We must restore constitutional government

And I am likely more financially more successful than you.
No you're not and you know it. Successful people don't spend their life pissed off at millionaires and billionaires. Welfare queens who feel sorry for themselves do that. Successful people are too busy being successful to care how someone else is doing.

Wrong.
I happen to like computers and the way they were back when Commodore, Apple, and Atari were making some good machines, until Microsoft and IBM screwed everything all up.
I should also add Intel to the list screwup companies.
Can you imagine any computer company being so bad as to do the things Intel calls segmentation?
 
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Windows originally was just a graphical image manipulation on top of DOS as first.
No shit. That's exactly what I said. A GUI (Graphical User Interface).

Now you're just taking the accurate information I'm spoon-feeding you and attempting to make it your own. :eusa_doh:

Wrong.
Normal graphical user interfaces are inherently multitasking, with each window getting is own process.
Windows was not like that, and was not a real operating system until only around XP, after NT got integrated with the graphics of Windows95.
In the 1980s and most of 1990s, it was actually still just DOS with graphics and could not even multi task preemptively.
A real graphical user interface has to have an operating system with underlaying independence between windows, an Windows did not, it was NOT a GUI actually, but a very poor simulation of one, with what was still a command line interface system, with one user only.
 
Humans NEED a social life, and the transition from high school to college can be devastating for most people.
"Devastating" :lmao:

Dude...your desperation is causing you to resort to hyperbole now. Anyone transitioning from high school to college still has their parents, still has their siblings, still has their friends, still has their co-workers.

You're just unable to admit you were completely wrong. Anyone can attend college for "free". What you want is for government to unconstitutionally steal from some people to let others party and live it up in college. Fuck that.
 
Humans NEED a social life, and the transition from high school to college can be devastating for most people.
"Devastating" :lmao:

Dude...your desperation is causing you to resort to hyperbole now. Anyone transitioning from high school to college still has their parents, still has their siblings, still has their friends, still has their co-workers.

You're just unable to admit you were completely wrong. Anyone can attend college for "free". What you want is for government to unconstitutionally steal from some people to let others party and live it up in college. Fuck that.

No, that was my whole point in that going off to college is separation from their parents, siblings, friends, and co-workers except on a few holidays they get off and can travel back home.
No one can attend college for free.
Some states used to have free tuition, but not for decades.
I have already quoted sources saying average college costs have increased up to $25,000 a year.
Very few party or live it up in college.
When I went to college, there were 5 bloodbanks nearby, and selling blood was a main source of food money.
 
Gates destroyed these other better operating systems of those times by cheating, not making a better operating system.
By "cheating". Like business is a game of tag or something. :lmao:
He did it by doing things like temporarily giving Windows away, until the competition was dead. That is called dumping, and is illegal.
Psst...dumb ass...that's not "illegal". Google gives Android away. :eusa_doh:

Please stop talking. I'm embarrassed for you.
 
Wrong. Windows is written in C++ and Gates can't write a single line of C++.
Not "wrong". Bill Gates personally wrote Windows. No amount of your socialist propaganda bullshit will change that.
I have worked on Windows, and have seen the masses of green card armies from India, China, Vietnam, the Philippines, etc. that Gates used to write Windows.
I'm a Microsoft Certified Professional, chief. I'll run circles around you all day on this. Of course once Microsoft became a global corporation and he was CEO, he was no longer writing Windows. Stop being obtuse. He wrote the original Windows codes that launched the product and thus the company.
 
There are lots of unfair advantages. For example, someone with enough money can prevent the competition from accessing a rare resource.
An innovator in the free market would create an alternative without that "rare resource". It's been done millions of times. It's the difference between innovation (capitalist) and copying (socialist).
You can temporarily sell for a loss until the competition goes broke, and then you can jack prices way up and recoup your loses.
Completely fair and proper. If your competition cannot figure out how to compete at a lower price, they deserve to be out of business.
 
The people tasked with enforcing our laws are the same people violating our most important laws....
Nobody is going to restore the Constitutional government.
The Constitution sucks. The state constitutions suck.
The three-part separation theory is improperly deployed, and the inadequacies in the separation of powers provide the opportunity for corruption. It should not be that difficult to figure out that the Justice Department needs to be separated from the presidency in order to satisfy the citizens sense of favored cronyism. It is absurd to expect the person that was nominated by the president to then investigate the president - it absurd, yet I am the only person smart enough to figure that out.

It is also absurd to believe that the judiciary is separated from the other branches, when they are expected to graduate their hierarchy of offices.

The 17th Amendment eliminated a check on the reliability of the state governments to demonstrate that they can agree on issues - indicating that the state constitutions are faulty.

Gerrymandering representative districts and limiting the number of representatives fails to properly represent the diversity that the nation has evolved to.

The system sucks, and I am the only one who figured it out.


Indeed

As long as there is a CIA - a Deep Administrative State - forget about constitutional government.
 
No one can attend college for free.
Every single person in American can attend college for free. Scholarships, tuition reimbursement, etc. Lots of options for anyone who isn't a whiny socialist.
When I went to college, there were 5 bloodbanks nearby, and selling blood was a main source of food money.
That's the exact same with me. You know what students would do with that money? Buy beer. They loved that they could get drunk with less beer because they had given blood. Less blood meant a lower tolerance.

So we've come back full circle to - it was all about partying. Which is the reason for your position. People who are serious about getting an education have absolutely no problems achieving/affording one. None.
 
No, that was my whole point in that going off to college is separation from their parents, siblings, friends, and co-workers except on a few holidays they get off and can travel back home.
Why...are they attending college in Siberia? And if so, do they not have a telephone in their dorm, a laptop for email, a cell phone for FaceTime, and all of the other communications that keeps people in a constant state of connection?

Most people go to college within an hour of their home. And those that don't have all of the modern technologies to stay in touch.
 
Gates destroyed these other better operating systems of those times by cheating, not making a better operating system.
By "cheating". Like business is a game of tag or something. :lmao:
He did it by doing things like temporarily giving Windows away, until the competition was dead. That is called dumping, and is illegal.
Psst...dumb ass...that's not "illegal". Google gives Android away. :eusa_doh:

Please stop talking. I'm embarrassed for you.

Don't be silly.
Dumping is illegal and is cheating.
No one is giving Android away totally for free, there are just free portions based on open source Linux, and parts that have to be purchased.
The cell phone companies that use it pay for it.
You just buy it already bundled when you buy a cellphone.
And there is nothing wrong with giving something away for free as long as you do not use that to illegally destroy the competition, and they jack the prices way up when they are gone.
 
Wrong. Windows is written in C++ and Gates can't write a single line of C++.
Not "wrong". Bill Gates personally wrote Windows. No amount of your socialist propaganda bullshit will change that.
I have worked on Windows, and have seen the masses of green card armies from India, China, Vietnam, the Philippines, etc. that Gates used to write Windows.
I'm a Microsoft Certified Professional, chief. I'll run circles around you all day on this. Of course once Microsoft became a global corporation and he was CEO, he was no longer writing Windows. Stop being obtuse. He wrote the original Windows codes that launched the product and thus the company.

Wrong.
Gates never programmed anything.
First of all, no one single person could, and second is that Windows did NOT launch the company Microsoft, DOS did.

{... Microsoft is a multinational computer technology corporation. Microsoft was founded on April 4, 1975, by Bill Gates and Paul Allen in Albuquerque, New Mexico. ... In 1980, Microsoft formed a partnership with IBM to bundle Microsoft's operating system with IBM computers; with that deal, IBM paid Microsoft a royalty for every sale. In 1985, IBM requested Microsoft to develop a new operating system for their computers called OS/2. Microsoft produced that operating system, but also continued to sell their own alternative, which proved to be in direct competition with OS/2. ...The first operating system publicly released by the company was a variant of Unix announced on August 25, 1980. Acquired from AT&T through a distribution license, Microsoft dubbed it Xenix, and hired Santa Cruz Operation in order to port/adapt the operating system to several platforms. ...
IBM first approached Microsoft about its upcoming IBM Personal Computer (IBM PC) in July 1980.[27] On August 12, 1981, after negotiations with Digital Research failed, IBM awarded a contract to Microsoft to provide a version of the CP/M operating system, which was set to be used in the IBM PC. For this deal, Microsoft purchased a CP/M clone called 86-DOS from Tim Paterson of Seattle Computer Products for less than US$100,000, which IBM renamed to IBM PC DOS. The original CP/M was made by Gary Kildall of Digital Research, Inc. Due to potential copyright infringement problems with CP/M, IBM marketed both CP/M and PC DOS for US$240 and US$40, respectively, with PC DOS eventually becoming the standard because of its lower price.[28][29] Thirty-five of the company's 100 employees worked on the IBM project for more than a year. When the IBM PC debuted, Microsoft was the only company that offered operating system, programming language, and application software for the new computer.[27] The IBM PC DOS is also known as MS-DOS.
InfoWorld stated in 1984 that Microsoft, with $55 million in 1983 sales
... Ireland became home to one of Microsoft's international production facilities in 1985, and on November 20 Microsoft released its first retail version of Microsoft Windows (Windows 1.0), originally a graphical extension for its MS-DOS operating system. ...}

The company was 10 years old by the time they came up with Windows 1.0, and Windows was pretty much worthless trash no one wanted or would buy until 3.0.
 
There are lots of unfair advantages. For example, someone with enough money can prevent the competition from accessing a rare resource.
An innovator in the free market would create an alternative without that "rare resource". It's been done millions of times. It's the difference between innovation (capitalist) and copying (socialist).
You can temporarily sell for a loss until the competition goes broke, and then you can jack prices way up and recoup your loses.
Completely fair and proper. If your competition cannot figure out how to compete at a lower price, they deserve to be out of business.

That is just lies.
The rare resource Microsoft monopolized was shelf space.
That is illegal but no one was willing to take him to jail over it like they should have.
Dumping is not at all legal, and violates all sorts of anti trust laws.

{...
Predatory or Below-Cost Pricing

Can prices ever be "too low?" The short answer is yes, but not very often. Generally, low prices benefit consumers. Consumers are harmed only if below-cost pricing allows a dominant competitor to knock its rivals out of the market and then raise prices to above-market levels for a substantial time. A firm's independent decision to reduce prices to a level below its own costs does not necessarily injure competition, and, in fact, may simply reflect particularly vigorous competition. Instances of a large firm using low prices to drive smaller competitors out of the market in hopes of raising prices after they leave are rare. This strategy can only be successful if the short-run losses from pricing below cost will be made up for by much higher prices over a longer period of time after competitors leave the market. Although the FTC examines claims of predatory pricing carefully, courts, including the Supreme Court, have been skeptical of such claims.
Q: The gas station down the street offers a discount program that gives members cents off every gallon purchased. I can't match those prices because they are below my costs. If I try to compete at those prices, I will go out of business. Isn't this illegal?
A: Pricing below a competitor's costs occurs in many competitive markets and generally does not violate the antitrust laws. Sometimes the low-pricing firm is simply more efficient. Pricing below your own costs is also not a violation of the law unless it is part of a strategy to eliminate competitors, and when that strategy has a dangerous probability of creating a monopoly for the discounting firm so that it can raise prices far into the future and recoup its losses. In markets with a large number of sellers, such as gasoline retailing, it is unlikely that one company could price below cost long enough to drive out a significant number of rivals and attain a dominant position.
...}
 
No one can attend college for free.
Every single person in American can attend college for free. Scholarships, tuition reimbursement, etc. Lots of options for anyone who isn't a whiny socialist.
When I went to college, there were 5 bloodbanks nearby, and selling blood was a main source of food money.
That's the exact same with me. You know what students would do with that money? Buy beer. They loved that they could get drunk with less beer because they had given blood. Less blood meant a lower tolerance.

So we've come back full circle to - it was all about partying. Which is the reason for your position. People who are serious about getting an education have absolutely no problems achieving/affording one. None.

That is ridiculous.
Almost no one has time for partying at college these days.
They need all their spare time to make rent/food money.
{...
Student loan debt in 2020 is now about $1.56 trillion.
The latest student loan debt statistics for 2020 show how serious the student loan debt crisis has become for borrowers across all demographics and age groups. There are 45 million borrowers who collectively owe nearly $1.6 trillion in student loan debt in the U.S. Student loan debt is now the second highest consumer debt category - behind only mortgage debt - and higher than both credit cards and auto loans. The average student loan debt for members of the Class of 2018 is $29,200, a 2% increase from the prior year, according to the Institute for College Access and Success.
...}
 
...We must restore constitutional government...
Amy's On It!

For Thanksgiving, the Supreme Court upholds religious liberty


For Thanksgiving, the Supreme Court upholds religious liberty

New York could not show that church attendance has spread COVID-19 — not in comparison to business activities and political demonstrations.
thehill.com

Amy is the Cherry On Top Of The Ice Cream Sunday of Constitutional Judicial Reform, Trump's Crowning Achievement on Job Very Well Done. A Grateful Nation Applauds.

What a difference a one-justice swing in the Supreme Court makes. Late Wednesday, the high court, in a 5-4 ruling, granted two religious organizations an injunction, relieving them from the suffocating restrictions that New York’s Democrat governor, Andrew Cuomo, had imposed on community worship.

In June the justices split 5-4 in favor of upholding restrictions that California and Illinois had similarly rationalized as necessary to deal with COVID-19. What’s different now?

Trump Judge Amy Coney Barrett. The trajectory is shifting away from deference to autocratic executive power and toward the Constitution’s protections of core liberties — the separation of powers and the Bill of Rights.

In Wednesday’s ruling, Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn v. Cuomo, even Chief Justice John Roberts conceded that Gov. Cuomo’s limitations on worship “do seem unduly restrictive.” Based on his assessments of the severity of COVID-19 outbreaks, Cuomo classifies various state areas as red, orange or yellow zones. In the red zones, of greatest outbreak concern, no more than 10 people can attend a religious service, even though some of the churches seat over 1,000, and all of them at least a few hundred. In orange zones, attendance is capped at 25.

By contrast, businesses that the governor deems “essential” have no limitations on the size of meetings or other activity. As noted in the court majority’s per curiam opinion the governor denominates as “essential” such businesses as “acupuncture facilities, campgrounds, garages,” and many businesses “whose services are not limited to those that can be regarded as essential, such as all plants manufacturing chemicals and microelectronics and all transportation facilities.”

In orange zones, the court found that “the disparate treatment is even more striking.” Though religious services are limited to 25 persons, even businesses Cuomo deems “nonessential” are free to “decide for themselves how many persons to admit.”

The majority concluded that the restrictions are not “neutral” or of “general applicability.” This finding is key in the court’s religious-liberty jurisprudence. Restrictions that apply to everyone and do not target religion but incidentally affect religious observance (e.g., a general ban on peyote use that happens to burden the rites of some religious groups) are presumptively valid. By contrast, restrictions that single out religion — i.e., that are not neutral or generally applicable — are subject to the “strict scrutiny” analysis that the court applies to burdens on fundamental freedoms. That means the state, to justify its restrictions, must show that they are narrowly tailored to serve a compelling governmental interest.

The court observed that “it is hard to see how the challenged regulations can be regarded as narrowly tailored.”

The majority had little trouble concluding that the organizations are likely to win their lawsuit. The restrictions are draconian, and they appear capricious in comparison to the solicitude the governor shows to activities he subjectively considers essential.

In addition, the organizations demonstrated irreparable harm. The restrictions are so stifling that many faithful observers would be shut out of community worship — and here, the court significantly acknowledged that “remote viewing [on television] is not the same as personal attendance,” further noting that, for example, “Catholics who watch a Mass at home cannot receive communion.”

Finally, the court concluded that the state is unable to show that church attendance has spread COVID-19 more than the many business activities and social/political demonstrations the state has indulged. It is easy to conjure less restrictive alternatives that would achieve the state’s interest in combating spread of the disease. After all, many American states and cities are employing such alternatives.

Here, “the very heart of the First Amendment’s guarantee of religious liberty” is at stake. As the majority concluded, “Even in a pandemic, the Constitution cannot be put away and forgotten.”

And that makes all the difference. As the court’s liberals recognize only too well when a case involves some “right” they’ve managed to derive from “penumbras” mystically drifting from the Constitution’s “emanations,” it is not be our burden to defend our entitlement to core liberties. It is the government’s burden to prove that they must be denied, and courts eye such claims with skepticism.

Trump has done a commendable job turning this part of the system right side up.
 
...We must restore constitutional government...
Amy's On It!

For Thanksgiving, the Supreme Court upholds religious liberty


For Thanksgiving, the Supreme Court upholds religious liberty

New York could not show that church attendance has spread COVID-19 — not in comparison to business activities and political demonstrations.
thehill.com

Amy is the Cherry On Top Of The Ice Cream Sunday of Constitutional Judicial Reform, Trump's Crowning Achievement on Job Very Well Done. A Grateful Nation Applauds.

What a difference a one-justice swing in the Supreme Court makes. Late Wednesday, the high court, in a 5-4 ruling, granted two religious organizations an injunction, relieving them from the suffocating restrictions that New York’s Democrat governor, Andrew Cuomo, had imposed on community worship.

In June the justices split 5-4 in favor of upholding restrictions that California and Illinois had similarly rationalized as necessary to deal with COVID-19. What’s different now?

Trump Judge Amy Coney Barrett. The trajectory is shifting away from deference to autocratic executive power and toward the Constitution’s protections of core liberties — the separation of powers and the Bill of Rights.

In Wednesday’s ruling, Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn v. Cuomo, even Chief Justice John Roberts conceded that Gov. Cuomo’s limitations on worship “do seem unduly restrictive.” Based on his assessments of the severity of COVID-19 outbreaks, Cuomo classifies various state areas as red, orange or yellow zones. In the red zones, of greatest outbreak concern, no more than 10 people can attend a religious service, even though some of the churches seat over 1,000, and all of them at least a few hundred. In orange zones, attendance is capped at 25.

By contrast, businesses that the governor deems “essential” have no limitations on the size of meetings or other activity. As noted in the court majority’s per curiam opinion the governor denominates as “essential” such businesses as “acupuncture facilities, campgrounds, garages,” and many businesses “whose services are not limited to those that can be regarded as essential, such as all plants manufacturing chemicals and microelectronics and all transportation facilities.”

In orange zones, the court found that “the disparate treatment is even more striking.” Though religious services are limited to 25 persons, even businesses Cuomo deems “nonessential” are free to “decide for themselves how many persons to admit.”

The majority concluded that the restrictions are not “neutral” or of “general applicability.” This finding is key in the court’s religious-liberty jurisprudence. Restrictions that apply to everyone and do not target religion but incidentally affect religious observance (e.g., a general ban on peyote use that happens to burden the rites of some religious groups) are presumptively valid. By contrast, restrictions that single out religion — i.e., that are not neutral or generally applicable — are subject to the “strict scrutiny” analysis that the court applies to burdens on fundamental freedoms. That means the state, to justify its restrictions, must show that they are narrowly tailored to serve a compelling governmental interest.

The court observed that “it is hard to see how the challenged regulations can be regarded as narrowly tailored.”

The majority had little trouble concluding that the organizations are likely to win their lawsuit. The restrictions are draconian, and they appear capricious in comparison to the solicitude the governor shows to activities he subjectively considers essential.

In addition, the organizations demonstrated irreparable harm. The restrictions are so stifling that many faithful observers would be shut out of community worship — and here, the court significantly acknowledged that “remote viewing [on television] is not the same as personal attendance,” further noting that, for example, “Catholics who watch a Mass at home cannot receive communion.”

Finally, the court concluded that the state is unable to show that church attendance has spread COVID-19 more than the many business activities and social/political demonstrations the state has indulged. It is easy to conjure less restrictive alternatives that would achieve the state’s interest in combating spread of the disease. After all, many American states and cities are employing such alternatives.

Here, “the very heart of the First Amendment’s guarantee of religious liberty” is at stake. As the majority concluded, “Even in a pandemic, the Constitution cannot be put away and forgotten.”

And that makes all the difference. As the court’s liberals recognize only too well when a case involves some “right” they’ve managed to derive from “penumbras” mystically drifting from the Constitution’s “emanations,” it is not be our burden to defend our entitlement to core liberties. It is the government’s burden to prove that they must be denied, and courts eye such claims with skepticism.

Trump has done a commendable job turning this part of the system right side up.


I am ambivolent. While I do not like religion to over rule law, I do think that "flattening the curve" simply kills more and is a very bad idea.
 
No one is giving Android away totally for free...The cell phone companies that use it pay for it.
Like all socialists, you’re completely and totally devoid of facts...
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And there is nothing wrong with giving something away for free as long as you do not use that to illegally destroy the competition, and they jack the prices way up when they are gone.
And there is nothing wrong with giving something away for free to destroy your competition. The consumer wins huge when that happens. If a company then “jacks up their prices”, someone will inevitably step in with a cheaper alternative because that is a golden opportunity. The beauty of the free market.
 

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