The bigger the country (or the bigger the jurisdiction smaller than a country, where any kind of federalism applies) the bigger the pool of sociopaths to draw from, and the more likely you'll have really horrible ones rise to the top.
Haven't RTFA yet, but if I do, will it indicate that unfixed problems remain on the list or on the map, and maybe indicate how many people have reported it?
If so, that's an important feature that making a phone call that maybe gets ignored doesn't have.
Also, if the app is not run by the city government, that might also provide a nudge that the city government might not have provided itself: looking bad when being unresponsive.
Is it too early to tell the (possibly apocryphal) story of Stalin and the barking dog again? It's apropos, given that the subject is what "ownership" means.
Exactly. Who would miss it after it was gone? Would they miss it enough to be willing to foot the bill for extending it or replacing it, either as a group effort or by buying the services they care about, ala carte?
My hunches are: (1) politicians, scientists, businesses, and space enthusiasts (mostly the second group); (2) nope, nope, maybe, and maybe (respectively).
Too big an effort for Kickstarter, and who would be the one to propose it if there were a place to crowdfund it?
People who think the Constitution is doing OK probably should invest half an hour or 45 minutes reading the thing, and comparing it to how government actually operates.
Of the Bill of Rights, only the Third Amendment has survived intact.
Article I, Section 1 is violated every time the Congress creates an Executive Branch agency with the power to write laws, or empowers one to write a new category of laws.
And so on.
The procedural parts hold up the best. We still have elections to populate the White House and the Congress, on schedule. (Some candidates for those offices are "more equal than others", but that's just a quibble, right?)
Presidential appointees still get confirmed by the Senate before they take office. (Well, except for those interim, temporary, acting heads of agencies.)
Treaties are still ratified by the Senate, too. But negotiated agreements with other countries that aren't treaties go into effect by another route. (They aren't treaties, see?)
The definition of interstate commerce has been absurdly expanded to include acts that aren't commerce and that don't occur between states. (That a man raising corn to feed his family and his livestock was considered to be engaged in "interstate commerce" by doing so requires a level of dishonesty of Ponzian proportions.)
So, if the Constitution isn't dead, it sure is coughing up blood. Coughing up a lot of it.
Courts are good at establishing official truth. They are not so good at discovering actual truth.
If legislation gives the courts permission to rule on political matters, that may just be the final nail in the coffin of the Constitution. (I'm assuming here it's not completely, irretrievably dead already.)
Someone even wrote a book about that. I don't recall the title, but it was something like "Drugs, Sex, Rock and Roll: Advancing Technology Via Debauchery, Through The Ages".
Well, the title was tamer than that. But that gives the flavor of the content. There was not much of a lag between the first photographs and the first "French postcards", between the first home video equipment and the first cottage industry porn, etc.
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And the DEC part (the operating system part of the DEC part, I mean) has been spun off, too.
The market works. When permitted to. What a surprise. (To some.)
For those that think "gouging" is awful, I recommend the EconTalk podcast on the subject. http://www.econtalk.org/archiv...
The bigger the country (or the bigger the jurisdiction smaller than a country, where any kind of federalism applies) the bigger the pool of sociopaths to draw from, and the more likely you'll have really horrible ones rise to the top.
It shows.
Haven't RTFA yet, but if I do, will it indicate that unfixed problems remain on the list or on the map, and maybe indicate how many people have reported it?
If so, that's an important feature that making a phone call that maybe gets ignored doesn't have.
Also, if the app is not run by the city government, that might also provide a nudge that the city government might not have provided itself: looking bad when being unresponsive.
Does that really matter, in post-constitutional America?
Survey says: Nope!
On the plus side, all that money spent in those congressional districts won't be refunded.
Mission accomplished.
These tragic events will continue to happen until the Congress passes reasonable commonsense laws that limit the access of bombs by presidents.
Is it too early to tell the (possibly apocryphal) story of Stalin and the barking dog again? It's apropos, given that the subject is what "ownership" means.
So, is the FAA going to have its allowance cut, for not doing its chores on time?
Ha, ha. Just kidding.
The FAA might get an increase, since it failed. That's how it works and should work, right?
So, even after we see practical fusion power? That's always 25 years out.
Exactly. Who would miss it after it was gone? Would they miss it enough to be willing to foot the bill for extending it or replacing it, either as a group effort or by buying the services they care about, ala carte?
My hunches are: (1) politicians, scientists, businesses, and space enthusiasts (mostly the second group); (2) nope, nope, maybe, and maybe (respectively).
Too big an effort for Kickstarter, and who would be the one to propose it if there were a place to crowdfund it?
People who think the Constitution is doing OK probably should invest half an hour or 45 minutes reading the thing, and comparing it to how government actually operates.
Of the Bill of Rights, only the Third Amendment has survived intact.
Article I, Section 1 is violated every time the Congress creates an Executive Branch agency with the power to write laws, or empowers one to write a new category of laws.
And so on.
The procedural parts hold up the best. We still have elections to populate the White House and the Congress, on schedule. (Some candidates for those offices are "more equal than others", but that's just a quibble, right?)
Presidential appointees still get confirmed by the Senate before they take office. (Well, except for those interim, temporary, acting heads of agencies.)
Treaties are still ratified by the Senate, too. But negotiated agreements with other countries that aren't treaties go into effect by another route. (They aren't treaties, see?)
The definition of interstate commerce has been absurdly expanded to include acts that aren't commerce and that don't occur between states. (That a man raising corn to feed his family and his livestock was considered to be engaged in "interstate commerce" by doing so requires a level of dishonesty of Ponzian proportions.)
So, if the Constitution isn't dead, it sure is coughing up blood. Coughing up a lot of it.
The price may have gone below zero, but the cost did not. So, somebody got stuck with the difference.
Courts are good at establishing official truth. They are not so good at discovering actual truth.
If legislation gives the courts permission to rule on political matters, that may just be the final nail in the coffin of the Constitution. (I'm assuming here it's not completely, irretrievably dead already.)
Ain't no coming back from that.
You Keep Using That Word. I Do Not Think It Means What You Think It Means.
Gutenberg created a world where there are just too many books published in a year to be read in a year.
Something must be done!
Putin went hunting.
Not if they're toasted ravioli. (Sprinkling grated cheese on them could be a challenge, though.)
The stakes were never higher: taking or controlling the wealth and the incomes of everyone in the country.
How does that saying go? No man's life, liberty or property are safe, while the legislature is in session?
And increasingly, presidents are able to dispense with this whole "legislating" inconvenience.
Campaign contributions are not a problem with the federal judiciary. They don't listen to donors -- just the voices in their heads.
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How's "never" work for you?
Too long? How about "Until the police have shown themselves to be responsible"?
Still sounds a lot like "never" to me.
Which doesn't mean I don't find this digusting.
I hope someday to have a computer in my home.
Even origami. http://evil-inc.com/comic/dirt...
Someone even wrote a book about that. I don't recall the title, but it was something like "Drugs, Sex, Rock and Roll: Advancing Technology Via Debauchery, Through The Ages".
Well, the title was tamer than that. But that gives the flavor of the content. There was not much of a lag between the first photographs and the first "French postcards", between the first home video equipment and the first cottage industry porn, etc.