What Constitutional basis would the IRS have for this power grab?
I don't think it's an IRS power grab that's being proposed, just a standardized method for sites to get the sales tax for a given state, county, city, etc., like http://example.gov/salestax.php?state=NY. Doing it at the city level shouldn't even be too hard, since you could have the tax rates indexed by ZIP code.
The only reason facebook would be unable to clean up material left by a given user in a timely fashion would be technical incompetence. We're not talking about a campus full of cork bulletin boards here, we're talking about a dynamic website backended by one or more databases. If they can't find all the data left by a given user, it's because they're completely incompetent big fucking idiots. So while that may be true, it's still no excuse.
And what database system do you use that can cascade deletes to the pile of tapes in the locked vault on the other side of the continent?
My personal POV is that the whole universe is alive, is synonymous to God, full of love, and that all living beings share a collective super-consciousness, which is the only "place" where the "reality" actually happens. The only reason for which my theory could be any less valid than any other, could be that less people perceive the world this way.
The Minbari happen to agree with you. It's a very interesting philosophy.
Now this being a stupid user, they aren't A) going to compile anything B) chmod +rwx a binary or even allow it to execute it as a program unless it asks C) Install most software from Ubuntu repositories D) not going to touch the terminal.
You haven't met any stupid users, have you? A stupid user will gladly follow any instructions they see without thinking about what they're doing if it means porn or screensavers.
And make no mistake, the real security problem is not anonymity, it's people. Or rather, all those people who don't give a boop about security and just want their porn and screensavers.
Is like calling ethanol "liquid grain." There's a big difference between being derived from a given substance and having the properties of that substance.
Not that this isn't nice and all, but picking science fiction-ish titles for things keeps you from being taken seriously.
Now, if you email them, and they forward it to their friends, who forward it, etc, etc, then EVERY person that EVER gets that email, will get your IP address!
Depends on the race, though. For example, a Maine Coon (or Maine Coon half-breed) will usually dedicate its life to acheiving a higher kill count than the US Army. And be reasonably successful about it, as well.
And Maine Coons will even go after rodents once in a while.
An antire group of people devoted to tracking and reporting on the whereabouts of the president. They could hire pundits to theorize on why he is there, film him getting in the car, getting out of the car. They could even predict where he's going to be, like "The president will be in Miami next Tuesday to talk to the guy in that place". Now that would be really freaky.
Minor correction: it's not that Iowa will only adopt this if every other state does, it's if enough states to make it effective (i.e. 270 electoral votes) adopt it.
What it means is that candidates for national office will only campaign in a handful of states that will guarantee a popular majority. No one will ever again campaign in New England, the Midwest, or much of the South.
And that's different from what they do now? Since I'm from New England, I'll stick here. Massachusetts is a pretty high-population state, though it's so overwhelmingly liberal that I wrote in Stewart/Colbert in 2008, knowing that Obama would win a landslide anyway. I almost never hear about campaign stops in Maine, Vermont, or Rhode Island. The only reason New Hampshire gets any attention is because they have the first primary, but after that, basically nothing. Connecticut might get a couple stops, but they'd probably just get lumped in with New York City.
Whatever. Iowa can pass this law but ultimately when an Elector casts his/her ballot, they can vote however they want. At least that would be the case with me.
1) What state do you live in?
2) Depending on the answer to 1, are you willing to take a fine and jail time for your action?
Is there a principled reason in this case to think that Iowans and other rural voters should receive votes that matter more even though they are numerically fewer?
They already do, since the number of electors is the sum of the number of senators and representatives. For the sake of simple math, let's say a state gets one representative per million people. A state with 10 million people gets 12 electoral votes, or 833,333 people per elector. A state with 20 million people gets 22 electoral votes, or ~900000 people per elector. A state with only 1 million people gets 3 electors, or 333,333 people per elector. A voter in the one of the smallest states has their vote count for nearly triple that of a voter in one of the largest states.
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What Constitutional basis would the IRS have for this power grab?
I don't think it's an IRS power grab that's being proposed, just a standardized method for sites to get the sales tax for a given state, county, city, etc., like http://example.gov/salestax.php?state=NY. Doing it at the city level shouldn't even be too hard, since you could have the tax rates indexed by ZIP code.
What Constitutional basis is there for the existence of the IRS?
Article 1, Section 8.
Can we group wish that New York snap off and sink into the sea?
Since New York has almost no Atlantic coastline, you might want to wish really, really hard.
The only reason facebook would be unable to clean up material left by a given user in a timely fashion would be technical incompetence. We're not talking about a campus full of cork bulletin boards here, we're talking about a dynamic website backended by one or more databases. If they can't find all the data left by a given user, it's because they're completely incompetent big fucking idiots. So while that may be true, it's still no excuse.
And what database system do you use that can cascade deletes to the pile of tapes in the locked vault on the other side of the continent?
My personal POV is that the whole universe is alive, is synonymous to God, full of love, and that all living beings share a collective super-consciousness, which is the only "place" where the "reality" actually happens. The only reason for which my theory could be any less valid than any other, could be that less people perceive the world this way.
The Minbari happen to agree with you. It's a very interesting philosophy.
Now this being a stupid user, they aren't A) going to compile anything B) chmod +rwx a binary or even allow it to execute it as a program unless it asks C) Install most software from Ubuntu repositories D) not going to touch the terminal.
You haven't met any stupid users, have you? A stupid user will gladly follow any instructions they see without thinking about what they're doing if it means porn or screensavers.
And make no mistake, the real security problem is not anonymity, it's people. Or rather, all those people who don't give a boop about security and just want their porn and screensavers.
Fixed that for ya.
my uninfectable Linux computer
What makes you think it isn't possible for me to write a script in Python/Perl/PHP/[insert favorite language here] that will run on Linux?
Is like calling ethanol "liquid grain." There's a big difference between being derived from a given substance and having the properties of that substance.
Not that this isn't nice and all, but picking science fiction-ish titles for things keeps you from being taken seriously.
Don't read the news much anymore, huh?
I've been pushing for the 'punctuationpunditry' tag for crappy headlines like this.
But computers can form a network using http, its called the Internet.
Did you really just say that?
Now, if you email them, and they forward it to their friends, who forward it, etc, etc, then EVERY person that EVER gets that email, will get your IP address!
Come again?
I'm guessing that they've done a little bit of research before going down this road.
So that's where the $8 billion went that has the shareholders so ticked off!
I can't find any rape or pillaging! :(
You clearly aren't using the right video search terms
Depends on the race, though. For example, a Maine Coon (or Maine Coon half-breed) will usually dedicate its life to acheiving a higher kill count than the US Army. And be reasonably successful about it, as well.
And Maine Coons will even go after rodents once in a while.
Have you seen the car dealerships on Commonwealth Ave in Boston right next to the BU campus? You could use your student loan to pick up a Porsche.
But if your parents can afford to pay for BU, wouldn't you already have gotten a Porsche when you graduated high school?
An antire group of people devoted to tracking and reporting on the whereabouts of the president. They could hire pundits to theorize on why he is there, film him getting in the car, getting out of the car. They could even predict where he's going to be, like "The president will be in Miami next Tuesday to talk to the guy in that place". Now that would be really freaky.
And we could give them a cute name, like "media".
Yeah, what gives me the right to use BitTorrent to steal Ubuntu discs
A cure would be applied to those who are infected to cure every time they get reinfected.
A vaccine would be applied to everyone only once.
Tell me...do you think they would make more money giving everyone the MMR vaccine or just curing those that catch it.
With those couple additions I've made, I'd say the repeat business from curing people every couple years or so would be better for the drug company.
I personally like the Nebraska solution (house districts go to the candidate winning the district, senate votes go to overall winner in the state).
Maine uses the same system. Of course, how often does Maine or Nebraska split the votes anyway.
Minor correction: it's not that Iowa will only adopt this if every other state does, it's if enough states to make it effective (i.e. 270 electoral votes) adopt it.
What it means is that candidates for national office will only campaign in a handful of states that will guarantee a popular majority. No one will ever again campaign in New England, the Midwest, or much of the South.
And that's different from what they do now? Since I'm from New England, I'll stick here. Massachusetts is a pretty high-population state, though it's so overwhelmingly liberal that I wrote in Stewart/Colbert in 2008, knowing that Obama would win a landslide anyway. I almost never hear about campaign stops in Maine, Vermont, or Rhode Island. The only reason New Hampshire gets any attention is because they have the first primary, but after that, basically nothing. Connecticut might get a couple stops, but they'd probably just get lumped in with New York City.
Whatever. Iowa can pass this law but ultimately when an Elector casts his/her ballot, they can vote however they want. At least that would be the case with me.
1) What state do you live in?
2) Depending on the answer to 1, are you willing to take a fine and jail time for your action?
Is there a principled reason in this case to think that Iowans and other rural voters should receive votes that matter more even though they are numerically fewer?
They already do, since the number of electors is the sum of the number of senators and representatives. For the sake of simple math, let's say a state gets one representative per million people. A state with 10 million people gets 12 electoral votes, or 833,333 people per elector. A state with 20 million people gets 22 electoral votes, or ~900000 people per elector. A state with only 1 million people gets 3 electors, or 333,333 people per elector. A voter in the one of the smallest states has their vote count for nearly triple that of a voter in one of the largest states.
Originally the EC didn't have to vote with the state! They still don't. The electors can vote for whomever they wish.
Depends on the state. About half of the states legally require the electors to vote for whom the state tells them to.