Your objectives are honest and agreeable. Unfortunately, as per your own advice, I cannot in good conscience vote for you as your party is not viable. Become viable and I will vote for you. Of course, you won't ever become viable unless some people vote for you... but that is your problem and not mine.
Most respectfully,
stinerman
*All joking aside, the only thrown away vote is a vote not cast. Best of luck in your aspirations.
I would expect he'd agree with you, and still punch you in the face.
Part of being a soldier is swearing an oath to the Constitution. I'd expect he'd do nothing because he'd be protecting the free speech rights of the person in question. Anything else would be contrary to the soldier's oath.
At some point after you have written something you can finish. Other than bugfixes make couldn't really be improved without making it into something else.
Superintendent: So, we're going to use Linux on these old computers? I've heard of something called Red Hat (hey, he has their stock). Is that what we're using? Tech: No sir, we're using Damn Small Linux.
Sir, I've never drank (and I'm nearly 23 years old). To echo the GP's sentiment, I don't drink, but I think the drinking age should be lowered to 18 immediately and possibly 16 if things go well thereafter.
things like people believing legitimately long lines or legitimate road construction are actually parts of a carefully coordinated conspiracy to prevent people from voting
Sir, the facts are that Republican precincts got more voting machines than Democratic precincts in Ohio. Voting machines in Ohio are distributed by the Secretary of State (in this case J. Kenneth Blackwell) upon the advice of county BOE chairpersons. That is, the chairperson puts in an order for what they think they need, but the SoS determines what county gets what. You may now draw any conclusions from these facts that you like.
Going further off topic, I believe the minimum age one must attain to make a contribution is 8. Yes, 8 years old. It is legal in the state of Ohio for an 8 year old to give $10,000 to a politician.
The folks that work for the Registrar of Voters in my county make a whole lot more per day than the $50-$100 that the poll workers get paid.
Do you really want to nickel and dime the counting of your votes? It doesn't really matter who wins so long as its cheap, right? Shit, you act like the voting machines are cheap. You can hire a hell of a lot of people for what 1 machine costs.
Are these the same exit polls that predicted a win for Gore, then Bush, then Gore, then Bush? I'd prefer to wait for the official totals.
I would, too. Which is why the exit polls are an estimate. As you know, in 2000, the vote was officially decided by 537 votes -- a statistical dead heat. They didn't do too bad. If I go home and see that candidate X or ballot issue Y is winning by 10% on the exit polls, I can be pretty sure that when the final tallies come out, that candidate will win or issue will pass.
Some people lie to exit pollers. I'm one of them.
And he wonders why exit polls don't work. What an ass! The only thing lying to pollsters does is increases the suspicion of fraud in elections, something you're ostensibly working against, and perhaps gives you some giddy feeling that you're lying to someone for the sake of lying.
1) Censorship is wrong. 2) Google is engaging in censorship. 3) Google is doing something wrong.
Also,
1) The CCP is not the legitimate government of China. (they do not derive their power from the consent of their people) 2) Google does business with the government of China. 3) Doing business with illegitimate governments is wrong. 4) Google is doing something wrong.
You may also hold your tongue if you wish to tell me about the supposed benefits of Google being in China. I am a deontologist and couldn't care less about the consequences of Google's actions. IMO, the conseqences of an action do not determine if it is ethically right or wrong.
Either way, if the RIAA starts garnishing your wages to the point that you can't meet your other obligations, you'll end up filing. If it got that bad, I'd probably stop working and play stay-at-home dad. They'd be getting no blood from this turnip. Until they reinstituted debtor prisons, they couldn't touch me so long as I wasn't married*.
*In Ohio we have a very strict definition of marriage, so the RIAA couldn't try to get money from my girlfriend because that would assume a relationship that attempted to "approximate the design, qualities, significance or effect of marriage", which isn't recognizable under Ohio law.
It's one thing if you can't afford it but totally another if the government says you can't have medical treatment.
There is no reason why we can't have universal care and still allow people who want presumably better or more responsive care to pay a private insurer or straight cash over and above their government care (however that might be funded) to a private doctor to get it.
And if the fda were to stop making it so hard and expensive to get approval for new treatments or drugs then they would be cheaper.
Yes, the FDA is a major problem here. If it is learned that Vioxx has severe and harmful side effects, and I still want to take it, I should be able to take it. The FDA should be an advisory agency, nothing more. Experimental drugs should be allowed to be sold, so long as the person who wants to take them knows the possible problems with the drug. If the company who made the drug was incomplete or negligent in describing the risks, they should be taken to court under regular tort law.
AFAIK, the downloading of any copyrighted material is legal. Copyright law restricts the copying and distribution of works. The person you got the work from made the copy and delivered it to you. That would be infringement (assuming the file wasn't licensed in a way that allowed such distribution) on the part of the uploader.
Now, the copying between the NIC and the RAM and the hard drive may or may not be infringement. I believe that that type of copying is covered by fair use. Then again, I have no idea if fair use rights are preserved if you recieved an illegitimate copy of a work.
As others have said, Chapter 7 bankruptcy is a sure thing. You might also want to look into moving to a different country, especially if you have family there. I don't believe any foreign country will extradite you based on bad debts. Even then, I don't know how much the feds would really care about trying to get you anyway.
I believe it actually increases the cost of health care and can lead to rationing.
Health care is already rationed. At the moment it is by ability to pay. About 18,000 people die every year in the US because they don't have health insurance. And, of course, when someone who can't pay goes to the emergency room, you and your insurance company have to pay for it in increased prices... so you're paying for it anyway.
If the so-called free market approach to medicine and health care would even start to work, you'd have to let emergency rooms and doctors turn away patients that had no means of paying. Could you imagine a doctor asking to see your insurance card before he'd help you? They'd have to do away with the hippocratic oath.
Truely, the problem with the Constitution and the Bill of Rights is that often there will be non-exhaustive lists of both granted and denied powers to the feds. Also, as you say, they singled out some particular rights but tried to say "we can't list all your rights, so here's this 9th amendment to make sure you understand you have more than what is in the first 8".
Net access is just another area where you get what you pay for. Sure, I could offer people 100mbit net access for $20/month and just lay ethernet to their houses (we are assuming I had the permits here). However at that price, I couldn't guarantee 100mbits of upstream for each subscriber. Hell I'd be lucky to get 10mbits of upstream for all subscribers.
Thats fine. Just don't all it "unlimited, always on 100mbps Internet access".
Then how is it that ISPs can stay in business in countries like Sweden and South Korea? I've heard anecdotal stories of people there getting ethernet speeds at around $35.
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Sir,
... but that is your problem and not mine.
Your objectives are honest and agreeable. Unfortunately, as per your own advice, I cannot in good conscience vote for you as your party is not viable. Become viable and I will vote for you. Of course, you won't ever become viable unless some people vote for you
Most respectfully,
stinerman
*All joking aside, the only thrown away vote is a vote not cast. Best of luck in your aspirations.
The "so help me God" part is voluntary and (AFAIK) not actually part of the oath.
EMACS
Woe to the day when GNU yes has an RSS reader.
Won't that be the day!
Superintendent: So, we're going to use Linux on these old computers? I've heard of something called Red Hat (hey, he has their stock). Is that what we're using?
Tech: No sir, we're using Damn Small Linux.
Right...
To echo the GP's sentiment, I don't drink, but I think the drinking age should be lowered to 18 immediately and possibly 16 if things go well thereafter.
Actually, you can post in threads you moderate in so long as you log out after the moderation and then post as AC.
Sir, the facts are that Republican precincts got more voting machines than Democratic precincts in Ohio. Voting machines in Ohio are distributed by the Secretary of State (in this case J. Kenneth Blackwell) upon the advice of county BOE chairpersons. That is, the chairperson puts in an order for what they think they need, but the SoS determines what county gets what. You may now draw any conclusions from these facts that you like.
Some people think that the Democratic machine in Chicago stuffed the ballot box to get Kennedy elected in 1960.
Going further off topic, I believe the minimum age one must attain to make a contribution is 8. Yes, 8 years old. It is legal in the state of Ohio for an 8 year old to give $10,000 to a politician.
There's a reason Doc has quicky gone from "friend" to teetering dangerously close to "foe".
I would, too. Which is why the exit polls are an estimate. As you know, in 2000, the vote was officially decided by 537 votes -- a statistical dead heat. They didn't do too bad. If I go home and see that candidate X or ballot issue Y is winning by 10% on the exit polls, I can be pretty sure that when the final tallies come out, that candidate will win or issue will pass.
And he wonders why exit polls don't work. What an ass! The only thing lying to pollsters does is increases the suspicion of fraud in elections, something you're ostensibly working against, and perhaps gives you some giddy feeling that you're lying to someone for the sake of lying.
Get more people to count. Exit polls will give a reasonable estimate on the results. Official results will be later in the week.
My logic goes as thus:
1) Censorship is wrong.
2) Google is engaging in censorship.
3) Google is doing something wrong.
Also,
1) The CCP is not the legitimate government of China. (they do not derive their power from the consent of their people)
2) Google does business with the government of China.
3) Doing business with illegitimate governments is wrong.
4) Google is doing something wrong.
You may also hold your tongue if you wish to tell me about the supposed benefits of Google being in China. I am a deontologist and couldn't care less about the consequences of Google's actions. IMO, the conseqences of an action do not determine if it is ethically right or wrong.
Ahh, thanks for the tip.
Either way, if the RIAA starts garnishing your wages to the point that you can't meet your other obligations, you'll end up filing. If it got that bad, I'd probably stop working and play stay-at-home dad. They'd be getting no blood from this turnip. Until they reinstituted debtor prisons, they couldn't touch me so long as I wasn't married*.
*In Ohio we have a very strict definition of marriage, so the RIAA couldn't try to get money from my girlfriend because that would assume a relationship that attempted to "approximate the design, qualities, significance or effect of marriage", which isn't recognizable under Ohio law.
There is no reason why we can't have universal care and still allow people who want presumably better or more responsive care to pay a private insurer or straight cash over and above their government care (however that might be funded) to a private doctor to get it.
Yes, the FDA is a major problem here. If it is learned that Vioxx has severe and harmful side effects, and I still want to take it, I should be able to take it. The FDA should be an advisory agency, nothing more. Experimental drugs should be allowed to be sold, so long as the person who wants to take them knows the possible problems with the drug. If the company who made the drug was incomplete or negligent in describing the risks, they should be taken to court under regular tort law.
AFAIK, the downloading of any copyrighted material is legal. Copyright law restricts the copying and distribution of works. The person you got the work from made the copy and delivered it to you. That would be infringement (assuming the file wasn't licensed in a way that allowed such distribution) on the part of the uploader.
Now, the copying between the NIC and the RAM and the hard drive may or may not be infringement. I believe that that type of copying is covered by fair use. Then again, I have no idea if fair use rights are preserved if you recieved an illegitimate copy of a work.
As others have said, Chapter 7 bankruptcy is a sure thing. You might also want to look into moving to a different country, especially if you have family there. I don't believe any foreign country will extradite you based on bad debts. Even then, I don't know how much the feds would really care about trying to get you anyway.
How much more noble would it be for those (Yahoo!, Google) who have much to lose ($$$) but relatively little to gain to Do The Right Thing?
Health care is already rationed. At the moment it is by ability to pay. About 18,000 people die every year in the US because they don't have health insurance. And, of course, when someone who can't pay goes to the emergency room, you and your insurance company have to pay for it in increased prices
If the so-called free market approach to medicine and health care would even start to work, you'd have to let emergency rooms and doctors turn away patients that had no means of paying. Could you imagine a doctor asking to see your insurance card before he'd help you? They'd have to do away with the hippocratic oath.
Agreed.
Truely, the problem with the Constitution and the Bill of Rights is that often there will be non-exhaustive lists of both granted and denied powers to the feds. Also, as you say, they singled out some particular rights but tried to say "we can't list all your rights, so here's this 9th amendment to make sure you understand you have more than what is in the first 8".
In all fairness to the folks at Debian, the full set would include basically everything in Ubuntu's universe and some parts of metaverse.
Thats fine. Just don't all it "unlimited, always on 100mbps Internet access".
Then how is it that ISPs can stay in business in countries like Sweden and South Korea? I've heard anecdotal stories of people there getting ethernet speeds at around $35.
Pshaw!
I re-download the entire 3 DVD set of Debian Etch every week. 750MB? Yeah, maybe if I'm running 'apt-get update emacs'.