Only if he hasn't really used the hard drive since the reformat. But it could be worth a shot anyway.

2nd Amendment, 4th Amendment, the 6th & 7th Amendment has been violated where peoples liberty and or property are in jeopardy and there is no jury, so it's state vs citizen with no unbiased third party, and then the 10th Amendment.

Immunity to double jeopardy is has also been violated, as now they simply just use technicalities so that they can try to convict a person again.

17 Amendment has also caused astronomical damage (abolishing the Senate), along with the 16th amendment. The 3 worst amendments are the 16th, 17th, and 18th. They at least had the smarts to repeal the 18th amendment.

Notice how they needed a constitutional amendment in order to ban alcohol, but they didn't go that route to ban drugs. They needed an amendment to ban alcohol because, the federal government doesn't have the power to declare alcohol illegal, nor do they have the power to declare drugs illegal.

But making a new constitutional amendment is hard, reinterpreting the constitution is much easier, look at how 'General Welfare' has been blown far beyond it's original intention.

"I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents."
-James Madison

"With respect to the words general welfare, I have always regarded them as qualified by the detail of powers connected with them. To take them in a literal and unlimited sense would be a metamorphosis of the Constitution into a character which there is a host of proofs was not contemplated by its creators."
- James Madison

General Welfare = Taxing everybody exactly the same, and providing them the same exact benefits.
Not General Welfare = Taxing people differently, and only some are able to qualify for benefits. Redistribution of wealth is not general welfare.

Social security and Medicare violate the constitution as well. Doesn't mean we can't have those things, but it's the job of the state to implement those types of systems, the federal government doesn't have that power. Nearly every single law that exists violates the 10th amendment.

If congress obeyed the constitution, they'd really have nothing to do. They'd probably only be in session one month out of a year.

The states (aka the people), ARE the ultimate interpreters of the United States Constitution, not the Federal Supreme Court.

James Madisons words, not mine.

The founders were not stupid, they knew that the FEDERAL Supreme Court could be baised in favor of unconstitutional federal laws.

If you like, go read up on the history of the creation of the Senate and the House, and why the Senate is the entity that confirms supreme court justices.

Then investigate the abolition of the senate in 1913 (it has been converted into a second house of reps that they just call senate)

My my, how far we have fallen from the tree.

Ha ha ha ha ha ha, very funny.

Since when does the Constitution mean anything to our politicians anymore?


My condolences for being a product of our public school system. Perhaps this might help you get started on what you should have been taught.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sNWbiAMf80

Have a nice day.

This will just increase the amount of worthless posts into the newbies section, with people just posting enough crap to get past the 50 post barrier.

Gold inflates 2-3% a year. The only difference is that it requires lots of work.

Look!

It's a STATE WORSHIPPER!

They still need a cache of physical to deal with any deliveries though. Bitcoin at least solves most of the fractional reserve problems but you can still have manipulation with no fractional reserve banking, you just need to hold a very big chunk of real coins.

And over generations that'll eventually happen.

Except that socialism for the most part abolishes the price system, and whenever that's done, it doesn't seem to work out so great.

I don't see how you can have socialism without central planners, and if you have central planners, then you have government agents telling you what you can and can't do.

Thats not freedom.

Selfishness is a virtue.

True greed is a good thing in a capitalist system, remember in a free market there is no exchange unless both sides of the transaction benefit and agree to the transaction. This basically means you can be greedy, but you must get others to engage in trade with you on a voluntary basis.

And in order to do that, you must serve their wants and their desires.

So, by being greedy you are forced to serve others.

This isn't evil.
 
The only exception is engaging in fraud which should be dealt with harshly.

Technically that purchasing power is transfered over to the rest of the active bitcoins.

This is a line of bullshit.

China pegs their dollar to our dollar.

We print more dollars, if China doesn't print more, the market price goes above their peg, so they print more of their dollars to counter-act our printing.

The trouble is it's possible for a central entity to gain most of the bitcoins over several generations, with a large chunk of the coins they could manipulate the markets and cause the same kinds of problems we see today with gold and silver price manipulation.

Yes we could use smaller portions of the coins when a large chunk of the money supply is not in play, but those with the most money just then loan out a lot of their money at interest, then eventually recall the loans once they have enough people tangled in debt, and create the boom bust cycle we all know and love.

Bitcoins do solve one of the biggest problems, fractional reserve banking. While banks can rise up and engage in 10:1 fractional reserve banking with bitcoins, they can never hope to be bailed out in the event of a default, because if a bank had 2.1 million bitcoins and engaged in 10:1 reserve banking, the money supply would be 21 million bitcoins.

When they fail, wheres the FDIC or any government agency going to get the coins to bail them out? They aren't, and they sure as hell can't charge enough of a insurance premium to back it up either.

I personally believe that the currency should inflate around 3% a year (Milton Friedman suggested something along these lines), mainly to counter lost coins and to prevent the concentration of coins into the hands of a few over generations.

Since fractional reserve banking would be kept in check, the interest rates on loans would probably far exceed the inflation rate which protects peoples purchasing power. Unless of course you bury your coins under the mattress.

If bitcoins takes off, over generations the banksters will eventually have control over a majority of the money supply. A little inflation will make that harder.

Outside of bitcoin it's the only choice we got.

Un-electable bankers.
Or politicians we can fire.

Pick one.

Both bad choices but one is clearly worse.

Then congress wouldn't be able to pass any new laws or rules.

That wouldn't be any fun now would it?

I don't think it's impossible for man to have an impact, but any government 'solution' by force really isn't going to do anything. A free market approach isn't so bad though cause people have choice.

One thing about tress though, trees used in the paper and lumber industry are all farmed. They plant them, wait until they grow to the right size, cut them down, plant new ones.

Don't take it personally I just get antsy whenever I see "save the world  from climate change by doing x!"

No offense, but I don't buy into the propaganda that the world is going to end because we use electricity, and that a throwing a bunch of money at the problem is somehow going to 'fix' it. The entire climate change 'problem' is a scam in order to basically create a new currency called carbon credits, with a new central bank, and the best part? The credits can expire if they're unused!

Newsflash: The climate always changes.

At least you're doing it by choice and not by government force though.

Haven't you heard?

Prohibition works!

Just look at how good it was during the 20's.

Yeah I fixed it before you replied :p