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Why not?


Because while the post-war Confederation was anaemic, leading to the Founders adopting a new constitution that would give the federal government more power, it was only enough power as was deemed necessary at the time. For example, Congress must name the powers upon which it is acting. It may require nosediving down a rabbit hole of citations to other laws, but at the end of that trail is a reference to an enumerated power within the Constitution.

Congress may be dysfunctional, but that doesn’t magically enumerate more powers to the Supreme Court; the Supreme Court must act within its remit. And as I mentioned in another thread, the federal judiciary is the least defined branch of the three, which given the enumerated nature of the Constitution should mean the federal judiciary should be the most restrained. Except that the Supreme Court has arguably become the most powerful branch due to their self-proclaimed stewardship of the Constitution that neither of the other branches can check or balance.


It's sad how in the state of Washington I have become accustomed to drawing my ID out on every transaction that involves confirming that I'm over 21 whereas cross the border into Idaho there's not a single time I have ever been asked to provide my ID in over 10 years. Clearly in Idaho they can take one look at me and go like well yeah clearly but such visual social technology is beyond the pale in the great creepy state of Washington. I'm a bit sad to think of what the children of today's children will be like when I am very old and they are very young. Maybe one day nobody will know what it was like to live in a society that was able to just tell things by looking at it.


Your comment is too terse for me, I can't parse it. Both Cantwell and Rodgers are moderate politicians from opposing parties in the state of Washington. What certification are you referring to?


certifiable meaning insane, Rodgers is usually not considered moderate by any stretch


Tacking on to this, what is the justification for charging for tethering and would net neutrality do anything about this?


The justification is that they can.

This is all marketing. All the speed tiers, all the add-ons, etc. are all marketing. There's no technical reason for any of it. 5G has huge bandwidth, and the fiber backhaul has huge bandwidth. The most that can be argued is that a saturated link needs fair queueing applied to it to give customers fair bandwidth while the company installs more capacity.

But you can't underprovision and then charge a premium for a fast lane if you are running the company on technical principles.

If you asked for justification, the carrier would say that tethering is usually used for business needs, and the increased use would be unfair to non-business users.


Hopefully we get good and hard the democracy that we have long been promised; and good and hard because you only get an outcome that people whose lives have been utterly and entirely unlike your own are the ones making the rules for how you and yours will be to the end of your days. Sounds like a lot of fun right? It sure is interesting how people's opinions change when they realize what kind of people are the ones getting to make the rules for everybody from here on out.


So obey me and obey my command upon what is good and right and acceptable; this is surely some sort of authoritarian on consensual pressure pushed upon people that might otherwise have a contrary opinion. Good to see you lay it out so sordidly and so sorry in terms of your own prior biases which you yourself must necessarily deny even exist. Isn't that right?


Congratulations on eating and deleting all the things I had to add I leave it to you nothing else added you are welcome; the leaders of controversy. Enjoy.


I love using slop from the government to attack other slop. The only prosocial use of "science" these days.


Those with teeth will devour those without. Those able to consume and perpetuate themselves will do so in the proceeding environment of those unable to replicate; they simply will not see anything but their end. And certainly these such people want nothing other than their gentle And Timely Sunset of existence and they will Embrace on endingly the new people that will continue after their own existence is ended forever.


Well, Mister "lol"; what does "have doctors" mean to you. Because it seems to me without needing any sort of special education that one could conceivably take the term 'have doctors' to mean one thing according to how one poster describes their experience and mean something else entirely depending on how another poster would describe their experience. So, explicitly, what exactly does " have doctors " mean to you?


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