I don't think a border agent can prevent a US citizen from entering the country.
As a foreign national trying to enter the US, you're absolutely right. The border agent can ask you to dance, riverdance style, while singing 'God Bless America,' and deny you if your foot work isn't up to par. But I meant specifically an American attempting to reenter the country. They can still get fucked with, don't get me wrong, but the rules are different.
Then there's that whole 'The border is 100 miles deep' thing America likes to claim.....
Note that in Canada, it's different. We'd invoke Section 7 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. You can still be compelled by statute to answer, but those answers can't then be used against you.
I'm a Canadian who once went on a day trip to Buffalo, NY on a lark with two of my daughters.
I myself look like a goddamn hippie with blond hair in a pony tail. I expected to get grilled like fuck for being a single man with two cute little girls in the back seat.
US Customs guy just pointed out that I hadn't actually signed my passport, that I should probably do that, and to enjoy my visit.
Guess what? You don't hear about the millions of people who don't get hassled at the border. You hear about the one who does.
Hell, whenever I roam, my carrier sends me an SMS saying 'hey, you're not in Kansas anymore, Toto. Turn off your data or face the wrath of the roaming charge!'
ESPECIALLY especially when you consider that a lot of places will already be familiar with developing for multiple consoles, AND developing for multiple generations.
If you can put AC4: Black Flag out for 360, XBONE, PS3, and PS4, you can make an XBONE-Scorpio disc that has a line of code that says 'if xbox.GetPlatform=Scorpio then UseBetterShadersAndBiggerTextures=1'.
Remember that we, in Canada, have a fairly unified banking system. Really, we've got the big 5, and we've got the Interac system, and any bank that wants to sign on, signs on.
In the US, however, you've got thousands and thousands of banks. They don't have a unified banking system; they have the big Credit Card companies.
But, yes, we've been on swipe and pin for decades, and chip and pin for years, and applepay Just Worked when the banks turned it on, because virtually any place that's set up for electronic transactions already has a tap capable terminal, and the infrastructure's all already there.
How free is this free market? Are content producers allowed to negotiate amoung themselves to fix prices? Are they allowed to pick and choose where to offer services? Are they allowed to enforce odious restrictions? Are they allowed to solicit 'incentives' from geographic regions to set up shop?
Gold and silver make good *coinage* due to their chemical properties, but a lot of people somehow conflate that into the idea that gold and silver have intrinsic worth.
It really was in the space of a year or two that the average user's expectation of what 'high speed internet' should be able to do went from 'look at web pages without watching the photos load part by part, watch the occasional SD video clip on youtube or cnn.com or something, and be able to download large email attachments fairly quickly' to 'be watching four different HD video streams, simultaneously.'
Either way, the government is subsidizing a type of insurance that would be infeasible on the open market, in order to promote a perceived societal benefit.
Right, so, you yern for the days of an ATI Mach64 for 2d video, a pair of 3dfx Voodoo2s in SLI, and a Aureal A3d sound card, or a SB32 with WaveBlaster2 daughterboard.
Those were, indeed, good times, though some of it was through the rosy glasses of nostalgia.
If plant operators had to buy liability insurance on the commercial market, all nuclear power stations would be uneconomic.
Sure, but by the same token, there are large swaths of the continental US of A that, if residents had to buy home insurance on the commercial market, would be utterly uninhabitable.
There is also thirty or forty years of technological advancement in nuclear safety to take into account.
Other countries manage to have independent government elections monitors. It's perfectly doable.
No, the issue here is that the Constitution doesn't specify how the states vote, so there's not much for the Feds to monitor.
Well, the REAL issue here is that the US system didn't work out the way it was intended, and has evolved into a weird chimera system of 'independent states' with a powerful Federal government. But you get my point.
There's been a lot of research since WW2 in to what it takes to actually get somebody to be able to respond appropriately in a 'deadly force encounter.' A two day CCW course isn't it. By and large, police training isn't it, either.
Unless you're doing regular training exercises, in real life, using something like simunition, you are very likely to simply be useless when something happens.
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I don't think a border agent can prevent a US citizen from entering the country.
As a foreign national trying to enter the US, you're absolutely right. The border agent can ask you to dance, riverdance style, while singing 'God Bless America,' and deny you if your foot work isn't up to par. But I meant specifically an American attempting to reenter the country. They can still get fucked with, don't get me wrong, but the rules are different.
Then there's that whole 'The border is 100 miles deep' thing America likes to claim.....
No, then you're giving away too much information.
"I want my lawyer" and "Am I free to go?"
Note that in Canada, it's different. We'd invoke Section 7 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. You can still be compelled by statute to answer, but those answers can't then be used against you.
http://www.slaw.ca/2011/10/07/...
No, 'On advice of counsel, I invoke my fifth amendment rights' falls under the 5th. "I forgot my password" is willfully lying to law enforcement.
I'm a Canadian who once went on a day trip to Buffalo, NY on a lark with two of my daughters.
I myself look like a goddamn hippie with blond hair in a pony tail. I expected to get grilled like fuck for being a single man with two cute little girls in the back seat.
US Customs guy just pointed out that I hadn't actually signed my passport, that I should probably do that, and to enjoy my visit.
Guess what? You don't hear about the millions of people who don't get hassled at the border. You hear about the one who does.
I hear GCI is working on this very thing.
And they're working towards decoupling it from the phone. The new OS allows for native apps. AppleWatch3 will have an LTE chip built into it.
It's very specifically Mormon, and is very specifically used for their 'Baptism of the Dead' rituals.
Hell, whenever I roam, my carrier sends me an SMS saying 'hey, you're not in Kansas anymore, Toto. Turn off your data or face the wrath of the roaming charge!'
You have rights, but you also have responsibilities.
The cops can't just cut your facebook off on a whim. But you can't just start pointing shotguns at cops all willy-nilly either.
39 year old me is kinda sad that there won't be a Microprose Commodore 64 sim for this new plane.
Hey, even Bolos kept human pilots.
Si vis pacem, para bellum. And I say that as a liberal Canadian.
ESPECIALLY especially when you consider that a lot of places will already be familiar with developing for multiple consoles, AND developing for multiple generations.
If you can put AC4: Black Flag out for 360, XBONE, PS3, and PS4, you can make an XBONE-Scorpio disc that has a line of code that says 'if xbox.GetPlatform=Scorpio then UseBetterShadersAndBiggerTextures=1'.
Well, if absolutely nothing else, at least a cert can be revoked if something winds up being malicious.
From a fellow Canuckistanian:
Remember that we, in Canada, have a fairly unified banking system. Really, we've got the big 5, and we've got the Interac system, and any bank that wants to sign on, signs on.
In the US, however, you've got thousands and thousands of banks. They don't have a unified banking system; they have the big Credit Card companies.
But, yes, we've been on swipe and pin for decades, and chip and pin for years, and applepay Just Worked when the banks turned it on, because virtually any place that's set up for electronic transactions already has a tap capable terminal, and the infrastructure's all already there.
How free is this free market? Are content producers allowed to negotiate amoung themselves to fix prices? Are they allowed to pick and choose where to offer services? Are they allowed to enforce odious restrictions? Are they allowed to solicit 'incentives' from geographic regions to set up shop?
Gold and silver make good *coinage* due to their chemical properties, but a lot of people somehow conflate that into the idea that gold and silver have intrinsic worth.
It really was in the space of a year or two that the average user's expectation of what 'high speed internet' should be able to do went from 'look at web pages without watching the photos load part by part, watch the occasional SD video clip on youtube or cnn.com or something, and be able to download large email attachments fairly quickly' to 'be watching four different HD video streams, simultaneously.'
Either way, the government is subsidizing a type of insurance that would be infeasible on the open market, in order to promote a perceived societal benefit.
Right, so, you yern for the days of an ATI Mach64 for 2d video, a pair of 3dfx Voodoo2s in SLI, and a Aureal A3d sound card, or a SB32 with WaveBlaster2 daughterboard.
Those were, indeed, good times, though some of it was through the rosy glasses of nostalgia.
Sure, but by the same token, there are large swaths of the continental US of A that, if residents had to buy home insurance on the commercial market, would be utterly uninhabitable.
There is also thirty or forty years of technological advancement in nuclear safety to take into account.
Blame a) the Bell/Rogers/Shaw triumvirate, and b) Canadian Content laws.
Other countries manage to have independent government elections monitors. It's perfectly doable.
No, the issue here is that the Constitution doesn't specify how the states vote, so there's not much for the Feds to monitor.
Well, the REAL issue here is that the US system didn't work out the way it was intended, and has evolved into a weird chimera system of 'independent states' with a powerful Federal government. But you get my point.
This is the same point I try to make a lot.
There's been a lot of research since WW2 in to what it takes to actually get somebody to be able to respond appropriately in a 'deadly force encounter.' A two day CCW course isn't it. By and large, police training isn't it, either.
Unless you're doing regular training exercises, in real life, using something like simunition, you are very likely to simply be useless when something happens.
It's somebody trying to sound all cool and with it by using shorthand. They probably also refer to POTUS, SCOTUS, CONUS, and so on.