The Constitution of the United States of America

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We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure Domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

REMEMBER PEOPLE!

-- A.Voice (onevoice@manyvoices.org), December 17, 1999

Answers

Voice man,

Don't waste your time. That was 200 years ago. Like the Bible, it's interpreted a thousand different ways by a thousand nuts.

Your right to free speech just gave way to intelectual property. It's a stock market thing.

Y2K: Well, getting close to D Day. I was admiring my six month supply stash today and I thought, Why are you doing this, you idiot.

I remember working on Y2K for XBC TV, I had 200 COBOL and Easytrieve programs to repair. No one knew Easytrieve, so I gave about a two hour class.

Needless to say it didn't work out too well, lots of errors. I spent weeks going over and over the programs correcting errors. Unfortunately, I was not allowed to test any of the programs because XBC didn't want anyone to see their payroll files. I did the best I could but they had binary dates, packed dates. You have to make sure these date fields line up correctly when you add a century.

I jumped up and down, screamed bloody murder to management that without testing we were delivering crap to our client.

They don't want us to test. They will do the testing. End of discussion. After we turned the programs back over to XBC, three weeks later they came back and said all programs tested sucessfully, NO ERRORS. BULLSH&T!

I have other horror stories, but my point is, I would rather feel like a crazy today than an real idiot tomorrow. Because I knew.

Cheers,

-- Infidel (Barbarians@thegate.net), December 17, 1999.


Infidel,

If a person grows to the age of 50, has a child, who grows to the age of 50,who has a child, who grows to the age of 50,who has a child--This could be you. 200 hundered years is nothing.

-- A.Voice (onevoice@manyvoices.org), December 17, 1999.


WRT to Code Testing:

I posted a piece a while back that seemed to have gone unnoticed. In 1998 Gartner put out a report and one of the top 5 conlusions of this 20-30 page report was:

"Fifty percent of all enterprises are not planning to perform any year 2000 testing - they intend to fix code and install to production."

http://gartner6.gartnerweb.com/public/static/home/00073955.html

This means BIG Serious trouble to anybody who has been within 10 miles of any software development project. Having been there (i.e. in software development) I know that this is type of action is a guarnateed pink slip firing with cause under normal conditions.

Now, ahem, ahem, will someone kindly explain to me how you can claim you are compliant when you have not even tested the code? You can say you are *supposed* to be compliant but you can not say you *are* compliant. I will guarnatee that if you have not tested the code you *are not* compliant even if we give you the benifit of the doubt and assumed you have done all the work and do not plan to do any fix-on-failure.

So you can now judge for yourself when all companies are telling you that they are 99% compliant what that means.

-- Interested Spectator (is@the_ring.side), December 17, 1999.


DEAR -- Interested Spectator

So far, the response to this posting is, "ME,MINE" . MM

Coincidence, I think NOT.

-- A.Voice (onevoice@manyvoices.org), December 17, 1999.


Thanks for posting some economic propaganda written by white male mysogynist slave owning hypocrites.

Now please explain why the other 95% of the world's population should care.

-- Servant (public_service@yahoo.com), December 17, 1999.



Servant,

LOL!!!

-- Ludi (ludi@rollin.com), December 17, 1999.


Servant,

"Thanks for posting some economic propaganda written by white male mysogynist slave owning hypocrites."

What was that all about?

-- Mark Hillyard (foster@inreach.com), December 17, 1999.


voice. Wert it not, but the American Constitution is as dead as the men who wrote it. Just this week we hear from the White House that President Clinton is utilizing the Justice department to file a Federal Class action suit against firearm manufacturers. Is not the Second Amendment part of the constitution? Is not the President of this nation sworn to defend the constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic? Is this not blatant Treason and abuse of aoffice? Should he not even now be swinging on a lampost in the White House courtyard?

Who is the designated legislative body under the constitution? Do the words "Stroke of the pen, law of the land. Pretty cool." appear anywhere in said document? Exactly where is the clause which turns our entire money supply over to a bunch of filthy rich crooked Europen bankers via the Federal Reserve? How is it we have an income tax levied upon us and enforced via an Amendment which was never ratified? Why is the current administration not held accountable for trading military secret technology for campaign funds? Are those notes in your billfold U.S. Treasury, and exactly how much of the Federal gold reserve can you exchange them for? Do you think the founding fathers intended for political parties to have the ability to buy votes from segments of the population via tax cuts and welfare programs? Why are there not 20 million armed Americans surrounding the White House even now? Because given a choice between wothless paper and freedom 99% of the American population will take the money everytime.

-- Nikoli Krushev (doomsday@y2000.com), December 17, 1999.


Too late.

After the "Communist Revolution" of the 1930s (New Deal) and the "Communist Revolution" of the 1960s (Civil Rights), the Constitution is dead.

Unfortunately.

-- Anonymous999 (Anonymous999@Anonymous999.xxx), December 17, 1999.


On a lighter note gentlemen:

Heh, can never read that without the tune. Remember the cartoon, was it School House Rock, or somewthing? And the "I'm just a bill, yes I'm only a bill, and I'm sittin..."

-- Hokie (nn@va.com), December 17, 1999.



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