[SLL] Arrgh, LWSD requires IE to access web site...

[Ken Meyer]

Kurt --

Thanks for the interesting reference.  Haven't seen your by-line here
before.  Probably my inattentiveness, but glad to have smoked you out.

Reading the article was kind of a "yea! boo!" exercise for me, but it is
clearly written from a very Conservative viewpoint -- and I don't mean what
currently passes for Conservative in DC.

But I think that it makes my point that, whatever the Constitution really
says in the context of 210 or so years later, the premise that Glenn
advances about the theoretical application of the Constitution to unfunded
mandates is totally "inoperative" as a practical matter today.

Thanks again for the insights.

Ken M.


-----Original Message-----

From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.buff at gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2007 11:07 AM
To: kmeyer at blarg.net
Cc: Glenn Stone; linux-list at linuxjournal.com

Subject: Re: [SLL] Arrgh, LWSD requires IE to access web site...

The reasoning is based on the separation of powers between the Federal
government and the States, mostly based around the 10th Amendment.

This speech is illustrative of the arguments:

http://www.publicpurpose.com/pp-fmand.htm

On 9/19/07, Ken Meyer <kmeyer at blarg.net> wrote:
> Glenn --
>
> Not to defend the indefensible position of the LWSD, but what makes you
> think that unfunded mandates are unconstitutional?  They happen all the
> time, but from federal to state and state to municipality.  One would
think
> that the push-back would be more than strident complaining if there were
> relief to be had in the constructs of the Founding Fathers.
>
> Ken Meyer
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
>
> From: linux-list-bounces at linuxjournal.com
> [mailto:linux-list-bounces at linuxjournal.com]
> On Behalf Of Glenn Stone
> Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2007 10:19 AM
> To: linux-list at linuxjournal.com
>
> Subject: Re: [SLL] Arrgh,Lake Washington School District requires IE to
> access web site...
>
> On Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 08:35:17AM -0700, Ski Kacoroski wrote:
>
> ><soapbox on>
> >My kids attend LWSD and they have this neat new website so I
> >can see the attendance information online -- NOT!  According to them you
> >have to run IE.  I have asked them politely for a workaround, but it
> >really burns me that in this day and age, people still create IE only
> >web sites.
> ></soapbox off>
>
> If you were a state and LWSD were FedGov, that would be unconstitutional.
> It's called an "unfunded mandate."
>
> What I translate their lame excuse as is "So the parents could be stupid."
>
> I wonder what the lawyer who spoke to us at GSLUG about SCO the other
> Saturday would have to say about this.
>
> -- Glenn
>
>