Well, there are the cases of Vernice Kuglin and Joseph Banister, to start - Joseph Banister, a former IRS agent himself, was NOT tried on evasion charges though, but Vernice Kuglin was, and she won. Those are not the only cases, but the first right off the top of my head.

Have you just not read the Constitution or what? It's very plainly stated in it, that no part of it should be interpreted to deny rights retained by the people. As such, what you are saying is UNTRUE. The courts can(legally) NOT enforce their own interpretations of the Constitution if it denies or disparages rights retained by the people.

You are correct - the Founders, themselves, put "vehicles of change" into the CONSTITUTION, as well, for, if we, as united STATES decide, we can amend the Constitution to allow them to have such powers. As it stands, they have not done so, and, under the tenth Amendment, the Federal branch of the government has no powers outside of the regulation of international commerce and the ability to coin money....therefore, any such powers that you state, that currently the Federal branch of the government is exercising, that are outside of the regulation of international commerce or coining money ARE ILLEGAL.

The Constitution is not outdated - we, being members of individual States that at any time can split from the Union, have NOT been given the opportunity to vote on actions that the Federal branch of the government has taken upon themselves.

You've got a Bachelor's in CS, surely you should understand how natural languages correlate to the systems they create!

People getting laid off IS a fact of civilization, alone, as in a tribal system, the more experienced go on to teach the less experienced, and then are supported in age by those they have taught. Each tribe is independent, and the role of a "manager" is not something that is desired - it is not something to strive for - it is only a necessity of any operation, and is not allocated more or less resources for it's goals, and it is equal to all others participating in the operations of the tribe.

Do you not understand the evolution of a career? Do you really think that, in 20-30 years of working for a corporation, developing proprietary systems for them to sell to consumers, and patent, etc. that you would be keeping up on standards that other people have developed? How many of those proprietary systems do you think BECOME standards around the world?

Sure, for people like Vint Cerf, who helped to invent TCP/IP, the proprietary technologies they created BECAME standards, and ended up being used by the world. For 99% of the people that develop proprietary solutions for what are, inherently, industrial problems, they are not as fortunate.

Most of the people that worked on the first RAM in the world were not working on the whole solution of "Dynamic Random Access Memory," as Robert Dennard did, but worked on individual proprietary solutions, at the time, that formed the basic electrical theory to create a system that would function to be dynamic, randomly accessible memory.

If you care at all about your career, in a civilized world, you had better create something that will be used by the entire world, or you can expect to be fired at some point, and have your original job sent to another country, as the cost of living is entirely too high in the United States for you to undercut other countries' costs...and, unless you did do something that far reaching, you should expect that, when you get old enough to have your knowledge outdated by the incoming workforce, that you too will work for Wal-Marts and K-Marts around this country....that is, IF civilization is to continue.