jimmyk

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by jimmyk 16y ago
It's still not clear that another motorcycle company would receive the same deal as Harley Davidson. Surely Harley Davidson wasn't the only motorcycle company affected by the commercial paper freeze. Was it a good idea for the Fed to step i
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by jimmyk 16y ago
It's pretty easy to complain. When a group which operates with power granted to it by law but is uncontrolled by the public and which operates in great secrecy from the public starts giving special deals to private companies, it brings up a
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by jimmyk 16y ago
Unfortunately, the federal aspect of the US government has almost disappeared as a result of the 16th amendment and the 17th amendment and a few other factors such as mandates that the states must follow in order to receive federal funding.
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by jimmyk 16y ago
Powers are not "reserved" to the federal government. They are granted. This is an important distinction because the federal government does not innately have any powers so it does not make sense to say that some power is reserved to it in t
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by jimmyk 16y ago
>(ex. The rich don't just benefit from their own use of public roads, they benefit from their employees and customers use as well. How do the rich obtain intelligent, educated labor without required public education? How do they plan to
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carpenter's tool?
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by jimmyk 16y ago
I don't see how the military budget is relevant to the complaint. If it is in fact worth it to spend 0.7 trillion on the military every year, that does not mean the government should be wasting money on other projects because they are relat
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by jimmyk 16y ago
The form of the money is completely irrelevant. What's relevant is that resources are being allocated to one sector of the economy that does less to raise the standard of living than other sectors would likely be able to do with those same
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by jimmyk 16y ago
>Imagine that FDA wasn't there (or its European equivalent) and companies could sell you anything whatsoever as food. How often have you gone shopping with a pestiside testing kid, a bacterial testing kit and a geiger counter? How do yo
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by jimmyk 16y ago
Well, suppose that you do give them the unencrypted file. They already have the encrypted file and presumably are aware of the encryption scheme you used, so (this could be totally wrong, as I don't know enough about encryption) they should
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by jimmyk 16y ago
Perhaps a solution is to commit two crimes: crime A which has to do with the encrypted file, and crime B which has nothing to do with it. Then, use a phrase which is self-incriminating for crime B as the password for the encrypted volume. F
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by jimmyk 16y ago
Well, that's already the case, but I agree in that this would make it considerably worse. If you look at the government as legal force, then this scheme would amount to paying for influence over a group with legal force.
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I suppose you have no problem with the underlying assumption in this scheme, which is that adults should be treated like children.
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by jimmyk 16y ago
Well, the workers are being paid less than $10 million. But if they receive any sort of benefits then their cost to the employer goes up quite a bit. And you also have to factor in payroll taxes. The cost of a worker is not just his/her sal