Only in states notorious for corruption is it illegal to record a conversation that you are party to. As far as I know, those states are Maryland, Illinois, and Mass.
There are only 5 jurisdictions that allow you to enter the bar without law school in the US now. California, surprisingly, has the most well-developed program to become a lawyer without law school, and that requires 4 years of study (basically free labor) under a practicing lawyer or judge.
It can be argued, using the Declaration of Independence as an example, that a country begins when people forming it says it begins - and that since we have been under self-government since July, 1776 (although during the Revolution we gained and lost territory depending on what was going on in the war), and that since the same authorities that declared Independence also spawned the legal chain of continuity that govern this country to this day, then, indeed, July, 1776 IS when our independence should be dated to. The Continental Congress became an independent provisional government that then authorized the Articles of Confederation and then subsequently the US Constitution.
Thank you. I read the whole article wondering, "how can these over-sensationalistic idiot writers spend half the article talking about TDL4 and interviewing Kaspersky employees, and yet not bother to mention the very excellent, and very free, TDSSKILLER tool from Kaspersky that kills TDL4 dead?" If I was one of the Kaspersky guys interviewed, I'd be pissed.
No, I am saying it is the height of hypocrisy that a racist, exploitative, oppressive barbaric regime like Mexico is suing us in Federal court over the relatively mild requirements of SB1070.
Again, no offense, but you are unaware of Arizona law. Seat belt use is a "secondary offense" in Arizona; a police officer cannot pull you over if he sees you driving without a seat belt (unlike most other states). They may ONLY cite you for a seat belt violation if they have pulled you over for a different offense. Of course, this is no defense against the stereotypical rogue cop who smashes your taillight with his baton and says, "your tail light is out, let me see your license", but the same can be said for any law.
Scottsdale cops are getting better. They have never quite recovered from the image of being a joke of a department after they botched the Bob Crane case. Scottsdale still has some cowboy cops who are arrogant punks.
Most other AZ cops are pretty good. The rank and file MCSO deputies are usually ok (and I'm speaking as someone who was arrested on trumped-up charges by one many years ago), the upper management Sheriff Joe flunkies are corrupt as hell.
Bad AZ cops usually wind up getting in trouble sooner or later. I have noticed, too, traveling to other states, our AZ cops seem to be more polite and respectful than cops in other states - I really think it helps that the cops know that a ton of people here are packing heat themselves and the AZ cops don't go looking for a fight.
As for Andrew Thomas, he's no racist. I think he bought too much into Joe's bullshit and got in over his head, and screwed up his legal and political career beyond repair due to his abuses of power. However, given that he is very devoted to his very Hispanic wife, calling him a racist doesn't jibe.
Arpaio isn't a racist. He's a blustering, arrogant, abusive, power-hungry prick who I have publicly denounced on his home turf in the past, but the man is not racist. He is after power, not persecuting people just because they're brown or some other color. He truly doesn't give a damn about what skin color a person has, although if you're Italian you will get to hear him share Italian jokes with you...he's actually got some good ones.
So, basically, you're saying that no nation on earth has the right to give its police officers the right to determine if a person is in a country illegally?
Go tell that to Mexico, where it's a felony not to show evidence of being in the country legally upon demand by any government officer.
Arpaio is an abusive prick who routinely made a career of arresting his political opponents on trumped-up charges.
I support SB1070, but I will not defend Arpaio. I support the right of his office to do anti-illegal immigration sweeps, but I don't support the man himself. He's a blustering opportunist.
It's funny. Mexico is SUING Arizona over SB1070, which makes it a state misdemeanor to be in the country illegally. They claim racism.
But, if you are an illegal immigrant in Mexico and you're WHITE, you get your ass thrown in jail for a period of time, and charged with a felony. And God help you if you're HISPANIC in Mexico - if you're from Guadamola or some other Hispanic country, and are there illegally, they will throw your ass in a darker, danker cell, and you will be there for a longer period of time than the white guy.
Not quite true. There are many liberals and conservatives who bend over for the corporations that give them a funding reach around.
There is, however, one declared Socialist, Bernie Sanders of Vermont, and the corporations want nothing to do with him.
Not that I agree with him, I'm a Republican conservative myself, but I respect Rep. Sanders because he's a fundamentally honest guy and shames us into doing better when so many self-professed "conservatives" are actually corporate whores looking for any excuse to shovel taxpayer money or government power towards their pet megacorp.
No, there's lots of other illegals here, too. Hispanic illegal immigrants are certainly the largest group, but there's plenty of white Europeans and Indians who have overstayed visas to work here. And, although they were not illegal, the September 11 hijackers attended flight school in Arizona, and there's concern about increasing Islamic fundamentalist presence in Arizona.
You haven't read the law. A cop can't "look at you" and demand proof of citizenship or proof of valid entry. They must have stopped you for some other offense, and during the course of gathering information about that offense found probable cause to think you might be in the country illegally - and when hauled before a judge, must be able to enumerate a list of reasons other than "I don't like the color of their skin."
Most departments here aren't even going to allow cops to enforce the law until they've had training on it. And the judges will be watching this like a hawk, and any cop that steps out of line and abuses this is going to get spanked, hard, in court.
I believe there have been good results with a type of "honeycomb" fuel tank that seems to greatly reduce evaporation lost. It's been a while since I looked at it, though.
If I see one more comment by people saying that "hydrogen is dirty because the most common way to make it uses fossil fuels", I'm gonna puke.
Here you go:
1. Build a big pipeline from California to Arizona to carry seawater to AZ.
2. Build vast fields of low-maintenence Stirling engines (I believe Motorola has one that generates 1.5 megawatts on.25 acre of land) to make electricity from sunlight.
3. Use the electricity to split the seawater into hydrogen and oxygen.
4. The hydrgen is then a storage medium. Use in fuel cells to power electric cars, or use compressed for hydrogen internal combustion engines, or ship it to power plants to burn for grid electricity.
Some calculations regarding volume of water required, land area required using maximum efficency stirling engines, and the like would be required , but I know 20 years ago a lot of very smart scientiss thought it was doable.
Every government on the planet is calling for Wikileaks to shut down. It seems like they are twisting the legal system, and that we are being governed by immoral, corrupt bastards who will break any law, twist any fact, in their effort to smear anyone who dares speak the truth.
Under that standard, and under the belief that Tom Jefferson said that a corrupt government has no authority, I see that Wikileaks has no option but to use any and all means to defend itself. The governments will piss on their own laws and due process to crush Wikileaks; therefore Wikileaks is perfectly justified in trying to destroy the governments' credibility by publishing every bit of damaging info that they can.
Anyone who thinks that any truly dangerous information that Wikileaks has isn't already in the hands of our enemies is living in a dream world. Wikileaks' greatest "crime" is revealing that the massive security appartus of the state has no idea what the hell it is doing and is useless against anyone with a brain. It's a money & freedom consuming monster that does more harm than good to the society it purports to protect.
Caprica wasn't bad. Wasn't the best thing on TV, but wasn't bad. But, much like BSG, SyFY didn't know what to do with it and tried to milk it for all it was worth and killed it in the process.
Stupid, stupid stunts like calling NINE SHOWS a "season" and postponing new shows for almost a YEAR. Who can follow a complicated story arc after that?
And horrible, horrible publicity. In 1978, many people enjoyed the Cylon ride at Universal Studios. Although there were a few billboards and a window painting in Hollywood during BSG 2003's last season, and the Vanity Fair spread was a nice touch, often it seemed that BSG was the bastard child of Universal. Even though BSG was owned by Universal, there was NO promotion of BSG when I went to Universal Studios during season 4! A golden opportunity to promote a show in a venue that people from all over the country visit, and there was NOTHING for BSG except in a privately owned comic store on the Citywalk. Lousy, lousy promotion. Yet disposable crap like the "Mutant Shark of the Week" or whatever is everywhere.
It is obvious that SyFy has no clue whatsoever what to do when it somehow stumbles on decent programming. Even as the critics were raving about BSG being "the best thing on TV" Universal/SciFi did not know how to pitch it, nor did they seem to want to try.
I still run Linux on my servers. But I don't have time to spend half a day installing software anymore where I must resolve dependancy hell or stuff like that. People tell me, "oh, xyz fixes that". Every time I try to track down "xyz", it's never quite there.
Apache, Postfix, solid stuff that's been around forever, yeah. Desktop apps, nah. Too much of a pain to deal with. All my laptops used to be set to dual-boot; not anymore. Windows is stable enough and I don't have to spend 12 hours figuring out how to install stuff and getting flamed if I dare to ask a question or hear "write it youself!"
...website about this, I'd say it's a safe bet that Oracle could not care less.
There are companies that only care about making money and nothing else.
And then there are companies that actually go out of their way to be assholes. Oracle is the later, and I wish the dev team well even as I cry at their choice of a new name.
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Only in states notorious for corruption is it illegal to record a conversation that you are party to. As far as I know, those states are Maryland, Illinois, and Mass.
There are only 5 jurisdictions that allow you to enter the bar without law school in the US now. California, surprisingly, has the most well-developed program to become a lawyer without law school, and that requires 4 years of study (basically free labor) under a practicing lawyer or judge.
It can be argued, using the Declaration of Independence as an example, that a country begins when people forming it says it begins - and that since we have been under self-government since July, 1776 (although during the Revolution we gained and lost territory depending on what was going on in the war), and that since the same authorities that declared Independence also spawned the legal chain of continuity that govern this country to this day, then, indeed, July, 1776 IS when our independence should be dated to. The Continental Congress became an independent provisional government that then authorized the Articles of Confederation and then subsequently the US Constitution.
Thank you. I read the whole article wondering, "how can these over-sensationalistic idiot writers spend half the article talking about TDL4 and interviewing Kaspersky employees, and yet not bother to mention the very excellent, and very free, TDSSKILLER tool from Kaspersky that kills TDL4 dead?" If I was one of the Kaspersky guys interviewed, I'd be pissed.
No, I am saying it is the height of hypocrisy that a racist, exploitative, oppressive barbaric regime like Mexico is suing us in Federal court over the relatively mild requirements of SB1070.
Again, no offense, but you are unaware of Arizona law. Seat belt use is a "secondary offense" in Arizona; a police officer cannot pull you over if he sees you driving without a seat belt (unlike most other states). They may ONLY cite you for a seat belt violation if they have pulled you over for a different offense. Of course, this is no defense against the stereotypical rogue cop who smashes your taillight with his baton and says, "your tail light is out, let me see your license", but the same can be said for any law.
Scottsdale cops are getting better. They have never quite recovered from the image of being a joke of a department after they botched the Bob Crane case. Scottsdale still has some cowboy cops who are arrogant punks.
Most other AZ cops are pretty good. The rank and file MCSO deputies are usually ok (and I'm speaking as someone who was arrested on trumped-up charges by one many years ago), the upper management Sheriff Joe flunkies are corrupt as hell.
Bad AZ cops usually wind up getting in trouble sooner or later. I have noticed, too, traveling to other states, our AZ cops seem to be more polite and respectful than cops in other states - I really think it helps that the cops know that a ton of people here are packing heat themselves and the AZ cops don't go looking for a fight.
As for Andrew Thomas, he's no racist. I think he bought too much into Joe's bullshit and got in over his head, and screwed up his legal and political career beyond repair due to his abuses of power. However, given that he is very devoted to his very Hispanic wife, calling him a racist doesn't jibe.
Arpaio isn't a racist. He's a blustering, arrogant, abusive, power-hungry prick who I have publicly denounced on his home turf in the past, but the man is not racist. He is after power, not persecuting people just because they're brown or some other color. He truly doesn't give a damn about what skin color a person has, although if you're Italian you will get to hear him share Italian jokes with you...he's actually got some good ones.
So, basically, you're saying that no nation on earth has the right to give its police officers the right to determine if a person is in a country illegally?
Go tell that to Mexico, where it's a felony not to show evidence of being in the country legally upon demand by any government officer.
Arpaio is an abusive prick who routinely made a career of arresting his political opponents on trumped-up charges.
I support SB1070, but I will not defend Arpaio. I support the right of his office to do anti-illegal immigration sweeps, but I don't support the man himself. He's a blustering opportunist.
You obviously haven't read SB1070.
It's funny. Mexico is SUING Arizona over SB1070, which makes it a state misdemeanor to be in the country illegally. They claim racism.
But, if you are an illegal immigrant in Mexico and you're WHITE, you get your ass thrown in jail for a period of time, and charged with a felony. And God help you if you're HISPANIC in Mexico - if you're from Guadamola or some other Hispanic country, and are there illegally, they will throw your ass in a darker, danker cell, and you will be there for a longer period of time than the white guy.
It's such hypocrisy.
Not quite true. There are many liberals and conservatives who bend over for the corporations that give them a funding reach around.
There is, however, one declared Socialist, Bernie Sanders of Vermont, and the corporations want nothing to do with him.
Not that I agree with him, I'm a Republican conservative myself, but I respect Rep. Sanders because he's a fundamentally honest guy and shames us into doing better when so many self-professed "conservatives" are actually corporate whores looking for any excuse to shovel taxpayer money or government power towards their pet megacorp.
No, there's lots of other illegals here, too. Hispanic illegal immigrants are certainly the largest group, but there's plenty of white Europeans and Indians who have overstayed visas to work here. And, although they were not illegal, the September 11 hijackers attended flight school in Arizona, and there's concern about increasing Islamic fundamentalist presence in Arizona.
Saying something doesn't make it true. The law requires probable cause, not just "looking at someone".
You haven't read the law. A cop can't "look at you" and demand proof of citizenship or proof of valid entry. They must have stopped you for some other offense, and during the course of gathering information about that offense found probable cause to think you might be in the country illegally - and when hauled before a judge, must be able to enumerate a list of reasons other than "I don't like the color of their skin."
Most departments here aren't even going to allow cops to enforce the law until they've had training on it. And the judges will be watching this like a hawk, and any cop that steps out of line and abuses this is going to get spanked, hard, in court.
I believe there have been good results with a type of "honeycomb" fuel tank that seems to greatly reduce evaporation lost. It's been a while since I looked at it, though.
If I see one more comment by people saying that "hydrogen is dirty because the most common way to make it uses fossil fuels", I'm gonna puke.
Here you go:
1. Build a big pipeline from California to Arizona to carry seawater to AZ.
2. Build vast fields of low-maintenence Stirling engines (I believe Motorola has one that generates 1.5 megawatts on .25 acre of land) to make electricity from sunlight.
3. Use the electricity to split the seawater into hydrogen and oxygen.
4. The hydrgen is then a storage medium. Use in fuel cells to power electric cars, or use compressed for hydrogen internal combustion engines, or ship it to power plants to burn for grid electricity.
Some calculations regarding volume of water required, land area required using maximum efficency stirling engines, and the like would be required , but I know 20 years ago a lot of very smart scientiss thought it was doable.
Every government on the planet is calling for Wikileaks to shut down. It seems like they are twisting the legal system, and that we are being governed by immoral, corrupt bastards who will break any law, twist any fact, in their effort to smear anyone who dares speak the truth.
Under that standard, and under the belief that Tom Jefferson said that a corrupt government has no authority, I see that Wikileaks has no option but to use any and all means to defend itself. The governments will piss on their own laws and due process to crush Wikileaks; therefore Wikileaks is perfectly justified in trying to destroy the governments' credibility by publishing every bit of damaging info that they can.
Anyone who thinks that any truly dangerous information that Wikileaks has isn't already in the hands of our enemies is living in a dream world. Wikileaks' greatest "crime" is revealing that the massive security appartus of the state has no idea what the hell it is doing and is useless against anyone with a brain. It's a money & freedom consuming monster that does more harm than good to the society it purports to protect.
God Bless America, then.
You're luckier than I was, then.
Caprica wasn't bad. Wasn't the best thing on TV, but wasn't bad. But, much like BSG, SyFY didn't know what to do with it and tried to milk it for all it was worth and killed it in the process.
Stupid, stupid stunts like calling NINE SHOWS a "season" and postponing new shows for almost a YEAR. Who can follow a complicated story arc after that?
And horrible, horrible publicity. In 1978, many people enjoyed the Cylon ride at Universal Studios. Although there were a few billboards and a window painting in Hollywood during BSG 2003's last season, and the Vanity Fair spread was a nice touch, often it seemed that BSG was the bastard child of Universal. Even though BSG was owned by Universal, there was NO promotion of BSG when I went to Universal Studios during season 4! A golden opportunity to promote a show in a venue that people from all over the country visit, and there was NOTHING for BSG except in a privately owned comic store on the Citywalk. Lousy, lousy promotion. Yet disposable crap like the "Mutant Shark of the Week" or whatever is everywhere.
It is obvious that SyFy has no clue whatsoever what to do when it somehow stumbles on decent programming. Even as the critics were raving about BSG being "the best thing on TV" Universal/SciFi did not know how to pitch it, nor did they seem to want to try.
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Why do I suspect that somewhere in "upstate New York" there's a DSL modem sitting on a static IP that just got reduced to a molten pile of slag?
I still run Linux on my servers. But I don't have time to spend half a day installing software anymore where I must resolve dependancy hell or stuff like that. People tell me, "oh, xyz fixes that". Every time I try to track down "xyz", it's never quite there.
Apache, Postfix, solid stuff that's been around forever, yeah. Desktop apps, nah. Too much of a pain to deal with. All my laptops used to be set to dual-boot; not anymore. Windows is stable enough and I don't have to spend 12 hours figuring out how to install stuff and getting flamed if I dare to ask a question or hear "write it youself!"
...website about this, I'd say it's a safe bet that Oracle could not care less.
There are companies that only care about making money and nothing else.
And then there are companies that actually go out of their way to be assholes. Oracle is the later, and I wish the dev team well even as I cry at their choice of a new name.