Scorching weather! Baked Europe! Extreme! Ravaged villages! Choked! Fierce! Drought-stricken! Deadly floods!

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These people are asserting that the general welfare clause gives Congress limitless authority to tax and to spend.

If they have such authority, then there is no legal basis under which it can be challenged, including vetoes, court rulings or future Constitutional Amendments. That's the meaning and scope of the word "limitless."

As long as they contend it is for the "general welfare" of the nation, their authority is absolute.

That is what is being asserted here. Let's be clear about that much at least.

> It's not quite as bad as that

How bad is it, then? Do you find it alarming that we are even discussing a government with no limits on its power? One would think people who visit Slashdot would be smarter than that since they're all scientists and engineers.

But here we are.

So according to you, Congress has unlimited power unless the Supreme Court says they don't?

What if Congress votes to repeal Article III and there is no Supreme Court?

Been that way for over a century? What was it before?

> We stopped pretending states were little fiefdoms in the late 1800s.

Oh? The Ninth Amendment and Article V were both repealed? Do you have a date for that?

> triggers the Commerce Clause and in turn gives them the authority needed.

So all they need to do is find some ephemeral justification by invoking the Commerce Clause and every Congress member is fitted for a crown?

Oh I see, so the geniuses who wrote the Constitution crafted Article 8 like this:

1. Congress has unlimited power.

2. Here is a list of Congress' enumerated powers.

Then they ratified the 10th Amendment which says "Congress has no power except what is specifically granted in the Constitution."

Do you find it odd nobody brought up the fact Congress was granted unlimited power in Article I when the Bill of Rights was being deliberated?

Do you find it odd 13 colonies would ratify a document that granted Congress the very same power they had just fought a war to escape?

If Congress has unlimited power, why not just pass a bill under the General Welfare Clause to vacate Marbury vs. Madison and Article II and seize total authority?

I'll be very interested to see reasoned answers to those questions.

So Congress has unlimited power. Correct?

Where does the federal government get the legal authority to award grants for solar power?

Sergeant I hope you like chow mein.

America last. Right?

Oh sure, your job is gone, along with your house, marriage, retirement, family and dignity, but it's a global market now.

You're competing with teenage workers hiding behind a manipulated currency who live eight to a room while you have to stack four figures a month for a crackerbox apartment 70 minutes from work and go pedal to the floor seven days a week to keep your credit score above 600.

If you listen real careful-like, you'll hear your neighbors. They're living eight to a room too. They're all paid in cash and the "extended family" is pulling seven grand a week. That's why they have two brand new cars and effortlessly haul 200 pounds of groceries through the door every 72 hours while your "living room" floor is covered in coupons.

It's illegal as hell, but everyone gettin paid except you: cops, landlord, code enforcement, health department, bank.

They've taken your job, your women and your house. Next up is your currency and your vote.

But everything's going to be just fine. Just ask Reddit. They'll be happy to list 100 reasons why you should fuck off.

All of this looks like standard practice for denizens of Corporate America. Why do you hate capitalism so much?

Well, according to the summary they: "... had held more than 20,000 events and given out $3.5m in scholarships" and that last one should qualify quite easily as 'functionally helping someone'.

I've been using Linux as my daily driver for 30 years. Oh sure, I had to dual boot from time to time to use the very last of the straggling applications, until I finally found quality equivalents for all of them.

Intuit, Adobe and all the incumbents spent billions upon untold BILLIONS to keep users like me trapped. And they lost.

Games run like a Swiss clock factory on Linux.

And as an added bonus: no progress bars, obscure meaningless error messages or popups.

They'll wring the last few cents out of their accidental deal with IBM, and then Linux and its equivalents will sweep DOS aside for good. The world will be a much better and happier place.

I escaped. I no longer need Windows for anything. Including:

1. Adobe Creative Cloud (I use free equivalents)
2. Quicken (I wrote my own equivalent).
3. Games, including Microsoft's OWN games (they run smooth with all the graphics options turned on with Wine, Proton, Lutris, Steam, etc.)
4. Development (nobody develops anything on Windows anyway)
5. Writing (Emacs for an author is incredibly powerful)
6. Video creation (faster and more stable on Linux)

All those billions spent on lock-in

I suppose I could keep a potato around with the billywindows installed on it, but it can't disrupt my work or interfere with my schedule any more. It can't destroy my work either. I also don't have to endure six progress bars every time I try to do something.

As far as this little gray duck is concerned the OS wars are over, and Microsoft lost huge. Good riddance.