I imagine they'll word the law so that it works the same for a Pringles Antenna the same way it works for machine guns. Right now I can buy perfectly legal parts, all of them individually legal to purchase and own, but if I own them all at the same time and same place, even just as a pile of individual parts, the BATF can have me arrested for "constructive intent."
Both Google and MS make the same mistake for my home. It finds the right street and city but points to the wrong house about 1/2 mile east on my street. Anytime someone tries to find my house with mapping software I have to correct them. I'm not sure where they get their address data from but I wish I could find out so I could correct it.
Libertarianism is a philosophy that places the rights of the individual as paramount. Marxism & Socialism are philosophies that state that the rights of the individual are subordinate to the needs of the society.
A libertarian-marxist is like a sterile-pregnant woman. Cold-heat. Honest-politicians. Microsoft-Works.
This is not a flame. I'm genuinely curious how someone can wrap one brain around two such diametrically opposed philosophies.
Is to stay at least one revision behind. I just finished getting everything updated to 9.0.2.1000 and have now tested and approved 9.0.3.1000 for use. We're testing 10 but it won't leave the testing environment until these problems are solved.
What? You don't test these things before deployment?
They stated that this doesn't nothing to prevent states from legislating limits on eminent domain seizures by municipal government
While I think this ruling is a horrible mistake you are absolutely correct. This has already been addressed at the tail end of the report on this ruling on MSNBC. Here's the relevant section:
Where other states stand According to the residents' filing, the seven states that allow condemnations for private business development alone are Connecticut, Kansas, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, New York and North Dakota.
Eight states forbid the use of eminent domain when the economic purpose is not to eliminate blight; they are Arkansas, Florida, Illinois, Kentucky, Maine, Montana, South Carolina and Washington.
Another three -- Delaware, New Hampshire and Massachusetts -- have indicated they probably will find condemnations for economic development alone unconstitutional, while the remaining states have not addressed or spoken clearly to the question.
Joists are horizontal or near-horizontal structural members of smaller dimensions than beams. Floor joists are the principal element of a wooden floor; the flooring is nailed to the top of the joists and, if the room below has a finished ceiling, the ceiling material is nailed to the bottoms of the joists. Flat and very low-slope roofs have roof joists in place of rafters.
By population and geography comparing the United States to the European Union is quite accurate. You would, by extension, compare individual States with European nations. Many individual American states are larger than entire European countries. Hell, we have individual counties that are larger and more populous than some of their countries.
Having recently served grand jury duty I learned a bit about what constitutes burglary. If I break into your home with the intention of doing something illegal, even if I just break in, look around for a moment and then walk out the door again without touching anything, that constitutes burglary.
B5 isn't really a good example. B5 ran it's full story arc. The sequel series was cancelled, but it really wasn't very good.
Firefly... now there's a great show struck down before it could get going. As much as I'm enjoying Battlestar Galactica I'd trade it for a new Firefly tv series in a heartbeat.
You could take them to a company that has an industrial shredder. The kind that shreds metal, not just paper.
Or you could do what I did for the longest time - stack old drives up in a cardboard box in the corner of the vault.
Failing space for that, disassemble the drive down to just the bare platters. You can toss everything except the platters. A box in the vault (or wherever) will hold an awful lot of those platters. The magnets you'll recover are fun, too.
Finally, take the platters to the firing range. Mount them on targets. Have a relaxing afternoon. I know I did.
Perhaps you'll be at ease when you're sitting in your cell reading the paper and see how "investigators found a collection of photos of little boys and girls in various sexual acts on disks in the person's desk". Haven't you ever thought it odd how its always found on disks? When nobody uses floppies anymore?
While I share your concerns, take off the tin foil. "Disks" could also mean Compact Discs or Digital V(pickyourword) Discs.
Not to say that there aren't crooked cops out there who plant evidence, but most of them don't need to. People who do this sort of thing can be remarkably stupid about leaving incriminating items all over the place.
You keep using racism as an example. That is covered by other parts of the constitution IMO. The 14th Amendment in this case. The 10th does not trump other constitutional protections.
Or, to put it more succinctly, you believe in the protections of the 10th amendment when it's convenient to your beliefs.
Not that it matters. The 10th has been effectively gutted by excessively wide interpretation of the interstate commerce clause of the constitution. That, and using highway funds as a club. "Do what we want or we'll take your gas taxes and not give any of it back to you." And yes, both sides are guilty of that. Reagan and Clinton both used that tactic to get what they wanted.
Specifically, the NRA, despite being one of the most powerful lobbying groups in America, has done nothing to try to preserve and protect the other 9 amendments in the Bill of Rights.
Actually the NRA fought the so-called "campaign finance reform" acts which are making the main subject of this story possible, citing the 1st Amendment as their reason.
The funny thing is that both the left and the right in this country pick and choose from the Bill of Rights depending on the issue. I find it highly amusing that the left is now trying to circumvent the right by citing the 10th Amendment "States Rights" provisions which they derided for so many years. Of course we have the right wing using the federal govt to hammer on state govt which is something they railed against for so many years.
Actually, it's Denny's food that Denny's has to cough up, and hotel space that...probably would have gone to waste anyway. And as for the Denny's food, I mean, whatever, how much food does Denny's throw away every day anyway?
When I cleaned out my refrigerator today I threw out some food that got shoved to the back and went bad. By your logic it would be okay for some guy to sneak into my house and steal food from my pantry because I waste some of my food. Oh, but wait. I'm a person, not a corporation. There goes your precious double standard again.
The $0.00000000001 trickles down to him isn't enough to justify wasting a few hours of his time trying to catch a thief. That's what the police are paid for.
Not all of us want to depend on the government to take care of our every need. Besides, if you read the article you would see that the police were in no hurry to do anything until he called and told them he knew exactly where they were right that moment.
Not from all of us. Just those of us who eat at Denny's, or pay exorbitant fees to Discover Card.
Or those of us who purchase products from merchants who accept Discover. Here's a dirty little secret: costs roll downhill to the consumer.
Two weeks notice is for Joe Schmoe Employee. If you're a true professional and you're not leaving under negative circumstances you do more. When I left my employer of 15+ years* (I had been with them since I was 19 and in college) I gave them notice about 20 minutes after I accepted my new position. That was a bit over four weeks notice and I busted my hump to get all my project work up to date. When I left I was ahead of every one of my counterparts within the company from a "caught up" standpoint. I also offered to help them out evenings and on weekends if they really needed it as long as it didn't interfere with my new job.
As a result I am still on excellent terms with them. If something happened to my job today I know that there are people at my old employer who would find me something to do so I could pay my mortgage. And I still get to buy the company's product at the employee rate.:)
That said, don't let him screw you over too badly.
*I know your typical IT guy doesn't work at the same place 15 years. I've always been weird.
I was given a Gerber Multitool (the needlenose variety) for Christmas in 1995. 9 years later I still carry it. The way it slides open allows the blades to be on the inside. It also means you can lock the knife blade open so that you can't fold it down on your hand.
The only reason I've considered upgrading is that mine is an early model with a flaw that has long since been corrected. The early models folded together completely when used as pliers, which meant that if you slipped you could pinch yourself badly. I've done it. A couple of years after mine came out they modified the design so that the handles don't quote close together completely when used as pliers. Problem solved.
There are also "expansion" kits that let you add on to the functionality.
I lived in Japan for four years. Not only was I offered the chance to buy guns, I could have bought full-auto M-16's which had been stolen from the Air Force base where I lived. Don't kid yourself about crime there. It may not make the news but it's there.
Seriously. If you think gun control doesn't work, then you just don't have a very well-developed world view. It does work and it has been working in various countries for many years. In fact, I just did a quick Google search on gun murder in Japan and quickly came up with some numbers from 1996: 9,390 gun murders in the US vs. 15 in Japan. Japan's murder rate has not increased appreciably since then - they have around 1,300 total per year (about 1/8 the number of gun murders alone in this country) with a population about half that of the United States.
*sigh* People love pointing out that Japan has a low crime rate and rather extreme gun control. I might also point out that Switzerland has an extremely low crime rate, yet most citizens have easy access to firearms I wouldn't be able to buy even here in the "gun-friendly" US. Let me tell you a dirty little secret: countries with the low crime rates generally have one thing in common: an extremely homogenous society. The greater the variation of race, religion and other cultural factors within a society the greater the rate of violence within that society. People don't like to think about this because it says some awfully unpleasant things about Humans as a species.
Handguns should be illegal. M-rated game sales to minors should be illegal. End of story. This is not a question of "my rights online", it's a question of living in a free and safe society that does not endorse the sale of devices whose sole purpose is to kill other human beings or the sale of adult content to children who do not yet have the mental maturity to properly process it.
Ah. I see. You're a nanny-statist. That pretty much explains your viewpoint. Never mind.
Every 90 days has been the standard everywhere I've worked. For us Sysadmin types it's every 30 days. I can keep up with it, but many end users with the 90 day restriction do exactly as you describe. They write them down, they use the same repetitive patterns, whatever. One user I used to support had a page of passwords in a little notepad he kept in his desk.
All I can really do is tell them the truth: If anyone gets on the network with their credentials they will be held responsible for what happens. It's hard enough just getting people to lock their screens when they go to lunch. One user got reamed out pretty badly when someone used her email account to send a scathing note to the CEO. The only reason she didn't get fired is that she was at lunch with several people who could vouch for her whereabouts at the moment the email was sent.
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Wireless like Nokia does and network like Cisco does are just too different at this point.
Nokia does other things besides wireless. Firewalls, VPN and other networking services, for example.
You have the wrong logo up for this story. You're using the "music" logo in relation to rap.
That and I assume, dear God I pray, this is a joke and you should have used the "It's funny, laugh" icon.
I imagine they'll word the law so that it works the same for a Pringles Antenna the same way it works for machine guns. Right now I can buy perfectly legal parts, all of them individually legal to purchase and own, but if I own them all at the same time and same place, even just as a pile of individual parts, the BATF can have me arrested for "constructive intent."
Both Google and MS make the same mistake for my home. It finds the right street and city but points to the wrong house about 1/2 mile east on my street. Anytime someone tries to find my house with mapping software I have to correct them. I'm not sure where they get their address data from but I wish I could find out so I could correct it.
He was a libertarian Marxist
Libertarian Marxist? What is that supposed to be?
Libertarianism is a philosophy that places the rights of the individual as paramount. Marxism & Socialism are philosophies that state that the rights of the individual are subordinate to the needs of the society.
A libertarian-marxist is like a sterile-pregnant woman. Cold-heat. Honest-politicians. Microsoft-Works.
This is not a flame. I'm genuinely curious how someone can wrap one brain around two such diametrically opposed philosophies.
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STATISTICIAN'S BLUES
Todd Snider ©2002
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They say 3 percent of the people use 5 to 6 percent of their brain
97 percent use 3 percent and the rest goes down the drain
I'll never know which one I am but I'll bet you my last dime
99 percent think with 3 percent 100 percent of the time
64 percent of all the world's statistics are made up right there on the spot
82.4 percent of people believe 'em whether they're accurate statistics or not
I don't know what you believe but I do know there's no doubt
I need another double shot of something 90 proof
I got too much to think about
Too much to think about
Too much to figure out
Stuck between hope and doubt
It's too much to think about
They say 92 percent of everything you learned in school was just bullshit you'll never need
84 percent of everything you got you bought to satisfy your greed
Because 90 percent of the world's population links possessions to success
Even though 80 percent of the wealthiest 1 percent of the population
Drinks to an alarming excess
More money, more stress
It's too much to think about
Too much to figure out
Stuck between hope and doubt
It's too much to think about
Pick it now
84 percent of all statisticians truly hate their jobs
They say the average bank robber lives within say about 20 miles of the bank that he robs
There's this little bank not far from here I've been watching now for a while
Lately all I can think about's how bad I wanna go out in style
And it's too much to think about
Too much to figure out
Stuck between hope and doubt
It's too much to think about
That's right... It's too much to think about... Amen... It's too much to think about... Mmm hmmm
Is to stay at least one revision behind. I just finished getting everything updated to 9.0.2.1000 and have now tested and approved 9.0.3.1000 for use. We're testing 10 but it won't leave the testing environment until these problems are solved.
What? You don't test these things before deployment?
They stated that this doesn't nothing to prevent states from legislating limits on eminent domain seizures by municipal government
While I think this ruling is a horrible mistake you are absolutely correct. This has already been addressed at the tail end of the report on this ruling on MSNBC. Here's the relevant section:
Where other states stand
According to the residents' filing, the seven states that allow condemnations for private business development alone are Connecticut, Kansas, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, New York and North Dakota.
Eight states forbid the use of eminent domain when the economic purpose is not to eliminate blight; they are Arkansas, Florida, Illinois, Kentucky, Maine, Montana, South Carolina and Washington.
Another three -- Delaware, New Hampshire and Massachusetts -- have indicated they probably will find condemnations for economic development alone unconstitutional, while the remaining states have not addressed or spoken clearly to the question.
* I have no idea what a "joist" is.
Joists are horizontal or near-horizontal structural members of smaller dimensions than beams. Floor joists are the principal element of a wooden floor; the flooring is nailed to the top of the joists and, if the room below has a finished ceiling, the ceiling material is nailed to the bottoms of the joists. Flat and very low-slope roofs have roof joists in place of rafters.
Not a dupe. The original story reported the crime and the arrest. This is reporting on the sentencing.
It's a shame they didn't leave the death penalty as an option. He certainly deserves it.
By population and geography comparing the United States to the European Union is quite accurate. You would, by extension, compare individual States with European nations. Many individual American states are larger than entire European countries. Hell, we have individual counties that are larger and more populous than some of their countries.
Having recently served grand jury duty I learned a bit about what constitutes burglary. If I break into your home with the intention of doing something illegal, even if I just break in, look around for a moment and then walk out the door again without touching anything, that constitutes burglary.
You could take the easy way out. Have each computer rip/transcode a different DVD. Kick them all off at once and walk away.
B5 isn't really a good example. B5 ran it's full story arc. The sequel series was cancelled, but it really wasn't very good.
... now there's a great show struck down before it could get going. As much as I'm enjoying Battlestar Galactica I'd trade it for a new Firefly tv series in a heartbeat.
Firefly
You could take them to a company that has an industrial shredder. The kind that shreds metal, not just paper.
Or you could do what I did for the longest time - stack old drives up in a cardboard box in the corner of the vault.
Failing space for that, disassemble the drive down to just the bare platters. You can toss everything except the platters. A box in the vault (or wherever) will hold an awful lot of those platters. The magnets you'll recover are fun, too.
Finally, take the platters to the firing range. Mount them on targets. Have a relaxing afternoon. I know I did.
Perhaps you'll be at ease when you're sitting in your cell reading the paper and see how "investigators found a collection of photos of little boys and girls in various sexual acts on disks in the person's desk". Haven't you ever thought it odd how its always found on disks? When nobody uses floppies anymore?
While I share your concerns, take off the tin foil. "Disks" could also mean Compact Discs or Digital V(pickyourword) Discs.
Not to say that there aren't crooked cops out there who plant evidence, but most of them don't need to. People who do this sort of thing can be remarkably stupid about leaving incriminating items all over the place.
You keep using racism as an example. That is covered by other parts of the constitution IMO. The 14th Amendment in this case. The 10th does not trump other constitutional protections.
Or, to put it more succinctly, you believe in the protections of the 10th amendment when it's convenient to your beliefs.
Not that it matters. The 10th has been effectively gutted by excessively wide interpretation of the interstate commerce clause of the constitution. That, and using highway funds as a club. "Do what we want or we'll take your gas taxes and not give any of it back to you." And yes, both sides are guilty of that. Reagan and Clinton both used that tactic to get what they wanted.
Specifically, the NRA, despite being one of the most powerful lobbying groups in America, has done nothing to try to preserve and protect the other 9 amendments in the Bill of Rights.
Actually the NRA fought the so-called "campaign finance reform" acts which are making the main subject of this story possible, citing the 1st Amendment as their reason.
The funny thing is that both the left and the right in this country pick and choose from the Bill of Rights depending on the issue. I find it highly amusing that the left is now trying to circumvent the right by citing the 10th Amendment "States Rights" provisions which they derided for so many years. Of course we have the right wing using the federal govt to hammer on state govt which is something they railed against for so many years.
As long as it was "properly demilitarized" you are correct. That would also include the 120mm main gun, not just the .50cal machine gun.
Actually, it's Denny's food that Denny's has to cough up, and hotel space that...probably would have gone to waste anyway. And as for the Denny's food, I mean, whatever, how much food does Denny's throw away every day anyway?
When I cleaned out my refrigerator today I threw out some food that got shoved to the back and went bad. By your logic it would be okay for some guy to sneak into my house and steal food from my pantry because I waste some of my food. Oh, but wait. I'm a person, not a corporation. There goes your precious double standard again.
The $0.00000000001 trickles down to him isn't enough to justify wasting a few hours of his time trying to catch a thief. That's what the police are paid for.
Not all of us want to depend on the government to take care of our every need. Besides, if you read the article you would see that the police were in no hurry to do anything until he called and told them he knew exactly where they were right that moment.
Not from all of us. Just those of us who eat at Denny's, or pay exorbitant fees to Discover Card.
Or those of us who purchase products from merchants who accept Discover. Here's a dirty little secret: costs roll downhill to the consumer.
Two weeks notice is for Joe Schmoe Employee. If you're a true professional and you're not leaving under negative circumstances you do more. When I left my employer of 15+ years* (I had been with them since I was 19 and in college) I gave them notice about 20 minutes after I accepted my new position. That was a bit over four weeks notice and I busted my hump to get all my project work up to date. When I left I was ahead of every one of my counterparts within the company from a "caught up" standpoint. I also offered to help them out evenings and on weekends if they really needed it as long as it didn't interfere with my new job.
:)
As a result I am still on excellent terms with them. If something happened to my job today I know that there are people at my old employer who would find me something to do so I could pay my mortgage. And I still get to buy the company's product at the employee rate.
That said, don't let him screw you over too badly.
*I know your typical IT guy doesn't work at the same place 15 years. I've always been weird.
I was given a Gerber Multitool (the needlenose variety) for Christmas in 1995. 9 years later I still carry it. The way it slides open allows the blades to be on the inside. It also means you can lock the knife blade open so that you can't fold it down on your hand.
The only reason I've considered upgrading is that mine is an early model with a flaw that has long since been corrected. The early models folded together completely when used as pliers, which meant that if you slipped you could pinch yourself badly. I've done it. A couple of years after mine came out they modified the design so that the handles don't quote close together completely when used as pliers. Problem solved.
There are also "expansion" kits that let you add on to the functionality.
In short, it has served me well.
Bullshit. Go to Japan and try to buy a gun.
I lived in Japan for four years. Not only was I offered the chance to buy guns, I could have bought full-auto M-16's which had been stolen from the Air Force base where I lived. Don't kid yourself about crime there. It may not make the news but it's there.
Seriously. If you think gun control doesn't work, then you just don't have a very well-developed world view. It does work and it has been working in various countries for many years. In fact, I just did a quick Google search on gun murder in Japan and quickly came up with some numbers from 1996: 9,390 gun murders in the US vs. 15 in Japan. Japan's murder rate has not increased appreciably since then - they have around 1,300 total per year (about 1/8 the number of gun murders alone in this country) with a population about half that of the United States.
*sigh* People love pointing out that Japan has a low crime rate and rather extreme gun control. I might also point out that Switzerland has an extremely low crime rate, yet most citizens have easy access to firearms I wouldn't be able to buy even here in the "gun-friendly" US. Let me tell you a dirty little secret: countries with the low crime rates generally have one thing in common: an extremely homogenous society. The greater the variation of race, religion and other cultural factors within a society the greater the rate of violence within that society. People don't like to think about this because it says some awfully unpleasant things about Humans as a species.
Handguns should be illegal. M-rated game sales to minors should be illegal. End of story. This is not a question of "my rights online", it's a question of living in a free and safe society that does not endorse the sale of devices whose sole purpose is to kill other human beings or the sale of adult content to children who do not yet have the mental maturity to properly process it.
Ah. I see. You're a nanny-statist. That pretty much explains your viewpoint. Never mind.
Every 90 days has been the standard everywhere I've worked. For us Sysadmin types it's every 30 days. I can keep up with it, but many end users with the 90 day restriction do exactly as you describe. They write them down, they use the same repetitive patterns, whatever. One user I used to support had a page of passwords in a little notepad he kept in his desk.
All I can really do is tell them the truth: If anyone gets on the network with their credentials they will be held responsible for what happens. It's hard enough just getting people to lock their screens when they go to lunch. One user got reamed out pretty badly when someone used her email account to send a scathing note to the CEO. The only reason she didn't get fired is that she was at lunch with several people who could vouch for her whereabouts at the moment the email was sent.