Comment Re:The federal deficit this year is $550 billion (Score 0) 126
That it is, that it is.
That it is, that it is.
"We just passed another hugely expensive entitlement (health care reform), but with no regard to how the government is going to pay for it without crippling increases in taxes, deficit spending, or inflationary money printing."
This claim is either ignorant, or you're just lying. The ACA _reduces_ the deficit over time - the incremental taxes in the bill more than pay for the incremental costs of it.
If it crosses state lines, and/or international borders, then the FBI gets involved. Also, if the crime is highly technical, and requires specific expertise, the FBI often gets involved as well (since the police dept in city/state X might not have the same level of capability).
You're thinking of the Secret Service.
You missed one. The number one bandwidth application on the Internet. YouTube.
FWIW, our household of four uses an average of 350 GB a month. Despite Comcast's claim that the average account uses 20 to 25 GB a month.
How is that "despite?" They're not saying that nobody uses that much, just that the average customer does. FYI, Sandvine agrees, they peg mean US broadband usage at 29GB/month. Median is quite a bit lower than that.
Every year, about 16 million cars are sold in the US, vs. a fleet of about 240 million. So, the fleet turns over roughly every 15 years.
In countries where body cameras have been implemented, not only they work but also there is a noticable decrease in agressivity of both citizens and officers.
Also, I fail to understand why your argument is relevant. If a policeman behaves violently, the citizen will ask for the footage, and if it becomes clear that the policeman tampered with the device he will be punished. Even if one more clever manages to do bad things and not be caught (which already happens everyday), why should that invalidate a concept that will be very useful in the vast majority of the cases?
You know, it's the Slashdot standard: any solution which isn't completely perfect is automatically worthless (at best) or (usually) much worse than the status quo, and should be rejected.
Well, for one data point, in Rialto, CA, where all officers now wear cameras, use of force declined 60% in the year after they introduced them, and citizen complaints against the police dropped 88%. Some of that 88% was almost certainly due to the 60% (i.e. less police use of force means fewer complaints), but a significant portion is likely due to people realizing that making a bogus claim won't hold up when there's camera evidence.
Absolutely. After all, there's no difference in, say, the ability to get an abortion, or own a handgun, from one state to another.
Sixteenth Amendment: The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration.
So, the taxes are EXPLICITLY a power delegated to the United States.
And that power was intended for Congress to raise taxes to a level which made it difficult for the states to tax enough to fund their own infrastructure, and then offer to grant that money back to the states as long as the states did their bidding, right? Right?
Sigh. Unfortunately, reading the comments so far, it is all too easy to believe that people are stupid enough to think that is actually how it is meant to work.
So, now the argument is "it's Constitutional, but I don't like how it's been implemented." Got it.
If we could snap our fingers, and migrate every car in America to a driverless system with no driver interaction, we'd save thousands of lives and hundreds of billions of dollars. Want the enjoyment of driving? Go to a track. Public roads are for transportation from A to B.
That's not the point at all. It's a chicken or egg problem - it makes no sense for me to spend $ to have V2V in my car if nobody else has it. So, nobody would get it, so there's never a critical mass, so nobody gets it, etc. etc.
Mandating it avoids that problem.
Fine. But the fed shouldn't be taking that money from states' residents in the first place. It's subversion of the constitution by the backdoor and should be stopped.
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
Sixteenth Amendment: The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration.
So, the taxes are EXPLICITLY a power delegated to the United States.
No, you can't opt out, at least for a phone you're going to sell. By the same token, you can't opt out of FCC regs limiting the frequencies and power levels of your phone, nor can you opt out of regs on the emissions of your car.
I second Anker. Have had very good luck with their products across the board. I have a suspicion that they're actually an Amazon house brand, but I can't confirm it.
If A = B and B = C, then A = C, except where void or prohibited by law. -- Roy Santoro