The corporate world believes that it is immune from petty things like laws that apply to the rest of us.

The corporate world believes that, because it *is* immune to the rule of law, especially here in the US. Having bought off politicians, who then create laws to benefit them, how could they believe otherwise?

(until governments start aggressively targeting corporations for violating the law).

That will never happen: Governments are now so co-opted by corporate interests that they are, in effect, simply tools for them, to further their goals.

The game isn't just rigged, it's now completely controlled. The people that governments were created to represent are now ignored, for the most part, and all of your representatives are corrupt, in one way or another.

Sad, but true.

But, you ALL deserve it: You've gotten exactly what you deserve, here in the US: By your neglect, lack of attention, care, towards your government, at all levels, you've allowed this to happen.

The US was founded upon one simple idea: The rights of the individual should be paramount. The Constitution, its Amendments, were crafted towards that. And of course, it's not the exact fault of any one of you reading this that this has failed. Rather, it's the culmination of YEARS of work, on the part of the greedy, the power-hungry, the mad, to erode the foundation of our country, which was, and IS: The belief that WE, as human beings, CAN, and SHOULD, be able to be free, to live our lives, exercise our skills, knowledge and intelligence to benefit ourselves, our families, our friends, first and foremost,as good people, kind people, with the idea that, in so doing, as good, decent human beings, we would ALL benefit, as we did so, EACH of us, then, now, and in the future, as we lived, trusted, and grew.

Our Founding Fathers created something beyond themselves, and gave it to us, and we as a people, as citizens, neglected it, let it pass into the hands of people that care only for themselves. That framework, as crafted and captured, however imperfectly, within the US Constitution and its Amendments, to permit us our lives, liberties, our pursuit of happiness, has been pre-empted by those that we've elevated by election, time and time again, to the point where such election is no longer under our purview or control.

We are now a nation of servitude, indebted by design, by laws crafted to create and ensure such.

But, all is NOT lost, even at this late date. Trust yourselves, and as you do so, believe in the gift of your life, each of you. And as you do so, KNOW that you share this moment in time, with so many others, so gifted, and that while life in general may not be fair, nor kind? You, each of you, can help make it so, if you only choose to do so.

Ignore those that promote fear, so that they may control you. They cannot help you, and seek only your subjugation. They want you to be afraid, so that they can offer the hope of release from that. Security, if you only give up your liberties, your free will, to them.

Theirs is the certainty that comes from slavery, and you'll only know it, when it is too late to mourn what you have lost.

Regards,

dj

That Ada prevails in all things?

Well, I suspect that you're being snarky, but you have a point. Sort of, in the sense that "If we can't trust the programmers to write good code, always, then we can force them to use a language that at least forestalls the worst of their blunders."

The real issue, of course, is NOT technical, at the programmer/developer level, for such a project. It's administrative, in the sense that, regardless of the chosen programming language, bad code that would allow this should NEVER have passed review.

Assuming that they set up such properly, of course, which apparently isn't the case.

And the latter, too, isn't a technical matter either, really.

Just my opinion.

Regards,

dj

None... The Internet has replaced the function of magazines.

. Your current +5, Insightful moderation notwithstanding, I'm afraid that I must disagree, for one magazine, at least, for me.

That magazine is Maximum PC. Now, before you condemn me for that, let me explain.

I subscribed to boot magazine, from day one.Still have them all, somewhere. When boot was replaced by Maximum PC, I just let it ride: For me, the value was in getting current information delivered to me, in hardcopy, that I could read when I wanted to, WITHOUT needing a computer, Internet access, to do so.

No distractions, while so doing, on my time, spent focusing on things that *I* found cool and interesting.

To generalize this: In my opinion, the very nature of the Internet, it's immediacy, it's never-ending progress, has blunted our ability to reflect, to consider... and, in a very real way, our ability to make good decisions: We are now bombarded by never-ending changing information, from myriad sources of unknown/unverifiable veracity.

Sadly, so many of you, as the parent poster, accept this as the norm. Static sources of information, regardless of truth, usefulness, are discounted, dismissed and disregarded on their face,

And, as I write this, I am reminded of this: "Those that cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it". George Santayana, of course.

But, his admonition is even MORE urgent now, in "Internet Time", I think. In "Internet Time, what is current becomes the past, and is forgotten all too quickly, replaced, over and over, until there is NOTHING but a never-ending blur, a never-ending reaction to the present, and no past, no context upon which to rely, after thought, consideration.

But it doesn't have to be that way, you know. You CAN choose. You CAN decide. You can think, reflect and make decisions, and you CAN, each of you, do so with access to the best raw source of knowledge that we, as human beings, have ever created.

What you DO with that is up to you.

Only now, NONE of you have the excuse of ignorance: You have, as I write this, and you read it, access to much of the best knowledge that human beings have EVER learned and recorded, and that grows larger every day.

And it is YOURS, for the taking, for free, at your convenience, should you so desire.

I wrote here, previously, that what saddens me the most is that, having access to an ocean of knowledge, too few of you will even attempt to swim, much less set sail upon it, perhaps beyond its sunset.

But, it is, what it is.

Regards,

dj

Umm driving a car isn't a right.

Alas, if only we had an amendment in the Bill of Rights that clearly said the delineation of certain rights did not mean other rights were not equally valid ...

Alas, if only that were the only Amendment to consider. The Tenth Amendment mentions something about rights not ennumerated, I think.

People tend to dissect the Constitution to support their own beliefs, when in truth it needs to considered as a whole in order to fully appreciate it and apply it correctly.

Regards,

dj

Does that not simply lend credence to his claim of "the end of democracy in America"?

No, it does not, because at the Federal level, the government is not, nor ever has been, a pure democracy. It's a democratic republic.

Well, it was *supposed* to be that. Now it's more akin to a fascist state, where corporations pay federal politicians via campaign donations, lobbyists, etc., to enact laws to their benefit.

And, in that light, he, you, I and pretty much everyone else are in the same boat: We're all being slowly crushed, as individuals, by what the US Federal government has become.

I suspect that Mr. Card doesn't object to that, so much as he does the fact that he's not a member of the "winning team".

Regards.

dj

Until you develop a mental health problem, then it most definitely is everyone else's business.

That's bullshit. Having a mental health problem doesn't automatically mean that a person isn't capable of responsibly owning a firearm.

You need to learn some critical thinking skills and to develop some intellectual honesty.

Regards,

dj