Well. You have a Right to Free Speech, and you can direct your speech at a doctor, and request that he heal your sick body. As a professional the doctor will do his best to accommodate you.
What you do NOT have a right to do is take your Bill, hand it to your neighbors, and force them to pay the bill. That's theft.
Well. You have a Right to Free Speech, and you can direct your speech at a doctor, and request that he heal your sick body. As a professional the doctor will do his best to accommodate you.
What you do NOT have a right to do is take you Bill, hand it to your neighbors, and force them to pay the bill. That's theft.
>>>They both supported the bailout because the bailout had to happen.
Did you hear the news about one of the U.S. Banks (PNC?) using their bailout, not to stabilize themselves, but to buy yet another building! The corporations are still continuing their irresponsible behaviors of foolish spending/investments, but now they are wasting MY and my neighbors' money to do it.
The bailout never should have happened. *Temporarily* lower the interest rate to 0% in order to "save" the credit market from freezing-up, but don't rescue irresponsible corporations. They Deserve to fail.
You know you CAN turn-off the toolbars. Right? For example I turned-off the Google bar, Noscript bar, and Status bar using Firefox's "view" menu.:-)
Also:
I think this is a really useful plugin. The China Channel could used as a strong argument against government filtering. "If Australia or the European Union institutes filtering, here's what it would be like," and then demonstrate all the websites you can not access. Finish the demo by asking, "Is this really what we want for our country? I hope not."
ALL of them as playable ROMs at various PCs setup around the museum. As for the actual displays, I would get 1 of every console ever made, and display it in 5-year "segments" such as:
1970-1975 Odyssey, Fairchild Channel F, Pong and other dedicated standalones 1976-1980 Odyssey 2, Atari VCS/2600, Intellivision 1981-1985 Atari 5200, Colecovision, Famicom, NES 1986-1990 Atari 7800, Sega Master System, Sega Genesis 1991-1995 Super Nintendo, Atari Jaguar, Amiga CDTV 1996-2000 Playstation 1, Nintendo 64, Sega Saturn, Sega Dreamcast 2001-2005 Playstation 2, Gamecube, Xbox 2006-2010 Xbox 360, Playstation 3, Wii
I would do the exact same thing for the portable units like Gameboys and Gameboy Advances, but in their own separate area, since portable and TV-connected consoles are not the same thing.
And I would do similar displays for computers since Apple IIs, Atari 800s, Commodore 64s, and Commodore Amigas were a huge part of videogaming during the 1980s.
The best version of Pitfall II was on the Atari 5200. The programmer directly ported the original VCS/2600 version to the 5200, and discovered he had some spare time to kill, so he created a whole other game (think Pitfall III) that happens immediately after you beat the first game.
The second game can only be described as "extremely difficult". I couldn't get past the first screen due to the fact all the crabs run about four times faster! One of these days I'll get-around to beating it.
Thanks to emulation, everyone can now play these games. It's no longer limited to just those who have ~$100 to spend buying the necessary hardware.
And what happens when 1 of the users decides to take his computer offline & toss it into a landfill? Then you've lost a chunk of your data. That does not sound like a good system to me.
- The accuser (RIAA) is required to pay ALL lawyers fees, both for themselves and the college kid they sued. It doesn't matter if they lose or if they decide to drop the case, RIAA pays the fees. - The only time RIAA would not pay is if they win. Then they would only pay for their own lawyers, while the defendant would have to pay his own lawyers.
This method would discourage frivolous lawsuits which are used to scare victims into submission, the tactic RIAA currently uses. It would discourage such suits because RIAA would have to pay for virtually every lawsuit they start.
Natural selection makes the decision. What survives, survives, and what does not disappears and is forgotten.
Our culture has lost a LOT of things over the years (like when the Alexandria Library burned to the ground), but we still move-on and live our lives. Those things that were valuable were copied again-and-again-and-again by scribes and saved.
People who think we need to preserve every single piece of scrap ("ooo look; a picture I drew when I was aged 2; send it off to the american archives ASAP!") are extremely anal in my opinion. Get a life. You don't need to save everything like some damn packrat. You're a human being, not a rat.
Oh look! A grammar/typo bot. I thought those were only limited to wikipedia. I guess maybe one of the little critters escaped from his cage and came to visit slashdot.
>>>if you are not able to name facts about a candidate (and simple and glaringly obvious ones -- like if Obama is a republican), then your vote should not be counted because it is determined that you don't know what you are doing.
>>>Now I like the idea of doing that, but I also feel that it is a violation of a person's rights. You might vote for Obama just because you like the guy and know nothing about him. >>>
And therefore you should be disqualified. "He has a nice smile" (or "he makes me horny" in the case of a young impressionable girl) should NOT be a valid reason to elect someone as leader of the free world. If they cannot answer the basic question, "Is Obama a Republican?" then they should be declared too incompetent to take-part in such a crucial election & their vote nullified.
>>>no reason why I can't be a single issue voter, and it is not for you, or others to lord over me and chose what issues I am allowed to vote on.
You should still have enough brains in your head to answer yes or no to the "Is Obama a Republican?" question. If you can't answer that simple question, most legal courts would declare you to be incompetent. You should not be allowed to vote. ----- The idea of qualifications is certainly nothing new. At one point only people with property (land) could vote, because the Founders figured people who don't own land must be rather inept/retarded/incompetent. That wasn't the best test, but it was an early attempt to make sure voters were at least somewhat intelligent.
Put another way: If someone is mentally-retarded (IQ below 80) do you still think they are qualified enough to select a president of an entire continent-spanning nation? I'd have to say "no".
IMHO liberalism is just the old conservative monarchism, but dressed in sheep's clothing to look warm & friendly. At its heart, American liberalism is about government being in charge while the individual is forced to fall-in line like a puppet.
It's nothing new. It dates all the way back to the Roman Empire.
When someone asks ME to define Libertarian, I point to our President Thomas Jefferson as a prime example. Some of his ideas were almost Anarchist in nature, except that he recognized the need for a government to provide peace & to protect the individual's basic rights.
Instead of going to some random nobody's blog, I prefer to visit IRS.gov. Their statistics make it clear that the top 10% of americans (over $500,000 a year) earn 50% of the national income, and pay 90% of the income taxes.
>>>>>"They leave out the fact that the 10% also paid 90% of the taxes."
>>And got 90% of the money.
Bzzz. The top 10% richest americans earn 50% of the total income, but pay 90% of the government's treasury burden. That's called a progressive tax. IRS.gov will support this statement with the relevant data.
>>>Did you, or did you not live in a rural area? Then you *were* on welfare.
A whole $10 "welfare" used to provide electricity & phone service to a rural house. Oooo, big difference there. (Not.) Also: A lot of places are actually classified "metropolitan" by the U.S. Census Bureau. Pretty much the entire East Coast from Boston down to Richmond is NOT rural, but metropolitan. People living in this area are Not receiving any kind of "rural access" welfare.
The person living in a suburb of Columbus OH was living without any kind of rural assistance. He was living in a metropolitan zone.
>>>>> Speaking as a Republican, I'd have no problem raising the minimum wage to $10 an hour.
>>you ain't much of a Republican if you don't even understand the basic philosoply of Free People participating in Free Markets.
I understand that if the minimum wage was increased to $10 an hour, the need for Welfare Handouts would drop to almost zero. That sounds like a VERY beneficial change to me. I also understand that the markets are regulated, not free.
>>>Actually, they would feel pressure to not raise prices. The end result would be that they would lay people off.
Nonsense. How is McDonalds going to sell its hamburgers without employees??? It can Not lay them off. McDonalds will just have to meet the $10/hour requirement while it grits its teeth. And of course raise the cost of a hamburger to $1.20 to cover the added labor expense.
My point is that if we define the $5000 water well on my ground as "public property", that means people can come knocking on my door and demanding I fill-up their jugs with free water. Although I'm happy to help people who are homeless/starving/thirsty, I am NOT a public drinking fountain for everyone to just come-along and demand fresh spring water.
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Right to healthcare?
Well. You have a Right to Free Speech, and you can direct your speech at a doctor, and request that he heal your sick body. As a professional the doctor will do his best to accommodate you.
What you do NOT have a right to do is take your Bill, hand it to your neighbors, and force them to pay the bill. That's theft.
It's YOUR bill; you should pay for it.
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Right to healthcare?
Well. You have a Right to Free Speech, and you can direct your speech at a doctor, and request that he heal your sick body. As a professional the doctor will do his best to accommodate you.
What you do NOT have a right to do is take you Bill, hand it to your neighbors, and force them to pay the bill. That's theft.
>>>They both supported the bailout because the bailout had to happen.
Did you hear the news about one of the U.S. Banks (PNC?) using their bailout, not to stabilize themselves, but to buy yet another building! The corporations are still continuing their irresponsible behaviors of foolish spending/investments, but now they are wasting MY and my neighbors' money to do it.
The bailout never should have happened. *Temporarily* lower the interest rate to 0% in order to "save" the credit market from freezing-up, but don't rescue irresponsible corporations. They Deserve to fail.
"____ is in and of itself is bad" is poor grammar, because the sentence has two verbs: "is" and "is".
"____, in and of itself, is bad" is proper grammar with punctuation added to improve readability.
Get a job with the government.
Then you don't need to do any work at all.
(ducks a spitball)
Ehh.... just host all your ROMS on piratebay.org where the U.S. can't touch them.
Not really. In their advertisments they talk-about ordering your food from "the table".
Why?
I'd much rather order my food from the cute college girl wearing a decolletage-displaying shirt. Not THAT'S innovation.
Unix would never lower-itself to the indignity of being run on a "big ass table". LINK - www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZrr7AZ9nCY
>>>yet another screen-real-estate-sucking toolbar
You know you CAN turn-off the toolbars. Right? For example I turned-off the Google bar, Noscript bar, and Status bar using Firefox's "view" menu. :-)
Also:
I think this is a really useful plugin. The China Channel could used as a strong argument against government filtering. "If Australia or the European Union institutes filtering, here's what it would be like," and then demonstrate all the websites you can not access. Finish the demo by asking, "Is this really what we want for our country? I hope not."
>>>What games would you put on display?
ALL of them as playable ROMs at various PCs setup around the museum. As for the actual displays, I would get 1 of every console ever made, and display it in 5-year "segments" such as:
1970-1975 Odyssey, Fairchild Channel F, Pong and other dedicated standalones
1976-1980 Odyssey 2, Atari VCS/2600, Intellivision
1981-1985 Atari 5200, Colecovision, Famicom, NES
1986-1990 Atari 7800, Sega Master System, Sega Genesis
1991-1995 Super Nintendo, Atari Jaguar, Amiga CDTV
1996-2000 Playstation 1, Nintendo 64, Sega Saturn, Sega Dreamcast
2001-2005 Playstation 2, Gamecube, Xbox
2006-2010 Xbox 360, Playstation 3, Wii
I would do the exact same thing for the portable units like Gameboys and Gameboy Advances, but in their own separate area, since portable and TV-connected consoles are not the same thing.
And I would do similar displays for computers since Apple IIs, Atari 800s, Commodore 64s, and Commodore Amigas were a huge part of videogaming during the 1980s.
The best version of Pitfall II was on the Atari 5200. The programmer directly ported the original VCS/2600 version to the 5200, and discovered he had some spare time to kill, so he created a whole other game (think Pitfall III) that happens immediately after you beat the first game.
The second game can only be described as "extremely difficult". I couldn't get past the first screen due to the fact all the crabs run about four times faster! One of these days I'll get-around to beating it.
Thanks to emulation, everyone can now play these games. It's no longer limited to just those who have ~$100 to spend buying the necessary hardware.
And what happens when 1 of the users decides to take his computer offline & toss it into a landfill? Then you've lost a chunk of your data. That does not sound like a good system to me.
If you just read what I wrote, it's very clear:
- The accuser (RIAA) is required to pay ALL lawyers fees, both for themselves and the college kid they sued. It doesn't matter if they lose or if they decide to drop the case, RIAA pays the fees. - The only time RIAA would not pay is if they win. Then they would only pay for their own lawyers, while the defendant would have to pay his own lawyers.
This method would discourage frivolous lawsuits which are used to scare victims into submission, the tactic RIAA currently uses. It would discourage such suits because RIAA would have to pay for virtually every lawsuit they start.
Natural selection makes the decision. What survives, survives, and what does not disappears and is forgotten.
Our culture has lost a LOT of things over the years (like when the Alexandria Library burned to the ground), but we still move-on and live our lives. Those things that were valuable were copied again-and-again-and-again by scribes and saved.
People who think we need to preserve every single piece of scrap ("ooo look; a picture I drew when I was aged 2; send it off to the american archives ASAP!") are extremely anal in my opinion. Get a life. You don't need to save everything like some damn packrat. You're a human being, not a rat.
Oh look! A grammar/typo bot. I thought those were only limited to wikipedia. I guess maybe one of the little critters escaped from his cage and came to visit slashdot.
>>>if you are not able to name facts about a candidate (and simple and glaringly obvious ones -- like if Obama is a republican), then your vote should not be counted because it is determined that you don't know what you are doing.
>>>Now I like the idea of doing that, but I also feel that it is a violation of a person's rights. You might vote for Obama just because you like the guy and know nothing about him.
>>>
And therefore you should be disqualified. "He has a nice smile" (or "he makes me horny" in the case of a young impressionable girl) should NOT be a valid reason to elect someone as leader of the free world. If they cannot answer the basic question, "Is Obama a Republican?" then they should be declared too incompetent to take-part in such a crucial election & their vote nullified.
>>>no reason why I can't be a single issue voter, and it is not for you, or others to lord over me and chose what issues I am allowed to vote on.
You should still have enough brains in your head to answer yes or no to the "Is Obama a Republican?" question. If you can't answer that simple question, most legal courts would declare you to be incompetent. You should not be allowed to vote. ----- The idea of qualifications is certainly nothing new. At one point only people with property (land) could vote, because the Founders figured people who don't own land must be rather inept/retarded/incompetent. That wasn't the best test, but it was an early attempt to make sure voters were at least somewhat intelligent.
Put another way: If someone is mentally-retarded (IQ below 80) do you still think they are qualified enough to select a president of an entire continent-spanning nation? I'd have to say "no".
IMHO liberalism is just the old conservative monarchism, but dressed in sheep's clothing to look warm & friendly. At its heart, American liberalism is about government being in charge while the individual is forced to fall-in line like a puppet.
It's nothing new. It dates all the way back to the Roman Empire.
When someone asks ME to define Libertarian, I point to our President Thomas Jefferson as a prime example. Some of his ideas were almost Anarchist in nature, except that he recognized the need for a government to provide peace & to protect the individual's basic rights.
>>>afiwam.blogspot.com/2005/02/on-taxes.html
Instead of going to some random nobody's blog, I prefer to visit IRS.gov. Their statistics make it clear that the top 10% of americans (over $500,000 a year) earn 50% of the national income, and pay 90% of the income taxes.
>>>>>"They leave out the fact that the 10% also paid 90% of the taxes."
>>And got 90% of the money.
Bzzz. The top 10% richest americans earn 50% of the total income, but pay 90% of the government's treasury burden. That's called a progressive tax. IRS.gov will support this statement with the relevant data.
>>>Did you, or did you not live in a rural area? Then you *were* on welfare.
A whole $10 "welfare" used to provide electricity & phone service to a rural house. Oooo, big difference there. (Not.) Also: A lot of places are actually classified "metropolitan" by the U.S. Census Bureau. Pretty much the entire East Coast from Boston down to Richmond is NOT rural, but metropolitan. People living in this area are Not receiving any kind of "rural access" welfare.
The person living in a suburb of Columbus OH was living without any kind of rural assistance. He was living in a metropolitan zone.
>>>>> Speaking as a Republican, I'd have no problem raising the minimum wage to $10 an hour.
>>you ain't much of a Republican if you don't even understand the basic philosoply of Free People participating in Free Markets.
I understand that if the minimum wage was increased to $10 an hour, the need for Welfare Handouts would drop to almost zero. That sounds like a VERY beneficial change to me. I also understand that the markets are regulated, not free.
>>>Actually, they would feel pressure to not raise prices. The end result would be that they would lay people off.
Nonsense. How is McDonalds going to sell its hamburgers without employees??? It can Not lay them off. McDonalds will just have to meet the $10/hour requirement while it grits its teeth. And of course raise the cost of a hamburger to $1.20 to cover the added labor expense.
It's not a big deal.
You missed the point.
My point is that if we define the $5000 water well on my ground as "public property", that means people can come knocking on my door and demanding I fill-up their jugs with free water. Although I'm happy to help people who are homeless/starving/thirsty, I am NOT a public drinking fountain for everyone to just come-along and demand fresh spring water.