This fellow is what as known as a useful idiot. The Democratic Party benefits from his conduct and he goes to jail for his conduct. No one in the Party will defend him, lest a situation not totally unlike Watergate arise. It would still be political suicide for them to put their money where there mouth is and get him one of those trial lawyers working pro bono or via defense fund.
A government is only as politically sovereign over its territory and persons (human and corporate) as it is fiscally sovereign. When governments owe money to other nations, the laws of the creditor nations begin to creep into the nation of such government. Political sovereignty begins with fiscal sovereignty.
It is a given that laws are to govern conduct. However, the laws of many nations regard identity as a form of conduct. What if one's identity based on immutable traits (ethnicity and/or phenotype) and/or matters of conscience (religion and/or ideology) is regarded a crime in another nation?
The division between property crimes and political crimes is not always as clear as it appears.
Imagine a world where one cannot vote with one's feet?
Civil liberties will likely be at the bottom of the pool as driving is considered a privilege, not a right under US common law.
Safety merely piggybacks on the following. The reason that driving has remained a privilege is that an armed, communicating and mobile at-will public is the most dangerous domestic entity that any government can face. So it is no surprise that fulcrum of American liberty continues to be held hostage by a privilege. All this talk I hear about "change", this is where it is needed the most.
Corporations are legal fictions that cannot exist outside and independent of the jurisdictions that create them. Remember Moriarty from the Star Trek:TNG episode "Elementary My Dear Data". If a corporation wants to move, it must incorporate in the destination (think "holodeck") jurisdiction. Anything beyond that is asking for status as a sovereign nation state. The UN does not incorporate
As for the prosecution of crimes committed within stateless space (what tax freedom implies), it would depend upon the citizenship of the victim and/or the citizenship of the suspect. I imagine the motivation for Google or any other data center entity that expatriates would include but not be limited to tax reasons. If the federal government (via the IRS) determines that tax avoidance is the reason, it could discreetly state that those holding US citizenship that work in such places that 'they are pretty much on their own'. Maritime law can come into play if there exist a valid contract.
Merely because US citizenship is a franchise upon the exercise thereof Congress may lay and collect excises (income tax) does not mean that the rights which flow therefrom are limitless.
Remember Lisa Flatow. Some years ago I remember hearing radio PSA's sponsored by the US Department of State concerning US citizen travelers. It stated that travelers needed to learn the customs and ways of their destinations or they will have to "face the music". Whether it arise from the geopolitics of petroleum to the tinfoil hat domain of excessive gov't to potentially hostile nations, the romantic idea that John Q. Public will be rescued by G.I. Joe anytime anywhere is a relic of the past.
What if being a [your ethnicity, religion, and/or ideology here] were made a crime? Should the right to life, liberty and property be just as unlimited?
Now it has become the choice between having a nagging wife (until the life insurance probationary period expires) and little bloodsucking leukemia magnets (until the last one gets his/her bachelor's degree) just to use a public facility without harassment and having (gasp) no debts and disposable income and being tossed out as a presumed paedophile.
A wagging bony digit points to all of us from Mr. Orwell's grave for the Magna Carta has become nothing but a loo roll.
The very fact that they want to study the effects should be a matter of concern. Who said something about 'Los Angeles' in reference to US defense policy in reference to Taiwan? Think The Art of War.
I'd rather be xenophobic because the alternative is suicide.
What it all boils down to is having an alternate citizenship. This is why ancestry research has boomed in the past ten years. Argentinians of Italian ancestry have been returning to Italy for a while now. How soon will it be before something like this happens in the USA?
Eventually, someone here will make some obnoxious comment about the Law of Return.
And why is it that caltrops are used to puncture BUS tires?
Many large police vehicles are bus based such as mobile command centers, transports for disorder control personnel are based on bus platforms (Blue Bird, Navistar, etc). If these can take out bus tires, then these can take out tires of such 'high value' vehicles as tanker trucks, especially those transporting flammable gases and liquids. If one were to realize the damage that these could cause with their ease of deployment, these are recognized as 'high leverage' (low tech, high impact) devices.
One thing to which I had paid attention was the quality of computer cases. Once these were made of the same heavy gauge steel as the frame rails of automobiles and were spot welded. With few exceptions, today's cases are built no better than cookie tins with flimsy rivets. Remove the old electronics from these and retrofit with current technology with the help of a cordless drill set, a Dremel(R) tool and dozens of ceramic cutting wheels. The only problem is that the vast majority of older cases do not allow as many drives as their newer counterparts.
The HP Netserver LX Pro case is an exception. With sixteen half-height 5.25 in. drive bays, one won't run out of space too quickly, especially when stuffing it with DVD or BluRay(R) writers and terabyte SATA hard drives. Cooling may not be an issue, but the noise of six large muffin fans may suggest fluid cooling. Casters make moving the unit convenient. The old electronics can be recycled. A peripheral (pun not necessarily intended) benefit is that the unit is so heavy it takes four people to steal it.
The above posting was sponsored by the Curbside Shopping Network.
Somewhere in NASA there is a stash of Space:1999 DVD's or even laserdiscs. The concept craft in the YouTube video looks like a rip-off of the spaceships in the episode Dragon's Domain. Where's Adagio for Strings in G Minor by Tomaso Albinoni for the soundtrack? Where's the monster with the spotlight eye and tentacles (complete with guy wires) that eats humans and spits out the carcasses so speedily one thinks "skateboard under prop"? Oh, did I forget the "out of focus spinning hubcap" visual effect?
I can see where this is going. Carrying a copy of the PANTEX computer catalog, wearing a T-shirt that says PHYSIQUES PACKAGE, listening to OPERATION IVY, and munching on a (DOMINIC) HARD-TACK.
If they don't like the way you look, show signs of pork consumption deficiency, or not dressing like a giggolo or slut, to them it is probable cause. Heaven help him or her if one be a Sefardic Jew.
Ever since the Great Depression, Americans spend their attention on distractions, such as sports and entertainment. Attention to politics has been disallowed since 9/11. If Americans spent their attention on more substantive matters, one would see those deathcamp^Wrepurposed military bases in operation posthaste. Oh, wait...
Ach Du Lieber! It is the 'kinder' in KINDERgarten. I was hinting at contraband files planted on the aforementioned server by law enforcement in retaliation for recording their activities.
This assumes that the individual must grovel before the government. This runs counter to the idea that public officers are public servants. It is not consistent with the American understanding of a republic. Oh, wait...
I was being facetious. As one who resides in a jurisdiction that is so grounded in English law (New Jersey) that the judges were required to wear wigs until 1947, your having mentioned residing in Scotland in the discussion of differences of legal systems brought the term to mind.
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This fellow is what as known as a useful idiot. The Democratic Party benefits from his conduct and he goes to jail for his conduct. No one in the Party will defend him, lest a situation not totally unlike Watergate arise. It would still be political suicide for them to put their money where there mouth is and get him one of those trial lawyers working pro bono or via defense fund.
A government is only as politically sovereign over its territory and persons (human and corporate) as it is fiscally sovereign. When governments owe money to other nations, the laws of the creditor nations begin to creep into the nation of such government. Political sovereignty begins with fiscal sovereignty.
It is a given that laws are to govern conduct. However, the laws of many nations regard identity as a form of conduct. What if one's identity based on immutable traits (ethnicity and/or phenotype) and/or matters of conscience (religion and/or ideology) is regarded a crime in another nation?
The division between property crimes and political crimes is not always as clear as it appears.
Imagine a world where one cannot vote with one's feet?
Civil liberties will likely be at the bottom of the pool as driving is considered a privilege, not a right under US common law.
Safety merely piggybacks on the following. The reason that driving has remained a privilege is that an armed, communicating and mobile at-will public is the most dangerous domestic entity that any government can face. So it is no surprise that fulcrum of American liberty continues to be held hostage by a privilege. All this talk I hear about "change", this is where it is needed the most.
The problem is that if those who are supposed to be watched and only such people were watched, One or more of the following will result:
1. Oil embargo.
2. Civil unrest.
3. Loss of cheap brainpower.
4. Calling of foreign debt.
So that these things do not happen, everyone is regarded as a suspect. It's all about equality.
Sharks with legal degrees? Redundant.
Corporations are legal fictions that cannot exist outside and independent of the jurisdictions that create them. Remember Moriarty from the Star Trek:TNG episode "Elementary My Dear Data". If a corporation wants to move, it must incorporate in the destination (think "holodeck") jurisdiction. Anything beyond that is asking for status as a sovereign nation state. The UN does not incorporate
As for the prosecution of crimes committed within stateless space (what tax freedom implies), it would depend upon the citizenship of the victim and/or the citizenship of the suspect. I imagine the motivation for Google or any other data center entity that expatriates would include but not be limited to tax reasons. If the federal government (via the IRS) determines that tax avoidance is the reason, it could discreetly state that those holding US citizenship that work in such places that 'they are pretty much on their own'. Maritime law can come into play if there exist a valid contract.
Merely because US citizenship is a franchise upon the exercise thereof Congress may lay and collect excises (income tax) does not mean that the rights which flow therefrom are limitless.
Remember Lisa Flatow. Some years ago I remember hearing radio PSA's sponsored by the US Department of State concerning US citizen travelers. It stated that travelers needed to learn the customs and ways of their destinations or they will have to "face the music". Whether it arise from the geopolitics of petroleum to the tinfoil hat domain of excessive gov't to potentially hostile nations, the romantic idea that John Q. Public will be rescued by G.I. Joe anytime anywhere is a relic of the past.
What if being a [your ethnicity, religion, and/or ideology here] were made a crime? Should the right to life, liberty and property be just as unlimited?
Now it has become the choice between having a nagging wife (until the life insurance probationary period expires) and little bloodsucking leukemia magnets (until the last one gets his/her bachelor's degree) just to use a public facility without harassment and having (gasp) no debts and disposable income and being tossed out as a presumed paedophile.
A wagging bony digit points to all of us from Mr. Orwell's grave for the Magna Carta has become nothing but a loo roll.
The very fact that they want to study the effects should be a matter of concern. Who said something about 'Los Angeles' in reference to US defense policy in reference to Taiwan? Think The Art of War.
I'd rather be xenophobic because the alternative is suicide.
What it all boils down to is having an alternate citizenship. This is why ancestry research has boomed in the past ten years. Argentinians of Italian ancestry have been returning to Italy for a while now. How soon will it be before something like this happens in the USA?
Eventually, someone here will make some obnoxious comment about the Law of Return.
And why is it that caltrops are used to puncture BUS tires?
Many large police vehicles are bus based such as mobile command centers, transports for disorder control personnel are based on bus platforms (Blue Bird, Navistar, etc). If these can take out bus tires, then these can take out tires of such 'high value' vehicles as tanker trucks, especially those transporting flammable gases and liquids. If one were to realize the damage that these could cause with their ease of deployment, these are recognized as 'high leverage' (low tech, high impact) devices.
What shall become of the GEICO advert and that 'caveman' show?
Now if a furry limb grasping a sign stating "Not Again" emerged from the capsule with the classic descending whistle tone, oh, wait...
As a gag, have the DePatie-Freleng Enterprises "spoon/spear" logo appear over the dirt cloud after impact.
One thing to which I had paid attention was the quality of computer cases. Once these were made of the same heavy gauge steel as the frame rails of automobiles and were spot welded. With few exceptions, today's cases are built no better than cookie tins with flimsy rivets. Remove the old electronics from these and retrofit with current technology with the help of a cordless drill set, a Dremel(R) tool and dozens of ceramic cutting wheels. The only problem is that the vast majority of older cases do not allow as many drives as their newer counterparts.
The HP Netserver LX Pro case is an exception. With sixteen half-height 5.25 in. drive bays, one won't run out of space too quickly, especially when stuffing it with DVD or BluRay(R) writers and terabyte SATA hard drives. Cooling may not be an issue, but the noise of six large muffin fans may suggest fluid cooling. Casters make moving the unit convenient. The old electronics can be recycled. A peripheral (pun not necessarily intended) benefit is that the unit is so heavy it takes four people to steal it.
The above posting was sponsored by the Curbside Shopping Network.
Three engines in a triangular formation? Egads! It's the Super Swift!
I can hear someone say "but like, that never got off the drawing board!"
Here come the walking piles of egg foo young and vegetable lo-mein (with shaving gel oozing out)...
Yep, I've been on the brain machine too long...
Somewhere in NASA there is a stash of Space:1999 DVD's or even laserdiscs. The concept craft in the YouTube video looks like a rip-off of the spaceships in the episode Dragon's Domain. Where's Adagio for Strings in G Minor by Tomaso Albinoni for the soundtrack? Where's the monster with the spotlight eye and tentacles (complete with guy wires) that eats humans and spits out the carcasses so speedily one thinks "skateboard under prop"? Oh, did I forget the "out of focus spinning hubcap" visual effect?
On high, Lew Grade must be laughing...
There are not enough single men with interests in 'politically applied sciences' and have nothing to lose in the USA yet.
I can see where this is going. Carrying a copy of the PANTEX computer catalog, wearing a T-shirt that says PHYSIQUES PACKAGE, listening to OPERATION IVY, and munching on a (DOMINIC) HARD-TACK.
verb error - sin ESTAR acostado. Perhaps I was correct in a sarcastic sense that it has become a PERMANENT and IDENTIFYING state.
Right of the Sovereign to Protect Itself? BULLSHARK! Yo no puedo salir mi casa sin ser acostado por millones de los mesoamericanos?
Es el derecho del sobrano para guadarse y todo el mundo (se) rien.
If they don't like the way you look, show signs of pork consumption deficiency, or not dressing like a giggolo or slut, to them it is probable cause. Heaven help him or her if one be a Sefardic Jew.
Ever since the Great Depression, Americans spend their attention on distractions, such as sports and entertainment. Attention to politics has been disallowed since 9/11. If Americans spent their attention on more substantive matters, one would see those deathcamp^Wrepurposed military bases in operation posthaste. Oh, wait...
Ach Du Lieber! It is the 'kinder' in KINDERgarten. I was hinting at contraband files planted on the aforementioned server by law enforcement in retaliation for recording their activities.
And after the cops find out that they have been remotely recorded...
drwxrwxrwx 12 root root 4096 2008-06-12 09:28 kinderporn
drwxrwxrwx 12 root root 4096 2001-09-11 08:47 al-qaida_manuals
-rw-r--r-- 18 root root 1048576 2008-06-12 12:53 drug_dealer_phone_numbers
This assumes that the individual must grovel before the government. This runs counter to the idea that public officers are public servants. It is not consistent with the American understanding of a republic. Oh, wait...
I was being facetious. As one who resides in a jurisdiction that is so grounded in English law (New Jersey) that the judges were required to wear wigs until 1947, your having mentioned residing in Scotland in the discussion of differences of legal systems brought the term to mind.