the checkout person wants some personal identification for some peaches or anything else, take an extra minute or two to give them the information.
You can waste more of the company's time by simply refusing to provide ID and asking to speak to a supervisor/manager. If they still want ID, refuse and walk away. Now they have to put away all those groceries you were going to purchase & void out the stuff they already rang up, both things will waste a lot more company time.
Cliff writes The sad state of affairs is that Big Brother probably became a quiet part of our lives a lot earlier. The big question now is: how much worse can it get?
That is completely the wrong question. The question is NOT how much worst can it get, the question is when are we going to doing something about it! When are we going to stop accepting and starting refusing?
Asked for identification when buying peaches?!?!? Fucking blow me, Bitch! Raise a fucking stink, in a very loud voice tell the clerk you won't provide ID so you can buy peaches. Make the clerk get the supervisor/manager and explain what an asinine policy they have. Show up every day with a shopping cart full of stuff plus eight peaches, then when asked for ID say no and just walk out.
Fucking Christ on a crutch! Get a god-damn backbone, America!
I think commerical placement will become more valuable. A commerical at the beginning of a block is going to have better odds of being watched. Example: If a commerical break begins with a movie trailer, I'll usually watch the trailer before pressing the skip button.
Which is why you should make every effort to have bigger guns with larger rounds and a faster rate of fire. (preferably one for each member of your family that can operate one) I don't care if you're a cop, an officer of the state, a senator, the president, or the pope. If you're in my home, and refuse to leave when I forcefully ask you to, I reserve the right to blow your fucking head off and put the body on my lawn as a warning.
Good luck with that. Violence is not a solution. But if that is the path you are going to choose, go read Sun Tzu.
Violence only begets more violence. Violence is not a solution but a possible path for change.
While a weapon can be useful for self-defense, expecting a citizen militia to be better armed than the local superpower is pure fanasty. Even the ability to out-last a siege is doubtful, look at Waco, TX and the lack of media coverage & citizen outrage of the resulting probe in the ATF & FBI conduct.
The best defense is education and community ties. Local law enforcement should live in the community they police, should be educated on the Constitution & ethics and have some critical thinking skills. The same can be applied to the military. People are less likely to shoot/kill those they know. Hopefully the same applies when it comes to unjust laws and illegal activities by the gov't. e.g. Pentagon Papers, Watergate, etc.
And if one manages to survive and get their case heard in court, there is always the jury. But again that really depends on the education level of the jurors.
Life is what happens while you're busy doing other things. And that about sums up the current situation. People were too busy just trying to get thru the day to be bothered with keeping an eye on the government. With WWIII just around the corner, people are slowing starting to wake up.
It's not about being chicken; it's about adapting to the reality of a post-9/11 world. There exist evildoers who would destroy your freedom to speak against the U.S. the way you do. Our job is to keep the terrorists from killing your children. If you don't think that's a noble purpose, then I don't think there's anything I could say that would convince you.
Holy reguritated sound bites, Batman.
"Post 9/11 world", "axis of evil", "think of the children". Sheesh, try doing some critical thinking sometime.
The real issue is the method in which the numbers were obtained. They were gathered without warrents or court orders, i.e. they were illegally obtained.
This bad is because 1) the President/gov't is *not* suppose to be above the law, 2) any evidence obtained from this ill gotten booty would not be usable in court, this in turn makes convicting the terrorist that much more difficult and 3) the harm done out weighs the benefits.
Wouldn't the right of free assembly(1st amendment) and the right against unreasonable searches(4th amendment) come into play when tracking calls? It's ok for the gov't to disregard those rights in the pursuit of ______?
The Constitution was written as an attempt to prevent tyranny, by chipping away at the Bill of Rights and increasing the Executive branch's power(back-boor vetos) US citizens continue to lose legal means of protecting themselves from a tyrannical government.
My brother was arrested(was a juvenile at the time) ~15 years ago, was held without being told the charges and my parents were denied access to him for 12 hours. The cops did let my brother make his phone call and he called home. When we(Dad & me) arrived at the police station they originally denied they were even holding him. That didn't fly, my Dad explained he had spoke with my brother and he was here. Next they threaten to arrest my Dad because he wouldn't leave the police station until he got to see&talk to his son. He sat there and I left to go physically bring a lawyer to the station(figuring I would be bailing out two family members by the time I returned) and to update Mom. There were no payphones in the police station lobby and cell phones were still uncommon.
The charges were "terrorist threats" and they were eventually dropped. The cops were pissed at my brother for telling the occupants of an apartment to see the search warrent before letting the cops in. So they said my brother matched the description of a suspect(pure bullshit, said suspect was 50 pounds heavier and 5 inches taller) and he verbally threaten the life of a cop(again bullshit, brother knows legally where the line is with cops; be polite but firm).
And several years before that my parents' house was searched and computer equipment seized by police wielding a search warrent without an address or name. Got the stuff back after getting a lawyer but took several months. Parents used to always leave the backdoor unlocked, so we(kids&friends) could come and go without having to carry a key(neighborhood was that safe). Cops came in thru that same unlocked door when no one was home and since that day the backdoor is always locked. Safe neighborhood... except for the cops.
Both events happened on US soil against US citizens.
Humans will do whatever they damn well like... Cops happen to have jails and guns at their disposal, avoid cops.
Just now I am writing this from my university PC with Fedora, I do not have root access hence I can not install and run any new software. If I want to run something new I need to download the tarball and compile it, provided that the required libraries (with the required version) are isntalled, otherwise I am screwed. That is a flaw!
Not a flaw, basic sysadmin'ing... don't want to users fucking things up.
With the --prefix and --root switches for rpm, you can install software&libraries in your home directory.
Please someone provide a repository of statically linked open source software.
The downside with statically link executables is if there is a flaw(e.g. buffer overflow) with a library, you need to recompile&reinstall all the executables that have that library statically linked. Dynamically linked means just need to re-compile the offending library and restart the executable.
If you ever start to care for & feed a machine or three, you'll start to see there is a method to the madness.
President Jimmy Carter did install Solar Heating Panels on the White House in attempt to lead by example. President Ronald Regan removed them when he took office.
1. IPv6 is coming along plenty well, thank you. Are you high? When was the last time you were assigned an IPv6 address by your ISP? When was the last time ANYONE was assigned an IPv6 address? When was the last time you connected with an IPv6 address on the internet?
China already has a reputation for manufacturing low-cost products for Walmart
At the Qin Shi factory, thousands of women work 98 hours a week making Kathie Lee handbags that retail for $8.76 at Wal-Mart. They are paid less than $22 a week. In air thick with dust and chemical solvents, workers handle toxic glues without gloves alongside machines that roar like express trains. The whole production line must often remain at work unpaid for an extra three to four hours, until the inhuman daily quotas are met.
The workers Corpwatch interviewed there "were very upset that they had no idea how their wages were calculated and that they varied so much from month to month."
At the end of typical 18-hour workdays, the Wal-Mart slaves are marched single-file to dorm rooms crammed with 16 metal bunks--and locked in. Armed company security guards are allowed to keep 30% of any fines they levy against the workers.
I see no reason why a federal agency like NASA shouldn't benefit from dirt-cheap Chinese labor.
So the defense of the happenings at Gitmo boils down to "Evil? Yes, but not as evil as other places." Perfect. Welcome to America, less evil than N. Korea.
Maybe the US could set its sights a bit higher and shoot for not evil, not less evil? Maybe at least follow international law(i.e. Geneva Conventions)?
"Under the Geneva Conventions, which the Bush Administration decided not to abide by in their treatment of the Guantánamo prisoners, they would have had to do things very differently. The 1949 Geneva Convention requires the establishment of a "competent tribunal" to determine, on a case-by-case basis, if there is any doubt, whether a detainee should be designated a P.O.W. But when U.S. forces captured Al Qaeda and Taliban soldiers in late 2001 and early 2002, in Afghanistan, they were never given individual status-review hearings. As a result, critics say, a number of non-combatants were swept up along with them. If Geneva was followed the U.S.-held prisoners would not have had to answer questions beyond their name, rank, and serial number. In most cases, Geneva disallows any harsher treatment for prisoners who are non-cooperative. So the whole system of rewards and punishments that has been devised at Guantánamo would be out of bounds. Geneva also specifically bars coercive interrogations."
[snip]
"they bent over backward to allow access to a number of fascinating scenes in Guantánamo, including allowing me to attend one of the Administrative Review Board hearings in which detainees can challenge their status as a danger to the U.S. In the one I attended, the detainee, whose name I had to agree not to release, demanded to see the evidence that the U.S. had against him, so that he could refute it. But much of the evidence, U.S. military authorities told him, was classified, and he would not be allowed to see it."
I read it, and it strikes me as particularly short on details. In other words, I doubt the veracity of any claims made by people who make their living by killing babies.
claims? It was just a collection of experiences from nurses & doctors; who happened to have provided abortions to women who are anti-abortion. Details were intentionally left out.
Is it really that hard to believe a woman who against abortion might decide to have an abortion herself? The part I have trouble wrapping my head around is that these women can still be anti-abortion after getting one themselves. It has to create great internal turmoil & conflict for them. I'm trying not to make a judgement about their choices but going against one's own values and living with that is a difficult road. Even for women who are pro-choice, having an abortion is a tramatic emotional experience.
When it comes down to it games are GOAL oriented... ALL games. IMO if a game has a variety of worthwhile and challenging goals then it's worth playing
Sure, the GOAL is to have fun.
If the proverbial BAR wasn't set there I might have just blown through it and been content with a few bronze medals here and there. But with some goal in mind it adds replay value to the game, some new challenge to take on, and a sense of accomplishment once I achieve it.
For you having fun means finishing all of the in-game achivements&goals that the devs have provided. Collect green widgets in the shortest amount of time or "earn all silver medals","play each of the online game types"
Others are more interested in the actual gameplay. For example playing Bethesda's PBA Bowling with a group of friends and a self-imposed rule of hooks only. That game is six years old and is still a popular game in my household.
Or there is just playing GTA without doing the missions, just running amok and see how many cops you can get after you and how long you can survive or who can do the best jumps. That sort of gameplay in GTA is only really enjoyable if you have the cheat codes to unlock & summon all of the content(cars, weapons, different areas). E.g. gimme a tank, then lets see how long till the police helicopter is after me and if I can shoot it down.
Games are "tools" used mostly for entertainment. If you were given a toolbox with half the drawers locked, how excited would you be to use that toolbox?
Thanks for the reply. I agree with your views about sex ed and picking gun control over abortion. But I believe women should have the legal choice to have or not to have an abortion. Ultimately it is the woman's decision and a very difficult decision at that.
FTFA...The ruling overturned an appeals court decision that said Los Angeles County prosecutor Richard Ceballos was constitutionally protected when he wrote a memo questioning whether a county sheriff's deputy had lied in a search warrant affidavit. Ceballos had filed a lawsuit claiming he was demoted and denied a promotion for trying to expose the lie.
"Official communications have official consequences, creating a need for substantive consistency and clarity. Supervisors must ensure that their employees' official communications are accurate, demonstrate sound judgment, and promote the employer's mission," Kennedy wrote.
A public offical was trying to expose a lie used to obtain a search warrant.
Justice Kennedy seems to think that is not the employer's mission. I think Justice Kennedy is confused on who the employer actually is. Hint: US Citizens.
The government isn't censoring people because of this decision but it does make whistleblowing an even more daunting challenge. Look at Siebel Edmonds for a good example of how difficult government whistle blowing was before this decision. note: her saga isn't over yet.
The weak link in the *Frog model is that human interaction is required to vet spam and build response scripts, then deliver those response scripts to *Frog clients. The "spam to be vetted and scripted against" information needs to be delivered to a single point somehow. The scripts created need to be distributed to clients from a single point somehow.
Maybe the new clients can make greater use of torrents in their operation (as opposed to simply distributing the client installer via torrent). Example: a "spam vetter" person runs an administrative app that searches for a specific torrent. Spam to be vetted is sent from normal clients via torrent, picked up by "neighbor" clients. Eventually, the admin app is able to see the torrent available on a "neighbor" and picks it up. Same way in reverse for delivering scripts - the admin app torrents the script to a smaller number of neigbors, which seed it for more, etc.
BlackFrog could include the Tor client with their client app and the clients could submit the spam to the spam vetters via a Hidden Service URL. This would hide BlackFrog's servers' IP address.
The attack against BlackFrog's server would then be an attack against Tor. Which might succeed the first few times. Don't know enough about Tor/Onion routing or hidden services to know how well a DDOS against a hidden service would work. It is an interesting thought experiment, tho.
Depends on what you wanted to do with said definition. By creating a broad definition of terrorism, politicians can gain popular support for new powers/laws to "fight terror" and then those powers/laws can used in a very broad way. i.e. the popular support's idea of terrorism is going to be narrower than what is actually being used.
Threathening to hit you on the nose, however, does qualify as a mugging. But not as terrorism.
Depends on how badly the gov't wants to screw you over. Maybe the act will earn you the "enemy combatant" label.
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the checkout person wants some personal identification for some peaches or anything else, take an extra minute or two to give them the information.
You can waste more of the company's time by simply refusing to provide ID and asking to speak to a supervisor/manager. If they still want ID, refuse and walk away. Now they have to put away all those groceries you were going to purchase & void out the stuff they already rang up, both things will waste a lot more company time.
Cliff writes The sad state of affairs is that Big Brother probably became a quiet part of our lives a lot earlier. The big question now is: how much worse can it get?
That is completely the wrong question. The question is NOT how much worst can it get, the question is when are we going to doing something about it! When are we going to stop accepting and starting refusing?
Asked for identification when buying peaches?!?!? Fucking blow me, Bitch! Raise a fucking stink, in a very loud voice tell the clerk you won't provide ID so you can buy peaches. Make the clerk get the supervisor/manager and explain what an asinine policy they have. Show up every day with a shopping cart full of stuff plus eight peaches, then when asked for ID say no and just walk out.
Fucking Christ on a crutch! Get a god-damn backbone, America!
I think commerical placement will become more valuable. A commerical at the beginning of a block is going to have better odds of being watched. Example: If a commerical break begins with a movie trailer, I'll usually watch the trailer before pressing the skip button.
Which is why you should make every effort to have bigger guns with larger rounds and a faster rate of fire. (preferably one for each member of your family that can operate one)
I don't care if you're a cop, an officer of the state, a senator, the president, or the pope. If you're in my home, and refuse to leave when I forcefully ask you to, I reserve the right to blow your fucking head off and put the body on my lawn as a warning.
Good luck with that. Violence is not a solution. But if that is the path you are going to choose, go read Sun Tzu.
Violence only begets more violence. Violence is not a solution but a possible path for change.
While a weapon can be useful for self-defense, expecting a citizen militia to be better armed than the local superpower is pure fanasty. Even the ability to out-last a siege is doubtful, look at Waco, TX and the lack of media coverage & citizen outrage of the resulting probe in the ATF & FBI conduct.
The best defense is education and community ties. Local law enforcement should live in the community they police, should be educated on the Constitution & ethics and have some critical thinking skills. The same can be applied to the military. People are less likely to shoot/kill those they know. Hopefully the same applies when it comes to unjust laws and illegal activities by the gov't. e.g. Pentagon Papers, Watergate, etc.
And if one manages to survive and get their case heard in court, there is always the jury. But again that really depends on the education level of the jurors.
Life is what happens while you're busy doing other things. And that about sums up the current situation. People were too busy just trying to get thru the day to be bothered with keeping an eye on the government. With WWIII just around the corner, people are slowing starting to wake up.
It's not about being chicken; it's about adapting to the reality of a post-9/11 world. There exist evildoers who would destroy your freedom to speak against the U.S. the way you do. Our job is to keep the terrorists from killing your children. If you don't think that's a noble purpose, then I don't think there's anything I could say that would convince you.
Holy reguritated sound bites, Batman.
"Post 9/11 world", "axis of evil", "think of the children". Sheesh, try doing some critical thinking sometime.
but there really are terrorists out there trying to kill us
You are more likely to be killed by Mother Nature than a terrorist. Man up and quit living in fear.
The real issue is the method in which the numbers were obtained. They were gathered without warrents or court orders, i.e. they were illegally obtained.
This bad is because 1) the President/gov't is *not* suppose to be above the law, 2) any evidence obtained from this ill gotten booty would not be usable in court, this in turn makes convicting the terrorist that much more difficult and 3) the harm done out weighs the benefits.
Wouldn't the right of free assembly(1st amendment) and the right against unreasonable searches(4th amendment) come into play when tracking calls? It's ok for the gov't to disregard those rights in the pursuit of ______?
The Constitution was written as an attempt to prevent tyranny, by chipping away at the Bill of Rights and increasing the Executive branch's power(back-boor vetos) US citizens continue to lose legal means of protecting themselves from a tyrannical government.
Here is some reading material for you:
Bruce Schenier on NSA & Bush's illegal wiretaps
Bush blocks internal probe into illegal wiretaps
An Imminent Threat (to the Constitution)
There is more involved than just tracking who you are calling. That's just the cover story to distract you while the power grab is going on.
My brother was arrested(was a juvenile at the time) ~15 years ago, was held without being told the charges and my parents were denied access to him for 12 hours. The cops did let my brother make his phone call and he called home. When we(Dad & me) arrived at the police station they originally denied they were even holding him. That didn't fly, my Dad explained he had spoke with my brother and he was here. Next they threaten to arrest my Dad because he wouldn't leave the police station until he got to see&talk to his son. He sat there and I left to go physically bring a lawyer to the station(figuring I would be bailing out two family members by the time I returned) and to update Mom. There were no payphones in the police station lobby and cell phones were still uncommon.
The charges were "terrorist threats" and they were eventually dropped. The cops were pissed at my brother for telling the occupants of an apartment to see the search warrent before letting the cops in. So they said my brother matched the description of a suspect(pure bullshit, said suspect was 50 pounds heavier and 5 inches taller) and he verbally threaten the life of a cop(again bullshit, brother knows legally where the line is with cops; be polite but firm).
And several years before that my parents' house was searched and computer equipment seized by police wielding a search warrent without an address or name. Got the stuff back after getting a lawyer but took several months. Parents used to always leave the backdoor unlocked, so we(kids&friends) could come and go without having to carry a key(neighborhood was that safe). Cops came in thru that same unlocked door when no one was home and since that day the backdoor is always locked. Safe neighborhood... except for the cops.
Both events happened on US soil against US citizens.
Humans will do whatever they damn well like... Cops happen to have jails and guns at their disposal, avoid cops.
There is no plot line to it really
A show about nothing, you say?
there are a few one liners here and there
Are you still master of your domain?
For which you will update your application to the newest version containing already the patch uh?
Yes, you're right. Go forth and spread your vision far&wide, so that the unwashed masses might be enlightened.
Just now I am writing this from my university PC with Fedora, I do not have root access hence I can not install and run any new software. If I want to run something new I need to download the tarball and compile it, provided that the required libraries (with the required version) are isntalled, otherwise I am screwed. That is a flaw!
Not a flaw, basic sysadmin'ing... don't want to users fucking things up.
With the --prefix and --root switches for rpm, you can install software&libraries in your home directory.
Chapter 2. Using RPM to Install Packages
Please someone provide a repository of statically linked open source software.
The downside with statically link executables is if there is a flaw(e.g. buffer overflow) with a library, you need to recompile&reinstall all the executables that have that library statically linked. Dynamically linked means just need to re-compile the offending library and restart the executable.
If you ever start to care for & feed a machine or three, you'll start to see there is a method to the madness.
President Jimmy Carter did install Solar Heating Panels on the White House in attempt to lead by example. President Ronald Regan removed them when he took office.
White House history
1. IPv6 is coming along plenty well, thank you.
;)
Are you high? When was the last time you were assigned an IPv6 address by your ISP? When was the last time ANYONE was assigned an IPv6 address? When was the last time you connected with an IPv6 address on the internet?
Google's assigned IPv6 block (2^96 addresses)
US gov't has mandate all Federal Backbones be IPv6 by June 2008
IPv6 enabled products
Get connected
No need to get defensive just because you're stuck in the IPv4 backwaters.
China already has a reputation for manufacturing low-cost products for Walmart
At the Qin Shi factory, thousands of women work 98 hours a week making Kathie Lee handbags that retail for $8.76 at Wal-Mart. They are paid less than $22 a week. In air thick with dust and chemical solvents, workers handle toxic glues without gloves alongside machines that roar like express trains. The whole production line must often remain at work unpaid for an extra three to four hours, until the inhuman daily quotas are met.
The workers Corpwatch interviewed there "were very upset that they had no idea how their wages were calculated and that they varied so much from month to month."
At the end of typical 18-hour workdays, the Wal-Mart slaves are marched single-file to dorm rooms crammed with 16 metal bunks--and locked in. Armed company security guards are allowed to keep 30% of any fines they levy against the workers.
I see no reason why a federal agency like NASA shouldn't benefit from dirt-cheap Chinese labor.
Because it is just wrong.
So the defense of the happenings at Gitmo boils down to "Evil? Yes, but not as evil as other places." Perfect. Welcome to America, less evil than N. Korea.
Maybe the US could set its sights a bit higher and shoot for not evil, not less evil? Maybe at least follow international law(i.e. Geneva Conventions)?
New Yorker interview of someone who has visited Gitmo as a report
"Under the Geneva Conventions, which the Bush Administration decided not to abide by in their treatment of the Guantánamo prisoners, they would have had to do things very differently. The 1949 Geneva Convention requires the establishment of a "competent tribunal" to determine, on a case-by-case basis, if there is any doubt, whether a detainee should be designated a P.O.W. But when U.S. forces captured Al Qaeda and Taliban soldiers in late 2001 and early 2002, in Afghanistan, they were never given individual status-review hearings. As a result, critics say, a number of non-combatants were swept up along with them. If Geneva was followed the U.S.-held prisoners would not have had to answer questions beyond their name, rank, and serial number. In most cases, Geneva disallows any harsher treatment for prisoners who are non-cooperative. So the whole system of rewards and punishments that has been devised at Guantánamo would be out of bounds. Geneva also specifically bars coercive interrogations."
[snip]
"they bent over backward to allow access to a number of fascinating scenes in Guantánamo, including allowing me to attend one of the Administrative Review Board hearings in which detainees can challenge their status as a danger to the U.S. In the one I attended, the detainee, whose name I had to agree not to release, demanded to see the evidence that the U.S. had against him, so that he could refute it. But much of the evidence, U.S. military authorities told him, was classified, and he would not be allowed to see it."
I read it, and it strikes me as particularly short on details. In other words, I doubt the veracity of any claims made by people who make their living by killing babies.
/cheers
claims? It was just a collection of experiences from nurses & doctors; who happened to have provided abortions to women who are anti-abortion. Details were intentionally left out.
Is it really that hard to believe a woman who against abortion might decide to have an abortion herself? The part I have trouble wrapping my head around is that these women can still be anti-abortion after getting one themselves. It has to create great internal turmoil & conflict for them. I'm trying not to make a judgement about their choices but going against one's own values and living with that is a difficult road. Even for women who are pro-choice, having an abortion is a tramatic emotional experience.
Anyways, thanks your time.
When it comes down to it games are GOAL oriented... ALL games. IMO if a game has a variety of worthwhile and challenging goals then it's worth playing
Sure, the GOAL is to have fun.
If the proverbial BAR wasn't set there I might have just blown through it and been content with a few bronze medals here and there. But with some goal in mind it adds replay value to the game, some new challenge to take on, and a sense of accomplishment once I achieve it.
For you having fun means finishing all of the in-game achivements&goals that the devs have provided. Collect green widgets in the shortest amount of time or "earn all silver medals","play each of the online game types"
Others are more interested in the actual gameplay. For example playing Bethesda's PBA Bowling with a group of friends and a self-imposed rule of hooks only. That game is six years old and is still a popular game in my household.
Or there is just playing GTA without doing the missions, just running amok and see how many cops you can get after you and how long you can survive or who can do the best jumps. That sort of gameplay in GTA is only really enjoyable if you have the cheat codes to unlock & summon all of the content(cars, weapons, different areas). E.g. gimme a tank, then lets see how long till the police helicopter is after me and if I can shoot it down.
Games are "tools" used mostly for entertainment. If you were given a toolbox with half the drawers locked, how excited would you be to use that toolbox?
Thanks for the reply. I agree with your views about sex ed and picking gun control over abortion. But I believe women should have the legal choice to have or not to have an abortion. Ultimately it is the woman's decision and a very difficult decision at that.
When you get a chance give The Only Moral Abortion is My Abortion: When the Anti-Choice Choose a read. It is a collection of anecdotes from abortion doctors and other clinic staff in North America, Australia, and Europe.
Just curious, not trolling... do you support full sex education in public schools? Or is abstinence all that should be taught?
Why just one amendment? Why not the whole Bill of Rights? Maybe even all 27(well, 26 if you don't count the repealed one; 18th) amendments?
What do you do if the choices are:
Candidate 1) pro choice, pro gun
Candidate 2) pro life, anti gun
Or the other way of asking... which is the more issue to you; abortion or Bill of Rights?
The government giving out no bid contracts hand over fist might play a small role, too.
FTFA...The ruling overturned an appeals court decision that said Los Angeles County prosecutor Richard Ceballos was constitutionally protected when he wrote a memo questioning whether a county sheriff's deputy had lied in a search warrant affidavit. Ceballos had filed a lawsuit claiming he was demoted and denied a promotion for trying to expose the lie.
"Official communications have official consequences, creating a need for substantive consistency and clarity. Supervisors must ensure that their employees' official communications are accurate, demonstrate sound judgment, and promote the employer's mission," Kennedy wrote.
A public offical was trying to expose a lie used to obtain a search warrant.
Justice Kennedy seems to think that is not the employer's mission. I think Justice Kennedy is confused on who the employer actually is. Hint: US Citizens.
The government isn't censoring people because of this decision but it does make whistleblowing an even more daunting challenge. Look at Siebel Edmonds for a good example of how difficult government whistle blowing was before this decision. note: her saga isn't over yet.
the law also bans "the production, import and supply of devices capable of evading or breaching technical measures of copyright protection".
Doesn't that describe general purpose computers?
The weak link in the *Frog model is that human interaction is required to vet spam and build response scripts, then deliver those response scripts to *Frog clients. The "spam to be vetted and scripted against" information needs to be delivered to a single point somehow. The scripts created need to be distributed to clients from a single point somehow.
Maybe the new clients can make greater use of torrents in their operation (as opposed to simply distributing the client installer via torrent). Example: a "spam vetter" person runs an administrative app that searches for a specific torrent. Spam to be vetted is sent from normal clients via torrent, picked up by "neighbor" clients. Eventually, the admin app is able to see the torrent available on a "neighbor" and picks it up. Same way in reverse for delivering scripts - the admin app torrents the script to a smaller number of neigbors, which seed it for more, etc.
I think what you looking for/describing is a hidden service on the Tor network
BlackFrog could include the Tor client with their client app and the clients could submit the spam to the spam vetters via a Hidden Service URL. This would hide BlackFrog's servers' IP address.
The attack against BlackFrog's server would then be an attack against Tor. Which might succeed the first few times. Don't know enough about Tor/Onion routing or hidden services to know how well a DDOS against a hidden service would work. It is an interesting thought experiment, tho.
But that "definition" is useless
Depends on what you wanted to do with said definition. By creating a broad definition of terrorism, politicians can gain popular support for new powers/laws to "fight terror" and then those powers/laws can used in a very broad way. i.e. the popular support's idea of terrorism is going to be narrower than what is actually being used.
Threathening to hit you on the nose, however, does qualify as a mugging. But not as terrorism.
Depends on how badly the gov't wants to screw you over. Maybe the act will earn you the "enemy combatant" label.