Riiiight. Because if a politician named Barak McCain (I) promised to provide a free car for all families earning less than $30,000 a year, and the voters rallied to elect him president, clearly it's okay to suck money from the working class in order to give "free" cars to the poor.
Bzzz.
I consider that theft. I work; somebody else gets the cotton I picked... ooops, I mean the car I bought for them. That's a human rights violation. ----- I prefer what the Constitution says, which limits taxation strictly to COMMON welfare, not just welfare for a few individuals. For example: National defense (benefits all).
>>>It is Sprints obligation under those contracts to maintain routable connections to Cogent.
False. Sprint is under no obligation to maintain your contact to a non-paying customer - just as Bell Telephone is under no obligation to make-sure you can contact with your ne'er-do-well uncle who didn't pay his phone bill.
>>>My response to you is that whether human caused global warming is real or not shouldn't change our behavior. We should strive very hard not dump millions of tons of stuff into our atmosphere. >>>
But... it's CO2. It helps trees and other plants grow. Other things like CO, HC, NOx, and PMs are bad (damage human lungs), but CO2 can be breathed without harm. If we ignore the global warming aspect, then there's no reason to stop filling the air with CO2. Is there?
Why should I bother voting if I live in a state that is 75% Democrat, and the results are already preordained (Maryland's electors go to Obama). I can't think of a good reason.
It's a REPUBLIC, not a democracy. What matters is to uphold the laws that ensure protection of the individual, not "majority rules".
I'm voting straight Republican. I don't think it's fair to place all the blame on the R's for the actions of ONE man (Bush). Especially since the Democrats/Republicans are equally complicit. The D's had two years control of Congress to withdraw from the war, but did not, so I hold both parties equally to blame for our continued presence in a foreign power.
Therefore that leaves my decision to be based upon philosophy. I don't support the philosophy of socialism, which is really wealth redistribution from the working middle class to the lazy bums. Therefore I can not in good conscience vote socialist/democrat.
Stop and think about what you just said. Yes you're trying to keep your team alive, but the method of doing that, to quote Patton, is by "killing the other bastard before he can kill you". That's aggression. And of course the same applies to RPG activities like crafting weapons... you're not crafting stuff just for fun, but to kill somebody else in battle. More aggression.
I've seen studies showing most people when watching television cannot mentally-distinguish the fantasy from reality. They know consciously that it's not real, but their brains react as if the events are actually happening. Their brains think it's all real.
It makes sense that games, which are displayed on television, have that same affect. So killing on the screen becomes "reality" to most people's subconscious brains.
>>>Denying all healthcare on the basis of someone's habitual (ab)use of a legal substance seems a bit far-fetched.
That's okay. Trying to avoid death seems stupid. Even if government paid ALL your expenses (food, housing, doctoring), you're still not going to live forever. Eventually you will succumb to the pain of death. Not even a 100% socialist state can stop it.
>>>Religion is evil, as far as I can tell, and it should be abolished.
A religion based-around Socialism or Communism is not better. It's still a few elitists trying to impose their morality on everybody. Why can't we just let people follow their OWN morals without interference from government? As Thomas Jefferson said, "Nobody has a right to harm another, but that is all that a government should restrain him." i.e. Live and let live. Follow your own moral code (or lack thereof).
>>>we can be some 80% to 99% sure that the bigest part of it is man-made.
And what about the previous warming events of circa 3000 BC and 300-1200 AD? Those were not man-made and yet they happened. What caused them? How do you know it's not the same cause now?
It's bad enough for have the same voters registering two or three times...... now we have the same articles being posted twice or thrice. Looks like ACORN has been busier than I thought.
>>>A few people who receive the injustice of losing their internet connections........or their heads.....
>>> is better than the mockery that the RIAA has perpetrated on the US justice system. >
I strongly disagree with your stance. Even one innocent person unfairly punished is one too many. The solution is not to take away due process of law, but instead block RIAA's ability to exert criminal-level punishments (~$5000 per song) in a civil court. The civil court should only award damages - $1 per song plus RIAA's expenses, and nothing more.
>>>"The bill sets up a tussle between France and Brussels. In September, the European Parliament approved by a large majority an amendment outlawing internet cut-off." >>>
If this was the United States, the State (for example California) would lose. The American Congress supersedes local laws unless the Congressional law is declared unconstitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court.
How would a similar France v. European Union case be decided?
1/2 cycle per second was the approximate speed of the Intellivision console. As far as I know it was the slowest consumer CPU-based device ever released, however since it uses 16-bit CPU it could (in theory) perform the same amount of work as the standard 8-bit CPU (6502 or 6510) at 1 megahertz.
>>>"The United States was founded as an experiment in eighteenth-century republicanism, in which it was understood that only men with property would vote, since they were the only people who could be trusted to vote with the common wealth, and not private gain, in mind." >>>
This is the flaw with today's system. Too many people are voting for their own personal gain (free food, free housing, free money, or free replacement organs/pills at your local U.S. government-run hospital).
There is no other description for this desire to take money from neighbors' wallets, except as a way to increase your own private gain. Voting has become the enabling mechanism for thieves to ply their craft.
I'm sorry but......why must I, a network company, provide service to a deadbeat customer who is 1 year behind in payments? I disagree with your thought process that I must provide service w/o pay...... same as I would not work for my boss without paycheck.
I'm sorry but......why must I, a network company, provide service to a deadbeat customer who is a year behind in payments? I disagree with your thought process that I must provide service w/o pay...... same as I would not work for my boss without paycheck.
>>>Unless of course, you have something in the house that actually is worth protecting.
Sell it on Ebay, put the cash in a bank where it's safe (or at least insured). That's what I've done with most of my wealth. I saw no reason to hang-onto a bunch of old DVD movies or PS1/2 videogames that are just collecting dust from lack-of-use. So I sold them for cash, and put the cash in the bank. It's a lot safer there (and a lot cheaper solution) than leaving valuables inside my vulnerable house.
What will likely happen (circa 2100) is that we still have energy (hydro, solar, coal, oil), but it will become so scarce and so expensive that people will return to a pre-1900-style existence. They'll have a little bit of electricity to light the bulbs, and just enough coal or wood to provide fire to the TV room, and that's about it.
No more whole-house A/C or heating. Only the rich, like kings and presidents, will be able to afford those luxuries.
>>>what we see today can and did happen in earth's history and is therefore rather natural.
Of course. It happened twice in written history, circa 3000 BC and again between 400 and 1200 A.D. during the late Roman era and the Barbarian period. It certainly had nothing to do with the Egyptians, Romans, or Barbarians riding-around burning oil in their cars. The warming was a natural event, and this time (from 1850 onward) is probably natural too.
You don't understand. This is typical circular reasoning:
- How do we know global warming is happening? As proof we point to the dying amphibians & dried-out lakebeds.
- How do we know it's not just a natural occurrence? Because the extinctions/dried-up lakes are caused by global warming.
Round-and-round we go, with every argument supposedly "supporting" the other flimsy argument. It's a lot like a religion: God exists because the bible tells us he does, and the bible is not just a fairystory because it was inspired by God. Likewise the Global Warming religion is more about faith than science.
Time to start demanding Account numbers *separate* from you social security number. That helps minimize the damage to a minor loss of personal info at megacorp.com, rather than a loss of national identity (someone else pretending to be you with your stolen SS number).
Well I'm working for a corporation, and they forbid the use of USB gadgets for this precise reason - they don't want people copying & later losing the USB drives as they carry work to their homes. It's simply not worth the risk.
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Riiiight. Because if a politician named Barak McCain (I) promised to provide a free car for all families earning less than $30,000 a year, and the voters rallied to elect him president, clearly it's okay to suck money from the working class in order to give "free" cars to the poor.
Bzzz.
I consider that theft. I work; somebody else gets the cotton I picked... ooops, I mean the car I bought for them. That's a human rights violation. ----- I prefer what the Constitution says, which limits taxation strictly to COMMON welfare, not just welfare for a few individuals. For example: National defense (benefits all).
>>>It is Sprints obligation under those contracts to maintain routable connections to Cogent.
False. Sprint is under no obligation to maintain your contact to a non-paying customer - just as Bell Telephone is under no obligation to make-sure you can contact with your ne'er-do-well uncle who didn't pay his phone bill.
>>>My response to you is that whether human caused global warming is real or not shouldn't change our behavior. We should strive very hard not dump millions of tons of stuff into our atmosphere.
>>>
But... it's CO2. It helps trees and other plants grow. Other things like CO, HC, NOx, and PMs are bad (damage human lungs), but CO2 can be breathed without harm. If we ignore the global warming aspect, then there's no reason to stop filling the air with CO2. Is there?
>>>The only option which makes sense, which lends any weight to his position, is to refuse to vote and so refuse to endorse the system.
There is an alternative - Work within the system to enforce the laws (especially the Supreme Law) as written, rather than ignore them.
>>>"Winner takes all" is not a just outcome.
Fortunately we don't have that. Congress is rather evenly split right down the middle. No party ever wins the 100% of the seats. Never.
Why should I bother voting if I live in a state that is 75% Democrat, and the results are already preordained (Maryland's electors go to Obama). I can't think of a good reason.
It's a REPUBLIC, not a democracy. What matters is to uphold the laws that ensure protection of the individual, not "majority rules".
I'm voting straight Republican. I don't think it's fair to place all the blame on the R's for the actions of ONE man (Bush). Especially since the Democrats/Republicans are equally complicit. The D's had two years control of Congress to withdraw from the war, but did not, so I hold both parties equally to blame for our continued presence in a foreign power.
Therefore that leaves my decision to be based upon philosophy. I don't support the philosophy of socialism, which is really wealth redistribution from the working middle class to the lazy bums. Therefore I can not in good conscience vote socialist/democrat.
Stop and think about what you just said. Yes you're trying to keep your team alive, but the method of doing that, to quote Patton, is by "killing the other bastard before he can kill you". That's aggression. And of course the same applies to RPG activities like crafting weapons... you're not crafting stuff just for fun, but to kill somebody else in battle. More aggression.
I've seen studies showing most people when watching television cannot mentally-distinguish the fantasy from reality. They know consciously that it's not real, but their brains react as if the events are actually happening. Their brains think it's all real.
It makes sense that games, which are displayed on television, have that same affect. So killing on the screen becomes "reality" to most people's subconscious brains.
>>>Denying all healthcare on the basis of someone's habitual (ab)use of a legal substance seems a bit far-fetched.
That's okay. Trying to avoid death seems stupid. Even if government paid ALL your expenses (food, housing, doctoring), you're still not going to live forever. Eventually you will succumb to the pain of death. Not even a 100% socialist state can stop it.
>>>Religion is evil, as far as I can tell, and it should be abolished.
A religion based-around Socialism or Communism is not better. It's still a few elitists trying to impose their morality on everybody. Why can't we just let people follow their OWN morals without interference from government? As Thomas Jefferson said, "Nobody has a right to harm another, but that is all that a government should restrain him." i.e. Live and let live. Follow your own moral code (or lack thereof).
No. Spent nuclear fuel is like a very-heavy metal, which is worthless as an energy source, but is radioactive so it needs to be sealed below ground.
>>>Unless somebody gets a fusion reactor to work
They already did. The problem is that the reactor USES more energy than it produces, so it's an energy sink, not a source. (Kind of like hydrogen.)
>>>we can be some 80% to 99% sure that the bigest part of it is man-made.
And what about the previous warming events of circa 3000 BC and 300-1200 AD? Those were not man-made and yet they happened. What caused them? How do you know it's not the same cause now?
It's bad enough for have the same voters registering two or three times...... now we have the same articles being posted twice or thrice. Looks like ACORN has been busier than I thought.
>>>A few people who receive the injustice of losing their internet connections... .....or their heads.....
>>> is better than the mockery that the RIAA has perpetrated on the US justice system.
>
I strongly disagree with your stance. Even one innocent person unfairly punished is one too many. The solution is not to take away due process of law, but instead block RIAA's ability to exert criminal-level punishments (~$5000 per song) in a civil court. The civil court should only award damages - $1 per song plus RIAA's expenses, and nothing more.
>>>"The bill sets up a tussle between France and Brussels. In September, the European Parliament approved by a large majority an amendment outlawing internet cut-off."
>>>
If this was the United States, the State (for example California) would lose. The American Congress supersedes local laws unless the Congressional law is declared unconstitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court.
How would a similar France v. European Union case be decided?
1/2 cycle per second was the approximate speed of the Intellivision console. As far as I know it was the slowest consumer CPU-based device ever released, however since it uses 16-bit CPU it could (in theory) perform the same amount of work as the standard 8-bit CPU (6502 or 6510) at 1 megahertz.
>>>"The United States was founded as an experiment in eighteenth-century republicanism, in which it was understood that only men with property would vote, since they were the only people who could be trusted to vote with the common wealth, and not private gain, in mind."
>>>
This is the flaw with today's system. Too many people are voting for their own personal gain (free food, free housing, free money, or free replacement organs/pills at your local U.S. government-run hospital).
There is no other description for this desire to take money from neighbors' wallets, except as a way to increase your own private gain. Voting has become the enabling mechanism for thieves to ply their craft.
I'm sorry but... ...why must I, a network company, provide service to a deadbeat customer who is 1 year behind in payments? I disagree with your thought process that I must provide service w/o pay...... same as I would not work for my boss without paycheck.
I'm sorry but... ...why must I, a network company, provide service to a deadbeat customer who is a year behind in payments? I disagree with your thought process that I must provide service w/o pay...... same as I would not work for my boss without paycheck.
>>>Unless of course, you have something in the house that actually is worth protecting.
Sell it on Ebay, put the cash in a bank where it's safe (or at least insured). That's what I've done with most of my wealth. I saw no reason to hang-onto a bunch of old DVD movies or PS1/2 videogames that are just collecting dust from lack-of-use. So I sold them for cash, and put the cash in the bank. It's a lot safer there (and a lot cheaper solution) than leaving valuables inside my vulnerable house.
What will likely happen (circa 2100) is that we still have energy (hydro, solar, coal, oil), but it will become so scarce and so expensive that people will return to a pre-1900-style existence. They'll have a little bit of electricity to light the bulbs, and just enough coal or wood to provide fire to the TV room, and that's about it.
No more whole-house A/C or heating. Only the rich, like kings and presidents, will be able to afford those luxuries.
>>>what we see today can and did happen in earth's history and is therefore rather natural.
Of course. It happened twice in written history, circa 3000 BC and again between 400 and 1200 A.D. during the late Roman era and the Barbarian period. It certainly had nothing to do with the Egyptians, Romans, or Barbarians riding-around burning oil in their cars. The warming was a natural event, and this time (from 1850 onward) is probably natural too.
You don't understand. This is typical circular reasoning:
- How do we know global warming is happening? As proof we point to the dying amphibians & dried-out lakebeds.
- How do we know it's not just a natural occurrence? Because the extinctions/dried-up lakes are caused by global warming.
Round-and-round we go, with every argument supposedly "supporting" the other flimsy argument. It's a lot like a religion: God exists because the bible tells us he does, and the bible is not just a fairystory because it was inspired by God. Likewise the Global Warming religion is more about faith than science.
Time to start demanding Account numbers *separate* from you social security number. That helps minimize the damage to a minor loss of personal info at megacorp.com, rather than a loss of national identity (someone else pretending to be you with your stolen SS number).
Well I'm working for a corporation, and they forbid the use of USB gadgets for this precise reason - they don't want people copying & later losing the USB drives as they carry work to their homes. It's simply not worth the risk.