"Freedom of speech is protected, but only from Federal Governmental interference. The phrase Congress shall make no law... means that the responsibility to make such laws devolves to the states."
The 14th Amendment, and its jurisprudence, requires the States to abide by the First Amendment as well. This is good. You live in a republic, not a collection of co-equal states.
Do you not think Bush lied about WMDs, an Iraq- al Quida connection, the aluminum tubes, yellow cake, the hydrogen trucks? The rationale of the administration for going to war was the "imminent danger" posed to the US by Iraq. No amount of post-invasion moving of goalposts can change that. Maybe the administration lied to us because they didn't think they could get support for just getting rid of Saddam because he was a very bad guy (which he was/is). But they did lie. And more than 1 coalition soldier dies in Iraq every day.
Oh and for what it's worth I commend your characterization of Bosnia in this context and withdraw the Rush comment.
I think by "fair and proportional" you mean cuts in income taxes for those that pay income taxes? Although huge percentages of the tax cuts are dividend and inheritance tax cuts that very few (and very rich) people pay. Why not cut payroll taxes?
And speaking of deceptive, you talk about percentages of people getting "relief" as opposed to percentage of "relief" going to which people. As for the gays versus rich people, that's a new one on me. Where does that come from?
You're right. I think I confused the effective tax cut (because the phase outs are a joke to disguise the true costs) with the nominal cut. My mistake.
This tax cut was about 50% less than requested. But it was the third in 3 years (though the 90% figure is far too high; a rough check makes 70% look more likely). The way the phase-outs are designed, the real tax cut is well over a trillion dollars. Mostly for extremely rich folk. Why not cut some payroll taxes so everybody can get some relief?
And I forget, exactly how many US soldiers died because Clinton got a blow job and lied about it?
Point 2: You offer no evidence. Bush, btw, got more than 90% of the total tax cuts he has sought thus far. Is it your position that it is the failure to get that last 10% that has the economy in the dumps? Is it your position that if taxes were lowered enough, say to zero, that the deficit would go to zero?
Point 3: Actually, I believe only one county completed its hand recount and Gore picked up votes in that count. Rerunning the machine counts when it is the accuracy of the machines themselves that is at issue deliberately obscures the issue (i.e. who got more votes). The page I linked to (I assume you mean the failureisimpossible.com page) is almost entirely a collection of links to news sources. What are the lies? What are the insults?
Obviously we won't convince each other. But does anything about the mendacity of this administration bother you?
You're right, of course. Bush wasn't AWOL. He actually deserted (because he was gone for so long). He had nothing to hide regarding his military record. So he chose to not release it (unlike Gore and McCain). Still, the records exist.
I didn't bring criminal convictions up but since you asked, Bush's DUI conviction in 1976 courtesy of the Smoking Gun. I don't personally think it is that big a deal but you seem sensitive on the subject.
It's ceratinly true that all major political candidates favor corporate welfare of one kind or another. (Though I do want to point out that the Clinton administration's stance on trade was far more market oriented than the pandering of the Bush administration. Look at steel tariffs.) Bush was unusual in that he personally profited from corporate welfare.
"Self-righteous" is definitely an eye-of-the-beholder thing.
The Clinton recession? That's good. Clinton certainly benefitted from a strong economy while he was at the helm. And a downturn of some sort was inevitable. But he did the most important thing: he didn't derail the economy. The Bush tax cuts, which Bush claims is a "jobs stimulus", have created nothing but defecits as far as the eye can see while the economy sheds tens of thousands of jobs each month.
There was fraud in the election. The Bush team pressured Florida election boards to count invalid absentee ballots. But even with it, under every plausible recount scenario (with the hugely ironic exception of the one favored by the Gore team), Gore received more votes in Florida than Bush.
"Please try to describe in instance where distributing copyrighted material without the copyright holder's permission is 'right'."
Actually, it's pretty easy. All fair use can be done without the copyright holder's permission. And calling that 'right' is simple.
More obliquely, imagine you've written a useful, original survival manual particular to a set of circumstances with the intention of helping, as well as making money off of sales to, people trapped within those circumstances. Without your manual, the people there have a 50% chance of surviving. With it, their odds improve to 95%. Your only asking $20 a copy which covers your production costs (including expensive but necessary publicity so people realized the manual existed and was useful) and a very modest profit. Unfortunately, thousands of people cannot afford your book.
I copy your book and, having much lower costs, sell it for $5. Thousands live that would optherwise die.
The moral compass calculation is left unfinished as a problem for the class. Please show your work.
Finally, no visit would be complete without some scrounging at Delaney's Surplus which seems to have burned (oh no!) and a tour of the transcendental Forevertron.
"Some time ago, over a year, teh exact date escapes me there was a shooting on a university campus. The gunman was later aprehended. This was the extent of most of hte national coverage. They told you it happened, who the shooter was, who was shot, where it happened, and that the guy was caught."
You are referring to the Appalachian Law School shootings. You are also, deliberately or not, misstating what happened.
This case was popularized by the work of pro-gun researcher John Lott. It is an important anecdote in his book The Bias Against Guns. Lott claims that in only 4 of 208 stories on the incident was the fact that the students apprehending the gunman used guns mentioned. Unfortunately, Lott's methodology is screwed up. He counts identical wire service stories appearing in different papers as different stories.
Tim Lambert has done the hard work of debunking this story. For another perspective on the accounts of the incident, see this entry of his blog.
"These weren't off duty cops, just normal students that had guns in their cars."
That's what Lott and the pro-gun movement wants you to think. Unfortunately, it just isn't so. They WERE cops. There are two "student heroes", Tracy Bridges and Mikael Gross. (Note: the quotes are not intended to minimize their actions.) Bridges is a deputy at the Buncombe County Sheriff's Department. Gross was director of police corps training at the North Carolina Justice Academy in 1998 and 1999 (before entering law school). During breaks at law school, he works as a cop for the Grifton force. And he put on a bulletproof vest and retrieved handcuffs from his car before slapping them on the tackled suspect who has run out of ammunition.
Finally, if Lott isn't discredited enough, consider that he also pretends to be a 115 pound woman to bolster his case and attack his critics. Too bizarre to be true? Check out Who is Mary Rosh? and Lambert's information and see for yourself.
"If you want to know all about how the New York Times went from being an unbiast paper, the "paper of record", to a liberal cheerleader, I suggest you read the first chapter of a new book called "Off With Their Heads." A facinating read."
Yeah, the Times is a real liberal paper all right. That's why they spent all that effort covering up Whitewater and why they've been so dogged in exposing the Bush administration's mendacity. Thank God that Dick Morris was able to take some time off from having fetish sex with prostitutes and is available to teach us what to think.
What's that? You say it was the Times that owned the bogus Whitewater story? And that they bury their few stories about the Niger "documents" deep inside below the fold? Huh. Why that almost sounds "Fair and Balanced" enough for Faux News.
If you want some better information about a biassed press, try reading Eric Alterman's What Liberal Media? You might gain some perspective.
Mod parent up.
I love how/. editors make fun of the post office for an almost imperceptible error rate in billions of pieces of mail but cannot even post a hundred stories in a row (I'm guessing) without a dupe or other obvious error.
"Not only is a fan-site operator's right to free speech taken away, he must also take away his users' rights."
Hey! Guess what! Choices involve the loss of alternatives. If you want to be a semi-official ghoti fan site, you volunteer and abide by the rules. If you don't, you don't. You can rely on the First Amendment and Fair Use to do what you can. Note: these two universes are not 100% congruent.
Years ago in San Francisco, I saw a broadcast-television edit of "Pulp Fiction." The heavy edit was fascinating to watch. The "medievel" scene from the gimp on was an extreme zoom on the gimp moving at about 1 frame per second with an edited soundtrack.
Sure. As of yesterday even.
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The U.S. Supreme Court handed down a unanimous ruling allowing public domain material to be copied without crediting the source. This is a good, if small, thing.
Suppression of stories happens all the time in the US. And sometimes, actual prosecutions. To find out what happens when you expose grossly illegal actions by giant, well-connected companies, check out some of these stories about Michael Gallagher and Chiquita.
"He's given over $3 billion to global health alone."
How much of that is charity on his part, and how much of that is tax-deductible (ie. "he'd simply be giving it to the IRS otherwise")? I'd suspect that the "Gates Foundation" is more of a PR gimmick than anything else. "This public broadcasting program was brounght to you by the Gates Foundation" sounds better than "This public broadcasting program was brought to you by taxpayers."
You'd suspect? Really, who gives a shit? He's given b-as-in-boy billions to this cause. Real money. Sure, a portion of that will be tax deductible. Let's be generous and say 1/2. So he's "only" given 1.5 billion. Oh and sure, he gets better press. And those 3rd worlders will grow up to buy Microsoft stuff for big money and he'll get it all back. That's just terrible. The morally corrct thing for those in disease ravaged portions of sub-Saharan Africa to do would be to insist on fresh distros rather than fresh water.
I don't care why he does it. I'm just glad that he is.
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I don't know if Boggs is a Yank or a Brit, but he started with greenbacks and is best known for them. See his web page.
"That wasn't the point of that episode. It was supposed to be ironic that he had everything he wanted except he was screwed by the loss of a particular piece of technology (his glasses)."
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The 14th Amendment, and its jurisprudence, requires the States to abide by the First Amendment as well. This is good. You live in a republic, not a collection of co-equal states.
Oh and for what it's worth I commend your characterization of Bosnia in this context and withdraw the Rush comment.
I think by "fair and proportional" you mean cuts in income taxes for those that pay income taxes? Although huge percentages of the tax cuts are dividend and inheritance tax cuts that very few (and very rich) people pay. Why not cut payroll taxes?
And speaking of deceptive, you talk about percentages of people getting "relief" as opposed to percentage of "relief" going to which people. As for the gays versus rich people, that's a new one on me. Where does that come from?
You're right. I think I confused the effective tax cut (because the phase outs are a joke to disguise the true costs) with the nominal cut. My mistake.
The recession officially begins in March 2001 and ends in November 2001. Feel like a recovery to you?
This tax cut was about 50% less than requested. But it was the third in 3 years (though the 90% figure is far too high; a rough check makes 70% look more likely). The way the phase-outs are designed, the real tax cut is well over a trillion dollars. Mostly for extremely rich folk. Why not cut some payroll taxes so everybody can get some relief?
And I forget, exactly how many US soldiers died because Clinton got a blow job and lied about it?
Point 2: You offer no evidence. Bush, btw, got more than 90% of the total tax cuts he has sought thus far. Is it your position that it is the failure to get that last 10% that has the economy in the dumps? Is it your position that if taxes were lowered enough, say to zero, that the deficit would go to zero?
Point 3: Actually, I believe only one county completed its hand recount and Gore picked up votes in that count. Rerunning the machine counts when it is the accuracy of the machines themselves that is at issue deliberately obscures the issue (i.e. who got more votes). The page I linked to (I assume you mean the failureisimpossible.com page) is almost entirely a collection of links to news sources. What are the lies? What are the insults?
Obviously we won't convince each other. But does anything about the mendacity of this administration bother you?
I didn't bring criminal convictions up but since you asked, Bush's DUI conviction in 1976 courtesy of the Smoking Gun. I don't personally think it is that big a deal but you seem sensitive on the subject.
It's ceratinly true that all major political candidates favor corporate welfare of one kind or another. (Though I do want to point out that the Clinton administration's stance on trade was far more market oriented than the pandering of the Bush administration. Look at steel tariffs.) Bush was unusual in that he personally profited from corporate welfare.
"Self-righteous" is definitely an eye-of-the-beholder thing.
The Clinton recession? That's good. Clinton certainly benefitted from a strong economy while he was at the helm. And a downturn of some sort was inevitable. But he did the most important thing: he didn't derail the economy. The Bush tax cuts, which Bush claims is a "jobs stimulus", have created nothing but defecits as far as the eye can see while the economy sheds tens of thousands of jobs each month.
There was fraud in the election. The Bush team pressured Florida election boards to count invalid absentee ballots. But even with it, under every plausible recount scenario (with the hugely ironic exception of the one favored by the Gore team), Gore received more votes in Florida than Bush.
Actually, it's pretty easy. All fair use can be done without the copyright holder's permission. And calling that 'right' is simple.
More obliquely, imagine you've written a useful, original survival manual particular to a set of circumstances with the intention of helping, as well as making money off of sales to, people trapped within those circumstances. Without your manual, the people there have a 50% chance of surviving. With it, their odds improve to 95%. Your only asking $20 a copy which covers your production costs (including expensive but necessary publicity so people realized the manual existed and was useful) and a very modest profit. Unfortunately, thousands of people cannot afford your book.
I copy your book and, having much lower costs, sell it for $5. Thousands live that would optherwise die.
The moral compass calculation is left unfinished as a problem for the class. Please show your work.
Stay at the Don Q Inn.
Visit the astonishing Dickeyville Grotto.
Escape from the Harry Houdini Historical Center.
Learn the correct pronounciation of "calliope" at the original winter quarters of the Ringling Bros. Circus, Circus World Museum in Baraboo.
Get arrested trespassing on the antennae that communicate wth nuclear submarines while under water at Project ELF.
Hijack the Wienermobile!
Read Wisconsin Death Trip.
Explore the giant animal lover in you at Schettl's Freight Sales.
See a genuine MIR and other crap.
Finally, no visit would be complete without some scrounging at Delaney's Surplus which seems to have burned (oh no!) and a tour of the transcendental Forevertron.
You are referring to the Appalachian Law School shootings. You are also, deliberately or not, misstating what happened.
This case was popularized by the work of pro-gun researcher John Lott. It is an important anecdote in his book The Bias Against Guns. Lott claims that in only 4 of 208 stories on the incident was the fact that the students apprehending the gunman used guns mentioned. Unfortunately, Lott's methodology is screwed up. He counts identical wire service stories appearing in different papers as different stories.
Tim Lambert has done the hard work of debunking this story. For another perspective on the accounts of the incident, see this entry of his blog.
That's what Lott and the pro-gun movement wants you to think. Unfortunately, it just isn't so. They WERE cops. There are two "student heroes", Tracy Bridges and Mikael Gross. (Note: the quotes are not intended to minimize their actions.) Bridges is a deputy at the Buncombe County Sheriff's Department. Gross was director of police corps training at the North Carolina Justice Academy in 1998 and 1999 (before entering law school). During breaks at law school, he works as a cop for the Grifton force. And he put on a bulletproof vest and retrieved handcuffs from his car before slapping them on the tackled suspect who has run out of ammunition.
Check out Lambert's entry on the incident.
Finally, if Lott isn't discredited enough, consider that he also pretends to be a 115 pound woman to bolster his case and attack his critics. Too bizarre to be true? Check out Who is Mary Rosh? and Lambert's information and see for yourself.
Yeah, the Times is a real liberal paper all right. That's why they spent all that effort covering up Whitewater and why they've been so dogged in exposing the Bush administration's mendacity. Thank God that Dick Morris was able to take some time off from having fetish sex with prostitutes and is available to teach us what to think.
What's that? You say it was the Times that owned the bogus Whitewater story? And that they bury their few stories about the Niger "documents" deep inside below the fold? Huh. Why that almost sounds "Fair and Balanced" enough for Faux News. If you want some better information about a biassed press, try reading Eric Alterman's What Liberal Media? You might gain some perspective.
Mod parent up. I love how /. editors make fun of the post office for an almost imperceptible error rate in billions of pieces of mail but cannot even post a hundred stories in a row (I'm guessing) without a dupe or other obvious error.
Hey! Guess what! Choices involve the loss of alternatives. If you want to be a semi-official ghoti fan site, you volunteer and abide by the rules. If you don't, you don't. You can rely on the First Amendment and Fair Use to do what you can. Note: these two universes are not 100% congruent.
Just another typical Slashdot typo. Obviously Jobs must have said "It thinks it sucks." Slashdot editors are weak on verb agreement.
Years ago in San Francisco, I saw a broadcast-television edit of "Pulp Fiction." The heavy edit was fascinating to watch. The "medievel" scene from the gimp on was an extreme zoom on the gimp moving at about 1 frame per second with an edited soundtrack.
The U.S. Supreme Court handed down a unanimous ruling allowing public domain material to be copied without crediting the source. This is a good, if small, thing.
For general information on the true mission of the American Tort Reform Association, see these trial lawyers.
Suppression of stories happens all the time in the US. And sometimes, actual prosecutions. To find out what happens when you expose grossly illegal actions by giant, well-connected companies, check out some of these stories about Michael Gallagher and Chiquita.
You'd suspect? Really, who gives a shit? He's given b-as-in-boy billions to this cause. Real money. Sure, a portion of that will be tax deductible. Let's be generous and say 1/2. So he's "only" given 1.5 billion. Oh and sure, he gets better press. And those 3rd worlders will grow up to buy Microsoft stuff for big money and he'll get it all back. That's just terrible. The morally corrct thing for those in disease ravaged portions of sub-Saharan Africa to do would be to insist on fresh distros rather than fresh water.
I don't care why he does it. I'm just glad that he is.
I don't know if Boggs is a Yank or a Brit, but he started with greenbacks and is best known for them. See his web page.
I'm pretty sure that if I had ever stood on my high school principal, she would have kicked me in the nuts. Those Catholic schools are tough.
Am I the only one who looked at the Powermate knob mentioned inthe parent and wondered about Tempest on MAME?
Yeah. Only Slashdot is supposed to post advertisements as stories.
In true /. form I haven't read the article. Still I somehow doubt they are hailing the game as morally reprehensible.
Gee, really?
Wow. "Dialectic" on Slashdot. It's a brave new frontier.