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steve2470's JournalDU Classic: "NASA to bomb the Moon" 2009
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x6712126this happened to me and I'm NOT recommending you do this....
I was in Fort Lauderdale many years ago, at 3 AM. I didn't have enough money for a hotel room of any kind, and I had a young lady with me (long story). I went to two hotels and asked politely for a break. Of course, they had to say no. I didn't want us sleeping in the car or outside.
The third hotel I went to, the front desk clerk was a devout Christian lady. She took pity on us and gave us a room for free, but made me promise to repay her ASAP, which I readily agreed to and even suggested upfront. The room cost $85 I think. As soon as I got back home to my checkbook, I mailed her a check and thanked her profusely.
There are some really wonderful people in the world, as this front desk clerk was. She had the money to pay for it, which I'm sure many (if not most) desk clerks do not. If she had refused us (which I expected), we would have had to bite the bullet and sleep in the car.
1918 SCOTUS: Hammer v. Dagenhart 247 U.S. 251, Child labor is A-OK with us (sarcasm)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hammer_v._DagenhartIt is further contended that the authority of Congress may be exerted to control interstate commerce in the shipment of childmade goods because of the effect of the circulation of such goods in other states where the evil of this class of labor has been recognized by local legislation, and the right to thus employ child labor has been more rigorously restrained than in the state of production. In other words, that the unfair competition, thus engendered, may be controlled by closing the channels of interstate commerce to manufacturers in those states where the local laws do not meet what Congress deems to be the more just standard of other states. The grant of power of Congress over the subject of interstate commerce was to enable it to regulate such commerce, and not to give it authority to control the states in their exercise of the police power over local trade and manufacture. [4]
"The commerce clause was not intended to give to Congress a general authority to equalize such conditions," the court reasoned. The Court added that the federal government was "one of enumerated powers" and could not go beyond the boundary drawn by the 10th Amendment, which the Court misquotes by inserting the word "expressly":
In interpreting the Constitution, it must never be forgotten that the Nation is made up of States to which are entrusted the powers of local government. And to them and to the people the powers not expressly delegated to the National Government are reserved.
[5]
In our view the necessary effect of this act is, by means of a prohibition against the movement in interstate commerce of ordinary commercial commodities, to regulate the hours of labor of children in factories and mines within the states, a purely state authority. Thus the act in a two-fold sense is repugnant to the Constitution. It not only transcends the authority delegated to Congress over commerce but also exerts a power as to a purely local matter to which the federal authority does not extend.
The horrible decision here: http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=US&vol=247&invol=251
5 Ridiculous Myths You Probably Believe About Schizophrenia
(yes original headline)
http://www.cracked.com/article_21520_5-lies-you-probably-believe-about-my-life-with-schizophrenia.html
(heavily edited)
#5. It's Not Multiple Personalities
#4. Voices Don't Make You Do Terrible Things
#3. You Can't Necessarily Tell Who Has It
#2. The Medication is an Illness of Its Own
#1. The Bullshit People Believe Impacts Your Life More Than the Disorder
Flo, the Progressive Insurance lady, is actually a comedienne...
The things you learn when you're bored. I always assumed she was just a pitch lady.
Meet Progressive's Flo: Standup Comic Stephanie Courtney
http://www.businessinsider.com/meet-progressives-flo-standup-comic-stephanie-courtney-2012-2
from Steve, who brings you one more tidbit of useless trivia
I heard the singing of animals (crickets ? ) that you only hear during hot weather last night
I can't remember hearing the singing in March before. It's usually May before I hear the singing.
Is it crickets I'm hearing ? I live near a small pond. Thanks.
1895 SCOTUS: United States v. E.C. Knight Company, antitrust law cannot be enforced
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._E._C._Knight_Co.The court held "that the result of the transaction was the creation of a monopoly in the manufacture of a necessary of life" but ruled that it "could not be suppressed under the provisions of the act". The court ruled that manufacturingin this case, refiningwas a local activity not subject to congressional regulation of interstate commerce. Fuller wrote:
That which belongs to commerce is within the jurisdiction of the United States, but that which does not belong to commerce is within the jurisdiction of the police power of the State. . . . Doubtless the power to control the manufacture of a given thing involves in a certain sense the control of its disposition, but . . . affects it only incidentally and indirectly.
Under the Knight decision, any action against manufacturing monopolies would need to be taken by individual states, making such regulation extremely difficult with regards to out-of-state monopolies because states are prohibited from discriminating against out-of-state goods by, among other things, the Dormant Commerce Clause and Article I section 10 of the U.S. Constitution. The ruling prevailed until the end of the 1930s, when the court took a different position on the national government's power to regulate the economy.
The horrible decision here: https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/156/1/case.html
Need help with sim card and Blu Win Jr W410A phone
Hi all, I'm a bit of a klutz with phones, so bear with me here.
I got this phone: http://www.bluproducts.com/index.php/win-jr
This is not a critical situation, since it's a second phone.
Anyway, it's unlocked and you have to insert your own mini-sim card from your carrier. I checked on the carrier's website and they say the line is activated. The phone has two slots for sim cards and one slot for an SD card. Here's the problem: With my last phone, it was super easy to insert the card and take it out. You simply put the sim card in with the electrical contacts face down, gently tap it in to make sure it was a good connection and close the case.
With this phone, you have to push the card into the slot, then slide it UNDERNEATH a plastic covering to make contact with the electronics. When I went to turn the phone on, it keeps telling me invalid sim card. I've tried to extract the damn sim card but it's so far up into the housing that it's going to take special surgery to get it out. Talk about poor design!
Anyway, I wanted to get feedback before I contact the phone manufacturer so I know what to say and what to ask.
Thanks!
eta: I figured out where I really messed up. The sim card my carrier sent me had the "Standard Sim" card (also known as a mini-sim card), with the "Micro Sim" card within it. You can push out the Micro-Sim card and use it alone if the Standard Sim card is too large. I should have used the larger Standard Sim card.
eta2: I think I've found the perfect tool to extract the inaccesible sim card
PELCO Slim Fine (tweezers)
Listerine mouthwash made bad breath a social no-no in the 1920's....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ListerineIf that's true, the things you learn on Wiki.
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