Anonymous Anonymous Coward (profile), 18 Jan 2018 @ 8:17pm
Re: Re: Assumed power is the most abused power
They play their power now. At some point they will find out the extent of their 'power'. It might take some time, but violations of the Constitution, SCOTUS or not, the Legislature will eventually do the will of the people. Not next year, nor probably the year after, but eventually.
Today the political parties have some control, tomorrow the proletariat might understand what is going on. Then again it might be the year after tomorrow. It will happen, consensualy or violently. The tree of liberty will be refreshed, one way or another.
The other choice is to give in and let 'power' play it's game. I don't believe that will happen, in the long run.
Anonymous Anonymous Coward (profile), 18 Jan 2018 @ 7:37pm
Assumed power is the most abused power
That ISU and others thought that they could control what others have to say because they have the 'power' that they don't actually have, but believe they have, is indicative of those in power.
Having a position of power does not give one power. That a majority of the people concur with your position might give one power, at least temporarily, until it is found out what one actually proposes to do with the power assumed. Once the 'proletariat' finds out what you want to do with that power, it might rescind that power, even if it takes some time.
Anonymous Anonymous Coward (profile), 18 Jan 2018 @ 5:27pm
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Congratulations for finding another horrid anomaly -- by which the primacy of common decency and common law is proven.
Does anyone remember Jeremy Clarckson's depiction of onions? A product of growing up with English fare, I guess.
For Chef's, an onion (there are six sub varieties that include garlic) contains more flavor than the entire spice rack. But they can sure give off some (delicious) odors. Some neighbors object, other come looking for an invitation to dine.
Anonymous Anonymous Coward (profile), 18 Jan 2018 @ 5:16pm
Re: Is there something about plunbers?
>Is there something about plunbers that I *ought* to know, but have *somehow* managed to remain unaware of?
They seem to charge more than the perceived value of their services? That may or may not be true, but the next time you have a leak, or a stoppage, try fixing it yourself. Especially in an apartment building!
Anonymous Anonymous Coward (profile), 18 Jan 2018 @ 5:13pm
Re: Re: Re: Re: Congratulations for finding another horrid anomaly -- by which the primacy of common decency and common law is proven.
You forget about, or have never run into, boiled cabbage. It tastes good, along with corned beef and boiled potatoes (think St Patrick's day fare) and a good mustard and some Irish soda bread. But, the odors given off while cooking can linger, and linger, and linger.
Anonymous Anonymous Coward (profile), 18 Jan 2018 @ 5:01pm
What I think they said was...
"...they leave out that a ridiculous amount of American content is swept up into this collection, which can then be sifted through without a warrant,..."
Not just sifted through, interpreted, maybe out of contexts, maybe not. Some of this will come down to what they 'think' they said, in a court, and then, given the way things are going, it will be up to the defendant to prove they are not guilty, rather than enjoy the presumption of innocence.
How many ways is this backwards? Void the 4rth Amendment, void the presumption of innocence, give sanction to Brady material violations (they presented what they believed to be the truth rather than giving over exculpatory information) etc..
Can this pass a SCOTUS review? Will several Appellate Courts question it? I hope no to the former and yes to the latter, though it will probably be that the reverse (order of decision) is the case.
Anonymous Anonymous Coward (profile), 17 Jan 2018 @ 9:32am
Re: Re: Re:
Personally, I see nothing wrong with forcing the sharing of the infrastructure. We have paid into Universal Funds and subsidized various plans for improvement that have not been spent in the way they were intended.
A big hit will take place on the balance sheets of various corporations where they list certain infrastructure as assets, and the big ones would take hits in income as they lose customers and invariably find the need to reduce prices in order to compete. Some shareholders, who bought stock at the wrong time will also be affected.
But I see nothing wrong with any of that, as the vast majority of US citizens will benefit. And if you are worrying about government intrusion into businesses, think about how the government failed to enforce anti monopoly laws that allowed us to get to this situation.
Anonymous Anonymous Coward (profile), 16 Jan 2018 @ 10:24am
News Comments
Hmm, what does this do to all those news sites that shut down their comments sections so that they could do their comments on Facebook? Sure there is Reddit and others, but none of them have subscriber base that Facebook does.
Anonymous Anonymous Coward (profile), 13 Jan 2018 @ 4:50pm
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Perversion in Politics (and no, this has nothing to do with sex)
It occurs to me that the real problem is politics. Take the politics out of legislation and elections then a lot of problems are solved.
How do we take politics out of government? I say it that way because politics does not end with either elections or legislation. Politics, however, is a problem. What makes things political and in need of politics? I don't know the answer to that, but that is the issue that is in need of solving. There are sub-issues, money, political parties, riders on legislation, etc., but it is politics that creates more problems than it solves.
Anonymous Anonymous Coward (profile), 13 Jan 2018 @ 11:29am
Re: Re: Re: Re: Perversion in Politics (and no, this has nothing to do with sex)
To get rid of the tyranny of the majority simply eliminate political parties. The founding fathers discussed this, and George Washington, in his farewell address, recommended it.
I agree with the whole one bill one subject, no riders idea. It's a better idea than giving the president a line item veto.
To prioritize legislative time, simply sunset all laws every seven years. Give them seven years to pick the ones we need, anything not ratified goes in the circular file. It might take a few cycles, but in the end we will have a body of law that even a police officer could remember and the legislature would not only have to write laws that could be re-upped in seven years but would have little time to write unneeded laws.
Oh, and I like that draft legislators idea, but we would probably need some sort of standards, reading, writing, arithmetic, no criminal past (misdemeanors would not count), etc..
Anonymous Anonymous Coward (profile), 13 Jan 2018 @ 8:00am
Perversion in Politics (and no, this has nothing to do with sex)
It is a shame how our political system has been perverted. Elected officials truly believe that their 'job' is to get re-elected...by any means necessary. Any work on the issues of the day are incidental and merely a means to that end, and cronyism is part and parcel of getting to that end. Hence political parties.
If we took the money out of politics (has I have and will continue to promote) we will still be left with the problem that elected officials think their 'job' is to get re-elected, even if they no longer have to spend significant portions of their time fund raising. They would still spend that time cozy-ing up to 'beneficial or influential' people (aka party bigwigs and movie stars) and still neglect their duties to their constituents.
We need a better way to hold office holders accountable...in-between elections. I tend to favor something along the electroshock line, but many people think torture is bad, and is also ineffective. So where does that leave us? Maybe amending the Constitution or election law allowing for some sort of recall that could be initiated by any constituent, but only for provable cause (failing to uphold a pre-election promise without some new information that could cause a reasonable person to consider alternatives, for example). But getting the elected to do something that would harm their grasp on power seems like a no go from the get go.
What other methods could we use. Legal ones I mean. I don't see nuking Washington as the way to go.
Anonymous Anonymous Coward (profile), 12 Jan 2018 @ 12:18pm
Top 10% of what?
Is that billable hours, hourly rate, number of cases handled per year, number of cases lost, number of cases won, number of bar complaints? Inquiring minds want to know!
Also, LoD might related to Lawyers of Distinction, but it might also relate to Lords of Death. Somehow I am certain that there are other things LoD might relate to.
In addition, since Lawyers of Distinction is incorporated, shouldn't that be LoDi? :-)
Anonymous Anonymous Coward (profile), 12 Jan 2018 @ 7:41am
Re: Next they'll be ...
Nah. They are more reasonable than that. They will only require divert-ability on man made asteroids, that is until the vectoring thrusters fail or run out of fuel, then it will be 'oh well', who could have foreseen that?
Anonymous Anonymous Coward (profile), 12 Jan 2018 @ 7:29am
Re: Re: Re: Re: With 'friends' like these...
Which is how they apply the thumb screws. Get a little now, decry that satisfaction was achieved, get a little more, claim no satisfaction, go after some more, totally unsatisfying. And bit by bit the tree of liberty is put through the wood chipper.
The difference is that Trump thinks of fiction as 'fake news' and cannot discern what might differentiate between the two. So yes, Trump is worried about 'fake news' and fiction and satire and parody because they are all the same to him. They aren't 'his' truth, which is apparently exists only in his mind (except when he cajoles his cronies to support 'his' truth).
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Re: Re: Assumed power is the most abused power
Today the political parties have some control, tomorrow the proletariat might understand what is going on. Then again it might be the year after tomorrow. It will happen, consensualy or violently. The tree of liberty will be refreshed, one way or another.
The other choice is to give in and let 'power' play it's game. I don't believe that will happen, in the long run.
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Assumed power is the most abused power
Having a position of power does not give one power. That a majority of the people concur with your position might give one power, at least temporarily, until it is found out what one actually proposes to do with the power assumed. Once the 'proletariat' finds out what you want to do with that power, it might rescind that power, even if it takes some time.
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Re: Spines and self-respect: Not to be found in DC apparently
Cheerleader, can she do a split? Would anyone want to see her do a split?
On the other hand, she certainly seems to be doing 'splits' all over the place. Is that what we call politics? Is that what politics should be?
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Congratulations for finding another horrid anomaly -- by which the primacy of common decency and common law is proven.
For Chef's, an onion (there are six sub varieties that include garlic) contains more flavor than the entire spice rack. But they can sure give off some (delicious) odors. Some neighbors object, other come looking for an invitation to dine.
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Re: Is there something about plunbers?
They seem to charge more than the perceived value of their services? That may or may not be true, but the next time you have a leak, or a stoppage, try fixing it yourself. Especially in an apartment building!
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Congratulations for finding another horrid anomaly -- by which the primacy of common decency and common law is proven.
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What I think they said was...
Not just sifted through, interpreted, maybe out of contexts, maybe not. Some of this will come down to what they 'think' they said, in a court, and then, given the way things are going, it will be up to the defendant to prove they are not guilty, rather than enjoy the presumption of innocence.
How many ways is this backwards? Void the 4rth Amendment, void the presumption of innocence, give sanction to Brady material violations (they presented what they believed to be the truth rather than giving over exculpatory information) etc..
Can this pass a SCOTUS review? Will several Appellate Courts question it? I hope no to the former and yes to the latter, though it will probably be that the reverse (order of decision) is the case.
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This discussion brings a couple of questions to mind
Political will is one answer (at least for state AG's), but could a group of plain old citizens sue?
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Re: Re: Re:
A big hit will take place on the balance sheets of various corporations where they list certain infrastructure as assets, and the big ones would take hits in income as they lose customers and invariably find the need to reduce prices in order to compete. Some shareholders, who bought stock at the wrong time will also be affected.
But I see nothing wrong with any of that, as the vast majority of US citizens will benefit. And if you are worrying about government intrusion into businesses, think about how the government failed to enforce anti monopoly laws that allowed us to get to this situation.
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News Comments
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Lost Clicks
The difference here is that Facebook is doing it to the news orgs rather than the government.
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Something stinks here
I read this as arbitrary and capricious odor, rather than order, three times before I got it.
Well maybe both are right.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Perversion in Politics (and no, this has nothing to do with sex)
How do we take politics out of government? I say it that way because politics does not end with either elections or legislation. Politics, however, is a problem. What makes things political and in need of politics? I don't know the answer to that, but that is the issue that is in need of solving. There are sub-issues, money, political parties, riders on legislation, etc., but it is politics that creates more problems than it solves.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Perversion in Politics (and no, this has nothing to do with sex)
I agree with the whole one bill one subject, no riders idea. It's a better idea than giving the president a line item veto.
To prioritize legislative time, simply sunset all laws every seven years. Give them seven years to pick the ones we need, anything not ratified goes in the circular file. It might take a few cycles, but in the end we will have a body of law that even a police officer could remember and the legislature would not only have to write laws that could be re-upped in seven years but would have little time to write unneeded laws.
Oh, and I like that draft legislators idea, but we would probably need some sort of standards, reading, writing, arithmetic, no criminal past (misdemeanors would not count), etc..
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Re: Re: Perversion in Politics (and no, this has nothing to do with sex)
The question is...how to do that!
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Perversion in Politics (and no, this has nothing to do with sex)
If we took the money out of politics (has I have and will continue to promote) we will still be left with the problem that elected officials think their 'job' is to get re-elected, even if they no longer have to spend significant portions of their time fund raising. They would still spend that time cozy-ing up to 'beneficial or influential' people (aka party bigwigs and movie stars) and still neglect their duties to their constituents.
We need a better way to hold office holders accountable...in-between elections. I tend to favor something along the electroshock line, but many people think torture is bad, and is also ineffective. So where does that leave us? Maybe amending the Constitution or election law allowing for some sort of recall that could be initiated by any constituent, but only for provable cause (failing to uphold a pre-election promise without some new information that could cause a reasonable person to consider alternatives, for example). But getting the elected to do something that would harm their grasp on power seems like a no go from the get go.
What other methods could we use. Legal ones I mean. I don't see nuking Washington as the way to go.
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Top 10% of what?
Also, LoD might related to Lawyers of Distinction, but it might also relate to Lords of Death. Somehow I am certain that there are other things LoD might relate to.
In addition, since Lawyers of Distinction is incorporated, shouldn't that be LoDi? :-)
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Re: Next they'll be ...
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Re: Re: Re: Re: With 'friends' like these...
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Re: Re: "Your move, Trump"? -- Trump already MOVED! Intentionally DREW attention to RIDICULOUS charges!
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