What state is yours? The "serious bodily injury" thing sounds like it's out of the AZ criminal code, although I suspect that it's based on the Model Penal Code. For all the bullshit that AZ has done lately, their criminal law is very sane and sensible.
I don't see why we don't just outsource all our snooping to the Chinese. The outcome will be the same but it'll be cheaper for the American taxpayer, and the Chinglish translations will be hilarious.
In the US, there was a "three-fifths compromise" in the drafting of the Constitution, where the South got to count 3/5 of the slave population in determining representation in Congress. Could NZ do something similar with sheep?
He wasn't saying that it should be called GNU/Linux; he was saying that the cost of creating the Linux kernel, vs. the cost of creating the Linux kernel + gcc + everything else, might be very different.
I think it would be more effective to use false metadata than false data. Don't send suspicious messages; send them in suspicious ways to suspicious places. The messages could be (and probably *would* be) more suspicious if they consisted just of random pictures of cats.
Do you have to declare the value of the chicken with or without sales tax? The "value" of a loaf of bread on the store shelves may be $3, but the value of a loaf of bread on my shelf is $3.24, since that's what it cost me.
The goal is not to take away the US's desire to regulate something, but the ability. The US would dearly love to collect income tax from the operators of Silk Road. Will it? Probably not.
The "stand your ground" laws are not the demon you think they are.
They say, generally, that if you are confronted with the threat of "serious bodily harm" (defined in AZ as "physical injury that creates a reasonable risk of death, or that causes serious and permanent disfigurement, serious impairment of health or loss or protracted impairment of the function of any bodily organ or limb"), you can defend yourself even if you possibly could have run away, provided that you are not doing anything illegal and provided that you did not provoke the other person. They say that if someone comes at you with a knife at the bus stop, you can defend yourself without worrying about whether or not you could outrun the guy or not.
These laws, as written, aren't relevant except in the case where someone is trying to kill or maim you.
The ideal zero point neglects that it takes capital to run a business. "Profit" is nothing more than the people who helped fund a business (the stockholders) getting a return on their investment, a return without which they'd not have bought stock and made the business possible.
Bitcoin is a currency that can be regulated under American Law
Well, yes. When has the government ever ruled that it lacks the power to regulate something?
The motivation behind Bitcoin wasn't to create a currency that government would choose not to regulate; it was to create one that government could not regulate.
They are leaving, though -- per a friend of mine from Pretoria, there are a great many Zimbabwean refugees heading to northern South Africa, and the SA government doesn't quite know what to do with them.
I've thought about calling the number and saying "Marion Barry reported to work today, he's more likely to commit a crime than anyone else on this road"
In the Baltimore/DC area they also have "Silver Alerts": dementia patient got out, can someone catch him for us? Thankfully they're just on the freeway signs (which normally tell other helpful information like "don't drive drunk" and "YAY SAFETY WOOO". Meanwhile people drive like derps on the Beltway anyway.
Isn't an Amber alert specifically something you don't wake people up for? The whole point is to make use of the citizenry as a distributed search system. People who are sleeping are pretty bad at looking out for missing kids.
You wake people up for things like tsunamis, nuclear war, and radiological attacks. That's about all I can think of.
Sadly Snowden is too young to run. But I wonder if he could get some sort of immunity by being elected to Congress? He might be able to win a seat in New Hampshire or some other live-free-or-die sort of state.
It's ruled by people who are willing to stomp on both other people and any general formulation of ethics to get what they want, because only by being such a person can you get elected...
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What state is yours? The "serious bodily injury" thing sounds like it's out of the AZ criminal code, although I suspect that it's based on the Model Penal Code. For all the bullshit that AZ has done lately, their criminal law is very sane and sensible.
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I don't see why we don't just outsource all our snooping to the Chinese. The outcome will be the same but it'll be cheaper for the American taxpayer, and the Chinglish translations will be hilarious.
Mine boots Kubuntu in 4-ish seconds from grub menu to KDE desktop ready to go. It's quite impressive.
In the US, there was a "three-fifths compromise" in the drafting of the Constitution, where the South got to count 3/5 of the slave population in determining representation in Congress. Could NZ do something similar with sheep?
He wasn't saying that it should be called GNU/Linux; he was saying that the cost of creating the Linux kernel, vs. the cost of creating the Linux kernel + gcc + everything else, might be very different.
As an American, I find it easier to understand Australian English than many American-born English speakers.
Just because the Americans are spying on people doesn't mean the Chinese aren't doing it too.
I think it would be more effective to use false metadata than false data. Don't send suspicious messages; send them in suspicious ways to suspicious places. The messages could be (and probably *would* be) more suspicious if they consisted just of random pictures of cats.
Do you have to declare the value of the chicken with or without sales tax? The "value" of a loaf of bread on the store shelves may be $3, but the value of a loaf of bread on my shelf is $3.24, since that's what it cost me.
The goal is not to take away the US's desire to regulate something, but the ability. The US would dearly love to collect income tax from the operators of Silk Road. Will it? Probably not.
The "stand your ground" laws are not the demon you think they are.
They say, generally, that if you are confronted with the threat of "serious bodily harm" (defined in AZ as "physical injury that creates a reasonable risk of death, or that causes serious and permanent disfigurement, serious impairment of health or loss or protracted impairment of the function of any bodily organ or limb"), you can defend yourself even if you possibly could have run away, provided that you are not doing anything illegal and provided that you did not provoke the other person. They say that if someone comes at you with a knife at the bus stop, you can defend yourself without worrying about whether or not you could outrun the guy or not.
These laws, as written, aren't relevant except in the case where someone is trying to kill or maim you.
He was, however, demented while holding the presidency.
The ideal zero point neglects that it takes capital to run a business. "Profit" is nothing more than the people who helped fund a business (the stockholders) getting a return on their investment, a return without which they'd not have bought stock and made the business possible.
Sure. The whole point of Bitcoin is to establish something that makes it harder for them to "find out".
Bitcoin is a currency that can be regulated under American Law
Well, yes. When has the government ever ruled that it lacks the power to regulate something?
The motivation behind Bitcoin wasn't to create a currency that government would choose not to regulate; it was to create one that government could not regulate.
They are leaving, though -- per a friend of mine from Pretoria, there are a great many Zimbabwean refugees heading to northern South Africa, and the SA government doesn't quite know what to do with them.
It's 90.7%, per the CIA.
last dollar (Zim dollar or any other)
If they're Zimbabwean dollars, wouldn't you have to bet at least a trillion?
I've thought about calling the number and saying "Marion Barry reported to work today, he's more likely to commit a crime than anyone else on this road"
In the Baltimore/DC area they also have "Silver Alerts": dementia patient got out, can someone catch him for us? Thankfully they're just on the freeway signs (which normally tell other helpful information like "don't drive drunk" and "YAY SAFETY WOOO". Meanwhile people drive like derps on the Beltway anyway.
Isn't an Amber alert specifically something you don't wake people up for? The whole point is to make use of the citizenry as a distributed search system. People who are sleeping are pretty bad at looking out for missing kids.
You wake people up for things like tsunamis, nuclear war, and radiological attacks. That's about all I can think of.
That's Xenu, not Xerox.
Sadly Snowden is too young to run. But I wonder if he could get some sort of immunity by being elected to Congress? He might be able to win a seat in New Hampshire or some other live-free-or-die sort of state.
Putin's a scumbag. But occasionally scumbags can, in their desire to stick it to another scumbag, help out their enemies.
It's ruled by people who are willing to stomp on both other people and any general formulation of ethics to get what they want, because only by being such a person can you get elected...