That does not solve anything when the funds are fungible. Increased revenue designated for a specific purpose will displace general revenue which can then be allocated to pork projects. Lotteries used for educational funding are a good example of this.
Parallel construction also gets around 4th amendment restrictions on searches and seizures. The remedy for an unlawful search or seizure is exclusion of evidence but that does not apply when parallel construction is used.
There are a lot of things in the USA that are not supposed to exist. Secret laws, secret courts, secret trade agreements. Secret police. Secret police blacksites. Secret "crowd control" weapons for the secret police to use domestically. Torture. Rendition. Off-shore prisons. Extrajudicial assassination.
The FBI has a history of precipitating gun fights where bystanders were shot by the FBI or just shooting into areas were people were present without positively identifying their targets.
It would have been impossible for the many people the FBI have entrapped to proceed without the FBI's large amount of help. A vast majority of planning and resources were provided by the FBI. Why aren't *those* people criminally charged? They did more than the patsy now under arrest.
Adding more batteries increases the backup time but once they are charged, the same situation develops with the power from the solar array being unused unless as you point out it is wasted on an auxiliary load which is not going to be common. A grid-tie solution without batteries is always going to be more economical unless battery cost decreases unrealistically or grid power costs increases unrealistically. One significant advantage of batteries of course is the availability of backup power when the power grid is down or unavailable.
I remember when I looked into this that grid-tie inverters with battery backup are available. Once the batteries are charged, they divert excess power to the grid and I believe the batteries are only used in the event of grid power failure.
What about using one of those plug-in grid-tie inverters? That will limit your peak power to 15 or 20 amps or 1800 or 2400 watts per standard circuit. Being plug-in it can be considered a temporary installation which avoids many regulatory issues.
Modern Li-ion batteries have a round-trip efficiency of about 85%. Grid transmission has losses of about 7% from the power station to you, but will likely be higher if it is peer-to-peer. They are actually in the same ballpark.
I wondered about that quote as well but the article was including limited battery capacity versus virtually unlimited grid capacity. At the end of the day when the batteries are fully charged, excess solar power cannot be saved unlike with a grid-tie solution.
But when they purposefully lie to conceal where the evidence came from, how are they any better than the criminals they put away? You can't send someone to jail for years based on a lie.
The difference between law enforcement and a gang of thugs is that a gang of thugs is more honest in not expecting the sanction of their victims.
Unwarranted searches are unconstitutional even if evidence is not used in court however the normal remedy is exclusion which does not apply and parallel construction avoids challenging this.
There's nothing wrong with the pen register ruling; you don't have any expectation of privacy when you voluntarily hand information to a third party. The ruling abides by both the letter and the spirit of the 4th Amendment.
I agree and this means that the only safe "cloud" application is bulk storage of encrypted data with encryption and decryption done locally. All cloud applications and servers leak their contents without a warrant or notification which the government goes to great lengths to avoid advertising.
The rest of the developed world seems to find the opposite is true, and judging by their number of gun deaths, something seems to be working.
Most of the rest of the developed world reports reports homicides only after convictions which lowers their apparent crime rate to a fraction of its true value. In the US any homicide using a firearm whether justified or not counts as a gun death. When our police shoot someone in the back who is fleeing, that counts as a gun death.
why are so many americans such fucking morons when it comes to the simple undeniable truth: more easy guns = more senseless death, not protection
Because it is not that simple unless you have an explanation for how the availability of guns leads to a proportional increase in deaths via other means like knives, blunt object, and other items which can be used as weapons. Their may be a violence problem, something which is misleadingly high relative to other nations when they report crime differently, but it is not caused by the availability of firearms.
So, are there any Slashdotters out there that might know the inside story on why the 6809 never went further? Was it because Motorola lost its way so bad in the mid-late 90s? Was it the 68k? Or what?
It may be the same reason we switched from 68HC11 to PIC and IBM used the 8088 instead of the 68000; Motorola was never customer friendly except with their literature. Availability and second sources were common problems.
Another possibility is that with the release of the 68008, there was no reason to further market the 6809.
The problem with these sorts of incidents is that on the unlikely chance it had been an actual terrorist attack, the police could be sued if they wasted any time at all.
Law enforcement has no duty to protect anybody. They are not even liable if they prevent you from protecting yourself and then decline to protect you.
Dissent from Riss v. New York: What makes the City's position [denying any obligation to protect the woman] particularly difficult to understand is that, in conformity to the dictates of the law [she] did not carry any weapon for self-defense. Thus, by a rather bitter irony she was required to rely for protection on the City of New York which now denies all responsibility to her.
Uh no. Nowhere near as reliable as an optical or hall effect trigger and an igniter transistor.
Hall effect sensors are surprisingly unreliable because of their fragility. Reluctance pickups made from a coil of wire work just as well in this application yet automobile manufacturers still manage to build unreliable ones.
One significant disadvantage to electronic ignition is that when it does fail, and I have seen both the sensors and output transistors fail, it completely quits. Points wear out requiring refurbishing but the only way I have seen them completely fail is when the ignition transformer failed again showing how the automotive companies can screw up even a coil of wire.
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There is little or no criminal and civil liability for the company.
That does not solve anything when the funds are fungible. Increased revenue designated for a specific purpose will displace general revenue which can then be allocated to pork projects. Lotteries used for educational funding are a good example of this.
Parallel construction also gets around 4th amendment restrictions on searches and seizures. The remedy for an unlawful search or seizure is exclusion of evidence but that does not apply when parallel construction is used.
Secret interrogation centers:
http://www.theguardian.com/us-...
Just like Jefferson wanted it.
The FBI has a history of precipitating gun fights where bystanders were shot by the FBI or just shooting into areas were people were present without positively identifying their targets.
Market segmentation and price discrimination.
Shouldn't we apply the same standard for innocent bystanders that the FBI has injured or killed?
The guys who helped them and were paid by the FBI were not charged with anything.
It would have been impossible for the many people the FBI have entrapped to proceed without the FBI's large amount of help. A vast majority of planning and resources were provided by the FBI. Why aren't *those* people criminally charged? They did more than the patsy now under arrest.
Adding more batteries increases the backup time but once they are charged, the same situation develops with the power from the solar array being unused unless as you point out it is wasted on an auxiliary load which is not going to be common. A grid-tie solution without batteries is always going to be more economical unless battery cost decreases unrealistically or grid power costs increases unrealistically. One significant advantage of batteries of course is the availability of backup power when the power grid is down or unavailable.
I remember when I looked into this that grid-tie inverters with battery backup are available. Once the batteries are charged, they divert excess power to the grid and I believe the batteries are only used in the event of grid power failure.
What about using one of those plug-in grid-tie inverters? That will limit your peak power to 15 or 20 amps or 1800 or 2400 watts per standard circuit. Being plug-in it can be considered a temporary installation which avoids many regulatory issues.
I wondered about that quote as well but the article was including limited battery capacity versus virtually unlimited grid capacity. At the end of the day when the batteries are fully charged, excess solar power cannot be saved unlike with a grid-tie solution.
If it is the only way to fix the law? Yes, put those toddlers in prison.
Stopping real criminals is a good way to get shot. Collaring 14 year old students is much safer.
The difference between law enforcement and a gang of thugs is that a gang of thugs is more honest in not expecting the sanction of their victims.
Unwarranted searches are unconstitutional even if evidence is not used in court however the normal remedy is exclusion which does not apply and parallel construction avoids challenging this.
I agree and this means that the only safe "cloud" application is bulk storage of encrypted data with encryption and decryption done locally. All cloud applications and servers leak their contents without a warrant or notification which the government goes to great lengths to avoid advertising.
Most of the rest of the developed world reports reports homicides only after convictions which lowers their apparent crime rate to a fraction of its true value. In the US any homicide using a firearm whether justified or not counts as a gun death. When our police shoot someone in the back who is fleeing, that counts as a gun death.
Because it is not that simple unless you have an explanation for how the availability of guns leads to a proportional increase in deaths via other means like knives, blunt object, and other items which can be used as weapons. Their may be a violence problem, something which is misleadingly high relative to other nations when they report crime differently, but it is not caused by the availability of firearms.
Consent will just become another paragraph of boilerplate in the contract you agree to for service.
It may be the same reason we switched from 68HC11 to PIC and IBM used the 8088 instead of the 68000; Motorola was never customer friendly except with their literature. Availability and second sources were common problems.
Another possibility is that with the release of the 68008, there was no reason to further market the 6809.
Law enforcement has no duty to protect anybody. They are not even liable if they prevent you from protecting yourself and then decline to protect you.
https://www.firearmsandliberty...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W...
Dissent from Riss v. New York: What makes the City's position [denying any obligation to protect the woman] particularly difficult to understand is that, in conformity to the dictates of the law [she] did not carry any weapon for self-defense. Thus, by a rather bitter irony she was required to rely for protection on the City of New York which now denies all responsibility to her.
So you believe we are under the rule of law now?
Hall effect sensors are surprisingly unreliable because of their fragility. Reluctance pickups made from a coil of wire work just as well in this application yet automobile manufacturers still manage to build unreliable ones.
One significant disadvantage to electronic ignition is that when it does fail, and I have seen both the sensors and output transistors fail, it completely quits. Points wear out requiring refurbishing but the only way I have seen them completely fail is when the ignition transformer failed again showing how the automotive companies can screw up even a coil of wire.