Wouldn't it be sensible for future municipalities to look at this and think twice before allowing an outside corporation to extract profit and turn their town toxic? That would help manage the environmental impact. Oh, wait, it would also require people to think things through. Unrealistic.
Municipalities typically have very little say as to controlling what goes on; most of that is state and federal law.
The word you need to look at is "unreasonable." What makes an "unreasonable" search or seizure? We have hundreds of years of both English and American case law that tells us when a search or seizure is "unreasonable."
I am familiar with the history and construction of the 4th amendment; what I was saying was there is a reasonable semantic construction you can make, whereby the first clause implies that any search and seizure would require a warrant, and additionally, that warrant better be reasonable.
Okay, show me the place where it says "no searches shall ever be carried out except with a warrant." Or if not, show me just one court case that says no searches may ever be carried out without a warrant. Or just one single educated legal theorist who has ever espoused the position that the 4th Amendment always requires a warrant before any searches are ever carried out under any circumstances. Go ahead. Take your time.
Wow, getting a little riled up there. You really can't see how any reader of the text could decide that the "secure" clause and the "warrant" clause need to be read together, and "shall not be violated" doesn't necessarily imply several exceptions?
of course, the 'ever so smart judge' does not know this fine nuance.
Why would he care whether you run your own mail server? His holding is that the police don't have to notify you when they're executing search warrants on your e-mail held by third parties. If your e-mail is held by you, and not a third party, then the warrant has to be shown to you.
but this judge was apparently nominated by G.W. Bush and is an LDS, according to Wikipedia. We should be expecting these kind of rulings for a long time: Bush got a lot of his guys in before he lost his political capital. Civil rights, schmivil schmights.
As someone whose distaste for the Bush administration is unparalleled, I think most of the judges he nominated were essentially qualified. It's the lawyers his administration hired for the DoJ who tended to be immoral incompetents.
I cannot see how this won't be overturned on appeal. People have a general expectation of privacy in regards to their e-mail, and the fact that it's being physically hosted somewhere doesn't defeat that.
They lived in New York, What idiot drives everywhere in New york? Most people in reality use public transportation in NYC. you NEVER saw them on a subway, always in jerry's or kramers car.
Two Seinfeld episodes spring to mind; the one with the naked guy, and the one where Kramer gets mugged...ohhhh...Ok I think I see your point...
I would have to say higher amount than 0. Think about how many businesses and organizations were too afraid to jump on the linux band wagon for fear of being brought into litigation, so they kept paying for proprietary closed software solutions instead of investing the money in their core businesses or paying out dividends.
Hardly any I would think; if you look at the rate of adoption before the SCO thing even became an issue, you can extrapolate that it prevented very few companies from adopting linux. And even had these companies adopted open software, they wouldn't have seen that much in savings.
Judging by the story, and in the context of my almost complete lack of formal training in cell biology, it sounds like the cells might not be resistant to cancer-causing virii, but rather it just means the infected cells can't multiply past a certain point. Sort of like carrying a disease but not showing any symptoms.
I know you Americans are so in love with your wasteful lifestyle that you can rationalise to the most extreme not using innovations to cut down on consumption, like hybrid cars are gay and all the religious issues with CFLs.
Oh spare us the smug patronizing; you're western european I'm assuming, it's the only area where everyone thinks they are experts on American culture. Not expert enough to know that the CFL was invented by Americans (as was the modern hybrid car) though.
The rest of the lamps are CFLs, they have worked perfectly for 7 years and I've never had any problem with them, either with the less used ones or the ones under extreme usage. I even have CFLs outdoors and I never replaced them, they withstand temperatures from -2C to 40C along the year.
So your basis for claiming that CFLs are relilable, is that the ones you've personally happened to buy haven't gone out. Brilliant.
We do that, but with about 80,000 pages of tax code devoted to putting you into different brackets, deductions/loopholes, type of income, schedules, etc. Additionally the IRS has its own rules and so do each of the states, counties, and municipalities. Yeah, the cost of figuring out taxes when time and money spent doing so can be nearly as excessive as the taxes themselves.
It scales, though. How many of those 80,000 pages do you really think apply to you specifically? A lot of it deals with corporate taxation, or tax laws as they apply to trusts or non-profit organizations, etc.
Like look at the internal revenue code. Only one subtitle will apply to most people reading this; and of that subtitle, only a small percentage of the provisions apply to the average person on the street.
Granted, doing something like maintaining a qualified pension plan under the IRC gets a little complicated, but very few of you will have to deal with that. And if you're running a pension trust with $500 million in assets, I don't think it's unreasonable to expect you to be able to pay for a tax lawyer to help you.
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Wouldn't it be sensible for future municipalities to look at this and think twice before allowing an outside corporation to extract profit and turn their town toxic? That would help manage the environmental impact. Oh, wait, it would also require people to think things through. Unrealistic.
Municipalities typically have very little say as to controlling what goes on; most of that is state and federal law.
I liked WoT better when it was called Dune.
The word you need to look at is "unreasonable." What makes an "unreasonable" search or seizure? We have hundreds of years of both English and American case law that tells us when a search or seizure is "unreasonable."
I am familiar with the history and construction of the 4th amendment; what I was saying was there is a reasonable semantic construction you can make, whereby the first clause implies that any search and seizure would require a warrant, and additionally, that warrant better be reasonable.
Okay, show me the place where it says "no searches shall ever be carried out except with a warrant." Or if not, show me just one court case that says no searches may ever be carried out without a warrant. Or just one single educated legal theorist who has ever espoused the position that the 4th Amendment always requires a warrant before any searches are ever carried out under any circumstances. Go ahead. Take your time.
Wow, getting a little riled up there. You really can't see how any reader of the text could decide that the "secure" clause and the "warrant" clause need to be read together, and "shall not be violated" doesn't necessarily imply several exceptions?
Read the 4th Amendment. It doesn't always require a warrant.
Depends on your reading of it.
of course, the 'ever so smart judge' does not know this fine nuance.
Why would he care whether you run your own mail server? His holding is that the police don't have to notify you when they're executing search warrants on your e-mail held by third parties. If your e-mail is held by you, and not a third party, then the warrant has to be shown to you.
Oops. I probably should have read the actual opinion before opining.
Funny, in the UK we had police smash into almost 7,000 safe-deposit boxes.
No offense, but while the U.S. may have gotten worse recently regarding search and seizure, the U.K. is positively medieval.
ABSURD - and clearly its not true for all people who 'do email'. even the most green mail admin would not say such stupid things.
He's ruling on search warrants aimed at 3rd party ISPs; if someone does not keep their e-mail with the ISP, then his ruling doesn't apply to them.
Furthermore, it only applies to those ISPs who actually tell the user, like Gmail does, that they will comply with government requests.
but this judge was apparently nominated by G.W. Bush and is an LDS, according to Wikipedia. We should be expecting these kind of rulings for a long time: Bush got a lot of his guys in before he lost his political capital. Civil rights, schmivil schmights.
As someone whose distaste for the Bush administration is unparalleled, I think most of the judges he nominated were essentially qualified. It's the lawyers his administration hired for the DoJ who tended to be immoral incompetents.
judges: stay the HELL out of tech and .. and I'll stay out of law.
I will say there are far, far more techies willing to (oftentimes loudly) give their opinions about the law. Hence slashdot.
I cannot see how this won't be overturned on appeal. People have a general expectation of privacy in regards to their e-mail, and the fact that it's being physically hosted somewhere doesn't defeat that.
But after UCLA typed the 'l' and the 'o,' the 'g' caused a memory overflow on the SRI IMP. ... 'So the first message was "Lo," as in "Lo and Behold,
At the time they couldn't fathom anyone needing more than 2 bytes of memory.
I'm using the new release right now; it's crashed once -- but only once -- in several hours of use.
In other words, it's even less reliable than the IE I'm reading this on?
Microsoft might control the desktop market, but don't forget that the vast majority of servers and supercomputers run Linux.
In other words, the computers that are as far as you can get from being a netbook while still being a computer.
They lived in New York, What idiot drives everywhere in New york? Most people in reality use public transportation in NYC. you NEVER saw them on a subway, always in jerry's or kramers car.
Two Seinfeld episodes spring to mind; the one with the naked guy, and the one where Kramer gets mugged...ohhhh...Ok I think I see your point...
The era of Netbooks is upon us, and it looks like Microsoft will miss the bus.
The first generation of netbooks ran linux. Just about everything after that ran windows. Sounds like linux will miss the bus.
I would have to say higher amount than 0. Think about how many businesses and organizations were too afraid to jump on the linux band wagon for fear of being brought into litigation, so they kept paying for proprietary closed software solutions instead of investing the money in their core businesses or paying out dividends.
Hardly any I would think; if you look at the rate of adoption before the SCO thing even became an issue, you can extrapolate that it prevented very few companies from adopting linux. And even had these companies adopted open software, they wouldn't have seen that much in savings.
Generally you can tell the pros and people in the know from the wannabees by their correct use of terms.
You can also tell them when they say, as I did, that they have almost no training in the subject.
Little biology. I did, however, do 4 years of Latin.
Judging by the story, and in the context of my almost complete lack of formal training in cell biology, it sounds like the cells might not be resistant to cancer-causing virii, but rather it just means the infected cells can't multiply past a certain point. Sort of like carrying a disease but not showing any symptoms.
How many billions have been tied up with his threatened takedowns of everyone and their dog who ever looked at Linux?
Rounding to the nearest billion? Zero.
trying to sell people what they want or how they want it
People want free, anytime they can get it. Not a good business model.
I know you Americans are so in love with your wasteful lifestyle that you can rationalise to the most extreme not using innovations to cut down on consumption, like hybrid cars are gay and all the religious issues with CFLs.
Oh spare us the smug patronizing; you're western european I'm assuming, it's the only area where everyone thinks they are experts on American culture. Not expert enough to know that the CFL was invented by Americans (as was the modern hybrid car) though.
The rest of the lamps are CFLs, they have worked perfectly for 7 years and I've never had any problem with them, either with the less used ones or the ones under extreme usage. I even have CFLs outdoors and I never replaced them, they withstand temperatures from -2C to 40C along the year.
So your basis for claiming that CFLs are relilable, is that the ones you've personally happened to buy haven't gone out. Brilliant.
Awww, thanks.
We do that, but with about 80,000 pages of tax code devoted to putting you into different brackets, deductions/loopholes, type of income, schedules, etc. Additionally the IRS has its own rules and so do each of the states, counties, and municipalities. Yeah, the cost of figuring out taxes when time and money spent doing so can be nearly as excessive as the taxes themselves.
It scales, though. How many of those 80,000 pages do you really think apply to you specifically? A lot of it deals with corporate taxation, or tax laws as they apply to trusts or non-profit organizations, etc.
Like look at the internal revenue code. Only one subtitle will apply to most people reading this; and of that subtitle, only a small percentage of the provisions apply to the average person on the street.
Granted, doing something like maintaining a qualified pension plan under the IRC gets a little complicated, but very few of you will have to deal with that. And if you're running a pension trust with $500 million in assets, I don't think it's unreasonable to expect you to be able to pay for a tax lawyer to help you.