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Dyn is just as vulnerable as AWS.

Reposting at the top level since nearly every other comment is getting this wrong...

Most (all?) jurisdictions allow a voter to request a replacement ballot, in the event of him making an error on the ballot. It would be trivial to take a ballot selfie with one ballot, request a replacement ballot, and vote differently.

This makes ballot selfies ineffective for vote-buying efforts.

The 1st Circuit Court court recognized that the NH law was unconstitutional because it bans protected political speech. NH's US Senator Ayotte is even planning to post her own ballot selfie, in violation of the NH law to prove the point.

NY is in the 2nd Circuit, so they will need their own decision until SCOTUS upholds the 1st Circuit decision.

Regardless, these bans aren't about vote buying - that won't work - they're about preventing people from expressing their political views on social media. Such postings have more benefit for insurgent candidates than establishment candidates, so the establishment is firmly against such efforts.

Schools account for about 2/3 of money paid in property taxes. If you want to lower taxes, figure out how to cut down $10,000/yr/student.

Free state early movers are already working on it: http://www.unionleader.com/Cro...

Only .0001% of the population does anything in the political parties, shows up to testify for bills, etc... if we could get 0.5% of people to be politically active, 80% of them would be standing around with nothing to do ;) http://www.unionleader.com/art...

We've also passed a school-choice scholarship, we're fighting a school-choice lawsuit (for statewide town-level school choice, already implemented in Croydon), we've cut taxes and legalized microbreweries. Next is elimination of Drug Prohibition and FDA nullification for fast-tracking treatments for terminal illness. The biggest single effect is probably the Gold Standard, the NHLA's system for tracking the content of bills in the statehouse. Helps everyone, regardless of viewpoint, keep track of what's in the hundreds of bills. nhliberty.org. http://www.unionleader.com/art...

US auto production, both "foreign" and "domestic" global brands, is massive. We even export BMWs to China.

Efficiency means we don't need a vast number of workers to do that.

The rest of the world figured out how to MAKE THINGS, and the decades-long post-WWII boom (WWII was the best thing to happen to the US in the last century) finally petered out.

Now we must compete, and in many cases the US competes effectively.

Have some Lincoln:

http://www.dailyfinance.com/2011/12/13/for-the-63rd-straight-year-at-least-this-remarkabl/

Have some Hypertherm:

http://www.unionleader.com/article/20120617/NEWS02/706189908

The vast majority of the 800+ free-staters who have moved to New Hampshire are normal, law-abiding folk, and you wouldn't necessarily hear about them, any more than you would hear if your legislators are Mormon or Catholic. The Keeniacs are an exception, but there are no more than a dozen of them, plus a larger number of similarly rambunctious locals. Most free-staters (I am an exception) do not introduce themselves as free-staters.

Free-staters led the effort to legalize medical marijuana in 2009, getting a bill passed, but Democratic Governor Lynch vetoed it:
http://www.unionleader.com/article.aspx?articleId=41a9feee-02b4-4304-b1b7-7a44217412bf&headline=Lynch+vetoes+medical+marijuana+bill
http://nhcommonsense.org/

>They were completely inconsequential in the recent election

That was quite an amusingly false statement. To prove such a negative you would have to exert a bit effort. Anyway, it illustrates the degree to which free-staters fit in with the NH culture, which is why we chose NH in the first place.

>>>So can they be sued for false advertising if they have a commercial that shows more than four people watching football together? If it is illegal to "use their product" in that way, are beer commercials that show large numbers of people over at a person's house enjoying the game together promoting copyright violation?

The church could license a public showing from the NFL for a fee. I'm sure the church could have paid enough money to offset the lost ratings if they'd of properly licensed this viewing ahead of time.

It's not just churches that are being targeted;
http://www.unionleader.com/article.aspx?headline=NFL+tells+movie+theater+chain+not+to+show+game&articleId=363dca48-9d9d-40c0-b592-75f7b3f022c1

I'm don't watch the NFL games, just as I don't support RIAA artists.

Cows and other livestock are more likely to blame:

http://unionleader.com/article.aspx?headline=Reven ge+of+the+cows%3A+They're+going+to+kill+us+all!&ar ticleId=692b0da2-7464-4bf6-909b-cc48f59c7465

I'm surprised I don't see a link to the original story yet, so here it is:

http://www.mydd.com/story/2006/10/24/122153/98

From the story:

--AZ-Sen: Jon Kyl, --AZ-01: Rick Renzi, --AZ-05: J.D. Hayworth, --CA-04: John Doolittle, --CA-11: Richard Pombo, --CA-50: Brian Bilbray, --CO-04: Marilyn Musgrave, --CO-05: Doug Lamborn, --CO-07: Rick O'Donnell, --CT-04: Christopher Shays, --FL-13: Vernon Buchanan, --FL-16: Joe Negron, --FL-22: Clay Shaw, --ID-01: Bill Sali, --IL-06: Peter Roskam, --IL-10: Mark Kirk, --IL-14: Dennis Hastert, --IN-02: Chris Chocola, --IN-08: John Hostettler, --IA-01: Mike Whalen, --KS-02: Jim Ryun, --KY-03: Anne Northup, --KY-04: Geoff Davis, --MD-Sen: Michael Steele, --MN-01: Gil Gutknecht, --MN-06: Michele Bachmann, --MO-Sen: Jim Talent, --MT-Sen: Conrad Burns, --NV-03: Jon Porter, --NH-02: Charlie Bass, --NJ-07: Mike Ferguson, --NM-01: Heather Wilson, --NY-03: Peter King, --NY-20: John Sweeney, --NY-26: Tom Reynolds, --NY-29:

--AZ-Sen: Jon Kyl --AZ-01: Rick Renzi --AZ-05: J.D. Hayworth --CA-04: John Doolittle --CA-11: Richard Pombo --CA-50: Brian Bilbray --CO-04: Marilyn Musgrave --CO-05: Doug Lamborn --CO-07: Rick O'Donnell --CT-04: Christopher Shays --FL-13: Vernon Buchanan --FL-16: Joe Negron --FL-22: Clay Shaw --ID-01: Bill Sali --IL-06: Peter Roskam --IL-10: Mark Kirk --IL-14: Dennis Hastert --IN-02: Chris Chocola --IN-08: John Hostettler --IA-01: Mike Whalen --KS-02: Jim Ryun --KY-03: Anne Northup --KY-04: Geoff Davis --MD-Sen: Michael Steele --MN-01: Gil Gutknecht --MN-06: Michele Bachmann --MO-Sen: Jim Talent --MT-Sen: Conrad Burns --NV-03: Jon Porter --NH-02: Charlie Bass --NJ-07: Mike Ferguson --NM-01: Heather Wilson --NY-03: Peter King --NY-20: John Sweeney --NY-26: Tom Reynolds --NY-29: Randy Kuhl --NC-08: Robin Hayes --NC-11: Charles Taylor --OH-01:

Some articles to think about in the upcoming election:

Jon Kyl Rick Renzi J.D. Hayworth John Doolittle Richard Pombo Brian Bilbray Marilyn Musgrave Doug Lamborn Rick O'Donnell Christopher Shays Vernon Buchanan Joe Negron Clay Shaw Bill Sali Peter Roskam Mark Kirk Dennis Hastert Chris Chocola John Hostettler Mike Whalen Jim Ryun Anne Northup Geoff Davis Michael Steele Gil Gutknecht Michele Bachmann Jim Talent Conrad Burns Jon Porter Charlie Bass Mike Ferguson Heather Wilson Peter King John Sweeney Tom Reynolds Randy Kuhl Robin Hayes Charles Taylor Steve Chabot Jean Schmidt Deborah Pryce

There are preliminary hearings in the U.S. in which the state must show some of it cards in ordere to establish probable cause for the arrest, argue for the denial of bail, and so on.

Some recent examples pulled from Google:

LHS Math Dept. chairman waives probable-cause hearing in rape case

Judge finds probable cause in city razor blade fight

Probable cause found in Centralia man's alleged bomb threat.

Americans have chosen to keep the investigation of crime and the prosecution of crime as open and public a process as possible.

It is worth mentioning in this context that the stiffest resistance to President Bush's proposed rules for military tribunals came from within the American military justice system itself anf from those like Senators McCain and Warner steeped in its traditions and values.

Though with most filesharing software you automatically share the files with everyone else. She could have had thousands of songs, and thousands of people could have downloaded from her.

Emphasis mine. This is the problem as I see it with the damages being awarded for these infringement cases. Even if you prove the person had copies of the songs on their computer and were obtained through copyright infringement using a P2P service, where is the proof that thousands of others actually copied the songs from the defendent? And what about if the sharing feature of the P2P app is turned off? The courts are not in the business of punishing "could have" cases (except for this recent NH judgement which is rediculous, with the dissenting judge plainly stating no crime was committed or proven). So perhaps I should say the courts shouldn't be in the business of punishing "could have"s except where laws already allow for that sort of thing (e.g. attempted murder). But there are no laws that I am aware of that make the potential to copyright a crime. Otherwise, anyone owning a copy of a piece of media could be prosecuted because simply having the media would meet the low standard of having the ability to infringe copyright. IMHO if the RIAA wants damages of $150,000 per song they need to demonstrate that the defendent caused that much damage, not that they "could have" caused that much damage. If I own a gun and I'm arrested for some other crime, say tax evasion, can I also be convicted of attempted murder because I could have shot someone?

In addition, there was a large rally at the NH State Capitol; here is that video.

Unfortunately, our State Senate pulled some extremely underhanded parlimentary tricks to kill HB1582; all the gory details (and sound bites from the Senate) are here. The good news is, we here in the "Live Free or Die" still actively resisting this intrusion into our privacy!

• One of our Senators (John Sununu) has come out publicly against Real-ID
• We are still actively working to reject the funding to implement Real-ID; see this forum
• If worst comes to worst, people are pledging not to comply with Real-ID should it comes into effect