The word of caution is if you win that (Chances are you don't need to worry); people have very bad misfortunes, and are rarely happy - it can destroy family and relationships, many a lottery winner wound up bankrupt or committed suicide -- you are first of all best to keep your identity secret, because you're bound to have so many desperate people with all manner of sob stories coming to ask for a handout, that if you handed them $100 a piece, you'd be bankrupt.
Take your winning ticket, lock it up securely in your safe: Don't tell a soul, and start contacting advisors to help setup the organizational Trust structure that will allow you to claim your winning ticket within the allowed time and remain anonymous and help you optimize your outcomes and happiness.
By the way 40 Million X 1.09 ^ 65 = 10 Billion
In other words... 9% Annualized returns over 65 years will do it.
Interest rates are low these days, because of Fed and government meddling, that suppresses interest rates for debt and forces people to the higher-risk equities markets if you want to generate returns, but there have been times in the past where you could buy 40 Million worth of bonds and lock in a rate such as 12% - 15% interest. At 12% it would be 29 years to turn 40 Million into 10 Billion.
We need people well-versed in economics to run our public policy machine. Not just people who took economics in college, but people who have pushed the boundaries.
We should be pushing for DIVERSITY in our leadership. And I don't mean the Hijacked description of diversity called ethnic diversity.... I mean Intellectual Diversity and Diversity of Experience is even more important.
We could start by Step 1. discounting political experience as a qualification to run for elected offices, especially discount lawyers --- instead of having lawyers be legislators - appoint them "Legal assistants" -- In other words, lawyers help to understand the laws but shouldn't have the role in decisionmaking. Step 2. Play up practical domain experience in decisionmaking, Get more scientists and engineers in office. Step 3. Implement Term limits for all legislator positions. You serve your 6 years house and/or 12 years senate, after leaving office you must take a 6 year break before running again, and that is IT... no more legislating for you.
The production and sales of autonomous and self-driving vehicles shall be permitted, and individual states may not regulate, tax, or require licensing for the production, distribution, or operation of vehicles on the basis of autonomous or self-driving capability, but autonomous self-driving cars may be required to digitally authenticate active up-to-date liability insurance for the manufacturer and owner and authorization of users by the property owner, and "fitness" according to insurer and manufacturer policies before allowing uses of the vehicle.
The operation of self-driving features and vehicles capable of self-driving shall be permitted with no additional taxes, levies, or other charges, or restrictions on their use or on their human passengers on any public and private roadway where a human-operated vehicle of the same type would be permitted, And no competent or licensed human driver, human controller, or attentive observer or operator may be required or requested at any time for a vehicle that has been operated on solely in a self-driving mode, when the vehicle drives on its own, there is no operator.
The vehicle manufacturer and producers of each unit shall be responsible for all non-parking traffic violations other than failure to maintain equipment, outside the cabin which are caused by the manner the vehicle is driving or maneuvers in driving while a vehicle is operating in self-driving mode, and management executives, board members of the vehicle producer shall be responsible as individuals for any civil or criminal penalties for any unpaid citations or egregious acts of negligence, with no recourse to the end user.
Machine guns are also not "arms", because they are squad operated.
The constitution specifically described a rationale for the 2nd amendment of supporting well-equipped militia as a reason for maintaining a right to Keep and Bear arms.
So no; it is not true that Machine guns are not arms.
If you feel uncomfortable with your next door neighbor having a canon or machine gun, then look to your city, municipal government, or your state for regulation.... that is because it is the states' role to regulate where the federal government has been restricted by design, specifically to prevent the federal government from becoming too powerful and being able to intimidate all the states and the people.
That is not a (mangled) quote to trot out with pride nor should we forget the lives which were cost because the President ignored SCOTUS decisions.
The point is not whether or not the president did a moral thing in that instance. Only that the president DOES have that power and capability. Also, it is a Non-Seqitur / false argument that ignoring a SCOTUS decision causes loss of life.
You're confusing motive and intent, intent factors heavily into our legal system. Intent is: "What was this order trying to accomplish?"
The legality depends on what specific actions are being taken, not on intended or anticipated future consequences. For example: Passing what turns out to be a ban on guns is still a 2nd amendment violation, if it prevents or impedes a single citizen acquiring a firearm, even if the intended affect of the bill is to save lives and reduce violence by making guns harder to obtain, and complete ban was not in the mind of the authors.
Intent is used only to help disambiguate what specific actions are being taken when interpreting the meaning of the bill. When possible the courts Must pick the interpretation of the intent of all laws or orders in a manner that the result is constitutional and/or legal, if it is possible for there to be a constitutional and legal intent of the law or order.
That is.... the courts are there to interpret the laws and orders. The Courts are NOT there to second-guess decisions of the executive or elected officials.
The only time they can strike down an order is by showing there's no possible legal basis, and there's no possible lawful/constitutional interpretation of the rule, law, or order. And even then, the Judiciary is just one branch of government with very limited power over other branches other than some specific limited checks and balances --- E.G. There can't "really" be a dispute between the president and the courts, since the Executive technically has the authority to proceed against their orders.
Yes, but those entries may be enough to enable you to bluff your way through some other transaction or fraud scheme
And this might have slipped under the radar if he targeted one or two towers, instead of 40, b/c as a result of claiming so many he wound up assigning himself some tower that was damaged requiring $21k repairs to make it safe to the public and thus under FCC investigation and making false statements, causing a safety hazard...
I would Hope they put Aura on the hook for the $21K, and block him from making further FCC filings regarding towers, and go ahead and make the charges for making fraudulent statements and filing false documents with the FCC.
Bankers are going to require more paperwork to show clear title than a listing in the FCC database, just because you're listed as owner doesn't mean there's no Lien or other mortgage against the property, for example.
Changing the owner that is listed in one federal database doesn't actually transfer ownership of the assets in question.
But they should send a Bill for all FCC fines for any violations found at any of those towers that occured to the registered owner while the contractor was listed as such.
There is absolutely no power-of-two dependency above the block size
Which doesn't matter, because the basic unit of computer memory is still the Bit, which is always measured using Base-2. The reason for the unit does not come from physical structure of storage; it comes from the mathematical structure called binary, and that the RAM/ROM in computers is built from "Bit memory cells", and the Persistent memory from a hard drive is nothing more than an extension of that (A device for persistently recording RAM content).
When one states 1 Kilobit it is defined as: 2^10 bits, when one states 1 Kilobyte it is defined as 2^10 bits then multiplied by 8, when one states Megabits, it is defined as 2^20 bits, and 1 Megabyte is 2^20 bits then multiplied by 8, finally 1 Gigabit is 2^30 bits, and when one refers to 1 Gigabyte is defined as 2^30 bits then multiplied by 8.
The court should take that $1 million in damages, and multiply it by 100, and order Comcast to (1) Pay $100 Million+, (2) Send a short notice to all of Telecom Cable LLC's former customers Explaining what they did and apologizing, and (3) Order Comcast to pay an additional $100 Million per Year, for every year in which there is not another competing wireline Cable company such as Telecom Cable LLC with at least 229 customers in the area..
Who pays the loss, though? Is it eBay, or the merchant? I.E. Does this mean the Merchant's buy-it-now price is lowered for the order, or does eBay itself fork over the $$$ ?
So, while factory owners love the idea of not having to pay salaries, they need people to have enough money to buy their crap.
Yep... which means they will have to lower the prices of the crap they are selling to almost nothing; at that point, even if all you can find is one-off gigs for a few hours of work a week at minimum wage, then you can still buy stuff, because the employment deflation will have lowered prices, perhaps.
Of course there will be other jobs if one factory automates. But what happens when they ALL automate?
Then we will have reached the next level. There's no fundamental law of nature that we as a species need factories staffed by people. There WAS a time, in our past, where there was not a single factory in existence.
So it will be just the next transition on the scale of moving from No Factories to large Workshops to Human production lines, and finally to Automated manufacture, with similar scale of ramifications.
Also, in such environment --- nobody will get rich selling the spoils from their factories, unless there's an economy of people to buy their products (If not, then the price will go down, until it approaches the now lower marginal cost of production which has been reduced due to the lower labor requirement).
There should not be a valid signed certificate and private key required for a local service.
Well... another user on the multi-user computer could have a malicious program running first and bound to the port.
What should happen is the Installer or Admin should have a way of installing a Locally-trusted signifier of authorization or registration to use a hostname with a particular keypair.
AND all Web browsers ought to be designed to learn about this registration mechanism for the OS they run on and implement it.
If ONLY major OSes would provide a standard certificate trust store, huh? (Hint: They Do. Even Linux has trusted root certs in some standard well-known paths. It's broken browser software that ignores admin settings......)
The DNS lookup is insecure and can be easily hijacked on the network. The SSL Certificate and its corresponding Keypair is what controls access of HTTPS connections to be associated with a given hostname..
This study was conducted for the project Building a Climate Resilient Coffee Economy for Ethiopia, within the Strategic Climate Institutions Programme (SCIP) Fund, financed by the governments of the UK (DFID), Denmark and Norway.
Sound like the study's sponsor begins with the assumption that the Coffee economy is not climate-Resilient And that climate change that is expected will damage it
They may not ask you what you are doing with it, but they are required to report the transaction to the government.
I guess so, sure they can report the transaction, since the transaction will be subject to reporting, but after it is done, then where I choose to put my cash or whomever or whatever I choose to buy and/or spend it with is none of their business, beyond that point Neither they nor the government will have any right to inquire further, and furthermore, I have a right to keep those affairs private.
A basic cover your ass situation. "Cyber extortion payments" may not strictly be illegal, but certainly an aiding and abetting criminal activity case
It is probably bad for the long-term viability of cryptocurrency to be associated/understood as a medium for making ransom payments.
On the other hand: Once you have your coins, is it ANY of Coinbases' fucking business what you choose to use your money for after you take it out of the exchange?
This would be as stupid as the bank questioning what you will do with$10,000 cash you are withdrawing occassionally. Why withdraw? Because it's my fucking money, and my right to privacy in my business affairs is a fundamental right.
Okay, so maybe you buy the XXXX on a cryptocurrency exchange then hold coins unused for a long period of time, then you can answer you are spending the coins to holding wallets, and then for products and services as you need them.
leaving it in a hotel room in a politically hostile place would not enable direct access to storage components
I wouldn't go that far. With the tools, materials, and methods, of a state sponsor, some way to get into it or to get the data off of it can be found - no question.
I'm curious, why does this data collection by Gmail NOT bother you?
Why should it bother me? I and most people already use Google search, so they have a great many potential opportunities to collect data.
Because my data is on their servers anyways: As far as I'm concerned Google is considered a trusted party. If their security practices as a company are not sound, then their E-mail servers can be compromised, and then my RAW data is out in the hands of adversaries,
SO trust is implicit. Once trust is established, it doesn't really matter if they collect some aggregate statistics internally. Most providers do, even if their privacy policy clauses allowing the activity are more subtle.
Yes Google collect aggregated data and build statistical models about me, then use predictions from the machine learning algorithms to decide what ads to display.
But why should any of that concern me? It's data security and protection of the RAW data that could be used by hackers that is important.
And I feel that Google's security practices are top notch ---- as a purveyor of revenue-generating services based on analysis: Google as a company knows how valuable data can be competitively, so they have more reasons than most companies to aggressively protect customers' data.
Also; I feel I can't trust Yahoo, or some small No-Name mail provider, Because they slip under hackers' radar. What says a lot is when you have a company that is a Huge high-value target for hackers, And a history of pretty much zero security breaches.
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The word of caution is if you win that (Chances are you don't need to worry); people have very bad misfortunes, and are rarely happy - it can destroy family and relationships, many a lottery winner wound up bankrupt or committed suicide -- you are first of all best to keep your identity secret, because you're bound to have so many desperate people with all manner of sob stories coming to ask for a handout, that if you handed them $100 a piece, you'd be bankrupt.
Take your winning ticket, lock it up securely in your safe: Don't tell a soul, and start contacting advisors to help setup the organizational Trust structure that will allow you to claim your winning ticket within the allowed time and remain anonymous and help you optimize your outcomes and happiness.
By the way 40 Million X 1.09 ^ 65 = 10 Billion
In other words... 9% Annualized returns over 65 years will do it.
Interest rates are low these days, because of Fed and government meddling,
that suppresses interest rates for debt and forces people to the higher-risk equities markets
if you want to generate returns, but there have been times in the past where you
could buy 40 Million worth of bonds and lock in a rate such as 12% - 15% interest.
At 12% it would be 29 years to turn 40 Million into 10 Billion.
We need people well-versed in economics to run our public policy machine. Not just people who took economics in college, but people who have pushed the boundaries.
We should be pushing for DIVERSITY in our leadership. And I don't mean the Hijacked description of diversity called ethnic diversity.... I mean Intellectual Diversity and Diversity of Experience is even more important.
We could start by Step 1. discounting political experience as a qualification to run for elected offices, especially discount lawyers --- instead of having lawyers be legislators - appoint them "Legal assistants" -- In other words, lawyers help to understand the laws but shouldn't have the role in decisionmaking.
Step 2. Play up practical domain experience in decisionmaking, Get more scientists and engineers in office.
Step 3. Implement Term limits for all legislator positions. You serve your 6 years house and/or 12 years senate, after leaving office you must take a 6 year break before running again, and that is IT... no more legislating for you.
E.G.
Machine guns are also not "arms", because they are squad operated.
The constitution specifically described a rationale for the 2nd amendment of supporting well-equipped militia as a reason for maintaining a right to Keep and Bear arms.
So no; it is not true that Machine guns are not arms.
If you feel uncomfortable with your next door neighbor having a canon or machine gun, then look to your city, municipal government, or your state for regulation.... that is because it is the states' role to regulate where the federal government has been restricted by design, specifically to prevent the federal government from becoming too powerful and being able to intimidate all the states and the people.
That is not a (mangled) quote to trot out with pride nor should we forget the lives which were cost because the President ignored SCOTUS decisions.
The point is not whether or not the president did a moral thing in that instance. Only that the president DOES have that power and capability. Also, it is a Non-Seqitur / false argument that ignoring a SCOTUS decision causes loss of life.
You're confusing motive and intent, intent factors heavily into our legal system. Intent is: "What was this order trying to accomplish?"
The legality depends on what specific actions are being taken, not on intended or anticipated future consequences.
For example: Passing what turns out to be a ban on guns is still a 2nd amendment violation, if it prevents or impedes a single citizen acquiring a firearm, even if the intended affect of the bill is to save lives and reduce violence by making guns harder to obtain, and complete ban was not in the mind of the authors.
Intent is used only to help disambiguate what specific actions are being taken when interpreting the meaning of the bill. When possible the courts Must pick the interpretation of the intent of all laws or orders in a manner that the result is constitutional and/or legal, if it is possible for there to be a constitutional and legal intent of the law or order.
That is.... the courts are there to interpret the laws and orders. The Courts are NOT there to second-guess decisions of the executive or elected officials.
The only time they can strike down an order is by showing there's no possible legal basis, and there's no possible lawful/constitutional interpretation of the rule, law, or order. And even then, the Judiciary is just one branch of government with very limited power over other branches other than some specific limited checks and balances --- E.G. There can't "really" be a dispute between the president and the courts, since the Executive technically has the authority to proceed against their orders.
Yes, but those entries may be enough to enable you to bluff your way through some other transaction or fraud scheme
And this might have slipped under the radar if he targeted one or two towers, instead of 40, b/c as a result of claiming so many he wound up assigning himself some tower that was damaged requiring $21k repairs to make it safe to the public and thus under FCC investigation and making false statements, causing a safety hazard...
I would Hope they put Aura on the hook for the $21K, and block him from making further FCC filings regarding towers, and go ahead and make the charges for making fraudulent statements and filing false documents with the FCC.
Bankers are going to require more paperwork to show clear title than a listing in the FCC database,
just because you're listed as owner doesn't mean there's no Lien or other mortgage against the property, for example.
Changing the owner that is listed in one federal database doesn't actually transfer ownership of the assets in question.
But they should send a Bill for all FCC fines for any violations found at any of those towers that occured to the registered owner while the contractor was listed as such.
You will hear from their lawyer as soon as they find one that speaks bat.
What you talkin' about, son? All lawyers speak rat.
There is absolutely no power-of-two dependency above the block size
Which doesn't matter, because the basic unit of computer memory is still the Bit, which is always measured using Base-2.
The reason for the unit does not come from physical structure of storage; it comes from the mathematical structure called binary, and that the RAM/ROM in computers is built from "Bit memory cells", and the Persistent memory from a hard drive is nothing more than an extension of that (A device for persistently recording RAM content).
When one states 1 Kilobit it is defined as: 2^10 bits, when one states 1 Kilobyte it is defined as 2^10 bits then multiplied by 8, when one states Megabits, it is defined as 2^20 bits, and 1 Megabyte is 2^20 bits then multiplied by 8, finally 1 Gigabit is 2^30 bits, and when one refers to 1 Gigabyte is defined as 2^30 bits then multiplied by 8.
The court should take that $1 million in damages, and multiply it by 100, and order Comcast to (1) Pay $100 Million+, (2) Send a short notice to all of Telecom Cable LLC's former customers Explaining what they did and apologizing, and (3) Order Comcast to pay an additional $100 Million per Year, for every year in which there is not another competing wireline Cable company such as Telecom Cable LLC with at least 229 customers in the area..
Who pays the loss, though? Is it eBay, or the merchant? I.E. Does this mean the Merchant's buy-it-now price is lowered for the order, or does eBay itself fork over the $$$ ?
So, while factory owners love the idea of not having to pay salaries, they need people to have enough money to buy their crap.
Yep... which means they will have to lower the prices of the crap they are selling to almost nothing;
at that point, even if all you can find is one-off gigs for a few hours of work a week at minimum wage, then you can still buy stuff,
because the employment deflation will have lowered prices, perhaps.
Of course there will be other jobs if one factory automates. But what happens when they ALL automate?
Then we will have reached the next level. There's no fundamental law of nature that we as a species need factories staffed by people.
There WAS a time, in our past, where there was not a single factory in existence.
So it will be just the next transition on the scale of moving from No Factories to large Workshops to Human production lines, and finally to Automated manufacture, with similar scale of ramifications.
Also, in such environment --- nobody will get rich selling the spoils from their factories, unless there's an economy of people to buy their products (If not, then the price will go down, until it approaches the now lower marginal cost of production which has been reduced due to the lower labor requirement).
If they don't keep their hands on the wheel, then whatever happens after Autopilot disengages
is the driver's problem and liability.
Likely some safety features stay active, but not the auto-steering.
There should not be a valid signed certificate and private key required for a local service.
Well... another user on the multi-user computer could have a malicious program running first and bound to the port.
What should happen is the Installer or Admin should have a way of installing a Locally-trusted signifier of authorization or registration to
use a hostname with a particular keypair.
AND all Web browsers ought to be designed to learn about this registration mechanism for the OS they run on and implement it.
If ONLY major OSes would provide a standard certificate trust store, huh? (Hint: They Do. Even Linux has trusted root certs in some standard well-known paths. It's broken browser software that ignores admin settings......)
Generate a locally-significant self-signed certificate and install it into the Trusted Certificate storage.
The DNS lookup is insecure and can be easily hijacked on the network. The SSL Certificate and its corresponding Keypair is what controls access of HTTPS connections to be associated with a given hostname..
Check out the acknowledgements:
Sound like the study's sponsor begins with the assumption that the Coffee economy is not climate-Resilient And that climate change that is expected will damage it
They may not ask you what you are doing with it, but they are required to report the transaction to the government.
I guess so, sure they can report the transaction, since the transaction will be subject to reporting, but after it is done,
then where I choose to put my cash or whomever or whatever I choose to buy and/or spend it with is none of their business,
beyond that point Neither they nor the government will have any right to inquire further, and furthermore,
I have a right to keep those affairs private.
A basic cover your ass situation. "Cyber extortion payments" may not strictly be illegal, but certainly an aiding and abetting criminal activity case
It is probably bad for the long-term viability of cryptocurrency to be associated/understood as a medium for making ransom payments.
On the other hand: Once you have your coins, is it ANY of Coinbases' fucking business what you choose to use your money for after you take it out of the exchange?
This would be as stupid as the bank questioning what you will do with$10,000 cash you are withdrawing occassionally. Why withdraw? Because it's my fucking money, and my right to privacy in my business affairs is a fundamental right.
Okay, so maybe you buy the XXXX on a cryptocurrency exchange then hold coins unused for a long period of time, then you can answer you are spending the coins to holding wallets, and then for products and services as you need them.
leaving it in a hotel room in a politically hostile place would not enable direct access to storage components
I wouldn't go that far. With the tools, materials, and methods, of a state sponsor, some way to get into it or to get the data off of it can be found - no question.
By going SSL-Only.
I'm curious, why does this data collection by Gmail NOT bother you?
Why should it bother me? I and most people already use Google search, so they have a great many potential opportunities to collect data.
Because my data is on their servers anyways: As far as I'm concerned Google is considered a trusted party.
If their security practices as a company are not sound, then their E-mail servers can be compromised, and then my RAW data is out in the hands of adversaries,
SO trust is implicit. Once trust is established, it doesn't really matter if they collect some aggregate statistics internally. Most providers do, even if their privacy policy clauses allowing the activity are more subtle.
Yes Google collect aggregated data and build statistical models about me, then use predictions from the machine learning algorithms to decide what
ads to display.
But why should any of that concern me? It's data security and protection of the RAW data that could be used by hackers that is important.
And I feel that Google's security practices are top notch ---- as a purveyor of revenue-generating services based on analysis: Google as a company knows how valuable data can be competitively, so they have more reasons than most companies to aggressively protect customers' data.
Also; I feel I can't trust Yahoo, or some small No-Name mail provider, Because they slip under hackers' radar. What says a lot is when you have a company that is a Huge high-value target for hackers, And a history of pretty much zero security breaches.