Exactly. It provides an objective if inaccurate measure of the cost of law. As it is now, no cost to benefit measurement is made. Some laws specifically forbid cost to benefit considerations.
AIUI in the Icelandic tradition it was the job of the speaker to recite the entire legal code from memory before the Althing conducted any further business.
It was actually better than that. If anything was left out, it was repealed. This ended when Norway(?) invaded. It has been a while since I read about the Icelandic history of that time.
I think this is one of the major mistakes where statutory law is concerned. There needs to be an automatic repeal mechanism to prevent statutory law from becoming finite but unbounded.
Plus (in principle) your boss could station someone inside the polling booth and fire any employees who requested a replacement ballot after taking their obligatory corporate selfie.
The ability to request a replacement is no guarantee of secrecy at all.
It's a lot more difficult to photograph something and alter it later in an undetectable manner than it is to just photograph something. People who allow their vote to be bought are not all that likely to be skilled at making fakes.
Why alter anything? Create the ballot, photograph it, destroy the ballot, and then create the real ballot.
The main problem is that it really doesn't matter who the candidate is in our current system, only whether they have a D or an R by their name, and how many states like one letter better than the other.
I concluded long ago that it does not even matter whether they have a D or an R by their name.
How many candidates do you have to bribe to get what you want? Both of them.
In the US, about half the populace isn't at all interested in politics and political affairs. They spend their time on other things, so they don't know who the current vice president is or who the incumbent governor is. This isn't necessarily *bad*; maybe they are spending their time looking for a cancer cure or feeding homeless people. In any event, they haven't paid any attention to politics and don't know who the governor is, and they couldn't name a single treaty signed in the last ten years. Knowing nothing about politics, economics, foreign affairs, etc, they end up supporting a reality TV star or something.
Or they have studied the issues and process thoroughly and concluded that voting is a waste of their time.
Not really, no. There's no compulsion to produce a *valid* ballot.
So under your version of compulsory voting... people would be required to show up... but not actually be required cast a valid vote? Why not call it "compulsory show up on election day" instead? What if someone is unable to be at their polling place during early voting or on election day?
There would be nothing to prevent the person from casting a spoiled ballot.
There's no compulsion to do any particular thing, just to show up.
Which would seem to be a compulsion... under which enumerated power or court case do you believe the federal or state government has such a power?
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You mention jury duty... but fail to acknowledge that it, like elections are almost exclusively a state matter.
In order to legally push your compulsory system, you would actually have to pass such a requirement in all 50 states, as again, you are going to have a hard time justifying the compulsion of speech or action under any federal enumerated powers, some states may allow it legally, others not.
Jury duty is little different that conscription for military service (which is constitutional in the US), drafting from a wide range of people so as to attempt to secure the rights of others, and always ideally on a limited basis.
Jury duty does seem like the closest match. What do the feds do when they need a jury?
(b) Any person summoned pursuant to subsection (a) of this section who fails to appear as directed shall be ordered by the district court forthwith to appear and show cause for his failure to comply with the summons. Any person who fails to appear pursuant to such order or who fails to show good cause for noncompliance with the summons may be fined not more than $1,000, imprisoned not more than three days, ordered to perform community service, or any combination thereof. Any person who willfully misrepresents a material fact on a juror qualification form for the purpose of avoiding or securing service as a juror may be fined not more than $1,000, imprisoned not more than three days, ordered to perform community service, or any combination thereof.
If we allow this, we open things up so that people can be pressured to vote one way or another. People's votes are their own, they shouldn't have to answer to their bosses or anyone else about who they vote for.
It is to bad that there is no way the voter could fake the ballot photograph.
Possibly but the primary use of USB sticks is for sharing files between machines so until the vast majority of laptops in use have USB-C and the vast majority of memory stick use it too it is really important to have at least one USB-A port. A single USB-A port would have been vastly more useful than a fourth USB-C.
You are doing it wrong; you should be sharing files between machines using the Cloud so that your files can be searched by your provider and government for your safety.
On a more serious note, are the USB-C connectors as rugged as the USB-A connectors? I have only had the later fail do to stress which would destroy any connector but the USB-C connectors look fragile.
Well it's actually Intel's fault for only supporting LPDDR3 instead of LPDDR4 in Skylake. They choose to do this because LPDDR4 memory is more expensive, and from this article, http://www.fool.com/investing/...
The Skylake processors Apple used, the 2.9GHz i5 6267U and 2.6GHz Core i7 6600U, support DDR3LP and DDR4.
This story isn't about AT&T knowing the content of your communication, but only with whom. The Metadata.
Just like the Yahoo story was only about metadata except that it wasn't and Yahoo has been searching content for the Feds. With parallel construction preventing court challenges, legislated telecom immunity, and lack of an exclusion remedy for most searches, internet and phone communications have no 4th amendment protection.
I am also sensitive to microwave EM radiation. I am preparing a home test to prove this – cutting a hole in the front of my microwave oven to defeat its interlock, and just stick my hand in for a good 60 seconds. I anticipate that the resulting burn (or cooking smell) will be proof enough of my sensitivity.
Be careful with this test. I know from previous experience that we smell and sizzle like bacon when heated to cooking temperatures.
Redesigning the memory controller or DRAM is enough to solve the problem; force out of order refreshes on rows adjacent to continuously accessed rows. This is now called Target Row Refresh.
Nothing heavy like chain or ring mail is required. A thin metal mesh embedded within a jacket would be completely sufficient and practically unnoticeable; even a carbon fiber layer would work. Even when the hooks pierce the skin, it the metal mesh will still short out the taser.
It was hardly the first time police deployed a bomb but at least they didn't burn down a few blocks of housing in Dallas. And of course that was not the first or last time the FBI was involved in such an operation.
I suspect the Dallas police were so enraged that they just looked for the most creative way to execute the guy and had no intention of capturing him alive.
I look at the thickness, hard plastic edges and corners, and lack of bezel and just laugh when they advertise any of these devices as ruggedized. I figure the ones without a flat edge preventing them from being tilted up against a backstop are deliberately designed that way because if they fall over they will be damaged.
My handheld multimeters are a hell of a lot tougher and they *still* came with soft rubber boots.
They are real emails and the drip will continue. Rumors say the spicy stuff is int he bits coming closer to the election. Clinton's campaign is toast, and the Clinton-aligned media is desperately trying to somehow make it not so.
I do not think people care. It has been generally known that Clinton is one of the more slimy and corrupt politicians and this has not mattered in the past. Why would it matter now?
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Exactly. It provides an objective if inaccurate measure of the cost of law. As it is now, no cost to benefit measurement is made. Some laws specifically forbid cost to benefit considerations.
AIUI in the Icelandic tradition it was the job of the speaker to recite the entire legal code from memory before the Althing conducted any further business.
It was actually better than that. If anything was left out, it was repealed. This ended when Norway(?) invaded. It has been a while since I read about the Icelandic history of that time.
I think this is one of the major mistakes where statutory law is concerned. There needs to be an automatic repeal mechanism to prevent statutory law from becoming finite but unbounded.
Plus (in principle) your boss could station someone inside the polling booth and fire any employees who requested a replacement ballot after taking their obligatory corporate selfie.
The ability to request a replacement is no guarantee of secrecy at all.
Issue everybody two ballots.
It's a lot more difficult to photograph something and alter it later in an undetectable manner than it is to just photograph something. People who allow their vote to be bought are not all that likely to be skilled at making fakes.
Why alter anything? Create the ballot, photograph it, destroy the ballot, and then create the real ballot.
The main problem is that it really doesn't matter who the candidate is in our current system, only whether they have a D or an R by their name, and how many states like one letter better than the other.
I concluded long ago that it does not even matter whether they have a D or an R by their name.
How many candidates do you have to bribe to get what you want? Both of them.
In the US, about half the populace isn't at all interested in politics and political affairs. They spend their time on other things, so they don't know who the current vice president is or who the incumbent governor is. This isn't necessarily *bad*; maybe they are spending their time looking for a cancer cure or feeding homeless people. In any event, they haven't paid any attention to politics and don't know who the governor is, and they couldn't name a single treaty signed in the last ten years. Knowing nothing about politics, economics, foreign affairs, etc, they end up supporting a reality TV star or something.
Or they have studied the issues and process thoroughly and concluded that voting is a waste of their time.
So under your version of compulsory voting... people would be required to show up... but not actually be required cast a valid vote? Why not call it "compulsory show up on election day" instead? What if someone is unable to be at their polling place during early voting or on election day?
There would be nothing to prevent the person from casting a spoiled ballot.
Which would seem to be a compulsion... under which enumerated power or court case do you believe the federal or state government has such a power?
...
You mention jury duty... but fail to acknowledge that it, like elections are almost exclusively a state matter.
In order to legally push your compulsory system, you would actually have to pass such a requirement in all 50 states, as again, you are going to have a hard time justifying the compulsion of speech or action under any federal enumerated powers, some states may allow it legally, others not.
Jury duty is little different that conscription for military service (which is constitutional in the US), drafting from a wide range of people so as to attempt to secure the rights of others, and always ideally on a limited basis.
Jury duty does seem like the closest match. What do the feds do when they need a jury?
(b) Any person summoned pursuant to subsection (a) of this section who fails to appear as directed shall be ordered by the district court forthwith to appear and show cause for his failure to comply with the summons. Any person who fails to appear pursuant to such order or who fails to show good cause for noncompliance with the summons may be fined not more than $1,000, imprisoned not more than three days, ordered to perform community service, or any combination thereof. Any person who willfully misrepresents a material fact on a juror qualification form for the purpose of avoiding or securing service as a juror may be fined not more than $1,000, imprisoned not more than three days, ordered to perform community service, or any combination thereof.
https://www.law.cornell.edu/us...
If we allow this, we open things up so that people can be pressured to vote one way or another. People's votes are their own, they shouldn't have to answer to their bosses or anyone else about who they vote for.
It is to bad that there is no way the voter could fake the ballot photograph.
Pretty soon that's going to start looking like a TI/99.
And have TI/99 reliability.
Hope you didn't use USB or hdmi either because they got rid of all those as well.
Apple's mantra seems to involve carrying around a bag full of extra dongles.
Huh? I count 4 USB ports on the new Macbook Pro.
I has 4 USB-C ports. Now you need an adapter for everything including almost all USB Flash sticks and your favorite mouse.
And I am not sold on USB-C being as rugged as USB-A.
I've never broken any of my microSD cards despite not treating them gently.
I have not broken any either but I have lost a few do to their size and there is no space to write on them. I much prefer full size SD cards.
Possibly but the primary use of USB sticks is for sharing files between machines so until the vast majority of laptops in use have USB-C and the vast majority of memory stick use it too it is really important to have at least one USB-A port. A single USB-A port would have been vastly more useful than a fourth USB-C.
You are doing it wrong; you should be sharing files between machines using the Cloud so that your files can be searched by your provider and government for your safety.
On a more serious note, are the USB-C connectors as rugged as the USB-A connectors? I have only had the later fail do to stress which would destroy any connector but the USB-C connectors look fragile.
We have always been at war with Eastasia.
How do you think the iPhone battery life could be improved?
Include more of it.
If you need more than 16GB, then you are using it wrong.
Well it's actually Intel's fault for only supporting LPDDR3 instead of LPDDR4 in Skylake. They choose to do this because LPDDR4 memory is more expensive, and from this article, http://www.fool.com/investing/...
The Skylake processors Apple used, the 2.9GHz i5 6267U and 2.6GHz Core i7 6600U, support DDR3LP and DDR4.
Aren't they required to disclose this kind of thing in the discovery phase of the prosecution? Anything less would be blatantly unconstitutional.
If they do it right, then the prosecutor will not know so there will be nothing to turn over.
This story isn't about AT&T knowing the content of your communication, but only with whom. The Metadata.
Just like the Yahoo story was only about metadata except that it wasn't and Yahoo has been searching content for the Feds. With parallel construction preventing court challenges, legislated telecom immunity, and lack of an exclusion remedy for most searches, internet and phone communications have no 4th amendment protection.
EAE - Encrypt Absolutely Everything
I am also sensitive to microwave EM radiation. I am preparing a home test to prove this – cutting a hole in the front of my microwave oven to defeat its interlock, and just stick my hand in for a good 60 seconds. I anticipate that the resulting burn (or cooking smell) will be proof enough of my sensitivity.
Be careful with this test. I know from previous experience that we smell and sizzle like bacon when heated to cooking temperatures.
A carbon tax is one of the few ideas I support. Tax fossil carbon, all of it, once wherever that is easiest in the supply chain.
The current cap and trade scheme is a recipe for rent seeking which is why it is being used.
Redesigning the memory controller or DRAM is enough to solve the problem; force out of order refreshes on rows adjacent to continuously accessed rows. This is now called Target Row Refresh.
Nothing heavy like chain or ring mail is required. A thin metal mesh embedded within a jacket would be completely sufficient and practically unnoticeable; even a carbon fiber layer would work. Even when the hooks pierce the skin, it the metal mesh will still short out the taser.
It was hardly the first time police deployed a bomb but at least they didn't burn down a few blocks of housing in Dallas. And of course that was not the first or last time the FBI was involved in such an operation.
I suspect the Dallas police were so enraged that they just looked for the most creative way to execute the guy and had no intention of capturing him alive.
I look at the thickness, hard plastic edges and corners, and lack of bezel and just laugh when they advertise any of these devices as ruggedized. I figure the ones without a flat edge preventing them from being tilted up against a backstop are deliberately designed that way because if they fall over they will be damaged.
My handheld multimeters are a hell of a lot tougher and they *still* came with soft rubber boots.
They are real emails and the drip will continue. Rumors say the spicy stuff is int he bits coming closer to the election. Clinton's campaign is toast, and the Clinton-aligned media is desperately trying to somehow make it not so.
I do not think people care. It has been generally known that Clinton is one of the more slimy and corrupt politicians and this has not mattered in the past. Why would it matter now?