. I think there's a fundamental hardware issue with capacitive touch. I am not certain it will ever get to the point where I feel comfortable doing serious work or serious gaming using a glassy surface as my input device.
My problem with using the screen as an input device is that my hand tends to cover part of the screen. When you're talking about a screen that is 4-10 inches diagonal anyway, screen real estate is at a premium. The only way for tablets to take over for the some of the tasks you described, word processing and gaming, it will have to be able to accept external input devices. A dedicated game pad for games, for example will take tablet gaming a long way. The same for a keyboard and maybe even a mouse will do the same for text input.
While this will take a way from the portability of a tablet for serious work, most people don't do serious work while the device is in portable mode. People do serious work at a desk, much like today, but will be able to take the work with them, much like with a notebook. You don't see many people doing serious work with a notebook on their lap as they travel to work. When they get to their destination, they can hook it back up to the input devices at another desk and pick up the serious stuff where they left off. During the trip, they will still retain most or all of the functionality of the device, only without the more convenient dedicated input devices. For example, a tech writer could still proofread his work on the train to work and make minor corrections using the on screen keyboard. The next chapter will be written when back at a desk.
I know I shouldn't feed the troll, but seriously. Fuck off and die.
What's wrong with fucking Mexicans? My wife is Hispanic so I'm fucking a Mexican all the time. Well, she is a natural born US Citizen of US Citizen parents. I guess the proper way of saying it is that I'm fucking an American with Mexican ancestors.
Still, if you have a problem with fucking Mexicans, wouldn't that make YOU the racist?
So how is it "bad taste" to have a graphic of crosshairs and the name of a person AFTER that person is shot... but not BEFORE that person is shot?
It's not like this is the first time that graphic has been brought up. It was in the news when she posted it. And people were worried that it would lead to violence against the people named on it.
But it was okay then and not after one of the people named on it is shot? That's some pretty flexible "logic" you have there.
Are you implying that a guy who burned a flag in a YouTube video, lists "The Communist Manifesto" as one of his favorite books and denies the existence of God is a Sarah Palin follower? Seriously?
People waiving the flag of false equivalence are intellectually corrupt. Violent rhetoric is not coming from both sides of the political spectrum, it's coming from the Fox News right..
In the YouTube profile, the account holder, identified as Loughner, lists "The Communist Manifesto" and "Mein Kampf" among his favorite books.
Would someone from the "Fox News right" list "The Communist Manifesto" as one of his favorite books (Of course, you'll say "Mein Kampf" is required reading at Fox, so I won't even ask about that one)?
The point I'm trying to make here is that you said "Violent rhetoric is not coming from both sides of the political spectrum, it's coming from the Fox News right." Well, this guy is not from the Fox News Right and he's the one killing people.
So, um... It would appear that you are wrong and making shit up to try to score political points. Yes, you are trying to use a shooting rampage where a 9-year old girl died to put down those who disagree with you politically, and you are even doing so dishonestly.
The government is giving Trillions ("T", plural now 2.1) to the wealthy and has tried multiple time to cut about 20 billion in benefits to keep people from falling into absolute poverty.
Wait... What? Are you telling me that Obama is giving Trillions to the wealthy? Seriously? What's the phrase I'm looking for here.. How do you say.. Oh yes, "[Citation Needed].
It's really not the time for Fox and the right wing republicans to be making jokes about shooting people.
Again, [Citation Needed]. I have not seen anyone on any network make a joke about shooting people today. Oh wait, did you just lie? Of course you did.
And give up on the whole "ACORN" thing. It was a fucking bunch of community organizers, not some brownshirts.
So, as long as they are "community organizers" supporting whichever candidate is closest to Marx, voter fraud is OK? Would you be so forgiving if a conservative group, say, a Southern Baptist church was turning in thousands of forged voter registration cards?
your stupid teabagger "movement", as contrived and astroturfed by morons like Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin (and even that Rand Paul asshole), is just another way of shoring up more money for the wealthy.
Strange. I don't understand how smaller, less powerful federal government will "shore up more money for the wealthy".
It's amazing how two corporate run and controlled parties can jockey for support by forcing wedge issues into the forefront while still steadily increasing the income and wage disparity to epic new levels
Well, Welcome to the TEA Party. See, us TEA Party supporters are for less federal government and more local control... and really nothing else. See, your third parties stand a much better chance at the local level, where the TEA Party wants power consolidated. You want to weaken the two big parties, take away their power. That starts with moving the power out of Washington and into your neighborhood.
Of course, you don't understand any of that because you've heard on MSNBC, Democratic Underground, DailyKOS, Huffington Post, or wherever, that the TEA Party is a bunch of racists out to burn books, reintroduce slavery, put gays in reeducation camps and force your kids to read The Bible in public schools. Of course, none of that is true, but don't let facts dispel you hatred.
Societies are still judged by how they treat their least fortunate
Really? By who? Who judges societies by "how they treat their least fortunate." You do realize that the absolute poorest in America live an above average standard of living when compared to the rest of the world, right? So tell me again how we "fail. Epically."?
Can you name any other operating system that works on both x86 and ARM procs out of the box, with no modification or intervention necessary on the user end?
I hate to break it to you, but (A) they didn't judge best or worst, but most absurd as science goes, and (B) they do have people qualified in several branches of science and technology. In fact, I'd expect that if anyone is qualified to judge woowoo doomsday scenarios based on stellar alignments and mysterious radiations from the galaxy, it would be NASA. That's, you know, the kinda thing they _are_ supposed to do: know what's happening up there.
Of course, don't tell that to the homeschooled idiots who'd rather wait for a "rapture" that kept being sold as any day now for 2000 years straight and never happened, than fix the real problems on Earth in the meantime. And who'll even take a non-existent Mayan prophecy as support for their Bible delusions. Or to the gang who just wants to believe any non-scientific idiocy, presumably because it makes them feel less bad about sleeping through Physics class high-school.
Strange. Homeschooled kids seem to do so much better than those in the public schools. So, if homeschooled kids are idiots as you say, how stupid does that make the kids in public schools?
From the Wiki on homeschooling, take it for what it's worth:
Numerous studies have found that homeschooled students on average outperform their peers on standardized tests.[84] Homeschooling Achievement, a study conducted by National Home Education Research Institute (NHERI), supported the academic integrity of homeschooling. Among the homeschooled students who took the tests, the average homeschooled student outperformed his public school peers by 30 to 37 percentile points across all subjects. The study also indicates that public school performance gaps between minorities and genders were virtually non-existent among the homeschooled students who took the tests.[85]
New evidence has been found that homeschooled children are getting higher scores on the ACT and SAT tests. A study at Wheaton College in Illinois showed that the freshmen that were homeschooled for high school scored fifty-eight points higher on their SAT scores than those students who attended public or private schools. Most colleges look at the ACT and SAT scores of homeschooled children when considering them for acceptance to a college. On average, homeschooled children score eighty-one points higher than the national average on the SAT scores.
We home school our kids, we believe in the Bible, and yet we view the whole "2012" thing as absurd, that the rapture is equally absurd, and that science does explain a LOT, but that there's also a lot it doesn't explain.
Fun exercise for you and your kids:
Starting, oh I don't know, circa AD 1000 make four lists for every hundred years:
List 1: things science (or an historical equivalent) explains
Our preacher touched on this just this last Sunday. He said, "I trust science. I believe the Bible." He also said at a time earlier, "Faith can heal, but take your kids to the doctor when they get sick and give them their medicine." Or as a sign I read in front of a church one day, "Trust in God, but lock your car."
Don't act as if there is a disconnect between science and religion. Only the most ignorant theologians and scientists will tell you that there is. Some of the greatest scientific minds in history have belonged to one religion or another.
Thats not really believing in the bible tho. Even if it was what good moral framework? The notion that its ok to beat your slave half to death with a stick as long as they get up 2 days later? Maybe a good moral framework for the time but not for today.
Strange. I don't recall Jesus saying that. Do you have a verse?
The term "space opera" is already around for that purpose.
I've always thought that Star Wars would make an excellent on-stage opera. Imagine everyone singing their parts--the droids already do--and the orchestra making all of the laser, starship, and lightsaber noises as part of the score.
Hmm, maybe it's time to launch a Kickstarter project....
I don't think that's true. They don't preinstall it, but it's relatively trivial to add another repository and install them yourself. Anybody that's not capable of that with a bit of googling is probably not going to be happy with a Linux anything.
I don't have a problem googling on my desktop, but I seriously won't be happy about doing it on a tablet. Googling is not the same without a keyboard and mouse. Sure, it's possible, but not nearly as easy without the proper input devices and screen.
I personally would like to see a third choice on ballots; ie, ABSTAIN.
The answer is simpler than that. Make it so no one may be elected without at least 50% of the popular vote. If no one gets 50%, the top two go into a run-off.
See, the problem is that if I vote for an independent, it's the same as ABSTAIN. I might as well stay home. The winner is either going to be D or R because they get the most votes. They get the most votes because voting for a TEA/Green party candidate is literally taking away a vote from the next best thing, a R or D. If a TEA/Green party candidate takes 30% of the vote, they are taking 30% of the vote from the D or R that these voters are next closest aligned to and end up giving the race to the D or R they do NOT agree with. By demanding at least a 50% popular vote, your vote is not wasted.
For example. Let's say you live in a liberal district, 60% liberal. You have a Green Party member, a Democrat and Republican running. The Democrat and Green Party member split the liberal vote and each candidate gets 30%. The Republican gets 40% and wins. The public knows this and will consistently vote for whoever has the better chance of winning, usually the Democrat, even if they want the Green Party member more. Now, with a majority rule, no one wins and the top Democrat/Green Party winner go up against the Republican and wins 60-40.
Go buy a twinkie and tell me if the government stops you.
In fact, go eat some dirt. Did someone stop you?
so... what exactly are you saying?
Go get a Happy Meal in San Francisco. Oh wait. You can't. It's been banned... BY THE GOVERNMENT!!!!!
(Granted, it's the local government, and I fully support the local government's right to ban whatever they like, but don't sit there and act like the government is not banning food.)
So you would have preferred that Congress remained deadlocked, and not passed the 9/11 first responders health care legislation? If so, fsck you and the horse you rode in on, buddy. Not to mention the repeal of DADT, where a deadlocked Congress would have meant the persistence of legally enshrined bigotry and dishonor in our armed forces.
You've obviously never served. See, the first thing they do in the military is strip you of your identity. You are no better or worse than the soldier next to you. The only identifying characteristics you are allowed is your last name and rank. You all have the same clothes, hair cut, wall locker set up, sheets, pillow, blanket, boots, everything!
Now, with the repeal of DADT, gay soldiers are now allowed to "come out" and say, "I'm special, I'm different, and I deserve to be treated differently than the rest of you losers."
Frankly, the government has no business knowing which gender you fine appealing. That was the beauty of DADT. It made the government unable to ask, and it prevented members from trying to differentiate themselves. It was literally, "Don't Ask, Don't Tell, Don't Care". Now, with the repeal, gay members are allowed to be different. They may demand special treatment. They can, and will, say that any negative treatment that they receive, whether from superiors or fellow members, is due to their sexual orientation. Before the repeal, you were judged purely on your performance and time in service. Now, anyone coming out will have to be treated with kid gloves or else risk an EO complaint.
And don't give me that crap saying that this is the same as integrating minorities into the service. Everyone knew who the minorities were by looking at them. No one knew who was gay before this repeal. If no one knows, it can't be used as a consideration for special treatment.
To put it in a nutshell. You don't know what the hell you are talking about. Your primary bitch about DADT was that military members couldn't be themselves. The whole point of the military is that NO ONE is allowed to be themselves.
The cell providers make you sign the same contract whether you buy a phone or not. Wouldn't they have an interest in keeping you using the same phone for longer? I don't understand why more carriers don't sell more open phones
If I buy a new handset with a new contract, the cell carrier subsidizes the new phone and makes the money back slowly over the next 2 years by charging me more per month than it costs to provide me service.
Or, they can keep my phone current and still have me sign a new contract for the same price as above only without having to subsidize a new phone.
At least state government is small enough for the people to have some effect on them, if still not much. Secession would go a long way towards making the governments actually listen to the people
Secession would not be necessary if the Feds followed their own rules, specifically the 10th Amendment.
There are some things that only the federal government can do. Everything else should be up to the states.
You're only going to be satisfied with some Libertarian utopian society. You need to learn to deal with the real world, rather than what you want. Compromise.
No. We just want the 10th Amendment to be followed. It's there for a reason.
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. I think there's a fundamental hardware issue with capacitive touch. I am not certain it will ever get to the point where I feel comfortable doing serious work or serious gaming using a glassy surface as my input device.
My problem with using the screen as an input device is that my hand tends to cover part of the screen. When you're talking about a screen that is 4-10 inches diagonal anyway, screen real estate is at a premium. The only way for tablets to take over for the some of the tasks you described, word processing and gaming, it will have to be able to accept external input devices. A dedicated game pad for games, for example will take tablet gaming a long way. The same for a keyboard and maybe even a mouse will do the same for text input.
While this will take a way from the portability of a tablet for serious work, most people don't do serious work while the device is in portable mode. People do serious work at a desk, much like today, but will be able to take the work with them, much like with a notebook. You don't see many people doing serious work with a notebook on their lap as they travel to work. When they get to their destination, they can hook it back up to the input devices at another desk and pick up the serious stuff where they left off. During the trip, they will still retain most or all of the functionality of the device, only without the more convenient dedicated input devices. For example, a tech writer could still proofread his work on the train to work and make minor corrections using the on screen keyboard. The next chapter will be written when back at a desk.
Fucking racist!
I know I shouldn't feed the troll, but seriously. Fuck off and die.
What's wrong with fucking Mexicans? My wife is Hispanic so I'm fucking a Mexican all the time. Well, she is a natural born US Citizen of US Citizen parents. I guess the proper way of saying it is that I'm fucking an American with Mexican ancestors.
Still, if you have a problem with fucking Mexicans, wouldn't that make YOU the racist?
(Smile)
So how is it "bad taste" to have a graphic of crosshairs and the name of a person AFTER that person is shot ... but not BEFORE that person is shot?
It's not like this is the first time that graphic has been brought up. It was in the news when she posted it. And people were worried that it would lead to violence against the people named on it.
But it was okay then and not after one of the people named on it is shot? That's some pretty flexible "logic" you have there.
Are you implying that a guy who burned a flag in a YouTube video, lists "The Communist Manifesto" as one of his favorite books and denies the existence of God is a Sarah Palin follower? Seriously?
No, actually, it isn't.
People waiving the flag of false equivalence are intellectually corrupt. Violent rhetoric is not coming from both sides of the political spectrum, it's coming from the Fox News right..
Really? Here is a quote from an ABC News article:
In the YouTube profile, the account holder, identified as Loughner, lists "The Communist Manifesto" and "Mein Kampf" among his favorite books.
Would someone from the "Fox News right" list "The Communist Manifesto" as one of his favorite books (Of course, you'll say "Mein Kampf" is required reading at Fox, so I won't even ask about that one)?
The point I'm trying to make here is that you said "Violent rhetoric is not coming from both sides of the political spectrum, it's coming from the Fox News right." Well, this guy is not from the Fox News Right and he's the one killing people.
So, um... It would appear that you are wrong and making shit up to try to score political points. Yes, you are trying to use a shooting rampage where a 9-year old girl died to put down those who disagree with you politically, and you are even doing so dishonestly.
The government is giving Trillions ("T", plural now 2.1) to the wealthy and has tried multiple time to cut about 20 billion in benefits to keep people from falling into absolute poverty.
Wait... What? Are you telling me that Obama is giving Trillions to the wealthy? Seriously? What's the phrase I'm looking for here.. How do you say.. Oh yes, "[Citation Needed].
It's really not the time for Fox and the right wing republicans to be making jokes about shooting people.
Again, [Citation Needed]. I have not seen anyone on any network make a joke about shooting people today. Oh wait, did you just lie? Of course you did.
And give up on the whole "ACORN" thing. It was a fucking bunch of community organizers, not some brownshirts.
So, as long as they are "community organizers" supporting whichever candidate is closest to Marx, voter fraud is OK? Would you be so forgiving if a conservative group, say, a Southern Baptist church was turning in thousands of forged voter registration cards?
your stupid teabagger "movement", as contrived and astroturfed by morons like Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin (and even that Rand Paul asshole), is just another way of shoring up more money for the wealthy.
Strange. I don't understand how smaller, less powerful federal government will "shore up more money for the wealthy".
It's amazing how two corporate run and controlled parties can jockey for support by forcing wedge issues into the forefront while still steadily increasing the income and wage disparity to epic new levels
Well, Welcome to the TEA Party. See, us TEA Party supporters are for less federal government and more local control... and really nothing else. See, your third parties stand a much better chance at the local level, where the TEA Party wants power consolidated. You want to weaken the two big parties, take away their power. That starts with moving the power out of Washington and into your neighborhood.
Of course, you don't understand any of that because you've heard on MSNBC, Democratic Underground, DailyKOS, Huffington Post, or wherever, that the TEA Party is a bunch of racists out to burn books, reintroduce slavery, put gays in reeducation camps and force your kids to read The Bible in public schools. Of course, none of that is true, but don't let facts dispel you hatred.
Societies are still judged by how they treat their least fortunate
Really? By who? Who judges societies by "how they treat their least fortunate." You do realize that the absolute poorest in America live an above average standard of living when compared to the rest of the world, right? So tell me again how we "fail. Epically."?
Sure, and Bill O'Riley thinks he's a smart guy. 'nuff said.
And Keith Olbermann thinks he's smarter. What's your point?
Last one to market?
Can you name any other operating system that works on both x86 and ARM procs out of the box, with no modification or intervention necessary on the user end?
Linux. Well, that's the only one I can think of.
I would argue that radar targeted missiles can be a bigger threat, but hey I'm not going to nitpick.
That's what chaff is for.
I hate to break it to you, but (A) they didn't judge best or worst, but most absurd as science goes, and (B) they do have people qualified in several branches of science and technology. In fact, I'd expect that if anyone is qualified to judge woowoo doomsday scenarios based on stellar alignments and mysterious radiations from the galaxy, it would be NASA. That's, you know, the kinda thing they _are_ supposed to do: know what's happening up there.
Of course, don't tell that to the homeschooled idiots who'd rather wait for a "rapture" that kept being sold as any day now for 2000 years straight and never happened, than fix the real problems on Earth in the meantime. And who'll even take a non-existent Mayan prophecy as support for their Bible delusions. Or to the gang who just wants to believe any non-scientific idiocy, presumably because it makes them feel less bad about sleeping through Physics class high-school.
Strange. Homeschooled kids seem to do so much better than those in the public schools. So, if homeschooled kids are idiots as you say, how stupid does that make the kids in public schools?
From the Wiki on homeschooling, take it for what it's worth:
Numerous studies have found that homeschooled students on average outperform their peers on standardized tests.[84] Homeschooling Achievement, a study conducted by National Home Education Research Institute (NHERI), supported the academic integrity of homeschooling. Among the homeschooled students who took the tests, the average homeschooled student outperformed his public school peers by 30 to 37 percentile points across all subjects. The study also indicates that public school performance gaps between minorities and genders were virtually non-existent among the homeschooled students who took the tests.[85]
New evidence has been found that homeschooled children are getting higher scores on the ACT and SAT tests. A study at Wheaton College in Illinois showed that the freshmen that were homeschooled for high school scored fifty-eight points higher on their SAT scores than those students who attended public or private schools. Most colleges look at the ACT and SAT scores of homeschooled children when considering them for acceptance to a college. On average, homeschooled children score eighty-one points higher than the national average on the SAT scores.
It was the most non-biased site I could find.
Fun exercise for you and your kids:
Starting, oh I don't know, circa AD 1000 make four lists for every hundred years:
List 1: things science (or an historical equivalent) explains
List 2: things science doesn't explain
List 3: things religion explains
List 4: things religion doesn't explain
See if you notice any trends.
When science can answer "Why?", let me know.
Our preacher touched on this just this last Sunday. He said, "I trust science. I believe the Bible." He also said at a time earlier, "Faith can heal, but take your kids to the doctor when they get sick and give them their medicine." Or as a sign I read in front of a church one day, "Trust in God, but lock your car."
Don't act as if there is a disconnect between science and religion. Only the most ignorant theologians and scientists will tell you that there is. Some of the greatest scientific minds in history have belonged to one religion or another.
Thats not really believing in the bible tho. Even if it was what good moral framework? The notion that its ok to beat your slave half to death with a stick as long as they get up 2 days later? Maybe a good moral framework for the time but not for today.
Strange. I don't recall Jesus saying that. Do you have a verse?
The term "space opera" is already around for that purpose.
I've always thought that Star Wars would make an excellent on-stage opera. Imagine everyone singing their parts--the droids already do--and the orchestra making all of the laser, starship, and lightsaber noises as part of the score.
Hmm, maybe it's time to launch a Kickstarter project....
I believe it would look something like THIS.
...it's a space station.
So apropos for once.
Actually it is a moon AND a space station.
You would think that a country intent on controlling it's population growth would encourage fapping.
my name is michael kristopeit.
You killed my father.
Prepare to die.
I don't think that's true. They don't preinstall it, but it's relatively trivial to add another repository and install them yourself. Anybody that's not capable of that with a bit of googling is probably not going to be happy with a Linux anything.
I don't have a problem googling on my desktop, but I seriously won't be happy about doing it on a tablet. Googling is not the same without a keyboard and mouse. Sure, it's possible, but not nearly as easy without the proper input devices and screen.
I personally would like to see a third choice on ballots; ie, ABSTAIN.
The answer is simpler than that. Make it so no one may be elected without at least 50% of the popular vote. If no one gets 50%, the top two go into a run-off.
See, the problem is that if I vote for an independent, it's the same as ABSTAIN. I might as well stay home. The winner is either going to be D or R because they get the most votes. They get the most votes because voting for a TEA/Green party candidate is literally taking away a vote from the next best thing, a R or D. If a TEA/Green party candidate takes 30% of the vote, they are taking 30% of the vote from the D or R that these voters are next closest aligned to and end up giving the race to the D or R they do NOT agree with. By demanding at least a 50% popular vote, your vote is not wasted.
For example. Let's say you live in a liberal district, 60% liberal. You have a Green Party member, a Democrat and Republican running. The Democrat and Green Party member split the liberal vote and each candidate gets 30%. The Republican gets 40% and wins. The public knows this and will consistently vote for whoever has the better chance of winning, usually the Democrat, even if they want the Green Party member more. Now, with a majority rule, no one wins and the top Democrat/Green Party winner go up against the Republican and wins 60-40.
Go buy a twinkie and tell me if the government stops you.
In fact, go eat some dirt. Did someone stop you?
so... what exactly are you saying?
Go get a Happy Meal in San Francisco. Oh wait. You can't. It's been banned... BY THE GOVERNMENT!!!!!
(Granted, it's the local government, and I fully support the local government's right to ban whatever they like, but don't sit there and act like the government is not banning food.)
So you would have preferred that Congress remained deadlocked, and not passed the 9/11 first responders health care legislation? If so, fsck you and the horse you rode in on, buddy. Not to mention the repeal of DADT, where a deadlocked Congress would have meant the persistence of legally enshrined bigotry and dishonor in our armed forces.
You've obviously never served. See, the first thing they do in the military is strip you of your identity. You are no better or worse than the soldier next to you. The only identifying characteristics you are allowed is your last name and rank. You all have the same clothes, hair cut, wall locker set up, sheets, pillow, blanket, boots, everything!
Now, with the repeal of DADT, gay soldiers are now allowed to "come out" and say, "I'm special, I'm different, and I deserve to be treated differently than the rest of you losers."
Frankly, the government has no business knowing which gender you fine appealing. That was the beauty of DADT. It made the government unable to ask, and it prevented members from trying to differentiate themselves. It was literally, "Don't Ask, Don't Tell, Don't Care". Now, with the repeal, gay members are allowed to be different. They may demand special treatment. They can, and will, say that any negative treatment that they receive, whether from superiors or fellow members, is due to their sexual orientation. Before the repeal, you were judged purely on your performance and time in service. Now, anyone coming out will have to be treated with kid gloves or else risk an EO complaint.
And don't give me that crap saying that this is the same as integrating minorities into the service. Everyone knew who the minorities were by looking at them. No one knew who was gay before this repeal. If no one knows, it can't be used as a consideration for special treatment.
To put it in a nutshell. You don't know what the hell you are talking about. Your primary bitch about DADT was that military members couldn't be themselves. The whole point of the military is that NO ONE is allowed to be themselves.
What good is your old phone without a contract?
The cell providers make you sign the same contract whether you buy a phone or not. Wouldn't they have an interest in keeping you using the same phone for longer? I don't understand why more carriers don't sell more open phones
If I buy a new handset with a new contract, the cell carrier subsidizes the new phone and makes the money back slowly over the next 2 years by charging me more per month than it costs to provide me service.
Or, they can keep my phone current and still have me sign a new contract for the same price as above only without having to subsidize a new phone.
So, why do they want me to buy a phone again?
At least state government is small enough for the people to have some effect on them, if still not much. Secession would go a long way towards making the governments actually listen to the people
Secession would not be necessary if the Feds followed their own rules, specifically the 10th Amendment.
There are some things that only the federal government can do. Everything else should be up to the states.
You're only going to be satisfied with some Libertarian utopian society. You need to learn to deal with the real world, rather than what you want. Compromise.
No. We just want the 10th Amendment to be followed. It's there for a reason.