Isn't that like when people thought the Earth was flat, despite the Bible saying it was round? ('The circle of the Earth')
Huh? Most Ancient Greeks knew Earth was round way before the Roman or Orthodox Bible was compiled.
Nor was the Hebrew Bible common knowledge back then.
And not only that but when the Bible was thought as the end all be all in the middle ages, they thought the earth was a sphere too:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flat_earth#In_the_Mid dle_Ages "The modern misconception that people of the Middle Ages believed that the Earth was flat first entered the popular imagination in the nineteenth century, thanks largely to the publication of Washington Irving's fantasy The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus in 1828."
For instance, how do you see a trail as it winds over grassland and leads into the woods?
I am a Bolo Mark V of the line. Bolo uses radar, lasers, sonar, GPS, and satellited imagery.
How does one see a year old trail that is partially overgrown, or a new trail not completely tramped down.
Bolo does not care. Bolo tank treads crush all terrain obstacles. That which cannot be overcome is destroyed with main gun.
How do you track down an animal from smattering of scat, nibbles and tracks over rocks, dirt, grassland, and the tree line?
Bolo uses satellites to track live infrared images of animal's body heat. If animal give off scent, my chemical warfare receptors will identity as such. If animals hides under cloud cover or bush I will use aerial drones to seek it out. If I cannot find it, I will use napalm to reduce the cover first.
How does a human being see a camouflaged predator slinking behind the tree line?
Bolo does not have natural enemies.
How do you read the sky and know what the weather will be later that day?
Bolo is unaffected by weather conditions. However, Bolo is aware of weather by satellite imagery and understands who to use weather formations for tactical advantages.
How do you look at a river and know if it's crossable or not?
Bolo is completely submersible.
Back at home, how do you play your relatives, friends, and enemies in the tribe so that you are elected leader when the Big Man passes away?
Bolo only takes orders from supreme command. But Bolo unit is completely independent and can operate on remote planets without guidance for centuries.
Or how do you manage to convince your husband that your new pregnancy is his, and not your secret lovers'?
Bolo does not produce offspring, but if it did it would use DNA technology. Then it would destroy the opposition with main gun.
(I know I'm responding your questions with a famous fictional AI, but I think that is how it would deal with the questions)
Go simply has too many possible moves. I know of no programs made thus far that can even approach Go playing capacity. And I doubt there will be any time soon.
In theory, (if the Moore Law's pattern holds true) we will have CPUs with more transistors than neurons found in a human brain by 2025 (although its thought that we'll hit the limit of how much you can put on a silicon wafer before 2020).
That said, I'd wager by 2017 that a computer will have enough brute force power to simply guess all possible moves in Go or at least enough to be a human the majority of the time.
Objection: This is a copyright infringement case and not theft.
Speaking of which manslaughter, 1st degree murder, 2nd degree murder, assault, assault and battery, breaking and entering, tresspassing, copyright infringement, libel, slander, criminal negligence, piracy on the high seas, treason, and sedition are all different crimes.
Personally... I'm still confused what the difference between libel and slander, but I believe in the court of law there is always a big difference.
For those interested in why the tornado in a junkyard assembling a 747 is a useless analogy for the process of evolution
Isn't the correct term for this "emergence" which is what happened before evolution. Obviously, matter, energy, and gravity had to come about with a sun and planet formations with the proper elements way before we can even start to talk about evolution.
And since there is no evolution in planetary formations (and most non-organic matter), we call this emergence.
In theory, if you had an infinite amount of tornadoes, infinite number of junkyarks, and infinite amount of time you could eventually get a 747 if you wait long enough.
Of course we might be facing the death of the sun, proton decay, and/or heat death of the universe by the time this happens.
And by no means is this something that will even come close to the time scale of the millions of years evolution takes.
I mean... It took 10 billion years for the Earth to even form and then 4 billion after that before we even got to macro evolution today that produced the life that would even have the remote chance of evolving into intelligent life.
So in that respect, if your definition of a 747 is a planet that is conducive to carbon life then we have have answered this question, but this took longer than even macro evolution of intelligent life.
It doesn't really matter how bad the odds are because in order for intelligent life to notice itself, it has to have happened. The whole concept of Anthropic Principle is that the universe must have at least at one time be friendly to carbon based life even on a minuscule probability before carbon based life can sit around and contemplate this fact.
If the 747 did not happen, then we would not be here discussing this.
But I'll agree... The tornado and the 747 analogy have nothing to do with macro evolution. Emergence and evolution are two completely separate things, but you need emergence to get the building blocks of life first.
The experiment is the be all and end all of science.
Reality and physics doesn't care what the results of the experiment are, but the groupthink comes from sciences interpretation on the results.
As in... "I put leaches on my scurvy patients and they get better so it must have been the leaches kind" of thinking.
In itself, trying the leaches isn't wrong, but I've failed to noticed other issue due to pre-conceived notion such as the fact that the eating of lemons and limes had nothing to do with my patients getting better.
The scientific method usually tries to minimize this as much as possible, but often times we are still left with the debate of "Does dark matter exist?" or "Can we prove black hole exists?"
Right now, its still groupthink and anyone who would say "There are no blackholes!" would get shunned even if he had a compelling argument. Those in the community that had an open mind would of course review his material in a peer review.
As it is now... The things that have the hardest time with controlled experiements (like black holes) are the ones that groupthink gets applies to since we can't create a black hole in a lab and see what it does.
Simply require all "intercept-this-communication" messages should be digitally signed, etc, and keep the private key under lock and key, both physically and electronically.
And what happens when the person in charge of the key is a Russian or Chinese Mole? High level breaches have happened and its not far fetched it could happen again.
OK - I write this wonderful program, spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on testing and design and create it in such a way that the vast majority of users don't need any support.
You are mistaken. There may be such a thing as a perfect software package, but it can never defeat the fact that there is no such thing as a perfect user.
You could have the most user friendly and stable software on the planet, but the majority of the people on the planet will break it or fail to use it in the way you intended them to.
So if you don't provide support... Someone else will for a price or they'll move to another more support friendly package. I'm personally appalled that Apple stores have iTune and iPhoto classes but apparently some people need them.
Absolutely we'd like to know about it. But what do you do? Give your child a list of words never to say? Not let him play with other kids whose families have different policies on games and movies their kids can play and watch?
One of my neighbors parents wouldn't let their kids play with me cause my parents were catholic. (I'm dead serious)
On the other end of the spectrum, my parents had hippie friends who wouldn't let their kid come over because we had Atari video games and a TV and I wasn't allowed to bring toy guns over because it promoted war. They were home schooled, but to be fair I met the kid like 20 years later and he had his hair dyed blue with a heavy metal T-Shirt at a community college.
But the point is still the same... If you don't like the parenting abilities of your neighbors, you have the right to keep your kid at home, locked up, and scared of the Pope.
First off, there's zero evidence that anything would evolve to replace us.
There was zero evidence in 1845 that we'd have an atomic bomb in 1945.
Given the rate of technological advancement, it isn't far fetched to admit that it could be possible to create something that would replace us over a period of time.
Of course it won't be monkeys or dolphins that replace us, but rather something more unnatural that makes the homo sapien obsolete.
This might include genetically altered humans that are no longer of our species or artificial intelligence.
Even then we might all die off due to a freak accident in the atmosphere (cosmic rays or meteor) and have some type of cockroach evolution that replaces us in a few million years since none of us survived.
Except that true hard core gamers build their own machines the majority of the time because its still cheaper than say Alien Ware.
The problem is that most gamers have no desire to spend $300 just to play a game with no difference in performance when they had to justify $500 on a video card which at least has the justification that the game will run better.
They are not interested in trying to present all the information of GW, they are interested in pushing the case that it is real and humans are causing it.
That is the problem.
If it turns out that global warming is naturally occurring event or man made doesn't stop the fact that it is happening.
We should really be asking instead "What can humans do to stop it?"
Now the camp that says "Just stop the CO2 emmissions by humans" is rather simple to follow. On the other hand if it is natural than we have to figure out something else do to to drop the temperatures.
Cover the Sahara and Gobi desert with white reflective paint? Put a million mirrors in orbit? Drop a nuke into a volcano?
The key feature here is that we should be focusing on what we can do rather than say that its not our fault the boat is sinking and ignore the problem. If the boat is sinking it doesn't matter whose fault it is if we all die anyways.
A good deal of this problem is that it is politicized, but again... Even if there were no such thing as global warming and we were about to go into another ice age, putting all this CO2 in the atmosphere can't be a good thing for a stable system.
The earth doesn't exist in a vacuum and the laws of physics tells us this energy goes somewhere.
Imagine if you will a billion of your white blood cells started heating up. By itself the little things aren't a big deal, but eventually if you get enough of them you'll get a lethal fever.
BTW - You seem to be bothered by the label of "religious nutcases" being applied to Tibetans? What makes them so special as to be exempt from this label?
They don't seem to be suicide bombing anyone, taking hostages, or any type of violence nor have had a history of doing so. You can be eccentric with your religion, but I don't think you cross over into the "nutcase" category until you start actually committing violence in the name of your religion.
In fact Tibetan independence has nothing to with religion even though both sides claim so. Technically, China would have claimed the same for Mongolia as always being part of China had not Stalin told Mao to back down.
* Freedom of speech * Women's rights * Homophobia * Religious law * Forced marriage * Repressed view of nudity and sexuality * Female sex mutilation * Honor killings To be fair, that sounds like Western Christianity up until the 1700's when nationalism finally replaced religion as the reason for violent deaths and the renaissance actually was accepted in Norther Europe. Of course Islam is a bit different as its rules as interpretation, but as Turkey shows you can be Muslim without being like Saudi Arabia.
What student hasn't heard the message that giving out personal information is considered risky?? I remember getting surveys in school that involved some rule or restriction that was unpopular and organizing group responses in the hope of getting those restrictions lessened.
Ummm... I gave Slashdot my email address. Should I be concerned now?
1. They deserve whatever they get. 2. I'm pretty sure thier computers(presuming they deserve to be called that) are already turned into spam zombies.
Yeah, but I still get their spam on my networks and bots taking up my bandwidth trying to scan me.
Its like dealing with the plague, even if you quarantine your own city you'll still have plague victims banging on your city gates dying out there and making a big stink. Its best if you pro-actively provide them with the information that they should keep their streets clean and kill off all their rats so you won't have to deal with their stinky refugees when the plague comes..
True but congress has limited power so I'll refresh your memory on their current powers:
Article 1 Section 8: The Congress shall have power
to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts and excises, to pay the debts and provide for the common defense and general welfare of the United States; but all duties, imposts and excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;
To borrow money on the credit of the United States;
To regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several states, and with the Indian tribes;
To establish a uniform rule of naturalization, and uniform laws on the subject of bankruptcies throughout the United States;
To coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coin, and fix the standard of weights and measures;
To provide for the punishment of counterfeiting the securities and current coin of the United States;
To establish post offices and post roads;
To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries;
To constitute tribunals inferior to the Supreme Court;
To define and punish piracies and felonies committed on the high seas, and offenses against the law of nations;
To declare war, grant letters of marque and reprisal, and make rules concerning captures on land and water;
To raise and support armies, but no appropriation of money to that use shall be for a longer term than two years;
To provide and maintain a navy;
To make rules for the government and regulation of the land and naval forces;
To provide for calling forth the militia to execute the laws of the union, suppress insurrections and repel invasions;
To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the militia, and for governing such part of them as may be employed in the service of the United States, reserving to the states respectively, the appointment of the officers, and the authority of training the militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress;
To exercise exclusive legislation in all cases whatsoever, over such District (not exceeding ten miles square) as may, by cession of particular states, and the acceptance of Congress, become the seat of the government of the United States, and to exercise like authority over all places purchased by the consent of the legislature of the state in which the same shall be, for the erection of forts, magazines, arsenals, dockyards, and other needful buildings;--And
To make all laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into execution the foregoing powers, and all other powers vested by this Constitution in the government of the United States, or in any department or officer thereof. You can make laws to expand on those powers, but if it is not listed then you have to make an amendment to the constitution. Those include making states respect the rights of all citizens right to vote and trial by jury regardless of race, voting at 18, and at one time to outlaw alcohol which was later repealed.
If you could find me a part of the constitution and amendments that grants the federal government the right to regulate the age one can drink alcohol then please provide it to me. The can regulate the trade of alcohol and even the sale, but the fact that if someone gives you alcohol for free and that is illegal does not seem to appear as any power in the constitution granted to the government.
It is not compelling states to follow Federal Law through funding withholding. States are constitutionally bound to adhere to federal law. It is part of the deal for a state to join the union, they are required to relinquish powers to the federal government.
Where in the (current) constitution does it give the Federal Government power to regulate drinking age laws? It was added in at one time but then revoked.
Congress has the right to control interstate commerce and funding for said projects, but it has no authority to regulate how old you have to be to drink. You may point out that the federal government dictates how old you have to be to vote, but that was also added as an amendment to the actual constitution after the Vietnam war.
Don't like under 21's drinking? Fine! Go through the process and add it to the constitution. Don't dick around and by pass the intended process.
Even the prohibition supporters went through the proper process to get alcohol outlawed back in 1918.
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How many technologically adept admins do you know that fall for such easy e-mail tricks?
Could be that they new it was a trojan, but wanted to honey pot the guy.
Isn't that like when people thought the Earth was flat, despite the Bible saying it was round? ('The circle of the Earth')
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Huh? Most Ancient Greeks knew Earth was round way before the Roman or Orthodox Bible was compiled.
Nor was the Hebrew Bible common knowledge back then.
And not only that but when the Bible was thought as the end all be all in the middle ages, they thought the earth was a sphere too:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flat_earth#In_the_Mi
"The modern misconception that people of the Middle Ages believed that the Earth was flat first entered the popular imagination in the nineteenth century, thanks largely to the publication of Washington Irving's fantasy The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus in 1828."
Since nobody has _ever_ said anything about frequent break-ins, it's clear that they must be happening.
Lol
Of course lack of evidence, doesn't mean it didn't happen either.
I say we restore the Roman Colosseum and throw 'em to the lions.
Fine with me as long as we keep up the practice of throwing the Christians in before noon?
Oh maybe, you mean there was a reason they outlawed slavery and gladiator fights other than law and order?
For instance, how do you see a trail as it winds over grassland and leads into the woods?
I am a Bolo Mark V of the line. Bolo uses radar, lasers, sonar, GPS, and satellited imagery.
How does one see a year old trail that is partially overgrown, or a new trail not completely tramped down.
Bolo does not care. Bolo tank treads crush all terrain obstacles. That which cannot be overcome is destroyed with main gun.
How do you track down an animal from smattering of scat, nibbles and tracks over rocks, dirt, grassland, and the tree line?
Bolo uses satellites to track live infrared images of animal's body heat. If animal give off scent, my chemical warfare receptors will identity as such. If animals hides under cloud cover or bush I will use aerial drones to seek it out. If I cannot find it, I will use napalm to reduce the cover first.
How does a human being see a camouflaged predator slinking behind the tree line?
Bolo does not have natural enemies.
How do you read the sky and know what the weather will be later that day?
Bolo is unaffected by weather conditions. However, Bolo is aware of weather by satellite imagery and understands who to use weather formations for tactical advantages.
How do you look at a river and know if it's crossable or not?
Bolo is completely submersible.
Back at home, how do you play your relatives, friends, and enemies in the tribe so that you are elected leader when the Big Man passes away?
Bolo only takes orders from supreme command. But Bolo unit is completely independent and can operate on remote planets without guidance for centuries.
Or how do you manage to convince your husband that your new pregnancy is his, and not your secret lovers'?
Bolo does not produce offspring, but if it did it would use DNA technology. Then it would destroy the opposition with main gun.
(I know I'm responding your questions with a famous fictional AI, but I think that is how it would deal with the questions)
Go simply has too many possible moves. I know of no programs made thus far that can even approach Go playing capacity. And I doubt there will be any time soon.
In theory, (if the Moore Law's pattern holds true) we will have CPUs with more transistors than neurons found in a human brain by 2025 (although its thought that we'll hit the limit of how much you can put on a silicon wafer before 2020).
That said, I'd wager by 2017 that a computer will have enough brute force power to simply guess all possible moves in Go or at least enough to be a human the majority of the time.
80 cores ought to be enough for anyone.
driving a car is not a necessity or requirement, it's a luxury.
So you expect people to deliver goods on public transportation?
Secondly, certain sections of the public transportation shut down after midnight so in certain areas you can't get around at certain times at night.
Personally, I hate to drive in NYC as much as the next person, but sometimes you can help heavy equipment without a car.
Objection: This is a copyright infringement case and not theft.
Speaking of which manslaughter, 1st degree murder, 2nd degree murder, assault, assault and battery, breaking and entering, tresspassing, copyright infringement, libel, slander, criminal negligence, piracy on the high seas, treason, and sedition are all different crimes.
Personally... I'm still confused what the difference between libel and slander, but I believe in the court of law there is always a big difference.
For those interested in why the tornado in a junkyard assembling a 747 is a useless analogy for the process of evolution
Isn't the correct term for this "emergence" which is what happened before evolution. Obviously, matter, energy, and gravity had to come about with a sun and planet formations with the proper elements way before we can even start to talk about evolution.
And since there is no evolution in planetary formations (and most non-organic matter), we call this emergence.
In theory, if you had an infinite amount of tornadoes, infinite number of junkyarks, and infinite amount of time you could eventually get a 747 if you wait long enough.
Of course we might be facing the death of the sun, proton decay, and/or heat death of the universe by the time this happens.
And by no means is this something that will even come close to the time scale of the millions of years evolution takes.
I mean... It took 10 billion years for the Earth to even form and then 4 billion after that before we even got to macro evolution today that produced the life that would even have the remote chance of evolving into intelligent life.
So in that respect, if your definition of a 747 is a planet that is conducive to carbon life then we have have answered this question, but this took longer than even macro evolution of intelligent life.
It doesn't really matter how bad the odds are because in order for intelligent life to notice itself, it has to have happened. The whole concept of Anthropic Principle is that the universe must have at least at one time be friendly to carbon based life even on a minuscule probability before carbon based life can sit around and contemplate this fact.
If the 747 did not happen, then we would not be here discussing this.
But I'll agree... The tornado and the 747 analogy have nothing to do with macro evolution. Emergence and evolution are two completely separate things, but you need emergence to get the building blocks of life first.
The experiment is the be all and end all of science.
Reality and physics doesn't care what the results of the experiment are, but the groupthink comes from sciences interpretation on the results.
As in... "I put leaches on my scurvy patients and they get better so it must have been the leaches kind" of thinking.
In itself, trying the leaches isn't wrong, but I've failed to noticed other issue due to pre-conceived notion such as the fact that the eating of lemons and limes had nothing to do with my patients getting better.
The scientific method usually tries to minimize this as much as possible, but often times we are still left with the debate of "Does dark matter exist?" or "Can we prove black hole exists?"
Right now, its still groupthink and anyone who would say "There are no blackholes!" would get shunned even if he had a compelling argument. Those in the community that had an open mind would of course review his material in a peer review.
As it is now... The things that have the hardest time with controlled experiements (like black holes) are the ones that groupthink gets applies to since we can't create a black hole in a lab and see what it does.
Simply require all "intercept-this-communication" messages should be digitally signed, etc, and keep the private key under lock and key, both physically and electronically.
And what happens when the person in charge of the key is a Russian or Chinese Mole? High level breaches have happened and its not far fetched it could happen again.
OK - I write this wonderful program, spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on testing and design and create it in such a way that the vast majority of users don't need any support.
You are mistaken. There may be such a thing as a perfect software package, but it can never defeat the fact that there is no such thing as a perfect user.
You could have the most user friendly and stable software on the planet, but the majority of the people on the planet will break it or fail to use it in the way you intended them to.
So if you don't provide support... Someone else will for a price or they'll move to another more support friendly package. I'm personally appalled that Apple stores have iTune and iPhoto classes but apparently some people need them.
Absolutely we'd like to know about it. But what do you do? Give your child a list of words never to say? Not let him play with other kids whose families have different policies on games and movies their kids can play and watch?
One of my neighbors parents wouldn't let their kids play with me cause my parents were catholic. (I'm dead serious)
On the other end of the spectrum, my parents had hippie friends who wouldn't let their kid come over because we had Atari video games and a TV and I wasn't allowed to bring toy guns over because it promoted war. They were home schooled, but to be fair I met the kid like 20 years later and he had his hair dyed blue with a heavy metal T-Shirt at a community college.
But the point is still the same... If you don't like the parenting abilities of your neighbors, you have the right to keep your kid at home, locked up, and scared of the Pope.
First off, there's zero evidence that anything would evolve to replace us.
There was zero evidence in 1845 that we'd have an atomic bomb in 1945.
Given the rate of technological advancement, it isn't far fetched to admit that it could be possible to create something that would replace us over a period of time.
Of course it won't be monkeys or dolphins that replace us, but rather something more unnatural that makes the homo sapien obsolete.
This might include genetically altered humans that are no longer of our species or artificial intelligence.
Even then we might all die off due to a freak accident in the atmosphere (cosmic rays or meteor) and have some type of cockroach evolution that replaces us in a few million years since none of us survived.
Except that true hard core gamers build their own machines the majority of the time because its still cheaper than say Alien Ware.
The problem is that most gamers have no desire to spend $300 just to play a game with no difference in performance when they had to justify $500 on a video card which at least has the justification that the game will run better.
They are not interested in trying to present all the information of GW, they are interested in pushing the case that it is real and humans are causing it.
That is the problem.
If it turns out that global warming is naturally occurring event or man made doesn't stop the fact that it is happening.
We should really be asking instead "What can humans do to stop it?"
Now the camp that says "Just stop the CO2 emmissions by humans" is rather simple to follow. On the other hand if it is natural than we have to figure out something else do to to drop the temperatures.
Cover the Sahara and Gobi desert with white reflective paint? Put a million mirrors in orbit? Drop a nuke into a volcano?
The key feature here is that we should be focusing on what we can do rather than say that its not our fault the boat is sinking and ignore the problem. If the boat is sinking it doesn't matter whose fault it is if we all die anyways.
A good deal of this problem is that it is politicized, but again... Even if there were no such thing as global warming and we were about to go into another ice age, putting all this CO2 in the atmosphere can't be a good thing for a stable system.
The earth doesn't exist in a vacuum and the laws of physics tells us this energy goes somewhere.
Imagine if you will a billion of your white blood cells started heating up. By itself the little things aren't a big deal, but eventually if you get enough of them you'll get a lethal fever.
BTW - You seem to be bothered by the label of "religious nutcases" being applied to Tibetans? What makes them so special as to be exempt from this label?
They don't seem to be suicide bombing anyone, taking hostages, or any type of violence nor have had a history of doing so. You can be eccentric with your religion, but I don't think you cross over into the "nutcase" category until you start actually committing violence in the name of your religion.
In fact Tibetan independence has nothing to with religion even though both sides claim so. Technically, China would have claimed the same for Mongolia as always being part of China had not Stalin told Mao to back down.
Does it tell us that SGI created OpenGL, or does it tell us that OpenGL evolved from the primordial ooze that is Microsoft?
I'm a firm believer that OpenGL was created by intelligent design.
But with DirectX, I'm not so sure.
* Women's rights
* Homophobia
* Religious law
* Forced marriage
* Repressed view of nudity and sexuality
* Female sex mutilation
* Honor killings To be fair, that sounds like Western Christianity up until the 1700's when nationalism finally replaced religion as the reason for violent deaths and the renaissance actually was accepted in Norther Europe. Of course Islam is a bit different as its rules as interpretation, but as Turkey shows you can be Muslim without being like Saudi Arabia.
Both China and Russia have been dealing with this religious nutcases for years prior to 9-11.
I hope your not talking about Tibet, but rather the Gulong Fong?
As in gravity is not as strong in other places in the universe?
What student hasn't heard the message that giving out personal information is considered risky?? I remember getting surveys in school that involved some rule or restriction that was unpopular and organizing group responses in the hope of getting those restrictions lessened.
Ummm... I gave Slashdot my email address. Should I be concerned now?
1. They deserve whatever they get.
2. I'm pretty sure thier computers(presuming they deserve to be called that) are already turned into spam zombies.
Yeah, but I still get their spam on my networks and bots taking up my bandwidth trying to scan me.
Its like dealing with the plague, even if you quarantine your own city you'll still have plague victims banging on your city gates dying out there and making a big stink. Its best if you pro-actively provide them with the information that they should keep their streets clean and kill off all their rats so you won't have to deal with their stinky refugees when the plague comes..
to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts and excises, to pay the debts and provide for the common defense and general welfare of the United States; but all duties, imposts and excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;
To borrow money on the credit of the United States;
To regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several states, and with the Indian tribes;
To establish a uniform rule of naturalization, and uniform laws on the subject of bankruptcies throughout the United States;
To coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coin, and fix the standard of weights and measures;
To provide for the punishment of counterfeiting the securities and current coin of the United States;
To establish post offices and post roads;
To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries;
To constitute tribunals inferior to the Supreme Court;
To define and punish piracies and felonies committed on the high seas, and offenses against the law of nations;
To declare war, grant letters of marque and reprisal, and make rules concerning captures on land and water;
To raise and support armies, but no appropriation of money to that use shall be for a longer term than two years;
To provide and maintain a navy;
To make rules for the government and regulation of the land and naval forces;
To provide for calling forth the militia to execute the laws of the union, suppress insurrections and repel invasions;
To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the militia, and for governing such part of them as may be employed in the service of the United States, reserving to the states respectively, the appointment of the officers, and the authority of training the militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress;
To exercise exclusive legislation in all cases whatsoever, over such District (not exceeding ten miles square) as may, by cession of particular states, and the acceptance of Congress, become the seat of the government of the United States, and to exercise like authority over all places purchased by the consent of the legislature of the state in which the same shall be, for the erection of forts, magazines, arsenals, dockyards, and other needful buildings;--And
To make all laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into execution the foregoing powers, and all other powers vested by this Constitution in the government of the United States, or in any department or officer thereof. You can make laws to expand on those powers, but if it is not listed then you have to make an amendment to the constitution. Those include making states respect the rights of all citizens right to vote and trial by jury regardless of race, voting at 18, and at one time to outlaw alcohol which was later repealed.
If you could find me a part of the constitution and amendments that grants the federal government the right to regulate the age one can drink alcohol then please provide it to me. The can regulate the trade of alcohol and even the sale, but the fact that if someone gives you alcohol for free and that is illegal does not seem to appear as any power in the constitution granted to the government.
It is not compelling states to follow Federal Law through funding withholding. States are constitutionally bound to adhere to federal law. It is part of the deal for a state to join the union, they are required to relinquish powers to the federal government.
Where in the (current) constitution does it give the Federal Government power to regulate drinking age laws? It was added in at one time but then revoked.
Congress has the right to control interstate commerce and funding for said projects, but it has no authority to regulate how old you have to be to drink. You may point out that the federal government dictates how old you have to be to vote, but that was also added as an amendment to the actual constitution after the Vietnam war.
Don't like under 21's drinking? Fine! Go through the process and add it to the constitution. Don't dick around and by pass the intended process.
Even the prohibition supporters went through the proper process to get alcohol outlawed back in 1918.