It's $50 a month for unlimited talk/text and you're still stuck paying for data (included in the price) even if you never use it. I've been wondering the same thing as the author and I still haven't found it. Not everyone needs mobile data.
Bah. Just sign up for Walmart Family Mobile. You still get T-mobile service and its $45 for unlimited everything. Well, they cap your 3G data, but you can get unlimited edge after you hit the cap. And I rarely hit the cap anyway.
From the article: "In the long run, you will likely end up paying more for your locked device than for an unlocked one." But how is this true even when the only carrier with coverage in your area doesn't give a discount on monthly service for bringing your own phone?
You obviously live in a rural paradise. I switched from AT&T (where I had a massive corporate discount) to Sprint after AT&T changed the way that they calculated discounts. It was then $20 a month cheaper to be on Sprint. After my contract ended there, I bought an unlocked smart phone and switched to Walmart Family mobile (AKA T-mobile) and am paying less for unlimited everything on two lines than I was with 1 line on Sprint. My unlocked smartphone has already paid for itself in the first year. I'm hoping to keep it for ~4 more years and save thousands of dollars.
You have obviously never used multiple windows at once. At work, I have two 24" screens and regularly have lots of open windows at once. If even one of the programs I use are a "metro" program, I am not able to use regular windows programs at the same time. This problem will only get worse with time, and is a showstopper for me.
Windows 8 is the solution to Microsofts problems, not the users' problems. That kind of disrespect for your customers never pays off.
Wow! They really ARE copying Apple verbatim! I mean I know Apple still has their regular desktop but they are pushing launch pad pretty hard, which is exactly like a tablet interface. Not to mention the fact that when you run a Mac OS App in fullscreen mode (again like you would on a tablet), your second monitor becomes a giant paperweight. It's awesome that we're seeing such unity on the user interfaces.
I can fit my Nexus 7 in the back pocket of my jeans quite comfortably. And I do so regularly when I take it out of doors. It also fits quite nicely in the pocket of my cargo shorts as well.
You must be new here. It doesn't even support "edit" which is breakthrough technology from the 1980s.
It's like a flashback to Unix ca. 1980 when you couldn't edit the command line if you made a mistake while typing a command.
I think the lack of an edit feature is due to the way that moderation works. They don't want someone to get modded up, then edit their post to something a bit more trollish. While it would be nice to be able to fix typos, that is a handy feature. Though they could of course allow you to view the revision history.
(did you know the marketing name changed from c-nat to cgnat not because there's anything wrong with "carrier nat" as a name, but everyone was calling it "crappy nat" instead?)
Crappy gnat sounds even better than crappy nat to me!
A magazine is a generic term that refers to the storage of ammunition. You can certainly keep 30 rounds of ammo in your rifle's detachable magazine. You can also store your ship's ammunition in the ship's magazine. You could even replenish your bolt action hunting rifle's magazine.
So you should be clear on your terminology before you take part in these discussions. Otherwise we can dismiss anything you say since you've already displayed your ignorance on the topic.
-can I out-pedant a pedant?
No, you can't. He's right, you are not. The term clip comes from stripper-clips that were used to load magazines during WWI and WWII. You use a stripper clip when loading an internal magazine on a weapon, for instance. US culture misuses the word clip because the M-1 Garand, of WWII fame, used a box clip to load ammo into the internal magazine of the weapon. All those vets came back thinking that the clip from their M1 was the same thing as the magazine that you might load into your semi-automatic pistol.
"What do you call retired people in the states?" "Greeters at WalMart."
I don't know if all those people are working because they have to. Some may just want to work. I would be quite happy being a greeter at Walmart. It actually sounds like a fun job to me. When you have nothing better to do, why not stand around and smile and say hi to people all day? It beats doing nothing. Even if I am able to retire at 60 there is no way in hell I would stop working. I'd just work less, and not care about money. I know an older couple that is retired. The wife works at an elementary school 20 hours a week. They definitely do not need the money at all. She does it because she loves children and its something for her to do 20 hours a week.
It doesn't work the other way, though. You're not going to get any good programmers or software engineers who can't deal with a fizzbuzz. Sorry.
And I am saying that just because they can do fizzbuzz and answer your language based questions all day like an expert doesn't make them a great programmer either. This guy liked to over complicate everything. Fizzbuzz is pretty hard to make overly complicated, and it's not a good indicator of someone who can write simple and easy to maintain code. There are people who may not be able to do FizzBuzz when put on the spot that can knock it out perfectly in a couple of minutes when they feel like thy are in control (like at their desk). Lets face it, a lot of engineering types don't do well in social situations and asking someone to do a test like this on the spot tests their social skills and confidence more than their programming ability. If the person is going to be a Field Engineer then that might be valid criteria, but that doesn't mean its valid for all programming jobs.
Yep. I've done lots of programmer hiring and I can tell you that one of the worst employees I ever dealt with got a near perfect on a C test, finishing 45 questions in about 6 minutes. Some of the questions required coding. The guy was a terrible programmer, but he really knew the language. I think he missed 1 question and that was because the person who wrote the test had accidentally introduced a typo that made the "correct" answer wrong.
The way you just described it makes it sounds an awful lot like you were doing "language trivia" question which are well-known to be beyond totally useless, and not related to the timed coding test as implied in the question. So please, stop considering yourself a good interviewer now, and read up on what works.
As I said originally, yes there was code trivia. But yes there was a timed coding portion of the test as well. And no, that test was not my choice. I am not a big fan of riddles and tests in interviews. I personally know a good developer who is terrible when put on the spot like that. You sit him at his desk, where he feels comfortable and in control and he does great. If he's put on the spot, he is a total mess. Does that mean that he isn't worth having around? No. Is it something he's working on improving? Yes. But he makes solid contributions and hopefully some day he will be able to handle that kind of stress.
Shoot I've been in the industry for a while and I'll be your beyotch and run to taco bell and pick your lunch up as long as I am getting paid my normal wage for it. There are certainly tasks that are more cost efficient to have a more junior employee to do, but I won't tell you no. Now if you asked me to do something illegal or unethical, I can see myself to the door!
Have you ever done a lot of "programmer" hiring? Such a test is valuable to both the employer and the employee. The employer won't waste time talking to clueless idiots. The employee will know that the employer is serious about weeding out idiots and thus having resources left to talk to people who know what the fuck they are doing. Such tests have not much to do with what most of your job is. Software engineering is a lot about design, testing, etc., but if you can't code your way out of a fizzbuzz, it doesn't matter what else you pretend to know.
Yep. I've done lots of programmer hiring and I can tell you that one of the worst employees I ever dealt with got a near perfect on a C test, finishing 45 questions in about 6 minutes. Some of the questions required coding. The guy was a terrible programmer, but he really knew the language. I think he missed 1 question and that was because the person who wrote the test had accidentally introduced a typo that made the "correct" answer wrong.
Are you in public? then your right to privacy does not include filming you about your business.
That is ANYBODY.
And what if the person was minding their own business having a mental breakdown inside of the privacy of their own home? What then? They weren't in public until the police dragged them outside. I'm not trying to argue one way or another here, just merely pointing out that the person may not have been in public by choice.
As recently as 2007 this was clearly not the case.
Because I've worked in a facility like this before. Not Los Alamos, but with classified data.
It was only after several years on the job that she was caught with bomb designs in her trailer and fired. But the investigation reveals that Quintana had taken her cell phone into a vault filled with secret documents where she worked — another major security violation. She also had access to a high-speed classified printer, even though such access was "not required by her job," and used the device to run off hundreds of copies of classified documents that she also brought home.
See? She violated security protocol by bringing her phone into the vault. It says so right there in your own quote. So as I said there should be 0 iPhones around there. Whether people actually follow the rules is up to the site security officer, but the rules clearly state no cell phones.
Screw the switches, think about all of the iPhone floating around LANL (and Congress)!
Probably 0. Hopefully 0. These facilities have lockers where you are supposed to leave all phones, cameras, and anything else that could be used to steal data. You're not supposed to be able to get in without emptying your pockets. You're even supposed to leave your car keys, etc, in the locker.
Ok that makes perfect sense, then. That would not scare me at all. If you did 3 years of 1 year (not including the internship) then that might be concerning. I've never worked on anything so simple that there isn't a bit of a ramp up to understand the new employer's processes and projects. Depending on the person, it could be 1-3 months before they make a positive contribution. After about 6 months you kind of get a feel for who is definitely not worth having around (though sometimes much more quickly). That is about when the under performers start looking for a new job. I can see that isn't the case with you at all. I wouldn't worry too much about titles. They vary radically between companies. I'd be more concerned with the experience and responsibilities you can list on your resume, as they are the truer indicator of what you have been doing.
Most of the projects I have hired people for have had a schedule that is more than a year long. Sure there are deliveries more frequently than that, but I might know that I need to make 5 deliveries over the course of 3 years. When I see someone who has jumped jobs that often then I am very wary of that person. It could be as you say, that they are looking for a good fit. It could be that they move on after it is discovered just how incompetent they are. I've seen both. ANd it could be as another person described, that one of those three jobs was an internship, the other was held for several years, and the person just started a new job last week. I was curious to find out if something like that was the case. I have friends who can't seem to sit still for more than a year who are in their 30's. I just think its a bad habit to develop.
I'm on my third career-relevant jobs (including an internship) since graduating from college in 2010. The only time I go back further than those three jobs in my employment history is when they ask for it - then I'll include being an RA in college, being a dishwasher/delivery driver summers during college and highschool, etc. Even then, I almost never go back to my first "real" job at age 14. Every interview I've been at, they've been far more interested in projects (or even hobbies) I've done relevant to the position rather than every little bit of job and education history I have. I often omit the networking course I did during high school too just because it's small cheese compared to my more recent history and just wastes valuable space I could use for listing projects I've done more recently instead.
Third job in less than 3 years? Wow. Why the high turnover rate? That would scare me more than a resume with a PH.D on it.
I have been using notebook drivers direct from Nvidia for quite some time; at least since I bought the laptop prior to my current one, which would have been in late 2008. Maybe it was different for the Quadro, but they have had mobile GeForce drivers available for download for years.
I don't know if this will work for you, but here are the Quadro Notebook Drivers v310.90 dated yesterday.
Whether you can install the latest and greatest drivers from NVidia, or have to download from your OEM depends on the OEM. They usually tweak some settings (PCI Device ID) specifically so that the default NVidia drivers will not install. They do this for support purposes. You can modify the INF for the Nvidia drivers and force them to install, but it can be a pain to get them working right sometimes. For instance, when Vista came out, I bought a new laptop. Dell restricted the drivers so I couldn't use the Windows XP drivers for my video card. I had to find this solution to be able to run XP on the device.
Part of the reason the driver is so big is because they now package all cards into one driver. Well, at least all of their GeForce cards. You literally have generations worth of drivers in one file. Sure they added the PhysX and the HD AUdio driver, 3D crud, and a few other things. However, I think most of that size comes from different driver files. I don't think all of them get installed.
Sorry I had replied to myself after that post and indicated that I had left out that she was still in the black section. And I agree that she was a remarkable person for doing what she did. I wasn't actually thinking of her specifically when I made my original comment, however.
OK but who has standing to sue if the county does nothing but comply? Maybe a permit holder, but again nothing has changed when the county stands up to the state like this. I just don't see how the county refusing to do this prevents a legal challenge from occurring.
The then President, Perez, was himself the product of a coup. And he went on to be a corrupt butcher. A coup is a political act, it's not a crime, other than in the eyes of those who support the original corrupt regime.
You mean this Perez? The one who was elected twice, first in '74 and then again in '89? The last successful military coup in Venezuela was in 1958, so I am not sure how that makes any of the Perezs a product of a coup. Unless you consider every president of Venezuela after 1858 to be a product of a coup. Now Marcos Perez was appointed president after the 1948 coup and before the 1958 coup, so maybe you could consider him to have benefited from a coup, but that is as close as it gets.
You would not be able to run a military coup in the US and then run for president later, when it failed.
The laws of the USA are certainly no standard for morality.
No, but in general this law is a good idea. Someone doesn't like the way things are run and tries to change them by force. Not by a populist movement, but by taking control of the military, and then failing. So what do you do? Let them run for president and then turn the office into a position they can hold forever? It does not make sense. I can't say that I have talked to 50% of the Venezuelan population, but I have never met someone who liked Chavez during the time I was there. Everyone thought that his 2nd, 3rd and 4th re-elections were rigged. Whether they were or not, I can't say. But if Chavez really wanted to do things right the first time, he should have ran for president the first time instead of using the military. Obviously there wasn't anything preventing him from becoming president, since he did finally run and win.
BTW, keep in mind that under the American legal system a County-level official who flat-out refuses to implement a state-level policy is actually supporting that policy. To sue to get a policy over-turned you generally need something called "Standing," and the easiest way to get Standing to Sue is be damaged by a law. If the Kansas City School Board had said "we dislike segregation, so we'll let this kid go to school," Brown vs. Board of Education probably does not happen.
In this case it may not matter because other counties did release the info, and the Paper may sue the hold-out. But in general a County-Level official who flat-out refuses to enforce an Unconstitutional policy is protecting that policy from the Courts.
That is entirely wrong. There are several ways that this law can be overturned. First, the newspaper now has standing to sue the county. Second, the state Attorney General now has standing to sue the county. Finally, the county should has always had standing to sue the state. Prior to this action, only the county had any standing to file suit. If this county withholds the information so publicly, then it may encourage other counties to do the same. That increases the likelihood that someone will eventually file suit and take this case to the NY State Supreme court. Prior to this action, no one but the county could show that there may be damages due to the application of this law. The only damages to the county would have been the costs associated with complying with the FIA request. It's very unlikely the county could have won on such grounds. However, the odds of them winning on the basis that the information should not be made public, when sued by the state or the newspaper are likely much higher.
Do you have some sort of reference for this statement? You can torture most guns these days and they will happily continue to fire thousands of rounds for you. Now if you use some crappy, under powered ammo (or home load incorrectly), and you have a semi-auto you could experience what they call an FTE (failure to eject), but that seems pretty unlikely to me.
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It's $50 a month for unlimited talk/text and you're still stuck paying for data (included in the price) even if you never use it. I've been wondering the same thing as the author and I still haven't found it. Not everyone needs mobile data.
Bah. Just sign up for Walmart Family Mobile. You still get T-mobile service and its $45 for unlimited everything. Well, they cap your 3G data, but you can get unlimited edge after you hit the cap. And I rarely hit the cap anyway.
From the article: "In the long run, you will likely end up paying more for your locked device than for an unlocked one." But how is this true even when the only carrier with coverage in your area doesn't give a discount on monthly service for bringing your own phone?
You obviously live in a rural paradise. I switched from AT&T (where I had a massive corporate discount) to Sprint after AT&T changed the way that they calculated discounts. It was then $20 a month cheaper to be on Sprint. After my contract ended there, I bought an unlocked smart phone and switched to Walmart Family mobile (AKA T-mobile) and am paying less for unlimited everything on two lines than I was with 1 line on Sprint. My unlocked smartphone has already paid for itself in the first year. I'm hoping to keep it for ~4 more years and save thousands of dollars.
You have obviously never used multiple windows at once. At work, I have two 24" screens and regularly have lots of open windows at once. If even one of the programs I use are a "metro" program, I am not able to use regular windows programs at the same time. This problem will only get worse with time, and is a showstopper for me.
Windows 8 is the solution to Microsofts problems, not the users' problems. That kind of disrespect for your customers never pays off.
Wow! They really ARE copying Apple verbatim! I mean I know Apple still has their regular desktop but they are pushing launch pad pretty hard, which is exactly like a tablet interface. Not to mention the fact that when you run a Mac OS App in fullscreen mode (again like you would on a tablet), your second monitor becomes a giant paperweight. It's awesome that we're seeing such unity on the user interfaces.
a phone that fits in your pocket
I can fit my Nexus 7 in the back pocket of my jeans quite comfortably. And I do so regularly when I take it out of doors. It also fits quite nicely in the pocket of my cargo shorts as well.
You must be new here. It doesn't even support "edit" which is breakthrough technology from the 1980s.
It's like a flashback to Unix ca. 1980 when you couldn't edit the command line if you made a mistake while typing a command.
I think the lack of an edit feature is due to the way that moderation works. They don't want someone to get modded up, then edit their post to something a bit more trollish. While it would be nice to be able to fix typos, that is a handy feature. Though they could of course allow you to view the revision history.
(did you know the marketing name changed from c-nat to cgnat not because there's anything wrong with "carrier nat" as a name, but everyone was calling it "crappy nat" instead?)
Crappy gnat sounds even better than crappy nat to me!
A magazine is a generic term that refers to the storage of ammunition. You can certainly keep 30 rounds of ammo in your rifle's detachable magazine. You can also store your ship's ammunition in the ship's magazine. You could even replenish your bolt action hunting rifle's magazine.
So you should be clear on your terminology before you take part in these discussions. Otherwise we can dismiss anything you say since you've already displayed your ignorance on the topic.
-can I out-pedant a pedant?
No, you can't. He's right, you are not. The term clip comes from stripper-clips that were used to load magazines during WWI and WWII. You use a stripper clip when loading an internal magazine on a weapon, for instance. US culture misuses the word clip because the M-1 Garand, of WWII fame, used a box clip to load ammo into the internal magazine of the weapon. All those vets came back thinking that the clip from their M1 was the same thing as the magazine that you might load into your semi-automatic pistol.
"What do you call retired people in the states?" "Greeters at WalMart."
I don't know if all those people are working because they have to. Some may just want to work. I would be quite happy being a greeter at Walmart. It actually sounds like a fun job to me. When you have nothing better to do, why not stand around and smile and say hi to people all day? It beats doing nothing. Even if I am able to retire at 60 there is no way in hell I would stop working. I'd just work less, and not care about money. I know an older couple that is retired. The wife works at an elementary school 20 hours a week. They definitely do not need the money at all. She does it because she loves children and its something for her to do 20 hours a week.
It doesn't work the other way, though. You're not going to get any good programmers or software engineers who can't deal with a fizzbuzz. Sorry.
And I am saying that just because they can do fizzbuzz and answer your language based questions all day like an expert doesn't make them a great programmer either. This guy liked to over complicate everything. Fizzbuzz is pretty hard to make overly complicated, and it's not a good indicator of someone who can write simple and easy to maintain code. There are people who may not be able to do FizzBuzz when put on the spot that can knock it out perfectly in a couple of minutes when they feel like thy are in control (like at their desk). Lets face it, a lot of engineering types don't do well in social situations and asking someone to do a test like this on the spot tests their social skills and confidence more than their programming ability. If the person is going to be a Field Engineer then that might be valid criteria, but that doesn't mean its valid for all programming jobs.
Yep. I've done lots of programmer hiring and I can tell you that one of the worst employees I ever dealt with got a near perfect on a C test, finishing 45 questions in about 6 minutes. Some of the questions required coding. The guy was a terrible programmer, but he really knew the language. I think he missed 1 question and that was because the person who wrote the test had accidentally introduced a typo that made the "correct" answer wrong.
The way you just described it makes it sounds an awful lot like you were doing "language trivia" question which are well-known to be beyond totally useless, and not related to the timed coding test as implied in the question. So please, stop considering yourself a good interviewer now, and read up on what works.
As I said originally, yes there was code trivia. But yes there was a timed coding portion of the test as well. And no, that test was not my choice. I am not a big fan of riddles and tests in interviews. I personally know a good developer who is terrible when put on the spot like that. You sit him at his desk, where he feels comfortable and in control and he does great. If he's put on the spot, he is a total mess. Does that mean that he isn't worth having around? No. Is it something he's working on improving? Yes. But he makes solid contributions and hopefully some day he will be able to handle that kind of stress.
Shoot I've been in the industry for a while and I'll be your beyotch and run to taco bell and pick your lunch up as long as I am getting paid my normal wage for it. There are certainly tasks that are more cost efficient to have a more junior employee to do, but I won't tell you no. Now if you asked me to do something illegal or unethical, I can see myself to the door!
Have you ever done a lot of "programmer" hiring? Such a test is valuable to both the employer and the employee. The employer won't waste time talking to clueless idiots. The employee will know that the employer is serious about weeding out idiots and thus having resources left to talk to people who know what the fuck they are doing. Such tests have not much to do with what most of your job is. Software engineering is a lot about design, testing, etc., but if you can't code your way out of a fizzbuzz, it doesn't matter what else you pretend to know.
Yep. I've done lots of programmer hiring and I can tell you that one of the worst employees I ever dealt with got a near perfect on a C test, finishing 45 questions in about 6 minutes. Some of the questions required coding. The guy was a terrible programmer, but he really knew the language. I think he missed 1 question and that was because the person who wrote the test had accidentally introduced a typo that made the "correct" answer wrong.
Are you in public? then your right to privacy does not include filming you about your business. That is ANYBODY.
And what if the person was minding their own business having a mental breakdown inside of the privacy of their own home? What then? They weren't in public until the police dragged them outside. I'm not trying to argue one way or another here, just merely pointing out that the person may not have been in public by choice.
Seriously, You know this? How?
As recently as 2007 this was clearly not the case.
Because I've worked in a facility like this before. Not Los Alamos, but with classified data.
It was only after several years on the job that she was caught with bomb designs in her trailer and fired. But the investigation reveals that Quintana had taken her cell phone into a vault filled with secret documents where she worked — another major security violation. She also had access to a high-speed classified printer, even though such access was "not required by her job," and used the device to run off hundreds of copies of classified documents that she also brought home.
See? She violated security protocol by bringing her phone into the vault. It says so right there in your own quote. So as I said there should be 0 iPhones around there. Whether people actually follow the rules is up to the site security officer, but the rules clearly state no cell phones.
See: http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1612912,00.html
Screw the switches, think about all of the iPhone floating around LANL (and Congress)!
Probably 0. Hopefully 0. These facilities have lockers where you are supposed to leave all phones, cameras, and anything else that could be used to steal data. You're not supposed to be able to get in without emptying your pockets. You're even supposed to leave your car keys, etc, in the locker.
Ok that makes perfect sense, then. That would not scare me at all. If you did 3 years of 1 year (not including the internship) then that might be concerning. I've never worked on anything so simple that there isn't a bit of a ramp up to understand the new employer's processes and projects. Depending on the person, it could be 1-3 months before they make a positive contribution. After about 6 months you kind of get a feel for who is definitely not worth having around (though sometimes much more quickly). That is about when the under performers start looking for a new job. I can see that isn't the case with you at all. I wouldn't worry too much about titles. They vary radically between companies. I'd be more concerned with the experience and responsibilities you can list on your resume, as they are the truer indicator of what you have been doing.
Most of the projects I have hired people for have had a schedule that is more than a year long. Sure there are deliveries more frequently than that, but I might know that I need to make 5 deliveries over the course of 3 years. When I see someone who has jumped jobs that often then I am very wary of that person. It could be as you say, that they are looking for a good fit. It could be that they move on after it is discovered just how incompetent they are. I've seen both. ANd it could be as another person described, that one of those three jobs was an internship, the other was held for several years, and the person just started a new job last week. I was curious to find out if something like that was the case. I have friends who can't seem to sit still for more than a year who are in their 30's. I just think its a bad habit to develop.
I'm on my third career-relevant jobs (including an internship) since graduating from college in 2010. The only time I go back further than those three jobs in my employment history is when they ask for it - then I'll include being an RA in college, being a dishwasher/delivery driver summers during college and highschool, etc. Even then, I almost never go back to my first "real" job at age 14. Every interview I've been at, they've been far more interested in projects (or even hobbies) I've done relevant to the position rather than every little bit of job and education history I have. I often omit the networking course I did during high school too just because it's small cheese compared to my more recent history and just wastes valuable space I could use for listing projects I've done more recently instead.
Third job in less than 3 years? Wow. Why the high turnover rate? That would scare me more than a resume with a PH.D on it.
I have been using notebook drivers direct from Nvidia for quite some time; at least since I bought the laptop prior to my current one, which would have been in late 2008. Maybe it was different for the Quadro, but they have had mobile GeForce drivers available for download for years. I don't know if this will work for you, but here are the Quadro Notebook Drivers v310.90 dated yesterday.
Whether you can install the latest and greatest drivers from NVidia, or have to download from your OEM depends on the OEM. They usually tweak some settings (PCI Device ID) specifically so that the default NVidia drivers will not install. They do this for support purposes. You can modify the INF for the Nvidia drivers and force them to install, but it can be a pain to get them working right sometimes. For instance, when Vista came out, I bought a new laptop. Dell restricted the drivers so I couldn't use the Windows XP drivers for my video card. I had to find this solution to be able to run XP on the device.
Part of the reason the driver is so big is because they now package all cards into one driver. Well, at least all of their GeForce cards. You literally have generations worth of drivers in one file. Sure they added the PhysX and the HD AUdio driver, 3D crud, and a few other things. However, I think most of that size comes from different driver files. I don't think all of them get installed.
Sorry I had replied to myself after that post and indicated that I had left out that she was still in the black section. And I agree that she was a remarkable person for doing what she did. I wasn't actually thinking of her specifically when I made my original comment, however.
OK but who has standing to sue if the county does nothing but comply? Maybe a permit holder, but again nothing has changed when the county stands up to the state like this. I just don't see how the county refusing to do this prevents a legal challenge from occurring.
The then President, Perez, was himself the product of a coup. And he went on to be a corrupt butcher. A coup is a political act, it's not a crime, other than in the eyes of those who support the original corrupt regime.
You mean this Perez? The one who was elected twice, first in '74 and then again in '89? The last successful military coup in Venezuela was in 1958, so I am not sure how that makes any of the Perezs a product of a coup. Unless you consider every president of Venezuela after 1858 to be a product of a coup. Now Marcos Perez was appointed president after the 1948 coup and before the 1958 coup, so maybe you could consider him to have benefited from a coup, but that is as close as it gets.
You would not be able to run a military coup in the US and then run for president later, when it failed.
The laws of the USA are certainly no standard for morality.
No, but in general this law is a good idea. Someone doesn't like the way things are run and tries to change them by force. Not by a populist movement, but by taking control of the military, and then failing. So what do you do? Let them run for president and then turn the office into a position they can hold forever? It does not make sense. I can't say that I have talked to 50% of the Venezuelan population, but I have never met someone who liked Chavez during the time I was there. Everyone thought that his 2nd, 3rd and 4th re-elections were rigged. Whether they were or not, I can't say. But if Chavez really wanted to do things right the first time, he should have ran for president the first time instead of using the military. Obviously there wasn't anything preventing him from becoming president, since he did finally run and win.
BTW, keep in mind that under the American legal system a County-level official who flat-out refuses to implement a state-level policy is actually supporting that policy. To sue to get a policy over-turned you generally need something called "Standing," and the easiest way to get Standing to Sue is be damaged by a law. If the Kansas City School Board had said "we dislike segregation, so we'll let this kid go to school," Brown vs. Board of Education probably does not happen.
In this case it may not matter because other counties did release the info, and the Paper may sue the hold-out. But in general a County-Level official who flat-out refuses to enforce an Unconstitutional policy is protecting that policy from the Courts.
That is entirely wrong. There are several ways that this law can be overturned. First, the newspaper now has standing to sue the county. Second, the state Attorney General now has standing to sue the county. Finally, the county should has always had standing to sue the state. Prior to this action, only the county had any standing to file suit. If this county withholds the information so publicly, then it may encourage other counties to do the same. That increases the likelihood that someone will eventually file suit and take this case to the NY State Supreme court. Prior to this action, no one but the county could show that there may be damages due to the application of this law. The only damages to the county would have been the costs associated with complying with the FIA request. It's very unlikely the county could have won on such grounds. However, the odds of them winning on the basis that the information should not be made public, when sued by the state or the newspaper are likely much higher.
Do you have some sort of reference for this statement? You can torture most guns these days and they will happily continue to fire thousands of rounds for you. Now if you use some crappy, under powered ammo (or home load incorrectly), and you have a semi-auto you could experience what they call an FTE (failure to eject), but that seems pretty unlikely to me.