Comment Wickard v. Filburn (Score 1) 151
The Commerce Clause hasn't been limited to transactions that cross state lines for a long time.
The Commerce Clause hasn't been limited to transactions that cross state lines for a long time.
> Why does that notion fill me with dread?
Because it should.
I'm recently off an 8 month stint of looking for work. Highly trained, specialized skill set. So yeah, 8 months.
Looking for work, done even moderately, can take half of each day. You have to be able to go to an interview at the interviewer's convenience, meaning not making unchangeable plans during the work day. For work like mine, interviews often take participation over the internet, which requires a non-stressful environment. That is, when the interview doesn't require you to commute to the work site.
Guess what you can't do, what you don't have time for, if you're being forced to commit workfare?
And "work training" that involves an unskilled position doing grunt labor is training only in the skill of "regularly showing up for work on time". An important skill, yes, but not one that is improved by weeks of labor.
So yeah. It's a scam. It looks good on paper, but stinks in execution.
1) Get a facebook app on the service that...
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you then have N accounts you can sell to spammers, with no charges leveled due to previous communication. The person who tried the app doesn't get clued in because of the lack of charges and lack of messages.
Mind, this is being posited by someone entirely ignorant of the facebook environment. Maybe it can't be done. Would you bet on it?
Of course, strategy two is "grab someone's facebook account and spam to their entire list" ala "open this attachment for a big surprise!"
DC, however, does not transmit well over "neighborhood" sized distances. See Edison, buried DC buses.
> and turning away all other customers who want to buy an iPhone...
So...
You aren't a nerd unless your focus is computers?
You can't be
Google tells me:
1) A foolish or contemptible person who lacks social skills or is boringly studious: "one of those nerds who never asked a girl to dance".
2) An intelligent, single-minded expert in a particular technical discipline or profession.
I find it interesting that a nerd of (a popular) discipline don't want to share this blog with nerds of other (perhaps less popular, or less represented) disciplines. Perhaps it has to do with pride in wearing the label.
There's no NRPGA because it's not illegal to pretend to be a troll or hobbit.
You may have heard tell of the 1979 american embassy invasion in Iran, where many shredded documents were pieced back together.
Re the direction you give above, either the disks are still readable after the demolition of the hard drive, or they are not. If they are not readable, then further dividing them in trash bins is pointless. If they are readable, your instructions might prevent industrial spies, but may well prove insufficient against a determined government (or a really determined industry).
The first warning sign is the "over 30 years". This will be based on "if things keep on keeping on". But they won't. Everyone knows that.
The second warning sign is scale. $4.4 billion over 30 years. $4.4 billion sounds like a lot. The "Average 146 million a year" almost certainly includes inflation and the associated escalating costs. That is, most of the savings will be in the last 10 of those 30 years, not the first 10. And saying "average 30 million a year over 10 years" doesn't sound anywhere nearly as impressive. *
For the US government, we're talking about a very very small impact on the annual budget.
* 30 million: figure pulled out of a hat. Do not mistake for estimate based on actual study. Use with extreme caution.
My mom always said, "so in my old age, you can keep me in the way I wish to become accustomed to."
And seeing my grandparents' struggles - grandma a former teacher on a pension, grandpa a vet on a pension, both taking piece-work and part time work just to keep ends meetings, I can definitely see why.
Inflation eats any savings plan you can come up with. Kids are a safety net that improves with age.
A throwaway comment about "fix it over the phone": Car Talk. Not the original vendor, but still "over the phone".
As for support contracts, it's like this: as a previous poster said, for big companies, the user is insulated from the purchase and install issues. It's not cheap, it's not expensive, it's installed. "Do we have support for this?" is not something they even consider.
People keep saying "found a print on a bullet".
Either they are talking about bullets not-yet-fired, or they are talking about the spent casings rather than the bullets themselves. The spent bullet itself is generally going to be fragmented or at least deformed by its travails, presenting an unhelpful surface for fingerprinting.
Heck, when my apartment was broken into a few years ago, the officer who came around told me that getting prints off even the glass door or the door handle was problematic.
Of course, in a murder case, they make a greater effort than for a simple B&E.
> And this is why we should be signing secession petitions. Not because one of the twin candidates lost, but because the Federal government long ago began overreaching.
That worked so well the last time secession over states rights was tried. It's a harder sell, though, on both sides: unlike slavery, funding issues are harder to motivate people over (for OR against).
> We don't force religious parents to vaccinate their children.
We do, however, jail them for neglect if they follow their religious beliefs and "treat their children with prayer". Sometimes they are acquitted after a trial. Sometimes they get jail time.
Which is to say, it is not a subject with a unified and unambiguous body of law behind it.
> One kid left in class, carrying 20 badges...
You might recall the scene from Real Genius, with the entire class represented only by tape recorders.
Of course nowdays, the lecture would be on an MP3 file on the teacher's web site for kids to ignore. Or maybe download and listen to. My money is on "ignore", though.
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