Where else in the Constitution did they deal with statements of facts? Is there any other place with such a clause? If not, then why would they add an unnecessary statement of fact to this part and no other? Wouldn't that tend to indicate that it was intended as a constraint rather than a statement of fact?
It's a good question, but it doesn't change it from a statement of fact. As it stands, it is a statement of fact. If it were to be a limitation, it wouldn't be written like that.
You also should understand that every single limitation in the Constitution to that point was written as a limitation on the behavior of government. To read it as a limitation would require you to first NOT read it as written, and then interpret in a manner that runs counter to the rest of the document. No other portion of the document requires such mental gymnastics, except when you attempt to construe the wording to deny freedom.
We don't read the First Amendment's explicit mention of 'the press' to imply that there is a limit on people who are not of the press.
Oh, and if you say "well, the Founders didn't know about nukes, so the reference to "arms" in the Bill of Rights doesn't include nuclear arms," all I have to do is point out to you that the Founders didn't know anything about M-16s and other automatic weapons, either.
Don't invent things people didn't say in some attempt to debate them.
The solution is in the Constitution, and the capability to amend it.
So if the fact of regular citizens owning guns no longer has a bearing on the militia, does that mean the right to bear arms can be infringed? In other words, does the right to bear arms hinge on it being a requirement for a well-regulated militia, or not? It's complicated stuff.
It's only complicated when you argue from the position of trying to limit freedoms.
First, I don't agree with your first point, but that's irrelevant. It can't be infringed until you eliminate that statement from the Constitution, otherwise it makes the entire document worthless.
If you can just claim that 'Oh that doesn't matter in today's society' and then ignore it, what's the point? If it doesn't matter, then change the Constitution.
Insurance not doctors. Doctors get paid w/ public option either way. TBH I think many of them would prefer it.
Mostly I was making a point that the AMA has lobbied to create an extreme barrier for entry into healthcare. While for certain positions a high barrier to entry IS useful (oncology, surgeons, OBGYNs, etc) There are other areas in which a trained, but not a full MD would be required (Evaluating non-serious fractures, evaluating if something is a bacterial or viral infection, prescribing an antibiotic for an ingrown toenail)
There is a lot in which a doctor has to be 'in the loop'. That isn't to say that you don't need doctors, I'm just saying that you don't need doctors in all situations.
Nurse Practitioners generally fall into this category of not doctors, but qualified enough to handle a lot more than we currently let them. (it varies state to state, but on the whole, I don't think they are given enough responsibility)
The fact that we've already amended the Constitution 27 times suggests fairly strongly that the disclaimer is true as stated.
10 of which were immediately passed and almost understood to be part of the original document. The passing and the repeal of prohibition are two other amendments that don't really seem to fall into the 'revision' category.
Actually there was one thing I liked about the prohibition amendment. It demonstrated that there was a time when the Federal Government actually followed the Constitution and didn't claim the Commerce Clause gave it ultimate power over everything.
Representatives and direct Taxes shall be apportioned among the several States which may be included within this Union, according to their respective Numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole Number of free Persons, including those bound to Service for a Term of Years, and excluding Indians not taxed, three fifths of all other Persons. (Art. 1, Sec. 2, Para. 3)
Which ironically, isn't a problem any more since we have decided that all people are free persons.
If it was written today, it would be a lot shorter.
Not true, if I were to go by what people seem to think the role of government should be, it would be a HUGE document detailing every single thing that you are allowed to do, and there would be a LOT that you are allowed to do. Every freedom that you now enjoy would likely be included in the document.
And hopefully you understand why that would be a terrifying prospect.
It's rather boring actually, but I was planning on reusing some parts. (I never took pictures as I was making it.
It's completely sealed. The ammo can is a 30 cal can for a machine gun, so a little larger than most. When shut, it looks completely normal (which was the point so it could fall overboard in a boat and be fine). If you open it up, you will see a sealed silicon rollup keyboard, a power supply cable, a network cable, and a touchpad (which I've also applied a sealant too for moisture.
About 4 inches in, you can see a lexan faceplate where I used a template to cut holes for the ports. Just above the faceplate there is now a screen where an LCD I gutted will slide out, and then up.
The point was I wanted to make an ammo-can computer but not cut holes into the can. The actual computer components were mounted in the can using vibration isolators (Fancy term for a cheap rubber shock absorber with springs).
I always thought it silly that people would take the looks of these cans, but never realize that they were great for environmental protection. (Then again, I'm probably the only guy that would toss a computer on his ATV to go camping)
Troop movements are a pretty pointless thing to keep secret for a long time, sure it's important to keep them secret at the time the movements are taking place but once your troops have moved the enemy can simply see this for himself...
What if the enemy never DID see?
There are reasons that the movements are kept secret.
Yes but paper is a relatively inefficient storage mechanism, if converted to a sensible text+images format (ie not just scanned to a bitmap dump), this wouldn't be especially large as digital data... I bet you could fit all of it on a single modern HD... Take a few copies for backup purposes and all that paper could be recycled.
I'll get right back to 1985 and tell them to start working on it.
I 100% agree...but you will never see the "Defense Budget" getting fitted for a hair cut. Never. All in the name of "national security".
For the record, I'm about to switch programs again after the one I'm on just had its budget cut. This marks my second switch in 1 year. There are cuts going on, but the savings are being spent just as quickly.
Maybe if doctors didn't prescribe anti-depressants to everyone who comes in their office complaining about bad gas, it wouldn't be double the average EU GDP%.
Maybe if doctors hadn't so jealously created and protected their monopoly on healthcare we might not be paying so much in the first place.
Now, granted, we humans are much more intelligent than most species on this planet
Let's cut the self hate. We ARE the most intelligent species on the planet. With that intelligence comes an understanding of certain activities.
1. We like to eat bluefin tuna. Making adjustments to keep them from dying allows us to eat them in the future.
2. Killing off the Bluefin Tuna could have drawbacks. It makes sense to understand these drawbacks before we continue on our course of exterminating them. Maybe the drawbacks aren't so bad. Maybe they will result in us all dying of cholera.
Yes, you could mod an aviation headset to do the same thing, however they are significantly weighty compared to most headsets
As a flight test engineer who has tried several different headsets over the years, yes they are heavy beasts. I'm pretty rough with them, but so far I haven't broken any. You can expect to easily pay over $100 for a base model, but for sound exclusion I don't know of anything better.
In one of our systems we DID hook up the crewmembers to an ISDN connection for voice transmission. It worked, but it was costly (at least, from a data center perspective and not a executive telecom perspective).
While an aviation headset might work, you might end up overengineering the situation and end up with a crinked neck.
I usually string them out as long as I can. I put the phone on speaker, or just set it on the counter, and keep them going with "Yeah, wait could you repeat that, That sounds interesting, could you tell me a bit more about that?"
Once I went on like that and just hung up mid conversation, the guy called me back. I had him going for 30 minutes before I finished cooking dinner and said "Snip corp glork rando Fluuuuu" (Or as close to that Carlin line as I can remember).
I figure that I'm accomplishing several things:
1. Said sales-droid's numbers go down 2. They are paying for the call. 3. Most importanly, while that guy is on the line, he can't be bothering anyone else.
Would a "standard wall-wart" be able to supply the required power for all of the internal components and all connected USB devices?
Most Laptops seem to be able to get by. Though those are less on the wall and more in-line. But I don't see why you couldn't do the same using modern components. I'm certain you would probably push the envelope of what that type of powersupply could deliver if you tried to build it as a top end machine, but if you designed it with power consumption as a limiting factor, I'm certain you could do it.
If you have it, you don't need it. If you need it, you don't have it. If you have it, you need more of it. If you have more of it, you don't need less of it. You need it to get it. And you certainly need it to get more of it. But if you already don't have any of it to begin with, you can't get any of it to get started. Which means you really have no idea how to get it in the first place, do you? You can share it, sure. You can even stockpile it if you like. But you can't fake it. Wanting it, needing it, wishing for it. The point is, if you've never had any of it, ever, people just seem to know.
5 years ago I had the idea to build a briefcase sized laptop. I was going for style over performance, and changed my design half-way through due to the expense (I was just out of college and still on ramen budgets) so I didn't invest in a laptop LCD. However, I kept the laptop formfactor for my internal components. Here is what I did:
Using only non-laptop components. I found a very slim power supply that was typically designed for a 1U rack. This ran alongside the motherboard and was about as tall as the entire board (PCB+RAM height) I used a board that had built in video,ethernet,sound so I wouldn't have to have any vertical PCI cards. Since I didn't have to use the PCI ports, I placed the HDD over this location and it rested on the plastic risers (Top of the HDD on the plastic) I couldn't do much about the RAM but it didn't stick up above the capacitors very much. I used a processor heatsink with a fan since this would let me get away with a smaller heatsink, though the processor in the board would probably run with just a basic heatsink and no fan. I used a standard 5.25" DVD drive which sat next to the power supply and next to the motherboard.
I took two aluminum sheets and drilled holes to attach the motherboard to the bottom sheet, and the HDD, DVD, and Powersupply were attached to the upper sheet. They were then sandwiched together and I used short bolts to hold the two halves together.
The result was something on the order of 12" x 12" x 1.75" (can't remember the exact dimensions). Due to the way the components were sandwiched, it was fairly robust and I was able to mount it with shock absorbers inside a travel case.
Later when I had more cash, I built it into an ammo-can and included a fold-out monitor and keyboard/touchpad. It turned into an AMAZING little portable server for things like LAN parties.
With it's 1'x1'x1.75" dimensions, I'm sure that I could have easily put it inside a briefcase and built in a display. I just went with the ammo-can because having a truly rugged portable computer was useful to me. (in addition to being waterproof)
With today's boards and SSD storage It would probably be no trouble at all.
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Where else in the Constitution did they deal with statements of facts? Is there any other place with such a clause? If not, then why would they add an unnecessary statement of fact to this part and no other? Wouldn't that tend to indicate that it was intended as a constraint rather than a statement of fact?
It's a good question, but it doesn't change it from a statement of fact. As it stands, it is a statement of fact. If it were to be a limitation, it wouldn't be written like that.
You also should understand that every single limitation in the Constitution to that point was written as a limitation on the behavior of government. To read it as a limitation would require you to first NOT read it as written, and then interpret in a manner that runs counter to the rest of the document. No other portion of the document requires such mental gymnastics, except when you attempt to construe the wording to deny freedom.
We don't read the First Amendment's explicit mention of 'the press' to imply that there is a limit on people who are not of the press.
Oh, and if you say "well, the Founders didn't know about nukes, so the reference to "arms" in the Bill of Rights doesn't include nuclear arms," all I have to do is point out to you that the Founders didn't know anything about M-16s and other automatic weapons, either.
Don't invent things people didn't say in some attempt to debate them.
The solution is in the Constitution, and the capability to amend it.
So if the fact of regular citizens owning guns no longer has a bearing on the militia, does that mean the right to bear arms can be infringed? In other words, does the right to bear arms hinge on it being a requirement for a well-regulated militia, or not? It's complicated stuff.
It's only complicated when you argue from the position of trying to limit freedoms.
First, I don't agree with your first point, but that's irrelevant. It can't be infringed until you eliminate that statement from the Constitution, otherwise it makes the entire document worthless.
If you can just claim that 'Oh that doesn't matter in today's society' and then ignore it, what's the point? If it doesn't matter, then change the Constitution.
Is it infringement to tax ownership of arms
It should be. Is it an infringement to tax voting, or to tax speaking your mind?
For starters it doesn't mention how the militia should be regulated, what constitutes Arms or where they have the right to keep and bear them
A well regulated militia is necessary. The Right shall not be infringed. A statement of fact, and a requirement.
It's amazing how non-vague the constitution is until you start trying to interpret in a way that limits freedom.
Insurance not doctors. Doctors get paid w/ public option either way. TBH I think many of them would prefer it.
Mostly I was making a point that the AMA has lobbied to create an extreme barrier for entry into healthcare. While for certain positions a high barrier to entry IS useful (oncology, surgeons, OBGYNs, etc) There are other areas in which a trained, but not a full MD would be required (Evaluating non-serious fractures, evaluating if something is a bacterial or viral infection, prescribing an antibiotic for an ingrown toenail)
There is a lot in which a doctor has to be 'in the loop'. That isn't to say that you don't need doctors, I'm just saying that you don't need doctors in all situations.
Nurse Practitioners generally fall into this category of not doctors, but qualified enough to handle a lot more than we currently let them. (it varies state to state, but on the whole, I don't think they are given enough responsibility)
The fact that we've already amended the Constitution 27 times suggests fairly strongly that the disclaimer is true as stated.
10 of which were immediately passed and almost understood to be part of the original document. The passing and the repeal of prohibition are two other amendments that don't really seem to fall into the 'revision' category.
Actually there was one thing I liked about the prohibition amendment. It demonstrated that there was a time when the Federal Government actually followed the Constitution and didn't claim the Commerce Clause gave it ultimate power over everything.
You forgot one:
Representatives and direct Taxes shall be apportioned among the several States which may be included within this Union, according to their respective Numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole Number of free Persons, including those bound to Service for a Term of Years, and excluding Indians not taxed, three fifths of all other Persons. (Art. 1, Sec. 2, Para. 3)
Which ironically, isn't a problem any more since we have decided that all people are free persons.
If it was written today, it would be a lot shorter.
Not true, if I were to go by what people seem to think the role of government should be, it would be a HUGE document detailing every single thing that you are allowed to do, and there would be a LOT that you are allowed to do. Every freedom that you now enjoy would likely be included in the document.
And hopefully you understand why that would be a terrifying prospect.
Between Gallery Place and Judiciary Square has been turned off recently though, not sure why.
Too many people freaking out that there is a LADY ON THE SIDE OF THE CAR!
Pictures, please!
It's rather boring actually, but I was planning on reusing some parts. (I never took pictures as I was making it.
It's completely sealed. The ammo can is a 30 cal can for a machine gun, so a little larger than most. When shut, it looks completely normal (which was the point so it could fall overboard in a boat and be fine). If you open it up, you will see a sealed silicon rollup keyboard, a power supply cable, a network cable, and a touchpad (which I've also applied a sealant too for moisture.
About 4 inches in, you can see a lexan faceplate where I used a template to cut holes for the ports. Just above the faceplate there is now a screen where an LCD I gutted will slide out, and then up.
The point was I wanted to make an ammo-can computer but not cut holes into the can. The actual computer components were mounted in the can using vibration isolators (Fancy term for a cheap rubber shock absorber with springs).
I always thought it silly that people would take the looks of these cans, but never realize that they were great for environmental protection. (Then again, I'm probably the only guy that would toss a computer on his ATV to go camping)
Troop movements are a pretty pointless thing to keep secret for a long time, sure it's important to keep them secret at the time the movements are taking place but once your troops have moved the enemy can simply see this for himself...
What if the enemy never DID see?
There are reasons that the movements are kept secret.
Yes but paper is a relatively inefficient storage mechanism, if converted to a sensible text+images format (ie not just scanned to a bitmap dump), this wouldn't be especially large as digital data... I bet you could fit all of it on a single modern HD... Take a few copies for backup purposes and all that paper could be recycled.
I'll get right back to 1985 and tell them to start working on it.
Um...2010-25 = 1985.
Roswell was declassified decades ago.
And the coverup that produced the 'declassified' Roswell incident was declassified when? ;)
Holy shit, really?
That's a bit too far in my opinion. What did it do? Send a pairing request from a device named "BuyPizza"? Or did it go further than that?
Hah, I'd actually like to see that, where on the Metro was it?
(Currently ride the Blue Line in to DC)
I 100% agree...but you will never see the "Defense Budget" getting fitted for a hair cut. Never. All in the name of "national security".
For the record, I'm about to switch programs again after the one I'm on just had its budget cut. This marks my second switch in 1 year. There are cuts going on, but the savings are being spent just as quickly.
Maybe if doctors didn't prescribe anti-depressants to everyone who comes in their office complaining about bad gas, it wouldn't be double the average EU GDP%.
Maybe if doctors hadn't so jealously created and protected their monopoly on healthcare we might not be paying so much in the first place.
There are efforts, but so far I've only heard of one success in breeding them. From what I understand Tuna is a very hard fish to farm.
Now, granted, we humans are much more intelligent than most species on this planet
Let's cut the self hate. We ARE the most intelligent species on the planet. With that intelligence comes an understanding of certain activities.
1.
We like to eat bluefin tuna. Making adjustments to keep them from dying allows us to eat them in the future.
2. Killing off the Bluefin Tuna could have drawbacks. It makes sense to understand these drawbacks before we continue on our course of exterminating them. Maybe the drawbacks aren't so bad. Maybe they will result in us all dying of cholera.
Yes, you could mod an aviation headset to do the same thing, however they are significantly weighty compared to most headsets
As a flight test engineer who has tried several different headsets over the years, yes they are heavy beasts. I'm pretty rough with them, but so far I haven't broken any. You can expect to easily pay over $100 for a base model, but for sound exclusion I don't know of anything better.
In one of our systems we DID hook up the crewmembers to an ISDN connection for voice transmission. It worked, but it was costly (at least, from a data center perspective and not a executive telecom perspective).
While an aviation headset might work, you might end up overengineering the situation and end up with a crinked neck.
I usually string them out as long as I can. I put the phone on speaker, or just set it on the counter, and keep them going with "Yeah, wait could you repeat that, That sounds interesting, could you tell me a bit more about that?"
Once I went on like that and just hung up mid conversation, the guy called me back. I had him going for 30 minutes before I finished cooking dinner and said "Snip corp glork rando Fluuuuu" (Or as close to that Carlin line as I can remember).
I figure that I'm accomplishing several things:
1. Said sales-droid's numbers go down
2. They are paying for the call.
3. Most importanly, while that guy is on the line, he can't be bothering anyone else.
Would a "standard wall-wart" be able to supply the required power for all of the internal components and all connected USB devices?
Most Laptops seem to be able to get by. Though those are less on the wall and more in-line. But I don't see why you couldn't do the same using modern components. I'm certain you would probably push the envelope of what that type of powersupply could deliver if you tried to build it as a top end machine, but if you designed it with power consumption as a limiting factor, I'm certain you could do it.
If you have it, you don't need it.
If you need it, you don't have it.
If you have it, you need more of it.
If you have more of it, you don't need less of it.
You need it to get it.
And you certainly need it to get more of it.
But if you already don't have any of it to begin with, you can't get any of it to get started.
Which means you really have no idea how to get it in the first place, do you?
You can share it, sure.
You can even stockpile it if you like.
But you can't fake it.
Wanting it, needing it, wishing for it.
The point is, if you've never had any of it, ever, people just seem to know.
Well, I can dream anyway...
5 years ago I had the idea to build a briefcase sized laptop. I was going for style over performance, and changed my design half-way through due to the expense (I was just out of college and still on ramen budgets) so I didn't invest in a laptop LCD. However, I kept the laptop formfactor for my internal components. Here is what I did:
Using only non-laptop components. I found a very slim power supply that was typically designed for a 1U rack. This ran alongside the motherboard and was about as tall as the entire board (PCB+RAM height) I used a board that had built in video,ethernet,sound so I wouldn't have to have any vertical PCI cards. Since I didn't have to use the PCI ports, I placed the HDD over this location and it rested on the plastic risers (Top of the HDD on the plastic) I couldn't do much about the RAM but it didn't stick up above the capacitors very much. I used a processor heatsink with a fan since this would let me get away with a smaller heatsink, though the processor in the board would probably run with just a basic heatsink and no fan. I used a standard 5.25" DVD drive which sat next to the power supply and next to the motherboard.
I took two aluminum sheets and drilled holes to attach the motherboard to the bottom sheet, and the HDD, DVD, and Powersupply were attached to the upper sheet. They were then sandwiched together and I used short bolts to hold the two halves together.
The result was something on the order of 12" x 12" x 1.75" (can't remember the exact dimensions). Due to the way the components were sandwiched, it was fairly robust and I was able to mount it with shock absorbers inside a travel case.
Later when I had more cash, I built it into an ammo-can and included a fold-out monitor and keyboard/touchpad. It turned into an AMAZING little portable server for things like LAN parties.
With it's 1'x1'x1.75" dimensions, I'm sure that I could have easily put it inside a briefcase and built in a display. I just went with the ammo-can because having a truly rugged portable computer was useful to me. (in addition to being waterproof)
With today's boards and SSD storage It would probably be no trouble at all.