If a student is harassed for three hours at night on the Web and they come to school and have to sit in the same classroom with the student that's the bully, there is an effect on education
Horse puckey. This is the same "Nanny-State" logic congress uses to meddle in affairs they shouldn't. Control the kids and situation AT school and don't waste school resources (time, money and energy) trying to control what happens outside the classroom.
I'm pretty sure the original Constitution was written in plain text. I don't think they had big enough hard drives back then to store it in Word or WP.
Old fashioned 'pump and dump' scams were fairly easy to track, as they would go after the brokers who pushed the stock, and then it was a simple task to just follow the money. As we all know emails can be awfully hard to trace back to their creator.
Any chance those of us with websites could just setup dummy pages with thousands or tens of thousand of dummy email adresses for the spammers to harvest? Maybe clog up their own software sending millions of spams to non-existent addresses? I have 7 or 8 domains and I'd be happy to help fill the spammers databases with millions of bogus email addresses.
When the day comes that the Constitution can no longer protect us in the information age, we have a Congress actually interested and willing to step in on behalf of the people.
Apparently there was a whole new congress elected since yesterday. The congress we've had all my life has been interested in only one thing - the next election and how to survive it.
and we will have to turn to Congress to create rules that are better adapted for the information age.'"
I probably should sue someone - I fell off my chair laughing when I read this. Imagine troglodytes who probably can't even say *information age" legislating for it.
Maybe if we stop re-electing the same clowns each and every election cycle and start sending new blood to DC and all our state capitols regularly we'll get leaders instead of career politicians. Maybe then we'll get legislation crafted to govern modern day America, not a bunch of ill-conceived, poorly thought out crap that most of them don't even bother to *read* before voting on.
The US is a republic composed of individual states which have more power and authority than our federal government.
let's be really clear here and admit that states have "power and authority" only subject to the whims of the federal government. Once it suits their fancy, congress will decide that "... we find ___(fill in the blank)___ effects interstate commerce..." and pass a law or laws to push any "authority and power" the states think they have right into the crapper. If they can't mangle the constitution in order to pass a law, they just withhold "federal funds" (which they took from the citizens of the individual states in the first place) for highways, education or whatever in order to coerce the states into doing whatever it was the federal gov't wanted in the first place.
"power and authority of the states"? That hasn't been the case for a very long time.
I am so bloody tired of this nanny-state mentality the US (where I reside) seems to have towards it's own citizens and the citizen of the world.
IF gambling is a problem - it's a social one, not criminal (state lotteries, anyone?) IF prostitution is a problem - it's a social one, not criminal IF drug abuse is a problem - it's a social one, not criminal IF alcohol use is a problem - it's a social one, not criminal The nanny-state list goes on and on - fill in your own blanks _________
The bottom line here is that the government isn't getting a freaking cut of the action (taxes) and THAT'S what they're truly peeved about.
No society in the history of the universe has succeeded in legislating morality.
Not giving two sh*ts is kind of the problem, Nero.
The oft-quoted sec 220:
`(18) PAID EFFORTS TO STIMULATE GRASSROOTS LOBBYING-
`(A) IN GENERAL- The term `paid efforts to stimulate grassroots lobbying' means any paid attempt in support of lobbying contacts on behalf of a client to influence the general public or segments thereof to contact one or more covered legislative or executive branch officials (or Congress as a whole) to urge such officials (or Congress) to take specific action with respect to a matter described in section 3(8)(A), except that such term does not include any communications by an entity directed to its members, employees, officers, or shareholders.
`(B) PAID ATTEMPT TO INFLUENCE THE GENERAL PUBLIC OR SEGMENTS THEREOF- The term `paid attempt to influence the general public or segments thereof' does not include an attempt to influence directed at less than 500 members of the general public.
`(C) REGISTRANT- For purposes of this paragraph, a person or entity is a member of a registrant if the person or entity--
`(i) pays dues or makes a contribution of more than a nominal amount to the entity;
`(ii) makes a contribution of more than a nominal amount of time to the entity;
`(iii) is entitled to participate in the governance of the entity;
`(iv) is 1 of a limited number of honorary or life members of the entity; or
`(v) is an employee, officer, director or member of the entity
`(18) PAID EFFORTS TO STIMULATE GRASSROOTS LOBBYING-
`(A) IN GENERAL- The term `paid efforts to stimulate grassroots lobbying' means any paid attempt in support of lobbying contacts on behalf of a client to influence the general public or segments thereof to contact one or more covered legislative or executive branch officials (or Congress as a whole) to urge such officials (or Congress) to take specific action with respect to a matter described in section 3(8)(A), except that such term does not include any communications by an entity directed to its members, employees, officers, or shareholders.
`(B) PAID ATTEMPT TO INFLUENCE THE GENERAL PUBLIC OR SEGMENTS THEREOF- The term `paid attempt to influence the general public or segments thereof' does not include an attempt to influence directed at less than 500 members of the general public.
`(C) REGISTRANT- For purposes of this paragraph, a person or entity is a member of a registrant if the person or entity--
`(18) PAID EFFORTS TO STIMULATE GRASSROOTS LOBBYING-
`(A) IN GENERAL- The term `paid efforts to stimulate grassroots lobbying' means any paid attempt in support of lobbying contacts on behalf of a client to influence the general public or segments thereof to contact one or more covered legislative or executive branch officials (or Congress as a whole) to urge such officials (or Congress) to take specific action with respect to a matter described in section 3(8)(A), except that such term does not include any communications by an entity directed to its members, employees, officers, or shareholders.
`(B) PAID ATTEMPT TO INFLUENCE THE GENERAL PUBLIC OR SEGMENTS THEREOF- The term `paid attempt to influence the general public or segments thereof' does not include an attempt to influence directed at less than 500 members of the general public.
`(C) REGISTRANT- For purposes of this paragraph, a person or entity is a member of a registrant if the person or entity--
`(i) pays dues or makes a contribution of more than a nominal amount to the entity;
`(ii) makes a contribution of more than a nominal amount of time to the entity;
`(iii) is entitled to participate in the governance of the entity;
`(iv) is 1 of a limited number of honorary or life members of the entity; or
`(v) is an employee, officer, director or member of the entity
`(iii) is entitled to participate in the governance of the entity;
`(iv) is 1 of a limited number of honorary or life members of the entity; or
`(v) is an employee, officer, director or member of the entity
For example, if ExxonMobil pays me $1000 to write a blog post that urges my (over 500) readers to write their Congressional delegation to vote in favor of a bill that opens up ANWR, I would have to register as a lobbyist.
That's not what TFA says.
It says:
The bill would require reporting of 'paid efforts to stimulate
grassroots lobbying,' but defines 'paid' merely as communications to 500 or
more members of the public, with no other qualifiers.
Note the "no other qualifiers" part. If you post something, it gets posted to/. and 500 people click the link, you have to register, according to TFA.
If this is correct - we as a nation are in very deep sh*t. Free speech gone. Whenever these guys start to hammer on something like this, they find a way to push it through. The time for fundamental change is here.
Amen to that - gridlock is the best we can hope for in the foreseeable future.
The dems are going to kneecap the military in Iraq and then blame Bush for losing the war. Remember where you heard it - they'll hide it in political obfuscation and drape it in Old Glory, but congress *will* cut funding well before the next presidential election.
Well, by lysergic.acid (845423), your comment: "The best way to combat these problems is through decentralization of power." is correct. However, you must be ingesting large quantities of yourself if you think the government is going to allow that to happen.
Looks to me like an attempt to squash free speech. There are technologies available to produce copy protected streams. There are technologies for those wanting to make their content available freely. Looks like they want to kill the latter.
Why not legislate technology to prevent copying text? After all, text can be copyrighted.
>Kind of reminds me of the RNC fund raising letter where "Bush cuts deficit 40% in two years". Factually correct, >but does not mention that Bush caused the deficit in the first place.
Which was a poor analogy on your part. "Bush" did not cause any deficit - the so-called "balanced budget" of the Clinton admin was a myth in the first place. Alternatively, I could argue that congress caused any deficit because congress appropriates money.
Too bad - you were doing great until you got to that last line and injected your personal agenda into your reply.
All this is rhetoric, the original headline was intended to be attention grabbing. One might argue that it was an *abuse* of rhetoric. Rhetoric by itself is not a bad thing, it has simply gotten a bad reputation due to it's abuse, usually for political purposes.
Could they be locked in to some proprietary software on their own servers? I doubt it. I suspect they lack the technical ability to produce content other than WMV and their hiding behind lame excuses.
What's happened here is that MS "legitimized" Linux in the minds MS-sycophants and now they all want to jump on the bandwagon.
All Linux gurus out there get ready to capitalize (MS is certainly going to try).
Also, remember all your buddies who you finally got their Windows PCs working to where you can get a little peace? Get ready for another round of "why can't I (___fill in the blank___)"? when they switch to Linux.
>Linux is ready for prime time when a user doesn't need an admin to use a preloaded computer. That's still nowhere in sight, >and we're not getting closer either: Many distributions remove codecs and proprietary drivers, making a useful system even >less available to mere users.
Road apples. Some distros require addon codecs, some don't. If ABC Computer Co sells a machine with some flavor of Linux pre-installed they surely can and will configure it to play dvd, mp3 or whatever, if they so choose.
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Horse puckey. This is the same "Nanny-State" logic congress uses to meddle in affairs they shouldn't. Control the kids and situation AT school and don't waste school resources (time, money and energy) trying to control what happens outside the classroom.
>Not in Microsoft Word format. Maybe ASCII
I'm pretty sure the original Constitution was written in plain text. I don't think they had big enough hard drives back then to store it in Word or WP.
Possibly they don't look into it because your friendly neighborhood congress-critter is the one making the 5%.
Any chance those of us with websites could just setup dummy pages with thousands or tens of thousand of dummy email adresses for the spammers to harvest? Maybe clog up their own software sending millions of spams to non-existent addresses? I have 7 or 8 domains and I'd be happy to help fill the spammers databases with millions of bogus email addresses.
Apparently there was a whole new congress elected since yesterday. The congress we've had all my life has been interested in only one thing - the next election and how to survive it.
I probably should sue someone - I fell off my chair laughing when I read this. Imagine troglodytes who probably can't even say *information age" legislating for it.
Maybe if we stop re-electing the same clowns each and every election cycle and start sending new blood to DC and all our state capitols regularly we'll get leaders instead of career politicians. Maybe then we'll get legislation crafted to govern modern day America, not a bunch of ill-conceived, poorly thought out crap that most of them don't even bother to *read* before voting on.
let's be really clear here and admit that states have "power and authority" only subject to the whims of the federal government. Once it suits their fancy, congress will decide that "... we find ___(fill in the blank)___ effects interstate commerce
"power and authority of the states"? That hasn't been the case for a very long time.
I am so bloody tired of this nanny-state mentality the US (where I reside) seems to have towards it's own citizens and the citizen of the world.
IF gambling is a problem - it's a social one, not criminal (state lotteries, anyone?)
IF prostitution is a problem - it's a social one, not criminal
IF drug abuse is a problem - it's a social one, not criminal
IF alcohol use is a problem - it's a social one, not criminal
The nanny-state list goes on and on - fill in your own blanks _________
The bottom line here is that the government isn't getting a freaking cut of the action (taxes) and THAT'S what they're truly peeved about.
No society in the history of the universe has succeeded in legislating morality.
Not giving two sh*ts is kind of the problem, Nero.
The oft-quoted sec 220:
Oh, bite me.
Amen to that - gridlock is the best we can hope for in the foreseeable future.
The dems are going to kneecap the military in Iraq and then blame Bush for losing the war. Remember where you heard it - they'll hide it in political obfuscation and drape it in Old Glory, but congress *will* cut funding well before the next presidential election.
Well, by lysergic.acid (845423), your comment: "The best way to combat these problems is through decentralization of power." is correct. However, you must be ingesting large quantities of yourself if you think the government is going to allow that to happen.
Looks to me like an attempt to squash free speech. There are technologies available to produce copy protected streams. There are technologies for those wanting to make their content available freely. Looks like they want to kill the latter.
Why not legislate technology to prevent copying text? After all, text can be copyrighted.
>Only a yankee would call it the civil war... Down in the south it is the War of Northern Aggression :)
I would point out that history is written by the victors, and we have chosen "Civil War".
We have also occupied Florida - ask any Florida native.
We're going to *have* to colonize Mars just so we can issue ourselves a junkyard permit.
The **AA will doubtless lobby the UN to send troops in if Piratebay sets up shop there.
>Kind of reminds me of the RNC fund raising letter where "Bush cuts deficit 40% in two years". Factually correct,
>but does not mention that Bush caused the deficit in the first place.
Which was a poor analogy on your part. "Bush" did not cause any deficit - the so-called "balanced budget" of the Clinton admin was a myth in the first place. Alternatively, I could argue that congress caused any deficit because congress appropriates money.
Too bad - you were doing great until you got to that last line and injected your personal agenda into your reply.
All this is rhetoric, the original headline was intended to be attention grabbing. One might argue that it was an *abuse* of rhetoric. Rhetoric by itself is not a bad thing, it has simply gotten a bad reputation due to it's abuse, usually for political purposes.
>If you're trying to be less of one of those bloated lazy crap sacks, switching to Wonder Bread isn't a bad place to start
And you are the local Wonder Bread rep?
Could they be locked in to some proprietary software on their own servers? I doubt it. I suspect they lack the technical ability to produce content other than WMV and their hiding behind lame excuses.
>When you have Alzheimer's, dupes are fantastic!
....
Plus you can hide your own Easter eggs.
sorry
What? You mean Linux works? On computers?
Excuse me while I go write a news bulletin.
What's happened here is that MS "legitimized" Linux in the minds MS-sycophants and now they all want to jump on the bandwagon.
All Linux gurus out there get ready to capitalize (MS is certainly going to try).
Also, remember all your buddies who you finally got their Windows PCs working to where you can get a little peace? Get ready for another round of "why can't I (___fill in the blank___)"? when they switch to Linux.
>Linux is ready for prime time when a user doesn't need an admin to use a preloaded computer. That's still nowhere in sight,
>and we're not getting closer either: Many distributions remove codecs and proprietary drivers, making a useful system even
>less available to mere users.
Road apples. Some distros require addon codecs, some don't. If ABC Computer Co sells a machine with some flavor of Linux pre-installed they surely can and will configure it to play dvd, mp3 or whatever, if they so choose.
>Are these real events or made up ones, like in previous years?
Whatever else they are, they're not particularly amusing/shocking or well written. Boring and piteous.
Let's nominate the Darwin Awards an honorary spot this year by virtue of having shot themselves fatally in the foot.
Elections are supposed to be transparent.
Sticking some software in the middle that nobody can see is akin to counting paper ballots in secret.
I don't mind voting machines, electronic or not. But transparency is a *must*, either way.