It's the stupid 17th amendment that makes this an issue and it's the main reason our federal government has become some completely disfunctional.
I agree that it is a problem but the 17th amendment is almost irrelevant to this. Before it was ratified, a majority of the states were electing their US senators by popular vote anyway.
I wonder if Intel still cheats and uses a special compiler that favours their chips in secret, underhanded ways. You know, like they use to do.
Yes, Intel still does this both with their compiler and libraries. The only requirement from the court was that Intel say that they do this in their documentation.
I don't think that is quite true. Congress does get to organize and decide the training standards of the militia (Article I, Clause 15 & 16), and as things have it, they have essentially made organization and training for the militia into joining the National Guard (ie active military) and any militia which hasn't done so is not covered by articles of war and can be tried for disobeience.Larger discussion here.
This was specifically discussed during ratification. It is a right of the *people* and says so because otherwise, Congress could disarm the people simply by disbanding the militia. They were very cognizant of the difference between an unorganized militia (the people) and a "select" militia which is the National Guard.
There is some very old supreme court case when someone claimed their sawed off shotgun was legal because of the militia.
US v. Miller btw. Interestingly at the time sawed off shotguns were in common use in the military. Miller died before trial though so they ruled without his side presenting anything.
Miller was dead and unrepresented before the USSC. The USSC literally said:
In the absence of any evidence tending to show that possession or use of a "shotgun having a barrel of less than eighteen inches in length" at this time has some reasonable relationship to the preservation or efficiency of a well regulated militia, we cannot say that the Second Amendment guarantees the right to keep and bear such an instrument. Certainly it is not within judicial notice that this weapon is any part of the ordinary military equipment, or that its use could contribute to the common defense.
And remanded the case back to lower court to make that determination which of course could not happen with MIller dead and unrepresented.
So if the prefatory clause means anything, it is that military *arms* are protected including real assault rifles. I would add that anything law enforcement uses, which includes much more than assault rifles, is an example of a weapon useful for a militia. That includes machine guns, batons, stun guns, tear gas in its various forms, and apparently explosives now.
The legal teams of 40 tech giants have gone over the spec for a few years, the chances of there being an unknown patent is unlikely. If there's going to be a troll attack it's likely to be an unrelated overbroad patent that's unlikely to stand up to re-review.
Even if there are no third parties with relevant patents, how is this different than JEDEC and RAMBUS?
I wonder if someone with an interest in H265/HEVC could take advantage of the situation by at least sewing uncertainty.
Why is this +5? A BH most certainly does "suck in" a lot of matter. And orbits aren't default stable configurations.
Object which enter the system with the black hole are on a hyperbolic orbit and will leave with the same hyperbolic orbit unless they interact in such a way as to change their orbit.
Moore's Law: the density of devices (transistors) that can be packed into a microchip doubles roughly every 18 months.
It is not actually the density of transistors but the number of transistors for a given cost. This can be accomplished by density increases but also by ICs which are larger in area. It is often done at the expense of transistor performance.
It is not a controlling court decision but it is an example where a court ordered a defendant to alter programming to preserve data which was only stored temporarily in RAM.
Courts can't compel Cloudflare to collect information, they can only compel them to turn over the information which they already have. Cloudflare says:
While we need some logging to prevent abuse and debug issues, we couldn't imagine any situation where we'd need that information longer than 24 hours. And we wanted to put our money where our mouth was, so we committed to retaining KPMG, the well-respected auditing firm, to audit our code and practices annually and publish a public report confirming we're doing what we said we would.
Since information copied in RAM could be the basis of legal liability, the magistrate court in Bunnell reasoned it should also qualify as electronically stored information for the purposes of discovery. Although RAM may be more temporary than other forms of computer memory, the Bunnell Court concluded that RAM should also be included as a type of storage appropriate for production during discovery.
This actually highlights the problem with our legal system more than it does what caused the collapse. Lawyers have filed a lawsuit (i.e. are certain who is blame) while the investigation has barely started and is still collecting evidence, and is probably a year away from reaching a conclusion.
Filing the lawsuit officially notifies the parties that evidence may not be destroyed.
Lawyers have filed a lawsuit (i.e. are certain who is blame) while the investigation has barely started and is still collecting evidence, and is probably a year away from reaching a conclusion.
Indeed. FTFA "until the National Transportation Safety Board issues an official finding". Surely the claimants are putting their case at risk in that if the finding is something other than "a crew was post-tensioning bars", a shit design for example or crappy concrete, then won't they have to drop their case (or give their money back if they have already been awarded damages).
The NTSB findings are inadmissible in court so irrelevant. Evidence that the NTSB finds is admissible.
We still need people to drive people around from point A to point B
Automated taxis are close.
answer customer complaint calls
Not since the last few times I have called customer service. If you have a long enough phone tree, then all customer service calls are resolved before requiring a human.
Are you willing to say that it's OK that some people, no matter how hard they work, have to live on the margins? Because I don't think that that's a very healthy society.
The worst thing about it is that corporate profits are the highest they've ever been. There's literally no justification for not paying workers a living wage.
Gig-work is meant to undermine worker benefits by turning everybody into a private contractor who gets no benefits.
Nonsense!
Lack of *employer-sponsored benefits* does not mean a lack of benefits. One can buy health insurance, invest in health savings plans, and whatever other investment strategies you'd prefer like money markets, stocks, bonds, etc. As much or as little, any combination or none at all, whatever the individual chooses.
Sure, just like there is no different between the cost of aspirin from the drug store where it is a buyer's market and the emergency room where it is a seller's market.
When have 2nd amendment proponents ever done anything to protect people's privacy rights? I don't see them protesting data collection or the right to free thought, and certainly not using their weapons against any oppressor.
What about resisting various forms of gun registration?
There's one even worse. (I don't recall the author.) The scanner scans you, harmlessly. At the receiver, a copy is made of you. Once the transporter chief at the destination confirms that your copy is safely synthesized... They drop you into a vat of acid to tracelessly dissolve your body and maintain the fiction that you've "traveled" somewhere.
Also used as part of the plot in the movie The Prestige (2006),
Niven covered this in his essay "The Theory and Practice of Teleportation" which includes a history of its use in fiction.
This also brings another very difficult question: how do we know if we are the same person when we wake up in the morning or after we were put under during general anesthesia? What are your thoughts on the topic?
What about after we sleep? This is too easy; we only know for a very specific definition of "know". My own take on it is that free will is an illusion and so is this.
If I make an exact copy of the Mona Lisa, which is the real Mona LIsa? Is it the one which has a continuous space-time line? What about after both have been taken out of your sight and returned?
Tell that to the mountains of dead continental Europeans of the 40's. Guns were confiscated, then they were put in the trains...
This is perhaps the most hilarious argument of all. Several countries' professional and well-equipped armies couldn't stop the Nazis, and a tiny, unorganised fraction of the population with small arms were supposed to?
Do you think they would have been as unorganized if they had a historical example to foretell the future?
Most of the countries you refer to directed their own citizens and army to surrender. But why didn't Switzerland? How was it that Finland survived? There is no way a bunch of colonists could defeat the British military.
Just Capitalism at work. YouTube sees a threat to its income as other companies don't want their brands associated with that kind of content so they pull their ads, and therefore their dollars.
I might believe that if YouTube (and Google) only had one option but that was not the case; like Bloomberg and other gun prohibition advocates who are taking a page from the Australian handbook of preparing ahead of time and never letting a crisis go to waste, they had an agenda and waited political cover to implement it. In return, they sacrificed rational discourse and made enemies of 10s of millions of Americans. That never hurt a company or a politician running for office.
Just like how Capitalism will kill the moronic idea of arming teachers. Liability Insurance companies already killed that one before it got off the ground by either jacking the rates up or by simply saying "You arm, we cancel"
Just like how capitalism killed arming law enforcement officers who shoot bystanders when they had qualified immunity available. I had not noticed the rash of armed school employees and bystanders in states which allow it increasing collateral damage but if you say so, it must be so.
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It's the stupid 17th amendment that makes this an issue and it's the main reason our federal government has become some completely disfunctional.
I agree that it is a problem but the 17th amendment is almost irrelevant to this. Before it was ratified, a majority of the states were electing their US senators by popular vote anyway.
I wonder if Intel still cheats and uses a special compiler that favours their chips in secret, underhanded ways. You know, like they use to do.
Yes, Intel still does this both with their compiler and libraries. The only requirement from the court was that Intel say that they do this in their documentation.
I don't think that is quite true. Congress does get to organize and decide the training standards of the militia (Article I, Clause 15 & 16), and as things have it, they have essentially made organization and training for the militia into joining the National Guard (ie active military) and any militia which hasn't done so is not covered by articles of war and can be tried for disobeience.Larger discussion here.
This was specifically discussed during ratification. It is a right of the *people* and says so because otherwise, Congress could disarm the people simply by disbanding the militia. They were very cognizant of the difference between an unorganized militia (the people) and a "select" militia which is the National Guard.
There is some very old supreme court case when someone claimed their sawed off shotgun was legal because of the militia.
US v. Miller btw. Interestingly at the time sawed off shotguns were in common use in the military. Miller died before trial though so they ruled without his side presenting anything.
Miller was dead and unrepresented before the USSC. The USSC literally said:
In the absence of any evidence tending to show that possession or use of a "shotgun having a barrel of less than eighteen inches in length" at this time has some reasonable relationship to the preservation or efficiency of a well regulated militia, we cannot say that the Second Amendment guarantees the right to keep and bear such an instrument. Certainly it is not within judicial notice that this weapon is any part of the ordinary military equipment, or that its use could contribute to the common defense.
And remanded the case back to lower court to make that determination which of course could not happen with MIller dead and unrepresented.
So if the prefatory clause means anything, it is that military *arms* are protected including real assault rifles. I would add that anything law enforcement uses, which includes much more than assault rifles, is an example of a weapon useful for a militia. That includes machine guns, batons, stun guns, tear gas in its various forms, and apparently explosives now.
The legal teams of 40 tech giants have gone over the spec for a few years, the chances of there being an unknown patent is unlikely. If there's going to be a troll attack it's likely to be an unrelated overbroad patent that's unlikely to stand up to re-review.
Even if there are no third parties with relevant patents, how is this different than JEDEC and RAMBUS?
I wonder if someone with an interest in H265/HEVC could take advantage of the situation by at least sewing uncertainty.
I didn't noticed the Democrats objecting to this law in the House and Senate.
I wish someone would come up with an addictive game that teaches the players how to design logical circuits (particularly electronic fluid logic).
A solid knowledge of analog should br a prereq for digital...
The closest I ever saw was Rocky's Boots. The author's name might remind you of something.
Why is this +5? A BH most certainly does "suck in" a lot of matter. And orbits aren't default stable configurations.
Object which enter the system with the black hole are on a hyperbolic orbit and will leave with the same hyperbolic orbit unless they interact in such a way as to change their orbit.
Moore's Law: the density of devices (transistors) that can be packed into a microchip doubles roughly every 18 months.
It is not actually the density of transistors but the number of transistors for a given cost. This can be accomplished by density increases but also by ICs which are larger in area. It is often done at the expense of transistor performance.
It is not a controlling court decision but it is an example where a court ordered a defendant to alter programming to preserve data which was only stored temporarily in RAM.
Courts can't compel Cloudflare to collect information, they can only compel them to turn over the information which they already have. Cloudflare says:
While we need some logging to prevent abuse and debug issues, we couldn't imagine any situation where we'd need that information longer than 24 hours. And we wanted to put our money where our mouth was, so we committed to retaining KPMG, the well-respected auditing firm, to audit our code and practices annually and publish a public report confirming we're doing what we said we would.
Columbia Pictures Industries v. Bunnell:
Since information copied in RAM could be the basis of legal liability, the magistrate court in Bunnell reasoned it should also qualify as electronically stored information for the purposes of discovery. Although RAM may be more temporary than other forms of computer memory, the Bunnell Court concluded that RAM should also be included as a type of storage appropriate for production during discovery.
This actually highlights the problem with our legal system more than it does what caused the collapse. Lawyers have filed a lawsuit (i.e. are certain who is blame) while the investigation has barely started and is still collecting evidence, and is probably a year away from reaching a conclusion.
Filing the lawsuit officially notifies the parties that evidence may not be destroyed.
Lawyers have filed a lawsuit (i.e. are certain who is blame) while the investigation has barely started and is still collecting evidence, and is probably a year away from reaching a conclusion.
Indeed. FTFA "until the National Transportation Safety Board issues an official finding". Surely the claimants are putting their case at risk in that if the finding is something other than "a crew was post-tensioning bars", a shit design for example or crappy concrete, then won't they have to drop their case (or give their money back if they have already been awarded damages).
The NTSB findings are inadmissible in court so irrelevant. Evidence that the NTSB finds is admissible.
We still need people to drive people around from point A to point B
Automated taxis are close.
answer customer complaint calls
Not since the last few times I have called customer service. If you have a long enough phone tree, then all customer service calls are resolved before requiring a human.
Are you willing to say that it's OK that some people, no matter how hard they work, have to live on the margins? Because I don't think that that's a very healthy society.
We already do that and it is not.
The worst thing about it is that corporate profits are the highest they've ever been. There's literally no justification for not paying workers a living wage.
Isn't high profits a justification?
Gig-work is meant to undermine worker benefits by turning everybody into a private contractor who gets no benefits.
Nonsense!
Lack of *employer-sponsored benefits* does not mean a lack of benefits. One can buy health insurance, invest in health savings plans, and whatever other investment strategies you'd prefer like money markets, stocks, bonds, etc. As much or as little, any combination or none at all, whatever the individual chooses.
Sure, just like there is no different between the cost of aspirin from the drug store where it is a buyer's market and the emergency room where it is a seller's market.
I'm beginning to think California judges may need a stupidity warning label.
The judge is just working off of the statute. Blame the California legislators, all of them.
You do know that the US currently does not, nor has ever had an extradition order on him, right?
An extradition order is irrelevant.
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When have 2nd amendment proponents ever done anything to protect people's privacy rights? I don't see them protesting data collection or the right to free thought, and certainly not using their weapons against any oppressor.
What about resisting various forms of gun registration?
There's one even worse. (I don't recall the author.) The scanner scans you, harmlessly. At the receiver, a copy is made of you. Once the transporter chief at the destination confirms that your copy is safely synthesized... They drop you into a vat of acid to tracelessly dissolve your body and maintain the fiction that you've "traveled" somewhere.
Also used as part of the plot in the movie The Prestige (2006),
Niven covered this in his essay "The Theory and Practice of Teleportation" which includes a history of its use in fiction.
This also brings another very difficult question: how do we know if we are the same person when we wake up in the morning or after we were put under during general anesthesia? What are your thoughts on the topic?
What about after we sleep? This is too easy; we only know for a very specific definition of "know". My own take on it is that free will is an illusion and so is this.
If I make an exact copy of the Mona Lisa, which is the real Mona LIsa? Is it the one which has a continuous space-time line? What about after both have been taken out of your sight and returned?
Tell that to the mountains of dead continental Europeans of the 40's. Guns were confiscated, then they were put in the trains...
This is perhaps the most hilarious argument of all. Several countries' professional and well-equipped armies couldn't stop the Nazis, and a tiny, unorganised fraction of the population with small arms were supposed to?
Do you think they would have been as unorganized if they had a historical example to foretell the future?
Most of the countries you refer to directed their own citizens and army to surrender. But why didn't Switzerland? How was it that Finland survived? There is no way a bunch of colonists could defeat the British military.
You left out the most important weapon -- the vote.
Is this the same vote which disenfranchised Bernie supporters and installed Trump?
The vote is irrelevant when the candidates are chosen for you.
"CHL holders being safer and more law abiding"
except for those that have dischanged guns in schools accedentally or on purpose....
keep yer blinkers on, and believe the shit your shovelled.
Most of those have been law enforcement officers and at least the insane CHL holder you are thinking of did not actually injure anybody.
Just Capitalism at work. YouTube sees a threat to its income as other companies don't want their brands associated with that kind of content so they pull their ads, and therefore their dollars.
I might believe that if YouTube (and Google) only had one option but that was not the case; like Bloomberg and other gun prohibition advocates who are taking a page from the Australian handbook of preparing ahead of time and never letting a crisis go to waste, they had an agenda and waited political cover to implement it. In return, they sacrificed rational discourse and made enemies of 10s of millions of Americans. That never hurt a company or a politician running for office.
This is furthered by steering the discussion through the phrase "arming teachers" to exclude discussion of the alternatives. A popular movement based on false assumptions always comes to a good end.
Just like how Capitalism will kill the moronic idea of arming teachers. Liability Insurance companies already killed that one before it got off the ground by either jacking the rates up or by simply saying "You arm, we cancel"
Just like how capitalism killed arming law enforcement officers who shoot bystanders when they had qualified immunity available. I had not noticed the rash of armed school employees and bystanders in states which allow it increasing collateral damage but if you say so, it must be so.