Tell your legislator that you are watching them very closely on this issue, and if they vote in favor of it, they won't be your legislator for much longer, because you will organize a campaign to de-elect them in two, four, or however many years it takes. Add that you won't allow your right to free speech to be trampled. That written speech should NEVER be censored no matter what it might be, and that anybody who supports censorship of webpages deserves the label "book burner" and include a picture like so: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2b/1933-may-10-berlin-book-burning.JPG/250px-1933-may-10-berlin-book-burning.JPG
Here in the States there are certain persons who want to block internet downloads of "Huckleberry Finn" because they think it's racist. Well, anybody who's actually read the book knows it is the exact opposite of racist, and in fact teaches a lesson about how blacks are no different than whites. Fortunately for us, our government agrees and does not censor Mark Twain's greatest novel.
Unfortunately for Aussies, your government doesn't have the common sense God granted a jackass. They are the 2000-era equivalent of book burners.
Do what they did on the Battlestar Galactica (don't use externally-connected networks), and you won't have to worry about being hacked by Cylons..... er, terrorists and spys.
It's actually an inalienable RIGHT to not self-incriminate yourself. If you've got a safe filled with evidence, and for some reason the government can not open that safe, then you will not go to jail. You might go to trial, but the judge cannot order you to open that safe or reveal where you hid the key. Therefore you'd be freed.
Any judge who tried to do that, torture you into revealing the key hidden in some hole somewhere, would be in violation of the Fifth Anendment, and his order would be overturned by either the State Supreme or the U.S. Supreme Court. And again, you'd be freed.
Apparently in the UK they can just let you sit in jail without limit. How like the Roman Empire.
The Eastern Europeans had no advanced weapons, but they still managed to topple their governments with pistols and clubs. The threat of nuclear-equipped armies did not stop them.
"From time-to-time the tree of liberty must be watered with the blood of Patriots and Tyrants." - Thomas Jefferson
Is life so precious that you're willing to be a slave to your own government... to be imprisoned whenever they feel like it? "Oh he has his USB drive locked in a safe, and he refuses to tell us where he hid the key, so let's send him to jail for a year." I sincerely hope not.
Here's a better picture. When they moved O'Brien from TNG to DS9, they switched his uniform to a more muted style (predominately black with a little bit of color):
I found this article on the FCC website that I thought was interesting:
"Operating such [white space] devices on the adjacent channel causes interference with digital television & $40 coupon, government-subsidized digital-to-analog converters. WSD operating at 100 milliwatts would cause interference in 84% of the television viewing area." We need to stop these Androids before they cause further harm.
Why would I switch to Democrat when *they* don't stand for anything I believe either?
They talk about freedom, and yet they want to add even more taxes to my paycheck. I'm already losing 40% of my pay in automatic deductions. We don't need more taxes.
I think the Star Trek DS9 and Voyager uniforms were better. The main body of the uniform was black, with only the shoulders in color. Unfortunately I cant find a decent picture of this.
You don't get it because you don't watch over-the-air television. If you did, then you'd know that OTA television is finicky and even something as small as a tree can cause dropouts.
Now imagine somebody broadcasting their whitespace-enabled Ipod over top of WBAL-11 while I'm trying to watch it. The result will be that channel 11 will disappear off my set.
Also are you aware that channels 36, 37, and 38 are used for hospital devices? Just what we need: Somebody turning on their whitespace gadget and causing a heart monitor to shutdown & kill a patient.
Lucky for us Americans, a subpoena can not force you to testify against yourself. It's a Constitutional right written in black ink and cannot be revoked by any mere subpoena.
Well if I lived in the UK, and they demanded access to my encrypted data, rather than surrender the key I'd just use my gun to protect myself from arrest.
Oh wait. They took our guns too.
Looks like I'll be spending the next year in jail.
Windows is at 6.0 (Vista) and still doesn't work as well as the Macintosh OS circa 1995.
>>>I learned that the Product Managers want to release this NEW product with a version number somewhere between 5.0 and 8.0 because 'there is a stigma about buying 1.0 products. People assume it's no good.' >>>
Nothing new. Windows NT 1.0 was released as NT 3.1 by Microsoft. It was strictly marketing.
Pretty soon the government will come for the Jews. Except this time, it won't be the Jews, but the Muslim-British who will be rounded-up and set to camps. The government will then produce emails to justify the action & talk-about a "Muslim conspiracy" via the internet.
Yes but the colonies set-up their own legislatures. They became self-ruled citizens, and they weren't happy to have Parliament close those legislatures & suddenly take-over. The colonists tried to resolve the crisis and preserve British-America, but the arrogant British refused to give them seats on the Parliament. So the colonists created their OWN parliament and called it Congress.
The British made the same fool mistake with India (refused to expand Parliament to include Indian representatives). I guess people really don't learn from history.
Stupid. You'd have 10,000 members of the House. They wouldn't all fit inside the existing building! You'd need a small stadium every time the House meets, plus lots and lots and lots of office space to support each member (picture a typical central state college like PSU or MSU). There'd be nothing left of D.C. - no homes, no stores, just Congresscritters & their staff running everywhere.
No. Our D.C. government needs to be *smaller* not larger; it already treats us like idiot children. It needs to be smaller.
If you want more-direct representation, then call-up your State Legislator. He/she typically serves ~10,000 people and therefore can better meet your needs. The State representatives actually listen to their constituents, and can provide assistance as needed.
>>>... and if you got no books at all, you might just be Republican:)
You know I'm sick of these prejudices (yes that is the correct word). I'm a Republican, I read lots of texts, and my room is about as messy & colorful as any liberal room.
Furthermore, I'm sick of the label "conservative". The idea that man should rule himself (not be ruled by politicians) is about as liberal as can be. I support legalization of marijuana (inside your own home) and same-sex marriages (it's your bedroom; do whatever you want). I'm as liberal as any Democrat, I just don't think having my government act like my daddy is the answer.
>>>In its ruling, the appeals court said an encryption key is no different than a physical key and exists separately from a person's will.
If a presumed-innocent person drops an actual key into a hole-in-the-ground, and refuses to divulge its location, the police can't incarcerate him simply because he refuses to say where it's located. That's loss of liberty without due process. They have to let him go.
And they can't use torture to try to force the hidden location out of him either. The man might be completely innocent and have no clue where a key exists, and therefore unable to reveal the location, even under threat of one year imprisonment.
The FCC does not have authority to regulate a private company's wiring. The FCC's authority only applies in two cases:
- over the air, publically-owned airwaves
- government-granted monopolies (i.e. cable)
Therefore if Verizon FiOS or Dish Satellite want to squeeze 20 channels into each 6 megahertz space, they can. They are free to do whatever they please. (Even with FCC regs, local stations still have the option to squeeze 9 channels per 6 megahertz space.)
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Tell your legislator that you are watching them very closely on this issue, and if they vote in favor of it, they won't be your legislator for much longer, because you will organize a campaign to de-elect them in two, four, or however many years it takes. Add that you won't allow your right to free speech to be trampled. That written speech should NEVER be censored no matter what it might be, and that anybody who supports censorship of webpages deserves the label "book burner" and include a picture like so: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2b/1933-may-10-berlin-book-burning.JPG/250px-1933-may-10-berlin-book-burning.JPG
Here in the States there are certain persons who want to block internet downloads of "Huckleberry Finn" because they think it's racist. Well, anybody who's actually read the book knows it is the exact opposite of racist, and in fact teaches a lesson about how blacks are no different than whites. Fortunately for us, our government agrees and does not censor Mark Twain's greatest novel.
Unfortunately for Aussies, your government doesn't have the common sense God granted a jackass. They are the 2000-era equivalent of book burners.
That was supposed to say:
Does using "blink" make my code non-standard?
News Flash:
Do what they did on the Battlestar Galactica (don't use externally-connected networks), and you won't have to worry about being hacked by Cylons..... er, terrorists and spys.
Sorry but I've already done the third party thing (Harry Browne).
I like to support a candidate who actually had a chance of winning. Like Ron Paul. He did pretty good, but got drowned-out by the big politicians.
So I'll do the next best thing and vote Ron Paul's party.
Better to die with a gun in your hand, than to die in jail.
>>>And who keeps the government in check with the constitution?
The armed populace.
The States (disintegration of the U.S. and the forming of a new, third union of states).
It's actually an inalienable RIGHT to not self-incriminate yourself. If you've got a safe filled with evidence, and for some reason the government can not open that safe, then you will not go to jail. You might go to trial, but the judge cannot order you to open that safe or reveal where you hid the key. Therefore you'd be freed.
Any judge who tried to do that, torture you into revealing the key hidden in some hole somewhere, would be in violation of the Fifth Anendment, and his order would be overturned by either the State Supreme or the U.S. Supreme Court. And again, you'd be freed.
Apparently in the UK they can just let you sit in jail without limit. How like the Roman Empire.
The Eastern Europeans had no advanced weapons, but they still managed to topple their governments with pistols and clubs. The threat of nuclear-equipped armies did not stop them.
"From time-to-time the tree of liberty must be watered with the blood of Patriots and Tyrants." - Thomas Jefferson
Is life so precious that you're willing to be a slave to your own government... to be imprisoned whenever they feel like it? "Oh he has his USB drive locked in a safe, and he refuses to tell us where he hid the key, so let's send him to jail for a year." I sincerely hope not.
Here's a better picture. When they moved O'Brien from TNG to DS9, they switched his uniform to a more muted style (predominately black with a little bit of color):
http://www.vidiot.com/st-ds9/images/DS9CastCM01.jpg
Does using make my code non-standard?
I found this article on the FCC website that I thought was interesting:
"Operating such [white space] devices on the adjacent channel causes interference with digital television & $40 coupon, government-subsidized digital-to-analog converters. WSD operating at 100 milliwatts would cause interference in 84% of the television viewing area." We need to stop these Androids before they cause further harm.
http://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/prod/ecfs/retrieve.cgi?native_or_pdf=pdf&id_document=6520175536
Why would I switch to Democrat when *they* don't stand for anything I believe either?
They talk about freedom, and yet they want to add even more taxes to my paycheck. I'm already losing 40% of my pay in automatic deductions. We don't need more taxes.
I think the Star Trek DS9 and Voyager uniforms were better. The main body of the uniform was black, with only the shoulders in color. Unfortunately I cant find a decent picture of this.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:HarryKim.jpg
You don't get it because you don't watch over-the-air television. If you did, then you'd know that OTA television is finicky and even something as small as a tree can cause dropouts.
Now imagine somebody broadcasting their whitespace-enabled Ipod over top of WBAL-11 while I'm trying to watch it. The result will be that channel 11 will disappear off my set.
Also are you aware that channels 36, 37, and 38 are used for hospital devices? Just what we need: Somebody turning on their whitespace gadget and causing a heart monitor to shutdown & kill a patient.
Lucky for us Americans, a subpoena can not force you to testify against yourself. It's a Constitutional right written in black ink and cannot be revoked by any mere subpoena.
Well if I lived in the UK, and they demanded access to my encrypted data, rather than surrender the key I'd just use my gun to protect myself from arrest.
Oh wait. They took our guns too.
Looks like I'll be spending the next year in jail.
That's not so far-fetched as you think.
The average middle class American (~$40,000 per year) earns 2 million dollars during his or her lifetime.
Windows is at 6.0 (Vista) and still doesn't work as well as the Macintosh OS circa 1995.
>>>I learned that the Product Managers want to release this NEW product with a version number somewhere between 5.0 and 8.0 because 'there is a stigma about buying 1.0 products. People assume it's no good.'
>>>
Nothing new. Windows NT 1.0 was released as NT 3.1 by Microsoft. It was strictly marketing.
Pretty soon the government will come for the Jews. Except this time, it won't be the Jews, but the Muslim-British who will be rounded-up and set to camps. The government will then produce emails to justify the action & talk-about a "Muslim conspiracy" via the internet.
Just wait. You'll see.
Yes but the colonies set-up their own legislatures. They became self-ruled citizens, and they weren't happy to have Parliament close those legislatures & suddenly take-over. The colonists tried to resolve the crisis and preserve British-America, but the arrogant British refused to give them seats on the Parliament. So the colonists created their OWN parliament and called it Congress.
The British made the same fool mistake with India (refused to expand Parliament to include Indian representatives). I guess people really don't learn from history.
Stupid. You'd have 10,000 members of the House. They wouldn't all fit inside the existing building! You'd need a small stadium every time the House meets, plus lots and lots and lots of office space to support each member (picture a typical central state college like PSU or MSU). There'd be nothing left of D.C. - no homes, no stores, just Congresscritters & their staff running everywhere.
No. Our D.C. government needs to be *smaller* not larger; it already treats us like idiot children. It needs to be smaller.
If you want more-direct representation, then call-up your State Legislator. He/she typically serves ~10,000 people and therefore can better meet your needs. The State representatives actually listen to their constituents, and can provide assistance as needed.
>>>... and if you got no books at all, you might just be Republican :)
You know I'm sick of these prejudices (yes that is the correct word). I'm a Republican, I read lots of texts, and my room is about as messy & colorful as any liberal room.
Furthermore, I'm sick of the label "conservative". The idea that man should rule himself (not be ruled by politicians) is about as liberal as can be. I support legalization of marijuana (inside your own home) and same-sex marriages (it's your bedroom; do whatever you want). I'm as liberal as any Democrat, I just don't think having my government act like my daddy is the answer.
I gotta disagree there. In the article it states:
>>>In its ruling, the appeals court said an encryption key is no different than a physical key and exists separately from a person's will.
If a presumed-innocent person drops an actual key into a hole-in-the-ground, and refuses to divulge its location, the police can't incarcerate him simply because he refuses to say where it's located. That's loss of liberty without due process. They have to let him go.
And they can't use torture to try to force the hidden location out of him either. The man might be completely innocent and have no clue where a key exists, and therefore unable to reveal the location, even under threat of one year imprisonment.
The FCC does not have authority to regulate a private company's wiring. The FCC's authority only applies in two cases: - over the air, publically-owned airwaves - government-granted monopolies (i.e. cable) Therefore if Verizon FiOS or Dish Satellite want to squeeze 20 channels into each 6 megahertz space, they can. They are free to do whatever they please. (Even with FCC regs, local stations still have the option to squeeze 9 channels per 6 megahertz space.)