My personal preference would be for a constitutional amendment that added a wholly new branch of Government - outside the Executive, Legislative and Judicial
Given the size and scope, much of it unconstitutional, of our current government the best answer can not possibly be more government. The only way to fix bloatware is to hack it down.
This article would have so much more impact had it been released about a week after New Years'. Rather convenient that it's being announced at a time when 90% of the public is off partying.
society would quickly devolve into a pseudo-feudal system where those with the most resources and firepower would take control
There are many cases of this happening in the world and they all have something in common: government involvement was recruited to enforce the feudal nature of those in power.
In a true libertarian system, should the workers strike and the offending company ask for government support to break the strike, the government would say,"You pissed them off. You deal with them."
The only reason a libertarian system never works is because the government always steps in on the side of the wealthy and power entrenched.
Attacking another nation allowed us to enforce our political and business interests on the target. Once the companies are firmly entrenched under the guise of rebuilding they, and their business associates, will have significant bargaining power in gaining and retaining a workforce to continue to supply them with profitable products. That's not necessarily a bad thing but it does wrench the control away from any native business interests.
It's not as simple as the oil tankers pulling in to port. It's more a game of who owns the oil tankers, who owns the pumping stations, who manages the investments, and many many other considerations.
To boil it all down to simplicity, though, "attacking another country to steal their oil" is a pretty accurate account.
Considering the profit potential of the savings, investment, and loan industry the politicianss, personally, stand much more to gain by increasing the debt. As the bulk taxpayers are the ones ultimately responsible for that debt and the interest on the debt payments they probably see us as a pool of lifetime indentured servants.
I didn't say I was a Libertarian, which in reality is a totally unworkable system.
I'm a libertarian and I see it in the same way that I see free software.
Free software is a totally unworkable system for achieving profit (which is necessary for sustained growth)--but it's much closer to what the playing field should look like than anything we've had in decades. True hardcore libertarianism is a totally unworkable system for managing the society of an international superpower--but it's much closer to what the playing field should look like than anything we've had in decades.
I wrote a critical report of NAFTA back in '93 for a World Politics class. The professor was on the other side of the line, though, labelled my entire paper a straw man, and hit me with a B- for the paper.
As it turns out... I was right. NAFTA is, like most major political movements, a way for large corporations to bicker with each other at the expense of the taxpayers.
Which won't protect a bit vs. their +5 Broadsword of Doom (+5 additional vs. innocent targets, +5 additional vs. disempowered targets, +8 additional vs. targets with fewer gold pieces)
The government has no problem following the rules set forth for itI hope that's sarcasm I hear. The government has been systematically ignoring any rules, and using the Supreme Court to marginalize them (see the history of the 9th and 10th Amendments detailed in relation to the 17th here), since the first Congress.
Politicians do not like rules which limit their authority and will use every underhanded trick possible to get around them. Usually it boils down to,"Well, that clearly doesn't apply to us because..."
Not that many other nations' governments are any better--but the USA isn't all it's cracked up to be.
Sure, you can design dialog boxes by writing scripts in an editor, but why bother when you can use an interactive GUI to do it in 1/10th the time?
To gain thorough familiarity with the underlying principles of the system and assist the developers of the drag-and-drop programming interface in improving their product.
Programming a large application is as large and complicated a task as building a house. If you use a drag-and-drop point-and-click system it will be larger, there will be more cruft, there may be more logical problems in the code, some important features may be left out if they're not made readily available in the interface, and the programmer learns very little about the underlying system. Programming with a text editor will take forever but, if done properly, will be practically perfect. Assess the field and evaluate your goal properly before choosing. It's likely the correct decision will involve a combination of both techniques.
The GP's post was mostly good. Ascribing all text programming to a masochistic addiction to counter productivity and frustration is the troll. It demonstrates a complete lack of anything but the shallowest level of understanding of the art form.
Programming is like anything else. It's like exercise. It demands time.
If you lack the extra time to spend with it then you're better off picking up the newest and hottest environments like Java and Enlightenment. There will be more people starting around the same place that you are and will provide a group of knowledge to answer questions and exchange ideas.
If you have the extra time then pick up fundamentals. Use Debian. Install from a five year old release and upgrade it manually while focusing your attention on the parts of the OS which your desired application will interact with. Maybe you can already do this. Read their documentation. Learn how they work. Learn a fundamental language and learn how to use it for the toolkits which you want to use.
It's a tough task. Getting back into programming after 20 years of no hands-on work will seem like a chore at first. With enough time it can become a routine. With more time it can become a hobby. WIth more time it can become a desire. With more time it can become a pursuit. With the right social connections it can become a venture. Notice the significant dependence on time. Not an hour here and there but good 6 hour daily blocks of time. Don't expect to do much cooking.
I'm trying the same thing. I wrote a system installer in BASH that went through the normal stages of development and evolved for five years part time. Now I'm beginning to practice C. I'd like to rewrite my system installer in C. This will allow me to learn the APIs and protocols for system devices. The tough part has been that my employment has been in research science (chemistry) and highly computer unrelated. Shifting the brain to programming takes time away from actual programming.
It's been explained to me that the US never ended the declaration of war from the first Iraqi conflict in the late 90s. Iraq had been placed on a permanent probation in order to allow the US to retain full right to do whatever it wanted whenever it wanted.
They've been making a mess over the 9th and 10th Amendments since the very first Congress and the Supreme Court has been systematically setting precedent to castrate the 10th Amendment for many decades. A more detailed run-down can be found here. The author details the court cases and the rationale presented by the Supreme Court when justifying its interpretation of the 10th as, more or less, meaningless drivel. I can't say that I disagree with their decisions in some of the cases but, as Supreme Court Justices, one would think that they would understand the purpose behind capping off the Bill of Rights with the 9th and 10th. Apparently political influence has always meant more than the oath to uphold the US Constitution.
I had asked about this as well. It was related to me that, legally, the US never ended the declaration of war from the first Iraqi conflict in '92 (?). The US had put Iraq on permanent probation so that the Federal Government could do whatever they wanted at any time.
It's clearly an underhanded maneuver but that's what I've learned.
That's more than most people get. Be happy he got anything. Get back to work. If he continues to say anything about it we'll figure out a way to get him on insubordination.
What he means is that the US is a democratically electred group of representatives who are supposed to respect the document which charters them as a Republic.
Your conceptualization of the system is lacking in more ways than one. Even a direct democracy says nothing about the underlying system. It is possible to directly and democratically elect a communist government.
As long as you bring slavery into the mix I'd like to point out that every time slaves have ever banded together to assert their rights the slaveowners have called for government military support to enforce their power.
Under a Libertarian system the government would say,"You pissed them off. You deal with them. It's not our problem."
Driver's licenses will have USB connections. Every mobo in the world will be equipped with hardware such that it will refuse to read any peripheral devices unless a proper driver's license has been inserted.
All responsibility for safeguarding the device will rest in the hands of the citizen just as, in many areas, it is a ticketable offense to be caught in public without your state-issued identification.
They're getting paid how much?
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Surely you can't be completely serious.
You make some good points but the Muslim slamming means you need to step back and reassess the situation.
That's pretty strong language but, for the most part, I agree.
This article would have so much more impact had it been released about a week after New Years'. Rather convenient that it's being announced at a time when 90% of the public is off partying.
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In a true libertarian system, should the workers strike and the offending company ask for government support to break the strike, the government would say,"You pissed them off. You deal with them."
The only reason a libertarian system never works is because the government always steps in on the side of the wealthy and power entrenched.
That's much too simplistic a view.
Attacking another nation allowed us to enforce our political and business interests on the target. Once the companies are firmly entrenched under the guise of rebuilding they, and their business associates, will have significant bargaining power in gaining and retaining a workforce to continue to supply them with profitable products. That's not necessarily a bad thing but it does wrench the control away from any native business interests.
It's not as simple as the oil tankers pulling in to port. It's more a game of who owns the oil tankers, who owns the pumping stations, who manages the investments, and many many other considerations.
To boil it all down to simplicity, though, "attacking another country to steal their oil" is a pretty accurate account.
Considering the profit potential of the savings, investment, and loan industry the politicianss, personally, stand much more to gain by increasing the debt. As the bulk taxpayers are the ones ultimately responsible for that debt and the interest on the debt payments they probably see us as a pool of lifetime indentured servants.
Free software is a totally unworkable system for achieving profit (which is necessary for sustained growth)--but it's much closer to what the playing field should look like than anything we've had in decades. True hardcore libertarianism is a totally unworkable system for managing the society of an international superpower--but it's much closer to what the playing field should look like than anything we've had in decades.
I wrote a critical report of NAFTA back in '93 for a World Politics class. The professor was on the other side of the line, though, labelled my entire paper a straw man, and hit me with a B- for the paper.
As it turns out... I was right. NAFTA is, like most major political movements, a way for large corporations to bicker with each other at the expense of the taxpayers.
Which won't protect a bit vs. their +5 Broadsword of Doom (+5 additional vs. innocent targets, +5 additional vs. disempowered targets, +8 additional vs. targets with fewer gold pieces)
The government has no problem following the rules set forth for itI hope that's sarcasm I hear. The government has been systematically ignoring any rules, and using the Supreme Court to marginalize them (see the history of the 9th and 10th Amendments detailed in relation to the 17th here), since the first Congress.
Politicians do not like rules which limit their authority and will use every underhanded trick possible to get around them. Usually it boils down to,"Well, that clearly doesn't apply to us because..."
Not that many other nations' governments are any better--but the USA isn't all it's cracked up to be.
I get a good chuckle each and every time I see your sig.
No. I meant a GUI design framework. I'd much rather code an app to work well with Enlightenment over GNOME or KDE.
Programming a large application is as large and complicated a task as building a house. If you use a drag-and-drop point-and-click system it will be larger, there will be more cruft, there may be more logical problems in the code, some important features may be left out if they're not made readily available in the interface, and the programmer learns very little about the underlying system. Programming with a text editor will take forever but, if done properly, will be practically perfect. Assess the field and evaluate your goal properly before choosing. It's likely the correct decision will involve a combination of both techniques.
The GP's post was mostly good. Ascribing all text programming to a masochistic addiction to counter productivity and frustration is the troll. It demonstrates a complete lack of anything but the shallowest level of understanding of the art form.
Programming is like anything else. It's like exercise. It demands time.
If you lack the extra time to spend with it then you're better off picking up the newest and hottest environments like Java and Enlightenment. There will be more people starting around the same place that you are and will provide a group of knowledge to answer questions and exchange ideas.
If you have the extra time then pick up fundamentals. Use Debian. Install from a five year old release and upgrade it manually while focusing your attention on the parts of the OS which your desired application will interact with. Maybe you can already do this. Read their documentation. Learn how they work. Learn a fundamental language and learn how to use it for the toolkits which you want to use.
It's a tough task. Getting back into programming after 20 years of no hands-on work will seem like a chore at first. With enough time it can become a routine. With more time it can become a hobby. WIth more time it can become a desire. With more time it can become a pursuit. With the right social connections it can become a venture. Notice the significant dependence on time. Not an hour here and there but good 6 hour daily blocks of time. Don't expect to do much cooking.
I'm trying the same thing. I wrote a system installer in BASH that went through the normal stages of development and evolved for five years part time. Now I'm beginning to practice C. I'd like to rewrite my system installer in C. This will allow me to learn the APIs and protocols for system devices. The tough part has been that my employment has been in research science (chemistry) and highly computer unrelated. Shifting the brain to programming takes time away from actual programming.
It's been explained to me that the US never ended the declaration of war from the first Iraqi conflict in the late 90s. Iraq had been placed on a permanent probation in order to allow the US to retain full right to do whatever it wanted whenever it wanted.
They've been making a mess over the 9th and 10th Amendments since the very first Congress and the Supreme Court has been systematically setting precedent to castrate the 10th Amendment for many decades. A more detailed run-down can be found here. The author details the court cases and the rationale presented by the Supreme Court when justifying its interpretation of the 10th as, more or less, meaningless drivel. I can't say that I disagree with their decisions in some of the cases but, as Supreme Court Justices, one would think that they would understand the purpose behind capping off the Bill of Rights with the 9th and 10th. Apparently political influence has always meant more than the oath to uphold the US Constitution.
I had asked about this as well. It was related to me that, legally, the US never ended the declaration of war from the first Iraqi conflict in '92 (?). The US had put Iraq on permanent probation so that the Federal Government could do whatever they wanted at any time.
It's clearly an underhanded maneuver but that's what I've learned.
That's more than most people get. Be happy he got anything. Get back to work. If he continues to say anything about it we'll figure out a way to get him on insubordination.
What he means is that the US is a democratically electred group of representatives who are supposed to respect the document which charters them as a Republic.
Your conceptualization of the system is lacking in more ways than one. Even a direct democracy says nothing about the underlying system. It is possible to directly and democratically elect a communist government.
As long as you bring slavery into the mix I'd like to point out that every time slaves have ever banded together to assert their rights the slaveowners have called for government military support to enforce their power.
Under a Libertarian system the government would say,"You pissed them off. You deal with them. It's not our problem."
I can't understand why it is necessary to put a military style access program on consumer devices.
I don't want to hear any bull about terrorists or security either.
Driver's licenses will have USB connections. Every mobo in the world will be equipped with hardware such that it will refuse to read any peripheral devices unless a proper driver's license has been inserted.
All responsibility for safeguarding the device will rest in the hands of the citizen just as, in many areas, it is a ticketable offense to be caught in public without your state-issued identification.