form a tight cliche and as a result, it is hard to break into that cliche for those who are not Mormons, or recent converts into Mormonism.
Sometimes I think if would be good for Utah Mormons to actually leave Utah, and live somewhere else where Mormons are in the minority. Then they would be forced to live with people who do not agree with them, and be able to expand there knowledge of the outside world.
At least that is why I am not in Utah.
(I served an LDS mission in Salt Lake City, which would take a novel to even summerize).
If it was that simple to crack AES, we would all be in a world of shit.
There, I fixed that for you.
By the time it gets through security on the hill, the bill would have been voted into law.
If you want to contact your representative, and want to use paper, fax it.
If driving while talking on a hands free setup is dangerous, surely driving while talking to someone else in the car is equally as dangerous. So in your perfect world would you ban people from talking while in the car?
Unions are evil, just like business monopolies are evil. We tend to sympathize more with unions because they are suppose to be for the working man and not the fat cat executive. However unions are just the same as a business monopoly. Unions have a monopoly on wages just the same as a business monopoly has a monopoly on their specific business. Both screw with Adam Smiths "invisible hand".
The minimum wage is the worst form of socialism ever invented because it keeps low skilled workers from entry into the market place because they may not be "worth" whatever the minimum wage is. Further reading here.
What needs to be done is to eliminate both unions and business monopolies, and the minimum wage. Let rational people negotiate their own wage, and stop focusing on the AMOUNT of money one gets, but how much the money is WORTH.
You must have a degree in...nameology.
For those of you who don't know, that is a reference to this movie.