It's My Jersey and I’ll Sell It If I Want To

Occasionally, sports players will sell their trophies or jerseys. The question is: is it legal? If a jersey must be returned to the team at the end of the sport’s year, clearly it is not legal to sell it. I agree with this law. But, what if the item sold was an award or trophy? The way I understand it, this is legal, but against the unwritten rules of the game. A football player, Terrelle Pryor, and others from Ohio State, sold some of his jerseys and awards and was suspended for five games. I agree that it was wrong of him to sell, but he probably needed the money. Also, I think that if it is wrong for the seller, it is also wrong for the buyer, but they cannot punish the buyer because most likely he is not a sports player.

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To Cap Or Not To Cap

Transaction fees are a minimal price to pay for the convenient use of credit cards, although the government is now saying that these fees are too high and should be capped. The government thinks they should set these caps/limits to about 12 cents per transaction. But, credit card companies like VISA, MasterCard, and American Express want to be able to choose fees. They charge, say, 3 percent of each transaction. I believe there should not be a cap on credit card fees, but the government should reserve the right to put one on in case one company gets a monopoly or companies collude to made fees go up very high.

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Inflation, Lies and the Inevitable Bankruptcy

The currency of the U.S. that the government prints used to be backed by gold and silver. The U.S. left the gold standard in 1933 when President Roosevelt was in office. The government saw that others countries that were not our allies had most of the gold, this was a threat. Also, the U.S. wanted to spend more money than it had in gold or silver. Going off the gold standard seemed like an easy solution to prevent running out of gold reserves, so the U.S. left the gold standard. Since then, there has been a lot of inflation. Year after year, the government just keeps printing money. It seems it prints as much money as it can. This is bad for citizens that try to save money because their savings is worth less and less every year. If the government keeps spending money like this, it will eventually result in bankruptcy for the country. Then everybody’s money is worth nothing.

But now we can’t go back to the gold standard. There isn’t enough gold and silver. The solution is for the government to not print so much money. Everybody has to pay for the things they want or need with money that they have worked for.

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Bail Outs

The US government gave the banks (e.g. Bank of America), insurance companies (e.g. AIG), and car companies (GM, Chrysler, and GMAC) billions and billions dollars to get them out of the tight financial spot they were in. The US government gave a bail out to the banks for them to loan money to small businesses and home owners, but instead the banks loaned the bail out money back to the government with about 4% interest profit. This worked for the banks, but not really anybody else. The US government gave a bail out to the insurance companies so that they wouldn’t go out of business and other businesses could continue to operate with insurance, this worked. The US government gave a bail out to the big US car companies for the same reason as the insurance companies, this worked too but in my opinion it was pointless. The Japanese, Korean, and German car companies could have sold cars just as well as GM and Chrysler. So, I think the government is 2-1 in bail outs which is a not bad soccer score.

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Who owns it?

When you come up with an idea it’s “yours.” But, if somebody else comes up with instructions on how to do it, could they then patent or copyright the instructions?

I believe that if the original person that came up with it doesn’t patent it, and doesn’t write it down in a way that can be copied by an average person, then the follow-on instructions doesn’t belong to them. Why, because you need instructions to know how and if it works. For example, a lot of kids come up with ideas like a robot that cleaned their room. But, it’s not “theirs” if they don’t put together the prototype and instructions to do it!

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Leaking Academic Records

There was a football player, Cam Newton, which might win the Heisman trophy. But, some organization or some group at his previous college (University of Florida) thought that he shouldn’t get it; regardless of his play on the football field. So they leaked his academic records that may or may not have negative information in them. The allegation is he had cheated on a test. Now he may not get the Heisman trophy because of this invasion of privacy. It wasn’t legal for them to leak his records.

I think he shouldn’t be punished (not allowed to win the Heisman trophy) for something that happened off of the field. And if he files a lawsuit against his previous university, how much the Heisman trophy is worth?

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Accepting money to play

Cam Newton and his dad are being accused (without any evidence) of accepting money from Auburn University or boosters to go there. I think this is 100% OK, either way! It is kind of like if you pay for a great coach like Nick Saban or Bear Bryant on a football team, or a great teacher like Richard Feynman at a school like Harvard or CalTech.

Let’s see, the universities get paid, the coaches get paid, the NCAA gets paid, the commentators get paid, the networks get paid, and even the parking attendants at football games get paid. But, not the players? What kind of candy land world has everybody get money, but the players? I know the players get an education. But, do they? Their scholarships are year by year. They can be kicked out, forced out, or be in other ways made to give up their scholarships. I bet the NCAA reps don’t give their salary back for any reason. But, the players get funny money in the form of tuition and registration fees and everybody else gets real money. Sounds like a situation those getting real money like, even if the real players often get stuck in the molasses swamp.

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Should Halloween be legal?

There may be some legal issues with Halloween. For one, strangers giving kids candy! The first thing you learn in guidance when you’re in kindergarten is never take candy from strangers or walk their dogs. Also, Halloween may be the day when criminal activities take place, and it doesn’t help that you can’t see anyone’s face. Even if someone had a ski mask, machete and gloves you may take it for a costume or it could be a costume but someone thinks it’s real. Halloween was made a nationally recognized holiday and is observed on October 31st.

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Everything always starts small, micro-lending to

Face it, big money centers are broken. They don’t really lend money anymore; they fee and fine customers into financially unviable positions. I strongly believe in micro-lending. Micro-lending is when people donate (or lend) money to someone to help them start a small business. If the business takes off the person who made the profit gives back money to the lender. Micro-lending is mostly in Africa or third-world counties, but we could use it here in the USA. The Kiva organization and VISA are giving it try, but I wouldn’t trust VISA with much, not even a goat in Rwanda.

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A Book or a Buck?

My school has about 90 students in band. There are lots of things to keep track of: your instrument, your music book, and sheet music. Also, there are extras like cork grease, cleaning cloth, tuner, and metronome. Further, there are time constraints in putting away your instrument in your locker and all your other stuff too to get ready for the next class. Well, all this hustle and bustle is the perfect recipe for leaving stuff behind. This creates both a problem and an opportunity for our band teacher. It is a problem because the band shares the room with another group and has to be cleared out quickly. The opportunity is a big money maker. He fines us for leaving our stuff behind. Big fines too! To be fair, he doesn’t keep the money. It is donated to the school’s music association.

One day I left my music book and sheet music behind, but I couldn’t find it when I went back to the band room to look. Then, my mom went and bought me another music book. About a week went past and I had forgotten about the misplaced music book when my band teacher came up to me and said, “I have your music book, it will be nine dollars to get it back.” Nine dollars! These are big fines. I told him he could keep it, because I had already replaced it. Then, he asked if I had the sheet music too. Here I bluffed. I said I did, when I only intended to copy it from a friend. This left the band teacher in a little bit of a situation. What is he going to do with a used music book that has my name all over it? I didn’t know, and I think he didn’t either. He then dropped the price to $1 and I said OK. I might lose my music book again, so an extra copy is not a bad thing. Even though I question this fining tactic of making “forgetful and clumsy” seventh graders indirectly raise money for band activities, this was a win-win. I got my music book back and my band teacher got a buck for band activities.

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California Pizza

I was staying over at my grandma’s house, and we wanted to go out for dinner. I had just heard about this great deal on pizza at Pizza Hut: a big Italian pizza as big as two small pizzas for $12.99. My cousin knew the way to Pizza Hut, but apparently he misheard me and led us to Round Table. Round Table is a fine pizza place, but it wasn’t having a great deal. We decided that we would order pizza from the Round Table. Our planned great deal on pizza turned out to be regular pizza price. In most places we would not have just given up and ordered at a non-preferred place, but with San Francisco hard parking, tough neighborhoods, and difficult traffic conditions, we considered ourselves lucky to have found a pizza place and just bought the pizza as regular price.

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Street performers

Street performers are big in San Francisco, California. In tourist areas, there are interesting street performers everywhere. I saw one who was a keyboarder who sounded like he could play at Carnegie Hall and another who was dressed in gold and had gold on his face too, I call him the gold man who could dance like a robot. To be a good street performer, all you have to have is an idea. But, I think that they like and are good at their jobs. However, I doubt they make as much money as working full-time at McDonalds. But if playing the keyboard or dancing like a gold robot is your passion, it is good to be able to do that and pay the rent.

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Crabs Don’t do Valet

The parking in San Francisco California was very different! This is true for visitors. I am sure residents have difficulty with parking too. Everywhere you go, you have to pay for parking. I think my family spent about $150 on airport, hotel, and lot parking in less than a week; and that is with parking no tickets. When you go to San Francisco attractions, it’s either parking meters or lot parking, and lot parking is very expensive. On one visit to Fisherman’s wharf, a sign said that restaurants validated parking for three hours. What the sign didn’t mention clearly was that crab shacks don’t count as restaurants and they only validate for one hour! This little technicality or mistake added $20 to our Fisherman’s wharf visit. But, we did enjoy our calamari. It was really good!

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San Francisco California composting: Where do I put this?

Composting is the recycled use of organic matter such as food waste and low quality paper products. The decomposition of compost is performed by micro-organisms like bacteria, yeasts, and fungi. I noticed that in San Francisco everyone must use composting. I think that it is paid for directly by residents or maybe it is included in their taxes. But if you don’t compost and recycle correctly, you are fined; big time!

Composting is a way to keep San Francisco California cleaner, land-fills less full, and meet the city’s target of 90 percent recycling of all products. This is good thing long-term because it probably attracts more tourists to the city since it’s clean. Yet, I do not think that it is in the citizens’ short-term interest to use composting, but it is defiantly a win-win in the long term.

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P.s.

This is the logo:

New Logo

I chose blue.
Computing problems; image will be posted tommorow.
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Cali & Logo

Hi readers,
I had a surprise visit to California were I visited my grandma and uncles. My uncle Bashiri made me two logos and I will create a survey so you can vote on wich one you would like best. The survey will end in three days. These are your options...

Heisman Statue of Limitations

I am writing this post even though super bowl ring wearing Reggie Bush could probably care less. Five years ago Reggie Bush accepted money or gifts from a sports agent. This was against the rules of NCAA football, but not against the law. Now he is one of the best running backs out of all the NFL players. The Heisman committee after years of inaction wants to take this on-the-field won award away from him, because he accepted money from an agent. I don’t think they should be able to take it away from him unless he broke a law which he didn’t.
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The Money is in the Middle

The government loans money to banks at zero percent interest. Then, banks loan small businesses money at five percent. I think that the government should loan to small businesses at 0% and banks at 5% or maybe both at 5%.
But, no way is it currently done fairly. Banks do not help the economy! They pull exorbitant and hidden fees right out of the economy through the pockets of working Americans and small businesses; small businesses that create and give people jobs. I think there is a cycle here:
Government loans banks money at 0% =>
Bank loans money to consumers and small businesses at rates from 5% to 25% =>
Consumers and small businesses buy things: houses, cars, office equipment, computers, etc. =>
Consumers and small businesses put their extra money in the savings accounts and savings bonds getting about 1% to 5% interest.

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Is Google playing fair Texas Hold’em?

Google is being sued by Texas and Microsoft proxies for making their competitors search results last. I think Google is doing the same thing as marking the cards, because if you search “Lawboy” on Google, I’m like 7th, but if you search it on Bing I am in the top 3. Also, all search engines at least put themselves or their sponsors first, just Google might do it the most.
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Is it you or YouTube?

YouTube and the people who upload music, TV shows, and videos are obviously breaking lots of copyright laws. But, YouTube isn’t breaking them first, nor is it involved in the choice of which copyrights are broken (but YouTube sure does market those violated copyrights that are the most popular). It isn’t even clear what monitoring responsibilities YouTube has. This is partly why YouTube beat Viacom in Viacom’s billion dollar lawsuit against them. It is a complicated “he said, she said” that would confuse the best juries. Also, the person watching a YouTube video might buy-it or not buy-it anyway. But, I think that YouTube should be held at least partly responsible for breaking so many copyright laws. It like stealing a little bit from every copyrighted piece of music, TV show, or video owner; but not enough to bother with the work, expense, and trouble to go after a copyright violator. However, that doesn’t mean YouTube copyright violations aren’t occurring every day.
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The Criminal Face of Facebook

If people organize on Facebook to commit crimes, Facebook shouldn’t be liable. It is hard for Facebook to monitor the content of its site without invading the privacy of its users. Facebook is kind of like UPS, UPS isn’t liable for the content of the packages on their trucks because it would be invading their customers’ privacy. Finally, if criminals didn’t use Facebook to organize, they would use email, mail, webcam, etc.
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Wire Taps

I think that if a government agency gets a wiretap with a warrant, they should only release what they were looking for, and this would be documented in the warrant, not something funny or entertaining they happen to also find. The warrant should be very specific as to what can be released. All of the other captured stuff must be deleted. As it is, citizens have very little privacy outside of their home with cell phones with GPS, all types of cameras, and people’s personal memory. It seems that if you want to protect your own privacy, you should not say or do anything if you are not prepared to be recorded.
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Geniuses can stay

I think that if say, you win a world-wide science fair for robotics, and then they find out that you are an illegal alien they shouldn’t deport you. You can make exceptions for exceptional scientists or engineers like Albert Einstein and Wernher Von Braun. If fact, the USA did make exception for them. But, the illegal immigrant, Oscar Vasquez, had to go. Even though, he led a winning Arizona team over the feared and fabled MIT team in a world-wide science underwater robotics competition. I think that people should vote to see if he stays or goes, although this isn’t optimal it’s at least more reasonable.
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Let Blagojevich Go

Should it be illegal for a governor to appoint a person that benefits himself? No, this means former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich should be have been found not guilty of all those charges and the jury was right.
I think that governors, presidents, and CEOs should be able to appoint people that benefit them because they might also be the best person for the job. They should NOT be your relatives; that would be nepotism.

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Online Jury Problems

Online juries are a good idea for the government, because the government would save money. But, I doubt the defendant would get any benefit in short cases, but they might also get some benefit in long ones (more than a week). Yet, I do think there would be technical problems. Also, online jury might have numerous unintended consequences. For example,
Hackers could intercept your vote and then vote for you.
Are the people that wrote the online jury system code trustworthy?
The online jury system source code could be stolen and corrupted.
A juror could be persuaded by their family to vote a different way than if they weren’t there to persuade them.
It might be easier to bribe a juror
There might be more mistrials or the criteria for a mistrial might have to be changed.

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Should there be a way to do jury duty online? I think so and here is how I’d do it.

To be a juror, you would need to have a personal computer, netbook, or smart phone. You go a website at a designated time, say 8:00 AM. Then, you enter a user name and password that has been sent to you via the mail or by automated voice message to your phone. Once connected, you can watch the lawyers, witness, and judge through a webcam that has been loaned to you if you don’t already have one that is compatible with jury duty online system. The same loan arrangement can be made for a PC. The loan costs can be deducted from your jury pay.
Why bother? Because of all the time and cost savings. You don’t have to go to the court house, you can be a juror from your own house. It less stressful, so you can focus on the case and not what your wearing or how your family is doing.
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Jury duty

I don’t know if I really could say that I think jury duty is a good or bad idea because you go all the way out there to the court house and then some of the people never even get picked. This could be because they are related to the defendant or plaintiff, have a bias one-way or another, or just maybe are too opinionated on some topic. For example, teachers probably don’t get picked much because they believe that you shouldn’t get away with anything, not even for chewing gum or teasing someone. So, teachers probably wouldn’t give someone the benefit of the doubt in a shooting case. For sure when I grow up and am an attorney I wouldn’t picked one to judge my clients.

Old Agent 202

Alexander Graham Bell’s 73-year-old great grandson, Walter Kendall Myers, got arrested and he was found guilty of spying for Cuba and wire fraud. He apparently did not think that the things the US was saying were right, and he didn’t like that US wasn’t trading with Cuba under the Helms-Burton law. He wasn’t found out by the State Department’s audit trails or tools while working there, but by the FBI with the help of a defector. This brings me to another point: defectors should be valued source of legal immigration. Defectors often face, for some reason or another, persecution in their native country. Defectors are a great source of information that has a different or inside perspective that can’t be obtained elsewhere. Finally, defectors have a variety of experiences and knowledge that is a valuable asset to the fabric of the US through legal immigration.
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Spy Trade

When we captured a team of Russian spies we traded them for some US spies. This was a horrible trade. They had broken the law and should have had their day in court with justice being served. At the very least, we should have had one, the ring leader, stand trial. But no, the government sends them all back under the dark of night in exchange for what?! Other spies… These cloak and dagger mid-night exchanges are cool in movies, but justice needs the light of day and court. I feel espionage is a very serious crime that should be dealt with harshly.
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Let’s do H1-B visas right

H1-B Visas’ require applicants to go back after 6 years for one year before they can reapply. This is very inefficient because you could keep them here, even if they were unemployed or could not work at the same company for that year. It would save everybody money to just let them stay here, just in the cost of gas and plane tickets this makes no sense. This part of the law could have been written by the same bureaucrats who wrote Arizona’s SB1070 law. I think that it is good to require H1-B visa applicants to have a college degree. You know they got accepted in to a college, and passed their classes. So, it is a good risk for employers to hire employees on H1-B Visas. The H1-B visa program is a great opportunity to promote legal immigration too because H1-B visa applicants are smart, hard working, and know what this country is like.

If Arizona Is Right, I Would Rather Be Wrong

Arizona’s immigration law is most definitely wrong. How do I know? Because, Arizona was the only state that opposed the Martin Luther King Day holiday. That sure gives me no confidence in their legislature. Besides, I love the Martin Luther King Day holiday because my birthday is usually the same day as it. Also, my grandparents went to Sedona, Arizona and got a T-shirt for my sister but not me; just another reason not to like the big AZ. Finally, I use to love fire fighting trucks and once I saw an airport fire truck at an Arizona airport, but I couldn’t go outside to see it up close, because it was too hot!
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More or Less H1-B Visas

Our country does not have enough technology workers to meet demand, high tech companies lobby congress every year to increase the number of H1-B Visas availible. So, we let technology workers from other countries in on an H1 Visas; they come and stay as long as they can keep their jobs (up to six years). Most electronics are not made in the US; in fact, all of my electronics are made in China. I think we should have more H1 Visas because either they do the work here or in China.
Lawboy-

Thank you for comments by Vincenzo

Illegal Poison Ivy Remover

Illegal Poison Ivy Remover
I am only 12, so a haven’t seen very many illegal immigrants, but there was one time in particular, when I did see some. It was the day my dad had a landscaping company remove the poison ivy in my back yard. First, my dad called a company to send out some workers to clean our yard. Then, he called again and at least a third time too. When the company finally did come, these workers were most likely illegal immigrants because the landscape owner said his workers from Mexico were the only ones who didn’t get poison ivy. I guess that was because they were apparently not allergic to poison ivy; they didn’t even wear gloves. Although these workers didn’t get poison ivy, their supervisor was very afraid to get it. That’s why my dad had a hard time getting the company to come work in my backyard. In this case of poison ivy removal, illegal immigrants got the job done better than any American could have. You have to appreciate that even though all illegal immigrants are technically committing a crime, some just come to America in search of a better life or a better job. Didn’t our founding fathers’ ancestors do that? Didn’t the pioneers of the West do that? Didn’t the colonists of Mars do that? Well, that last one hasn’t happened yet. Finally, the constitution does say that you have the right to the “pursuit of happiness.” So, some of the working illegal immigrants should be able to stay.
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Illegal Immigration

Our county is currently having a big problem with illegal immigration. We have a lot of illegal immigrants which cost the taxpayers’ lots of money in schools, hospitals, lost federal taxes revenue, and money sent back to Mexico or wherever and not spent in the USA. One good thing about illegal immigrants is they work for much less than the average American. This is good because the legal American businesses that hire them get a good deal. But, that’s only good when there are lots of jobs for everyone who wants to work. Illegal immigrants are technically criminals. They usually don’t have the key skills needed to get a legal work visa; this is why they came illegally. Also, smuggling people is not that different for smuggling drugs so illegal immigration goes hand in hand with illegal drugs smuggling into America. Now you can clearly see why illegal immigration is such a big problem in America.
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Pay to Pay

You use money when you buy things at the supermarket or just about anywhere you buy things; and you pay tax on top of the purchase price too. In other words, so to pay for anything, you also need to pay a tax in addition to the cost of the item. We are so familiar with this pay and pay again model, because we do it all the time. While this is completely reasonable for a revenue generation point-of-view, I doubt it is fair. Why don’t I think it fair? It’s too much like when credit card companies charge interest on interest. And I don’t think the founding fathers liked double of anything: double jeopardy, double fines, double taxation, or double interest payments. I am just using buying stuff at the supermarket as an example.
But in any case, I don’t think it is reasonable for you pay and pay again for the same thing.

I prefer to buy my stuff on the internet, and then pay a little to insure it. This is a bit of a double payment too but it is your choice.

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Age limits for sports

Age limits for sports vary depending on the sport:
NBA basketball is 19
Major league baseball 16
NFL is 18
Tennis has no age limit

Limits are good for very physical contact sports like football. I think tennis and some other sports should have a limit too because you need a certain amount of maturity to be a professional athlete. Additionally, professional franchises would be depending upon the guardians of underage professional athletes for the fulfillment of their contracts which could add more problems than there worth. Even though there aren’t very high limits or no limit on baseball or tennis there aren’t many 16 year olds in major league baseball, and very rarely in tennis (with questionable results if you think of Jennifer Capriati).

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Should there be limits on legal transactions, fines, penalties?

I think there should be limits, but it is okay to have ranges. For example, if the average person gets a car ticket, let’s say its $50. A person’s record should be a consideration. Also, the ability to pay (or not pay) should be a consideration because if it was to low the person might not take it seriously and if it’s too high they might not be able to afford it. If Bill Gates gets a car ticket you can’t charge him one-thousand dollars, but you could charge him $75. I admit this is a slippery slope, because I don’t think you should be punished for being successful, but I you could pay slightly more.
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What I Would If I Was Chief Justice of the Supreme Court?

First, I would change those scary black robes to white.
Next, I would make lawyers wear these awesome white robes too,
Finally, I would make a mandatory height for Supreme Court judges’ clerks, so we’d always win basketball games against White House interns.
Lawboy-

What I Would If I Was Chief Justice of the Supreme Court?

First, I would change those scary black robes to white.
Next, I would make lawyers wear these awesome white robes too,
Finally, I would make a mandatory height for Supreme Court judges’ clerks, so we’d always win basketball games against White House interns.
Lawboy-

What I Would If I Was Chief Justice of the Supreme Court?

First, I would change those scary black robes to white.
Next, I would make lawyers wear these awesome white robes too,
Finally, I would make a mandatory height for Supreme Court judges’ clerks, so we’d always win basketball games against White House interns.
Lawboy-

Kids vs. Adults Who Has More Rights

Well probably adults: (1) they can drink, (2) gamble, (3) smoke, and (4) do a lot of other things (e.g. drive, vote, etc.). Although kids can’t they aren’t missing out on much let’s see, drinking once in a while could be nice although most kids would agree it tastes horrible and would much rather have soda. Gambling is a bad habit. Also, you shouldn’t smoke its not good for your health. Finally, all those other things can wait.

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Interest unlimited

Should credit card companies be able to charge people unlimited interest if they are willing to pay it? Oh, let’s say 35% or 135% interest. This may be called usury; the definition of usury is an exorbitant or unlawful rate of interest. Maybe companies should only be able to charge at most 21% interest. And if you negotiate or have great a credit score you should be able to get at least 12% interest. It seems like common sense should or an invisible hand should rule the day and bring too high interest rates down or too low interest rates up. But, that doesn’t always happen. So, I think there should be a cap on interest rate, but what? I’d make the limit 25%.
Lawboy-

Copyrights with Hundreds of Authors

If you put your document/content on Wikipedia and then someone edits it; you no longer own the document. Alright maybe you could have them give you the rights to their edits. But what if hundreds of people edit it, and something happens to someone they move away, get put in jail, stop using Wikipedia, changed their email addresses, etc. If everyone gives you their edit rights but that one person does not, do you only own 99% of it? First of all, if you’re worried about your copyright don’t post documents/content on Wikipedia. But, also maybe the Wikipedia documents/content copyrights with its hundreds of authors should not last for as long as regular copyright for individuals or small groups of authors.
Lawboy-

Lost and Found: But what I did Iose?

Do Good Samaritan laws apply to the internet? Alright if you find a purse, the morally right thing to do is to (1) put a sign up, (2) have them call you, and (3) then if they can prove that it’s theirs: you give it back to them. If you lose a flash-drive or media disk with all of your intellectual property (Oh, let’s say diagrams for a new IPod), what should the finder do?

If the finder puts your intellectual property on the internet, is that morally or legally bad? I believe that the best thing to do is to call whomever (e.g. Apple) and give it to them, and you can ask for a finder’s fee. But in a different case, where you do not know who the item belongs to: you should just shred it up and throw it away. They probably have another copy or could make one.
Lawboy-

New Rules: Today, Tomorrow, and Yesterday

Credit card companies change their terms and conditions many times a year. Should credit cards really be able to this? OK fine, but I think they should need to have the clients signature for every change. Or, only be able to change the terms and conditions at most once a year.

Win a Million Dollars or be a Million Dollars in Debt

The credit card company, Discover, is making a deal with their customers that, every credit card purchase you make gets you entered into a million dollar lottery. This is a horrible idea because they are combining credit card debt addiction with lottery addiction. Also, I really doubt Discover has legal permission to do a nation-wide lottery anyway. So you have your choice: win a million dollars or be a million dollars in debt. You Choose…
Lawboy

Opt-in/ Opt-out of Credit Card Mail

Credit cards offers bloat the mailboxes of America. While some people think this is a bad thing, I think it may be good for the following reasons I will list…
1. The post office would go out of business with the credit cards’ business
2. A (rare) few of the offers are good
3. credit card companies depend on mail offers to get new customers
4. If credit card solicitations were prohibited, banks would just advertise a different way.
5. The banks and credit card companies are paying the postage; and all companies have a right to advertise.
6. It only takes you about 10 seconds to look at it and discard the offer into the trash if you want.

I think that credit card offers should remain the way they are; and you should not have to opt-in to get advertisements from any business including banks and credit card companies. However, you should be able to opt out.
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Credit Card Problem

Credit cards are a big issue for Kids as well as adults I believe that kids should not have credit cards. All of my friends that have credit cards always go over there limit. For example say your parents say you can spend $50 a month and you spend $80 these are not that big of numbers so it might not make much difference but if they spent $800 the family might not have money to pay for groceries. Most people spend cash differently than they spend monopoly money, the trouble is lots of people think of credit cards more like monopoly money. I believe there is no problem giving kids debit cards because it is much more like cash because there is a limit, and when they get credit cards they are more likely to think of them like debit cards rather than monopoly money. Although now we have Electronic Banking Monopoly were you use credit cards.
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Tenth Amendment

The Tenth Amendment provides that " The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people. The tenth amendment is basically saying that you have to obey all of the other amendments. I AGREE.
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Ninth Amendment

In the Bill of Rights it says “The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.” This amendment was made to protect the constitution. There are many judges and lawers that do not believe that this amendment is required. Justices have not yet found an affective way to put this amendment into action.

Eighth Amendment

The eighth amendment is that excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted. This amendment is crucial but is often disobeyed some states used to have the death penalty but then realized it violated the eighth amendment, the death penalty is legal but not all methods of enforcing it are. Some, such as crucifixion and death by stoning, are obviously unconstitutional. Others, such as the gas chamber, have been declared unconstitutional by courts. And still others, such as hanging and the firing squad, have not been regarded as unconstitutional but are no longer in common use.

Seventh Amendment

In the Bill of Rights it says “in suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved, and no fact tried by a jury, shall be otherwise re-examined in any Court of the United States, than according to the rules of the common law.” As the Constitution requires that the popular branch of the legislature should have an absolute check, so as to put a peremptory negative upon every act of the government, it requires that the common people, should have as complete a control, as decisive a negative, in every judgment of a court of judicature. This means that people should have the most power.
Sorry I havent blogged for a few days, my grandparents were here.
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Sixth Amendment

The sixth amendment is "In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the Assistance of Counsel for his defense." This means the government can’t hold you in jail for a long time, the trial will be in the place where the crime was committed so the people understand you. The defendant has the right to know what they are being accused of, and you get a defense attorney even if you can’t afford one. This is great because even people that can’t afford a lawyer can get a fair trial.

Fifth Amendment

“No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.” Most of this is just common sense. Basically you are innocent unless proven guilty, and the goverment can not make you confess.
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Fourth Amendment

The fourth amendment is “The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.” This is often referred to as unreasonable searches and seizures. Basically the government can’t break in your house searching for something. I do not think this very important because if police want to go in your house they can easily get a warrant, but it’s defiantly not bad.
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Third Amendment

Third amendment is guaranteeing that the forced quartering of soldiers in private homes would be prohibited in peacetime and allowed only by prescribed law during wartime this law this law does not affect many people but soldiers are important. I think it is important to have laws to protect soldiers.

Feel free to leave commentsabout this amendment.
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Second Amendment

The second amendment is the right to bear arms. This is probably the most controversial amendment. Many people agree that it is important to be able to own a weapon, but I believe it is too easy to obtain one. This is a problem because if you have committed a felony, to get a gun all you have to do is say that you haven’t, and most places will not check your record. Then those people go and give the guns to criminals or just use them to commit crimes.
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The First amendment

The First amendment is freedom of religion, speech, press, assembly, and petition. The first amendment is one of the most important amendments because it is made up of so many aspects. This is not the only reason that I believe it is important. Freedom of religion is embedded in the first amendment. All over the world we have struggled with the concept of everyone having different beliefs. The United States still has occasional difficulties, but I think we have gotten better.
Although these amendments have worked out well for our country, I believe that freedom of the press can be abused. "PRESS" is an extremely broad term. It includes all systems that make information available to people. Sometimes people can say extremely racist things on blogs or other services that I am sure the founding fathers did not have in mind when they wrote the amendments. But I suppose this is better than being tossed in jail if you try to share your thoughts on email or a blog.

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United States bill of Rights

The Bill of Rights is an official document mainly written by James Madison to set limits on what the government can and cannot do primarily in regard to personal liberties. 10 amendments make up the Bill of Rights. This document has stood as a guideline for the government for over 200 years, and will hopefully last for generations. Most people do not know, but the Bill of Rights was greatly influenced by the Virginia Declaration of Rights. The US Bill of Rights still to this day remains a powerful symbol of freedom, culture, and justice. Now the Bill of Rights is on display at the National Archives in Washington D.C.

For the next few weeks I will be blogging about a specific amendments!
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