My irony meter just jumped up its own ass.

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.

"Reserved" in this context means "exclusive."

That is the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution. It is the Supreme Law of the Land. It supersedes all Acts of Congress, all orders of the president, all rulings of the Supreme Court (or any other court), all acts of any legislature, governor or state court, and all acts, orders or rulings of any other government or official in the United States without exception.

It has exactly the same force of law as the First Amendment, the Fourth Amendment, the Fifth Amendment and the articles of the Constitution that established Congress, the presidency and the Supreme Court.

Because the Constitution does not authorize Congress to spend taxpayer money on some guy's Internet bill, the Tenth Amendment makes it illegal for Congress to do so, regardless of its justifications. That's the law. The end.

In the free market the lab grown meat won't be accurately labeled. Then it will be declared a success because the free market "chose" it. Then real meat will be banned along with everything grown to feed it.

Before long you'll need permission to eat. Then prices will skyrocket. See "tobacco industry" as an example.

Every time you say "slippery slope," I will say "tobacco industry." Every time you say "conspiracy theory" I'll say "Mueller investigation."

Drive from L.A. to Salt Lake City sometime. It's about eight hours of fences, cows, grass and occasionally a car going the other way.

If ten percent of that land were converted to ranches, we could raise herds of beef visible from orbit and it would have zilch effect on the environment.

See "Buffalo" for an historical example.

Yo Kinglover wiseass, let's examine those clauses, shall we?

"General welfare" means everyone, not "some random guy with an unpaid Internet bill."

That is part of Congress' authority to establish intellectual property laws. Has zero to do with paying some random guy's Internet bill.

The key words in that clause are "the foregoing powers" meaning the powers enumerated in Article I, none of which are "pay some random guy's Internet bill."

That about cover it?

options are nice, but for the $8 (?) credit for not having a simple AM radio, and with each such being a special order, I suspect it would have cost less to just build them all with radios, and let the aftermarket folks toss them . . .

Check out FoxyTab... it solves the first two you mentioned:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-...

Applesoft, TRS-80 Level 2, and most of the other built in were version 2 of Microsoft BASIC (or the 6502 port of that).

Until version 5, iirc, memory was searched serially, rather than using a table.

So jump to a high line number for setup, then back to midrange for general execution, with frequently used subroutines at low line numbers.

Version 4.52, then later 5, were common on CP/M.

BASICA/GWBASIC was pretty much an 8086 port of 5 with extensions.

>and also headache-causing, horribly obfuscated code in any language.

"A good programmer can write bad FORTRAN in *any* language!"

imagine a world in which 70% to 80% of the political *middle* in the house was choosing a speaker, the rules committee, and chairmen, shutting out the Dingbat Caucus on the democrats' left, and the Arson Coalition on the republican left.

Oh, wait, we don't have to imagine it--it worked this way for most of US history, for which party line votes were the exception, not the rule.

This wouldn't be nearly so funny if GM hadn't been sued *for* making radios standard equipment, and forced to provide the "delete for credit" option to "protect" third party radio manufacturers . . .

> I mean, who buys new thermostats every 15 years?

I'll take "Honeywell Customers" for $200.

Oh, and try *reading* the license on their smart ones . . . it basically says "we can do anything we want with your data, and disclose it to whomever we choose, especially if they're going to pay us."

viing for puns, are we?

Yeah! I was especially interested in the lines between the Eighth Amendment and the 11th Amendment. Pretty interesting stuff. I liked the part where it said the federal government is forbidden by law from doing anything that isn't explicitly authorized by the Constitution.

Didn't see where "pay some guy's Internet bill" was mentioned, but maybe that was a typo.

Look at all the people running to their keyboards to defend a government with unlimited power! Just imagine if Congress passed prima nocta and lined up to plow every new bride on her wedding night!

Oh I'm sorry, you didn't think through the "unlimited power" thing, did you? I'm not surprised at all. It's probably why you're so confused as to why we're $30 trillion in debt too.

Here comes the guy who thinks James Madison wrote:

1. Congress may only do these things.
2. Congress can do anything.

and that 13 angry and suspicious states ratified it.

Of course, he never fails to call someone else a dumbshit.