I absolutely agree. I just ran the test to see what would happen. I could have used Linux (as someone else has already done) or chose Britney Spears (ahhhhhhh!) but I thought I'd try something a bit different.
Had I taken the time to go through the first 50 results from each site I probably could have gotten a fair understanding of how many relevant links were returned. However, I'm too lazy to do that so I just posted my initial findings and let the rest as an exercise for the reader to consider.
A quick test I performed showed interesting results. I plugged in the word Galen in both Live and Google. Live returned 1,160,846 results while Google gave 13,200,000 results. Considering Live was just released the discrepancy isn't hard to understand. What was interesting was what the first result was. In the case of Live the first result was a photo studio run by Galen and Barbara Powell. For Google the first result was much more relevant: a link to the University of Virgina Health System which talked about the medical practice from the past of which Galen is listed in the links.
The second result for both Live and Google were the same, the Galen Institute homepage.
While one test doesn't a study make, considering Microsofts track record of returning results, I don't forsee myself using their service (especially with all the clutter on the screen).
As an aside, does everyone else get the weather forecast for LA in the lower left corner? I'm on the opposite coast so maybe it's related to where the servers are rather than what IP you come from.t
drinking an excess of dihydrogenmonoxide could lead to a person collapsing or in rare cases, dying. In addition, drinking an excess of flavored, carbonated beverages has been shown to cause significant weight gain in some people which can lead to other medical conditions including heart failure.
Not to sound trite but how is this news? Every person is different and will react differently to external stimulae. In my case I can eat whatever I want in whatever amount I want and not gain a pound. However, the guy in the cube next to me probably can't do the same thing. Why? Because we're all different (in case you missed it the first time).
If the issue revolves around whether one has a certain gene or not then this almost sounds like at birth we should be screened to see if we have this condition so we'll know not to drink so much coffee to prevent or stave off heart disease.
Genes are what determine who we are. As of yet we don't have the means to fully change those genes to correct issues like this. We're all different (just making sure you didn't miss it the first two times) so at best we can use these studies to reinforce the old adage: everything in moderation.
This isn't any different than the phantom console, magnets which supposedly help your arthritis or whatever book that Kevin Trudeau is bilking peopleinto buying claiming this is information that the government doesn't want you to know about.
This shouldn't surprise anyone. Not the least of which that there are VC idiots who will gladly pony up the money for a non-existant, never-to-be-made product simply because it has oodles of neat sounding words in its description.
*PT Barnum never actually said those words but people routinely attribute the phrase to him.
I would love to see a better transportation system in my city, the bus service here suks, but I am not willing to see Tallahassee leveled by an atomic blast in order for that to happen.
Don't worry. I'm sure sooner or later a powerful enough hurricane will come along and take care of things for you. Look at New Orleans and other places along the Gulf Coast. Sure, death and destruction is everywhere but as a result they have a chance, a slim chance, to redo things correctly and update their systems.
I wasn't trying to justify the military budget. Only showing the parent poster that it isn't always the private sector which creates things for public consumption (which is what they were trying to justify).
Sure, wars do kill people and destroy things. That's one of the purposes of war. However, wars are, in a weird way, beneficial. I listed some of those instances in which war was beneficial.
Also, as was shown after WWII, the aftermath of a war allows cities and infrastructure to be rebuilt and upgraded, allowing for an improvement in peoples lives. This is one reason, among many, that Europe as a whole has a better public transportation system than the U.S. does. When your major cities are leveled you have no choice but to rebuild them from scratch, making changes where necessary.
I work for state government so that probably explains many things.
As far as my time is concerned, the only way I can explain it is that it uses a grid to hold the information. Line 1 would have a certain funding code number for the agency which paid part of my salary. Line two would be a different funding code number for the next agency that paid part of my salary. A total of seven lines.
As far as taking leave is concerned, since each agency has a different percentage of funding allocated to it, each has a specific hourly amount I charge to them. For example, the first agency I had 4.2 hours (out of 7.5) charged to it. The second agency had.7 hours charged to it. The third was.4 hours. Each.1 value represented 6 minutes so a 1 value would be one hour.
If I took off leave you couldn't simply calculate the percentage of time used and deduct it from each agencies time. In some cases there were agencies who I wouldn't charge at all depending on how much time I took off.
That said, every time I or someone else asked why we had to split our time across the agencies rather than putting in one value and letting SAP do the split for us we were told, "That's the way it is."
I'm just glad that where I work now they only use SAP for when they take time off and not for daily time.
The greatest advances in society happen in competitive marketplaces when businesses see a consumer need to be filled.
Actually, the greatest advances in society happen as the result of war or the threat of war. Sad but true. Some recent examples:
rockets - it is a direct line from Germanys use of rockets in WWII to the launching of satellites and men
jet engines - again, a direct line from Germanys and Englands development of jet engines to todays modern versions
nuclear technology - development by the U.S. on nuclear weapons and the use thereof for both military and civilian use. The University of Chicago still has the worlds first working nuclear reactor under its bleachers
radio - while Marconi and Hertz both contributed to the creation and understanding of radio signals, it was the military who realized the potential of using devices which did not require miles of wire for communication
the internet - started by DARPA as a way to have redundant systems of communications in the event of an attack
computers - the first true computers were used by the military for calculating ballistic firing tables
optics - better optics for military use translated into products for the consumer including modern camera lenses
medicine - there are a whole host of procedures which were developed as the direct result of wounds sustained by soldiers and the use in recovery from those wounds
These are just a few examples. Certainly there are products which business has developed for consumers but many major advances come from the military doing the legwork.
I can't claim to have glimpsed into the dark heart of SAP but having had to work with/around it for over two years I can tell you this: SAP is a slow, bloated, inflexible pile of pig waste. Some examples:
Users had to print a form. They selected the form and printed it. The information was squished on the page (horizontally). After pointing out the issue and providing samples the response was, "The printouts worked in testing. We have no plans to go back and redo the forms. Have the user choose a closer form value so the information prints correctly." In other words, the user has to pick a form design which either has a sufficient number of rows or a sufficient number of columns, but not both at the same time, to have their information print out in a reasonably correct manner.
When inputting the time you work (which has to be done every day) the initial starting date is always the first of the year. You have to manually change the date to sometime during the current pay cycle to input your time.
If you get paid by several different funding agencies (as I was at my previous location) you have to manually (every day) input your time breakdown for each agency. You cannot simply put in one general code and have the system break it out for you in the background. In my case I had seven different values to change.
When the budget year changes (July 1st) you, the user, have to go in and manually change a single digit in the funding code value so it knows to put your salary in the correct budge year. The system will not change it for you. If the pay cycle spanned a budget year you had to input your funding values twice. Once with the current year values and again with new year values. In my case that represented 14 lines of values I had to input.
If you take time off in the middle of the day you have to consult a cheat sheet to manually adjust how much time to allocate to each funding agency. The system will not do it for you in the background.
If you access the system through the web interface and want to print something you have to use Adobe Reader. If you access the system through the login pad you can print something by selecting the correct printer name and printing like normal.
SAP is not ADA compliant (so says someone else in an email I kept when we roled this thing out).
These are just the items I am aware of. I know of other situations where someone wants to print a grid of information but was told the screen isn't desinged to be printed and there are no plans to implement such a feature (how hard is it to throw a form in the background?)
Someone who sat in on a SAP meeting told me that they weren't allowed to ask questions about SAP. The consultants would tell them that asking questions wasn't permitted and would not help morale when rolling out the product (or words to that effect). Ever see those commercials that SAP has out now where the people are standing and clapping at the SAP consultant? Apparently that's how the whole meeting was. No answers, just cheerleading.
The parent is correct. SAP==CRAP. I know of someone who worked at Hershey Foods when they switched to SAP. Hershey lots tons of money during the changeover because the SAP software couldn't handle their distribution system information. In fact, several distributors told Hershey they wouldn't be dealing with them until Hershey got their act together and fixed the issues.
I don't know specifically how much Hershey lost as a result of moving to SAP but I hear it was enough to affect their quarterly financial statement.
Thanks for the link. It's been a while since I've reviewed the Federalist Papers.
One thing that stands out from the wiki entry is at the end. The part regarding the Bill of Rights. The last two sentences read:
Supporters of the bill of rights argued that a list of rights would and should not be interpreted as exhaustive; i.e., that these rights were examples of important rights that people had, but that people had other rights as well. People in this school of thought were confident that the judiciary would interpret these rights in an expansive fashion.
That got my attention because the current configuration of the court has a near majority of people who view the Bill of Rights, and the Constitution in general, as limiting rights, not expanding rights. I know Scalia in particular thinks that the Constitution is not a living document but says what it says and should never be interpreted otherwise.
Unfortunately it appears that the writers of the Papers were correct in their assessment.
But Godfrey Louis, a physicist at Mahatma Gandhi University in Kottayam, after gathering samples left over from the rains, concluded this was nonsense.
He didn't collect uncontaminated samples. He collected samples that had, apparently, collected in puddles. Depending on where those puddles were, ground, steel barrel, rooftop, squeezed from a soaked shirt, etc, they were not the same as putting out a clean jar and collecting the rain as it fell.
It would be nice if these samples had been collected in the correct manner then a more convincing argument could be made that what was found came from space and was not of terrestrial origins.
This is like people who have cancer, undergo treatment for a while then stop. Then they resort to prayer to cure them. If they're cured they claim it was the prayer that did the work. However, since they had already undergone treatment, we can't say for sure which helped the person. The results are contaminated by their original treatment.
If I want to vote or have a voice in the union I would have to join the union which means I would have to pay even MORE of my salary to them but would not receive any more benefits.
The Fair Share portion I pay is just under 1% of each paycheck. To join the union would be over 1%.
So no, I haven't joined the union to try and change things but I do tell my state rep and senator (both republicans) every time they annoy me with their surveys, they should put forth legislation to do away with this nonsense.
DING DING DING DING DING!!!! We have a winner. You are correct sir (or madam). It was Ross who suggested the idea.
Certainly the fact that he could self-fund his campaign had something to do with it but it was also a realization of the corruption that the huge amounts of money put forth by those who couldn't vote had caused.
I know we pushed the idea in our area and some people were receptive to the idea. However, as others above have pointed out, some considered it a violation of free speech even though it wasn't. All the proposal said was that these entities could not contribute to the campaigns themselves. It said nothing about IBM contributing to a PAC ( or a labor union doing the same). It was only direct contributions to candidates.
Corporate donations should be out, as should corporate lobbying.
Interesting you should say that. About ten years ago there was a proposal by a presidential candidate which was titled, 'Can't vote, can't contribute'. Essentially, if you were not able to vote in an election you were not able to contribute.
This would exclude all PACs, corporations, etc from contributing to campaigns since none of them vote. Their members vote but not the entities themselves.
And I'd like to make campaigning limited to local funds.
This was another aspect of the above proposal. There is no reason someone from California should be contributing to a Senate race in another state. If they wanted to contribute money to the candidate they would have to move to the state in question.
In fact, as a classic example of how out-of-state funds can alter a campaign, Cynthia McKinney from Georgia was defeated as the direct result of thousands of dollars that was poured into her opponents campaign because she did not support Israeli policies in the Occupied Territories. Jewish donors from the Northeast responded and altered the outcome of the race.
Of course these changes to campaign finance laws will never happen because that would diminish the influence that business and PACs have. We couldn't have that happen, now could we?
Workers whose salries are randomly cut for "cost-saving measures" while the corporate office posts record profits?
You mean like the union I am forced to contribute to* which during negotiations agreed to a two-year freeze on employees salaries, but not the executive or judicial branches and their employees, but which I stil had to pay dues to? The union which claims I have to pay them for the benefits they get me but who wouldn't and won't refund me the dues I paid for those two years even though they didn't get me anything?
Or maybe you meant the union that keeps agreeing to more and more cuts in health benefits to the point now where to get a discount on what I contribute to my health plan I have to, twice a year, complete an online, six week survey about my health even though I'm in perfect health. The union who has agreed to a dental plan that won't even cover general anesthesia** for the wisdom tooth removal I had to undergo and for which I had to pay for out of my own pocket and won't get reimbursed for nor can I deduct it from my taxes because I don't have enough health problems to meet the requirements. You mean that union?
You mean the union to which I lose $400 every year to because of all the wonderful benefits I get but who won't allow people who have royally screwed up to be fired or allow agencies to remove positions that are not necessary because that 'takes away jobs from the people'.
Give me a break. There was a time when unions were useful but not now. This nonsense that WalMart employees should be unionized is stupid. The only thing that will happen is the people will end up getting less money, the union bosses will get more money for their beer and those consumers who frequent the stores (not me) will end up paying more.
They're about getting what you were promised, for protecting benefits that you're due, for not getting screwed over by a corporation while the suits at the top get paid millions for doing absolutely nothing.
No they're not. They're about enriching the bigwigs at the top of the unions and protecting their jobs and income. Not mine. They're the ones getting paid to do nothing.
* I live in PA and work for the Commonwealth. All non-managerial people must contribute to AFSCME, even the temporary clerical pool people who don't get any benefits. It's called Fair Share but there is nothing fair about it. To make matters worse the Republican controlled House and Senate have never put forth a bill to rescind this Fair Share crap, even when we had a Republican governor.
** We have three dental plans to choose from. The one I chose would only cover novocain for the operation but wouldn't cover general anesthesia nor nitrous oxide. Further, the only way they would cover the operation is if the tooth had broken the skin so in my case if the tooth never broke through but I was in pain I would have had to cover the whole thing out of my pocket.
Do you think that Franklin wouldn't have agreed to temporary wartime restrictions on liberties in pursuit of the greater good (that being victory)?
Considering one of many reasons America declared its independence from Britain was the fact that the Crown restricted a ton of liberties all in the name of protecting the kingdom because they were at war (you remember, with France), your question is obviously wrong. You might want to reread the third and fourth amendments to the Constitution for two specific issues that the framers, including Franklin, were rebelling against.
Do you think FDR was a tyrant for censoring newspapers, radio, and postal mail in WW II?
Censoring information that could possibly be used by someone you are at war with such as mail from soldiers telling their friends and families where they are going or preventing newspapers from talking about operational plans is not a restriction on liberties. It's common sense.
How about severly limiting the right to purchase everything from meat to tires?
That's called rationing. It's what happens when there is a scarcity of a product. That doesn't restrict anyones liberties. Maybe inconvenience them by not allowing them to have steak every night or not allowing women to wear stockings but that is a far cry from a restriction on ones liberties.
How about Lincoln suspending Habeus Corpus?
That was an invalid suspension of liberties as the Supreme Court ruled. In fact, the Court said that only Congress has the power to suspend habeas corpus. Congress did, retroactively, suspend habeas and after 1863 only Congress could authorize any suspension.
In that regard, yes, Franklin would have objected to the suspension. Not only because it wasn't needed but also because it violated the Constitution.
Lindh was captured fighting with a foreign military, against US forces.
False. He never fought against US forces. In fact, when given the option of fighting the US forces or the Northern Alliance forces, Lindh specifically said he did not want to fight US forces.
Further, he was captured by the Northern Alliance forces and put in an Afghanistan jail. He was only found after the riot and attempted takeover of the prison in Mazaor-e Sharif by the prisoners. For reference:
You have given me another reason not to keep your service when I move. Between the constant blacked out and pixelation of tv channels, the high price of said cable channels, the moronic tech who said my surge suppressor was the reason some of my channels were snowy even though I had the device for years and had no problems and which said problems were fixed a few hours after I reattached the suppressor, your usurpation of the last 7 minutes of CNN Headline news at the top and bottom of every hour (which means I miss the interesting stories) and your continuing bombardment of ads for your shitty CN8 channel as if the high schoolish production quality is offset by your idiot hosts, I can and will laugh in the persons face (via the phone) when they try to convince me to keep your service.
This, if true, is a completely unacceptable practice and just another indication of what a waste of resources you are.
If the cel phone rep considers this passive blocking to be illegal than they apparently consider most buildings illegal. Ever try to have a conversation with someone who is in the middle of a building in a wire closet? Fugedaboutit. Why do you think they have cel boosters in high rise buildings? It's to boost the anemic signal due to the metal frame of the building so cel phones can work.
The rep is only saying that to cover their butt so when people do start using this product and people can't get reception the companies can always claim that the bad service isn't their fault, it's the fault of the place the person is in for using this paint.
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I absolutely agree. I just ran the test to see what would happen. I could have used Linux (as someone else has already done) or chose Britney Spears (ahhhhhhh!) but I thought I'd try something a bit different.
Had I taken the time to go through the first 50 results from each site I probably could have gotten a fair understanding of how many relevant links were returned. However, I'm too lazy to do that so I just posted my initial findings and let the rest as an exercise for the reader to consider.
A quick test I performed showed interesting results. I plugged in the word Galen in both Live and Google. Live returned 1,160,846 results while Google gave 13,200,000 results. Considering Live was just released the discrepancy isn't hard to understand. What was interesting was what the first result was. In the case of Live the first result was a photo studio run by Galen and Barbara Powell. For Google the first result was much more relevant: a link to the University of Virgina Health System which talked about the medical practice from the past of which Galen is listed in the links.
The second result for both Live and Google were the same, the Galen Institute homepage.
While one test doesn't a study make, considering Microsofts track record of returning results, I don't forsee myself using their service (especially with all the clutter on the screen).
As an aside, does everyone else get the weather forecast for LA in the lower left corner? I'm on the opposite coast so maybe it's related to where the servers are rather than what IP you come from.t
drinking an excess of dihydrogenmonoxide could lead to a person collapsing or in rare cases, dying. In addition, drinking an excess of flavored, carbonated beverages has been shown to cause significant weight gain in some people which can lead to other medical conditions including heart failure.
Not to sound trite but how is this news? Every person is different and will react differently to external stimulae. In my case I can eat whatever I want in whatever amount I want and not gain a pound. However, the guy in the cube next to me probably can't do the same thing. Why? Because we're all different (in case you missed it the first time).
If the issue revolves around whether one has a certain gene or not then this almost sounds like at birth we should be screened to see if we have this condition so we'll know not to drink so much coffee to prevent or stave off heart disease.
Genes are what determine who we are. As of yet we don't have the means to fully change those genes to correct issues like this. We're all different (just making sure you didn't miss it the first two times) so at best we can use these studies to reinforce the old adage: everything in moderation.
Here are pics from the Counter Strike Masters competition from 2004. I wouldn't exactly call them fat ass IRC chicks.
Just be careful you don't ask who's the band online when your nephew is nearby.
This isn't any different than the phantom console, magnets which supposedly help your arthritis or whatever book that Kevin Trudeau is bilking people into buying claiming this is information that the government doesn't want you to know about.
This shouldn't surprise anyone. Not the least of which that there are VC idiots who will gladly pony up the money for a non-existant, never-to-be-made product simply because it has oodles of neat sounding words in its description.
*PT Barnum never actually said those words but people routinely attribute the phrase to him.
Don't worry. I'm sure sooner or later a powerful enough hurricane will come along and take care of things for you. Look at New Orleans and other places along the Gulf Coast. Sure, death and destruction is everywhere but as a result they have a chance, a slim chance, to redo things correctly and update their systems.
I wasn't trying to justify the military budget. Only showing the parent poster that it isn't always the private sector which creates things for public consumption (which is what they were trying to justify).
Sure, wars do kill people and destroy things. That's one of the purposes of war. However, wars are, in a weird way, beneficial. I listed some of those instances in which war was beneficial.
Also, as was shown after WWII, the aftermath of a war allows cities and infrastructure to be rebuilt and upgraded, allowing for an improvement in peoples lives. This is one reason, among many, that Europe as a whole has a better public transportation system than the U.S. does. When your major cities are leveled you have no choice but to rebuild them from scratch, making changes where necessary.
I work for state government so that probably explains many things.
.7 hours charged to it. The third was .4 hours. Each .1 value represented 6 minutes so a 1 value would be one hour.
As far as my time is concerned, the only way I can explain it is that it uses a grid to hold the information. Line 1 would have a certain funding code number for the agency which paid part of my salary. Line two would be a different funding code number for the next agency that paid part of my salary. A total of seven lines.
As far as taking leave is concerned, since each agency has a different percentage of funding allocated to it, each has a specific hourly amount I charge to them. For example, the first agency I had 4.2 hours (out of 7.5) charged to it. The second agency had
If I took off leave you couldn't simply calculate the percentage of time used and deduct it from each agencies time. In some cases there were agencies who I wouldn't charge at all depending on how much time I took off.
That said, every time I or someone else asked why we had to split our time across the agencies rather than putting in one value and letting SAP do the split for us we were told, "That's the way it is."
I'm just glad that where I work now they only use SAP for when they take time off and not for daily time.
Actually, the greatest advances in society happen as the result of war or the threat of war. Sad but true. Some recent examples:
These are just a few examples. Certainly there are products which business has developed for consumers but many major advances come from the military doing the legwork.
I can't claim to have glimpsed into the dark heart of SAP but having had to work with/around it for over two years I can tell you this: SAP is a slow, bloated, inflexible pile of pig waste. Some examples:
Users had to print a form. They selected the form and printed it. The information was squished on the page (horizontally). After pointing out the issue and providing samples the response was, "The printouts worked in testing. We have no plans to go back and redo the forms. Have the user choose a closer form value so the information prints correctly." In other words, the user has to pick a form design which either has a sufficient number of rows or a sufficient number of columns, but not both at the same time, to have their information print out in a reasonably correct manner.
When inputting the time you work (which has to be done every day) the initial starting date is always the first of the year. You have to manually change the date to sometime during the current pay cycle to input your time.
If you get paid by several different funding agencies (as I was at my previous location) you have to manually (every day) input your time breakdown for each agency. You cannot simply put in one general code and have the system break it out for you in the background. In my case I had seven different values to change.
When the budget year changes (July 1st) you, the user, have to go in and manually change a single digit in the funding code value so it knows to put your salary in the correct budge year. The system will not change it for you. If the pay cycle spanned a budget year you had to input your funding values twice. Once with the current year values and again with new year values. In my case that represented 14 lines of values I had to input.
If you take time off in the middle of the day you have to consult a cheat sheet to manually adjust how much time to allocate to each funding agency. The system will not do it for you in the background.
If you access the system through the web interface and want to print something you have to use Adobe Reader. If you access the system through the login pad you can print something by selecting the correct printer name and printing like normal.
SAP is not ADA compliant (so says someone else in an email I kept when we roled this thing out).
These are just the items I am aware of. I know of other situations where someone wants to print a grid of information but was told the screen isn't desinged to be printed and there are no plans to implement such a feature (how hard is it to throw a form in the background?)
Someone who sat in on a SAP meeting told me that they weren't allowed to ask questions about SAP. The consultants would tell them that asking questions wasn't permitted and would not help morale when rolling out the product (or words to that effect). Ever see those commercials that SAP has out now where the people are standing and clapping at the SAP consultant? Apparently that's how the whole meeting was. No answers, just cheerleading.
The parent is correct. SAP==CRAP. I know of someone who worked at Hershey Foods when they switched to SAP. Hershey lots tons of money during the changeover because the SAP software couldn't handle their distribution system information. In fact, several distributors told Hershey they wouldn't be dealing with them until Hershey got their act together and fixed the issues.
I don't know specifically how much Hershey lost as a result of moving to SAP but I hear it was enough to affect their quarterly financial statement.
One thing that stands out from the wiki entry is at the end. The part regarding the Bill of Rights. The last two sentences read:
That got my attention because the current configuration of the court has a near majority of people who view the Bill of Rights, and the Constitution in general, as limiting rights, not expanding rights. I know Scalia in particular thinks that the Constitution is not a living document but says what it says and should never be interpreted otherwise.Unfortunately it appears that the writers of the Papers were correct in their assessment.
But Godfrey Louis, a physicist at Mahatma Gandhi University in Kottayam, after gathering samples left over from the rains, concluded this was nonsense.
He didn't collect uncontaminated samples. He collected samples that had, apparently, collected in puddles. Depending on where those puddles were, ground, steel barrel, rooftop, squeezed from a soaked shirt, etc, they were not the same as putting out a clean jar and collecting the rain as it fell.
It would be nice if these samples had been collected in the correct manner then a more convincing argument could be made that what was found came from space and was not of terrestrial origins.
This is like people who have cancer, undergo treatment for a while then stop. Then they resort to prayer to cure them. If they're cured they claim it was the prayer that did the work. However, since they had already undergone treatment, we can't say for sure which helped the person. The results are contaminated by their original treatment.
Same thing in this instance.
If I want to vote or have a voice in the union I would have to join the union which means I would have to pay even MORE of my salary to them but would not receive any more benefits.
The Fair Share portion I pay is just under 1% of each paycheck. To join the union would be over 1%.
So no, I haven't joined the union to try and change things but I do tell my state rep and senator (both republicans) every time they annoy me with their surveys, they should put forth legislation to do away with this nonsense.
Bullshit
DING DING DING DING DING!!!! We have a winner. You are correct sir (or madam). It was Ross who suggested the idea.
Certainly the fact that he could self-fund his campaign had something to do with it but it was also a realization of the corruption that the huge amounts of money put forth by those who couldn't vote had caused.
I know we pushed the idea in our area and some people were receptive to the idea. However, as others above have pointed out, some considered it a violation of free speech even though it wasn't. All the proposal said was that these entities could not contribute to the campaigns themselves. It said nothing about IBM contributing to a PAC ( or a labor union doing the same). It was only direct contributions to candidates.
Interesting you should say that. About ten years ago there was a proposal by a presidential candidate which was titled, 'Can't vote, can't contribute'. Essentially, if you were not able to vote in an election you were not able to contribute.
This would exclude all PACs, corporations, etc from contributing to campaigns since none of them vote. Their members vote but not the entities themselves.
And I'd like to make campaigning limited to local funds.
This was another aspect of the above proposal. There is no reason someone from California should be contributing to a Senate race in another state. If they wanted to contribute money to the candidate they would have to move to the state in question.
In fact, as a classic example of how out-of-state funds can alter a campaign, Cynthia McKinney from Georgia was defeated as the direct result of thousands of dollars that was poured into her opponents campaign because she did not support Israeli policies in the Occupied Territories. Jewish donors from the Northeast responded and altered the outcome of the race.
Of course these changes to campaign finance laws will never happen because that would diminish the influence that business and PACs have. We couldn't have that happen, now could we?
You mean like the union I am forced to contribute to* which during negotiations agreed to a two-year freeze on employees salaries, but not the executive or judicial branches and their employees, but which I stil had to pay dues to? The union which claims I have to pay them for the benefits they get me but who wouldn't and won't refund me the dues I paid for those two years even though they didn't get me anything?
Or maybe you meant the union that keeps agreeing to more and more cuts in health benefits to the point now where to get a discount on what I contribute to my health plan I have to, twice a year, complete an online, six week survey about my health even though I'm in perfect health. The union who has agreed to a dental plan that won't even cover general anesthesia** for the wisdom tooth removal I had to undergo and for which I had to pay for out of my own pocket and won't get reimbursed for nor can I deduct it from my taxes because I don't have enough health problems to meet the requirements. You mean that union?
You mean the union to which I lose $400 every year to because of all the wonderful benefits I get but who won't allow people who have royally screwed up to be fired or allow agencies to remove positions that are not necessary because that 'takes away jobs from the people'.
Give me a break. There was a time when unions were useful but not now. This nonsense that WalMart employees should be unionized is stupid. The only thing that will happen is the people will end up getting less money, the union bosses will get more money for their beer and those consumers who frequent the stores (not me) will end up paying more.
They're about getting what you were promised, for protecting benefits that you're due, for not getting screwed over by a corporation while the suits at the top get paid millions for doing absolutely nothing.
No they're not. They're about enriching the bigwigs at the top of the unions and protecting their jobs and income. Not mine. They're the ones getting paid to do nothing.
* I live in PA and work for the Commonwealth. All non-managerial people must contribute to AFSCME, even the temporary clerical pool people who don't get any benefits. It's called Fair Share but there is nothing fair about it. To make matters worse the Republican controlled House and Senate have never put forth a bill to rescind this Fair Share crap, even when we had a Republican governor.
** We have three dental plans to choose from. The one I chose would only cover novocain for the operation but wouldn't cover general anesthesia nor nitrous oxide. Further, the only way they would cover the operation is if the tooth had broken the skin so in my case if the tooth never broke through but I was in pain I would have had to cover the whole thing out of my pocket.
Considering one of many reasons America declared its independence from Britain was the fact that the Crown restricted a ton of liberties all in the name of protecting the kingdom because they were at war (you remember, with France), your question is obviously wrong. You might want to reread the third and fourth amendments to the Constitution for two specific issues that the framers, including Franklin, were rebelling against.
Do you think FDR was a tyrant for censoring newspapers, radio, and postal mail in WW II?
Censoring information that could possibly be used by someone you are at war with such as mail from soldiers telling their friends and families where they are going or preventing newspapers from talking about operational plans is not a restriction on liberties. It's common sense.
Besides, we saw what happened to Geraldo Rivera when he gave away operational plans live on tv.
How about severly limiting the right to purchase everything from meat to tires?
That's called rationing. It's what happens when there is a scarcity of a product. That doesn't restrict anyones liberties. Maybe inconvenience them by not allowing them to have steak every night or not allowing women to wear stockings but that is a far cry from a restriction on ones liberties.
How about Lincoln suspending Habeus Corpus?
That was an invalid suspension of liberties as the Supreme Court ruled. In fact, the Court said that only Congress has the power to suspend habeas corpus. Congress did, retroactively, suspend habeas and after 1863 only Congress could authorize any suspension.
In that regard, yes, Franklin would have objected to the suspension. Not only because it wasn't needed but also because it violated the Constitution.
False. He never fought against US forces. In fact, when given the option of fighting the US forces or the Northern Alliance forces, Lindh specifically said he did not want to fight US forces.
Further, he was captured by the Northern Alliance forces and put in an Afghanistan jail. He was only found after the riot and attempted takeover of the prison in Mazaor-e Sharif by the prisoners. For reference:
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Er, wait. Scratch that. I'm thinking of something else.
You have given me another reason not to keep your service when I move. Between the constant blacked out and pixelation of tv channels, the high price of said cable channels, the moronic tech who said my surge suppressor was the reason some of my channels were snowy even though I had the device for years and had no problems and which said problems were fixed a few hours after I reattached the suppressor, your usurpation of the last 7 minutes of CNN Headline news at the top and bottom of every hour (which means I miss the interesting stories) and your continuing bombardment of ads for your shitty CN8 channel as if the high schoolish production quality is offset by your idiot hosts, I can and will laugh in the persons face (via the phone) when they try to convince me to keep your service.
This, if true, is a completely unacceptable practice and just another indication of what a waste of resources you are.
If the cel phone rep considers this passive blocking to be illegal than they apparently consider most buildings illegal. Ever try to have a conversation with someone who is in the middle of a building in a wire closet? Fugedaboutit. Why do you think they have cel boosters in high rise buildings? It's to boost the anemic signal due to the metal frame of the building so cel phones can work.
The rep is only saying that to cover their butt so when people do start using this product and people can't get reception the companies can always claim that the bad service isn't their fault, it's the fault of the place the person is in for using this paint.
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Oh, wait. You meant the character Lara Croft.
Never mind.