And your house sits on property which is, ultimately, situated on "public" lands. Like a car on a road, your home is surrounded by "public-ness". I guess we can now do away with all that nonsense about due process, search warrents, heck, most of the Constitution.
And you can't drive your car recklessly by endangering other people any more than you can't wreck your house recklessly by endangering your neighbours.
Where's the 'right to drive', let alone the 'right to drive like an asshole and not answer for your actions' in the Constitution?
That guy needs to be clued on several points:
Driving is a public activity performed on public roads, therefore there cannot be any expectation of privacy
Driving is not a right, but a privilege. However, to be safe from the negligence of other is a right, so it is quite natural that a privilege be deemed less important than a right, therefore the due process needed to remove a privilege shall be less arduous than required to remove a right.
Putting event recorders in cars is no different than putting policemen on every street corner, which is perfectly legal now. So making event recorders in car compulsory is therefore legal, and obstructing it's operation shall be deemed the same thing as interfering with the work of police.
Aircraft, locomotives, buses and trucks are currently fitted with event recorders. It is only natural that this be extended to automobiles, especially that the standard behaviour expected of car drivers is considerably lower than for the other vehicles and the greater number of automobiles make for considerable danger.
I've heard about the case a few months ago, since I live in Montreal. They said that these little devices recorded only speeds and such. No audio is involved of course.
And before you call bullshit on me, I'VE WITNESSED THIS HAPPEN. I've also gotten a ticket over this very situation, where people flew by me going 20 miles over the speed limit, and I'm only going 10 over.
That oughta teach you for being from out-of-state!!!
You have not given an argument for why you think it is a good idea that something I own can then spy on me, why the existence of this device should be hidden from me, and why it should be illegal for me to remove or tamper with it.
Here are a few good reasons. Enjoy!
Driving is a public activity performed on public roads, therefore there cannot be any expectation of privacy
Driving is not a right, but a privilege. However, to be safe from the negligence of other is a right, so it is quite natural that a privilege be deemed less important than a right, therefore the due process needed to remove a privilege shall be less arduous than required to remove a right.
Putting event recorders in cars is no different than putting policemen on every street corner, which is perfectly legal now. So making event recorders in car compulsory is therefore legal, and obstructing it's operation shall be deemed the same thing as interfering with the work of police.
Aircraft, locomotives, buses and trucks are currently fitted with event recorders. It is only natural that this be extended to automobiles, especially that the standard behaviour expected of car drivers is considerably lower than for the other vehicles and the greater number of automobiles make for considerable danger.
Libertarians are will definirely going to go apeshit over this, so here are some points that need to be driven home in their little skulls:
Driving is a public activity performed on public roads, therefore there cannot be any expectation of privacy
Driving is not a right, but a privilege. However, to be safe from the negligence of other is a right, so it is quite natural that a privilege be deemed less important than a right, therefore the due process needed to remove a privilege shall be less arduous than required to remove a right.
Putting event recorders in cars is no different than putting policemen on every street corner, which is perfectly legal now. So making event recorders in car compulsory is therefore legal, and obstructing it's operation shall be deemed the same thing as interfering with the work of police.
Aircraft, locomotives, buses and trucks are currently fitted with event recorders. It is only natural that this be extended to automobiles, especially that the standard behaviour expected of car drivers is considerably lower than for the other vehicles and the greater number of automobiles make for considerable danger.
Americans are (somewhat) irrationally afraid of nuclear.
They are quite justified, because nuclear power plants are operated by private companies. Privates companies have a well-proven track record in cutting corners, from using cheap materials, not following standards and hiring cheap unqualified workers (Three-Mile Island is a prime example of having morons running a power plant - Homer Simpson is NOT a fantasy).
By contrast, french state-run power plants are run by the most competent personnel available, of which plenty are churned out every year by the Grandes Ecoles.
hese aren't pop-up (or pop-under) browser ads but actually a weird misuse of Windows Messenger Service, a mostly useless tool which Microsoft has left on by default!
Oh, don't worry, nothing could have happenned to me. They had piss-poor security for a start and I covered my ass sufficiently to guarantee to get off scot-free. But I did not waste efforts to make sure that they *KNEW* why I did it without them being able to do anything about it.
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so I refused to write the code. Of course I got fired ...
I think anyone in the know at a company (and most programmers/dba's are in the know) should exercise some responsibility. If it's wrong, it's wrong. Look at the folks who got in trouble at Enron for looking the other way.
You did it stupidly. Thou shalt have blown thy whistlee publically and, if you could, wreck their company by destroying data.
Many moons ago, I did not hesitate to destroy all the accounting data of a company that wanted me to violate the election financing laws. The servers were thorougly wiped and they were made very aware that any contrary action would result in a disclosure of their plans (which would actually have embarrassed the government).
They subsequently got in trouble with the revenue department for not having suitable records; all in for all, the owner was sufficiently fined by the revenue department to lose his house over it.
In Sweden, when they recently changed from driving on the left to driving on the right (a sort of delayed reaction to germany being invaded by napoleon), they converted over all on the same day!
Which is the most incredible because everyone had to buy a new car to be able to drive on the other side of the road.
How do you tell your young kids that the show that you promised they could watch when they got back home from a long car journey to visit the grandparents can't be watched anymore because you exceeded the time limit? Ever tried explaining silly things like that to a screaming three year old?
In the old Soviet Union of yesteryear, toys were deliberately made flimsy and easily breakable, this to teach the kids that they had no control over their destiny.
Likewise, kindergarden toys were deliberately made huge and heavy so that they could not be played by a lone kid, but instead kids had to collaborate with each other in order to play.
This copy-bit scheme is simply made to condition the public that they have no control over their destinly, because it is in the hands of the new croporate overlords.
mapquest is one big mother fucking BITCH for canadians (and probably other international users as well). Even if you go to mapquest.ca and search for Montreal (a 3million person plus canadian city) it shows some shitty little town of montreal, idaho or something. What the fuck mapquest? You suck.
When the Concord was being developed, the US did have a SST program. However, it was cancelled because it did NOT make economic sense.
The US cancelled the Boeing 2707 because they took too big of a bite. In Europe, they wisely decided to go mach 2.2, which enabled to develop a SST using existing metallurgy, whereas the Boeing 2707 was to use titanium technology, which was unproven at the time. Add to it the variable geometry wing, and you had a bigger bite than they could swallow.
Besides - the bloody thing was as noisy as Hell, as anyone who's ever lived in London will tell you. There weren't many cities in the world prepared to tolerate it - London only did because the UK government never let us have a say.
It sure was less noisy than the lorries trundling down the motorway by the roundabout...
Lots of airlines had options on Concordes, and at one point there was talk of building over 200 of them. That would have probably brought the cost right down.
Air Chance paid the second to last Concorde $20,000, and for the last one, a measly $2,000 (yes, two thousand)...
The reason why jews are able to get away with murder is that each time someone says something againt a jew, he shouts "ANTISEMITE!!!". Well, it won't work here, truncated penis, because I'm not afraid of being labelled an antisemite, 'cause it's bullshit.
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Yet, it is on a **PUBLIC** road.
rotten tomatoes->hydrogen->????-> profit!
By contrast, french state-run power plants are run by the most competent personnel available, of which plenty are churned out every year by the Grandes Ecoles.
Mostly useless != mostly harmless!!!
Oh, don't worry, nothing could have happenned to me. They had piss-poor security for a start and I covered my ass sufficiently to guarantee to get off scot-free. But I did not waste efforts to make sure that they *KNEW* why I did it without them being able to do anything about it.
Many moons ago, I did not hesitate to destroy all the accounting data of a company that wanted me to violate the election financing laws. The servers were thorougly wiped and they were made very aware that any contrary action would result in a disclosure of their plans (which would actually have embarrassed the government).
They subsequently got in trouble with the revenue department for not having suitable records; all in for all, the owner was sufficiently fined by the revenue department to lose his house over it.
Likewise, kindergarden toys were deliberately made huge and heavy so that they could not be played by a lone kid, but instead kids had to collaborate with each other in order to play.
This copy-bit scheme is simply made to condition the public that they have no control over their destinly, because it is in the hands of the new croporate overlords.
I also keep a mirror of the Diebold memos.
(source of this information)
The roads you're so fond of driving your climate-changing SUV are working under a business model that's heavily paid for by taxpayers, boy.
I'm not antisemite, I'm anti asshole.