Padlocks are jokes. Boltcutters are the appropriate tool for them.
Neither 48-inch boltcutters, nor a standard hacksaw will put a dent in the good padlocks. The material in a U-bolt is not fundamentally different from the material in the hardened highsec padlock hasps
It's more like you had a party at your house with 50 people, and the police got a warrant to search your house, that included a clause "allowing" them to search the fingerprint-protected safe of any person who was at your party
scope that allowed them to force anyone inside the premises at the time....
Contrast that against the Fourth amendment's requirements:
supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
Note that the constitution requires that warrants describe particular people or things.
It's Unconstitutional and Illegal/violation of the supreme law of the land to have a "generic search" or a "generic warrant document" allowing police to search and seize or disseminate the personal property of ANY random person they happen to find at place X.
The constitution requires they have made a specific list of people to search people, or a specific list of things to search objects not in peoples' personal affects.
Mmm. And you can just put one of those up alongside a busy city sidewalk or next to a primary school can you?
If there's no law against you installing it, then yes you most definitely can put one in; a school being nearby doesn't affect that.
Now if it was a busy city sidewalk FIRST, and you adding that fence there is deemed a nuisance, they might be able to force you take it down, for the same reason they could force you to take down any fence you added -- forced easement (Your new fence is an eyesore or blocks a public view previously enjoyed).
City dwellers tend to not like electric fences very much, and many towns have passed a local ordinance restricting where they can be installed to agriculturally-zoned land, OR require permits for fence projects, and may simply deny you the permit to install an electrified one.
On the other hand, if you got any required permits and had it installed it before the ordinance was passed, then the city cannot make a post-facto law to force you to remove it, provided it is on your property.
Congratulations the crook that actually cut the lock, took off and received a minimal dose and you just killed someone.
You had no control of the actions that resulted in that person's death, and put a lock containing a clear warning.... the bike thief set those events into motion.
Next you'll say the shiny sports car had too much bling on it which distracted a pedestrian into kicking a dog, who then ran across the street, snatched a woman's baby, and dropped the kid down an open sewer vent where the child drowned, Therefore, having too much bling on your car makes you a baby killer.
Why the heck would a police officer be cutting your bike lock unless you are illegally parked?
Destruction of the offender's property is not a legal remedy for illegal parking, anyways.
If they need to forcibly remove your bicycle, then they can get a Locksmith to make a key for the lock without destroying your property, impound your bike AND your $100 lock, and bill you for the costs, or auction off the assets.
If it's right next to a public space where a kid might accidentally touch it, you are going to be held liable if negligence.
Assuming the fence is installed correctly with a proper fence charger; coming into contact with it is just going to sting --- not capable of causing al electric shock or serious injury even to a squirrel, let-alone a kid.
The electric fence you can have with proper signage is limited in amperage to about 100 mA, AND more importantly; it's not a continuous current like line power, but a small pulse of current lasting 1/300th of a second, and another pulse every second..
Therefore..... it's not even something that can kill somebody. It's not the sign that makes electric fences legal or not a boobytrap...... It's the fact that these devices have to be designed in a certain way, and they are safe.
re. And if bystanders are standing by watching while someone attempts to steal a bike, they deserve to get sprayed.
That's not the law. If bystanders are harmed or killed, etc, they can potentially file charges against both the manufacturer, the bike owner, and the criminal. And sue the manufacturer and bike owner for a large sum of $$$.
This is damaging to Apple's reputation, when Chinese manufacturers intentionally deceive customers that they're buying an Apple-made product, and the Chinese product turns out to be of extremely low quality and missing vital features and design characteristics of the Apple charger.
The authorized driver will have to keep touching the fingerprint reader at random points during the drive to ensure he's still there.
That would be annoying. We'll just construct and install a replacement fingerprint reading device that upon command from an authorized iPhone in proximity tricks the car's computer to think a specified fingerprint has been scanned.
Just like real estate. Stop paying property taxes and see how long you "own" your house before the county forecloses.
This can be a short or long time, potentially. After you fail to pay your taxes, they can put the lien against your property, and then resell your debt to investors.....
Who can then earn a high amount of interest on your debt, and they'll foreclose when they are good and ready. I.E. After the compounding interest and penalties increase the debt as much as possible, but equal or less to what they expect to recover by evicting you and auctioning the property.
In other cases, they might hope to foreclose early and auction your $2 Million house to one of their political buddies for a selling price of $20,000.
Does the question apply to when they are still the lienholder?
A lienholder is not a shareholder. The only revenue they are entitled to is the eventual repayment to them over the agreed period of your loan of the money you borrowed plus the interest at the agreed rate.
This is likely to result in Antitrust actions against Tesla, for the same reason that Ford can't run their own gas station chain and ban you from using fuel supplied by other brands. You don't have to be a monopoly for it to be illegal for you to attempt to restrict a manufactured good to your particular service, when there are otherwise competing options.
OK..... Fair enough.... let's consider another scenario though. Suppose you just want Ethanol to drink.
For some reason, Ethanol made from Corn, Barley, or Wheat is ridiculously and terribly expensive. A pint can cost $20 easily.
Perhaps the energy efficiency isn't all that matters.... if this can reduce the cost of drinkable ethanol to say $0.10 a gallon, and make it widely available --- cheaper than milk at the grocery store.
The fuel product produced is not just energy; Ethanol has the special property that it is consumable by biological life forms.
The ethanol solution could then be cultured with bacteria to consume the ethanol to produce things with nutritional value.
This means we could potentially convert all the world's farmland into solar power plants, stop growing crops --- store our energy in batteries; use the excess Electricity with a catalyst to produce Ethanol.
And have the entire human population survive by drinking Ethanol and ethanol-products for the calories, instead of farmed crops.
The ability to convert Electricity into food with a re-usable catalyst could also make sure there's never a food shortage again.
Battery storage is extremely efficient and pumped storage also isn't too bad.
Each battery is efficient in its operation, BUT Batteries are extremely capital-intensive to purchase, to manufacture, and require precious metals such as Copper to build.
On the other hand.... in order to store Ethanol, you just need some metal tanks which are cheaper by orders of magnitude.....
It would be more efficient just to run an electric heater.
Unless you're concerned about power outages, so you would like to store some electricity is Ethanol, which you could then burn later to power a generator or fuel-based heating system.
If the trajectory of your rifle round intentionally caused a bullet cross the border between the US and Canada and inflict damage or loss of life in Canada, then you would have committed an international act of terrorism, or a transnational crime.
I believe you will find that it is against the laws of both the US and Canada to shoot and kill a person, and the two countries have agreements to mutually co-operate with each other to obtain evidence of crime and assure your timely prosecution.
Bad weather Or bad traffic signals are conditions likely to result in AI making an error as well. Fog obstructs view in a way that affects computers even more, because they are relying on seeing more directions than humans. Also, icy roads, and lateral winds can be quite sudden and affect driving conditions in ways that self-driving cars have little ability to predict, and no experience with to learn, thus far.
As for bees.... well, bugs are an issue for both humans and computers, but I keep my doors and windows shut while driving, in 20 years never had a bee get in my car. On the other hand, AIs have had bugs such as Tesla's which caused actual crashes.
I can't relate to any of the other above distractions. I don't have or provide transport for any kids.
I don't scope out hot women/men.
I don't go near any drugs or alcohol. If i'm fatigued, then I sleep and don't start driving.
I'm single, not a chance of marrying, and I doubt I will ever get a date.
Most of those examples could only apply to some people.
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The constitution only says "described."
It doesn't say just described; it says particularly described
particularly (Adv) - in a particular manner; specifically; individually.
That means you can't write a search warrant that jut says "Search and seize cell phones from the person of anybody on premise."
The level of detail required is: "Search and seize iPhones belonging to Bob"
Padlocks are jokes. Boltcutters are the appropriate tool for them.
Neither 48-inch boltcutters, nor a standard hacksaw will put a dent in the good padlocks.
The material in a U-bolt is not fundamentally different from the material in the hardened highsec padlock hasps
That's not what they did.
It's more like you had a party at your house with 50 people, and the police got a warrant to search your house,
that included a clause "allowing" them to search the fingerprint-protected safe of any person who was at your party
scope that allowed them to force anyone inside the premises at the time ....
Contrast that against the Fourth amendment's requirements:
Note that the constitution requires that warrants describe particular people or things.
It's Unconstitutional and Illegal/violation of the supreme law of the land to have a "generic search" or a "generic warrant document"
allowing police to search and seize or disseminate the personal property of ANY random person they happen to find at place X.
The constitution requires they have made a specific list of people to search people, or a specific list of things to search objects not in peoples' personal affects.
Unreasonable search and seizure
A search warrant for building contents is fine.
Searching the personal affects of every person just because they happened to be present is not reasonable.
The constitution requires a specific warrant. Searching someone's person constitutionally requires that person be named in the Warrant.
Merely being present at a place of work or being at a restaurant or other public place is not probable cause for a search of someone's person.
Mmm. And you can just put one of those up alongside a busy city sidewalk or next to a primary school can you?
If there's no law against you installing it, then yes you most definitely can put one in; a school being nearby doesn't affect that.
Now if it was a busy city sidewalk FIRST, and you adding that fence there is deemed a nuisance, they might be able to force you take it down, for the same reason they could force you to take down any fence you added -- forced easement (Your new fence is an eyesore or blocks a public view previously enjoyed).
City dwellers tend to not like electric fences very much, and many towns have passed a local ordinance restricting where
they can be installed to agriculturally-zoned land, OR require permits for fence projects, and may simply deny you the permit to install an electrified one.
On the other hand, if you got any required permits and had it installed it before the ordinance was passed, then the city cannot make a post-facto law to force you to remove it, provided it is on your property.
No. Just wrong. The jack takes about 20 seconds and makes very little noise.
I've seen someone using a die-grinder cut through 12 locks, including high-security ones in less than 15 seconds each.
Congratulations the crook that actually cut the lock, took off and received a minimal dose and you just killed someone.
You had no control of the actions that resulted in that person's death, and put a lock containing a clear warning.... the bike thief set those events into motion.
Next you'll say the shiny sports car had too much bling on it which distracted a pedestrian into kicking a dog, who then ran across the street, snatched a woman's baby, and dropped the kid down an open sewer vent where the child drowned, Therefore, having too much bling on your car makes you a baby killer.
Why the heck would a police officer be cutting your bike lock unless you are illegally parked?
Destruction of the offender's property is not a legal remedy for illegal parking, anyways.
If they need to forcibly remove your bicycle, then they can get a Locksmith to make a key for the lock without
destroying your property, impound your bike AND your $100 lock, and bill you for the costs, or auction off the assets.
If it's right next to a public space where a kid might accidentally touch it, you are going to be held liable if negligence.
Assuming the fence is installed correctly with a proper fence charger; coming into contact with it is just going to sting --- not capable of causing al electric shock or serious injury even to a squirrel, let-alone a kid.
The electric fence you can have with proper signage is limited in amperage to about 100 mA, AND more importantly; it's not a continuous current like line power, but a small pulse of current lasting 1/300th of a second, and another pulse every second..
Therefore..... it's not even something that can kill somebody. It's not the sign that makes electric fences legal or not a boobytrap...... It's the fact that these devices have to be designed in a certain way, and they are safe.
re. And if bystanders are standing by watching while someone attempts to steal a bike, they deserve to get sprayed.
That's not the law. If bystanders are harmed or killed, etc, they can potentially file charges against both the manufacturer, the bike owner, and the criminal.
And sue the manufacturer and bike owner for a large sum of $$$.
either intentionally or accidentally gets released in a public area
You can't be criminally liable for an accidental release, unless you actually committed some act deemed gross negligence.
This is damaging to Apple's reputation, when Chinese manufacturers intentionally deceive customers that they're buying an Apple-made product,
and the Chinese product turns out to be of extremely low quality and missing vital features and design characteristics of the Apple charger.
The authorized driver will have to keep touching the fingerprint reader at random points during the drive to ensure he's still there.
That would be annoying. We'll just construct and install a replacement fingerprint reading device that upon command from an authorized iPhone in proximity tricks the car's computer to think a specified fingerprint has been scanned.
I'm sure that somewhere in the autopilot software's supplementary EULA is a clause giving Tesla the right to disable the feature at any time
If they advertised the feature in the marketing material, then it better be there in the product, and not randomly disappear.
Tesla's EULA doesn't override the FTC and consumer protection laws.
Just like real estate. Stop paying property taxes and see how long you "own" your house before the county forecloses.
This can be a short or long time, potentially. After you fail to pay your taxes, they can put the lien against your property, and then resell your debt to investors.....
Who can then earn a high amount of interest on your debt, and they'll foreclose when they are good and ready.
I.E. After the compounding interest and penalties increase the debt as much as possible, but equal or less to what they expect to recover by evicting you and auctioning the property.
In other cases, they might hope to foreclose early and auction your $2 Million house to one of their political buddies for a selling price of $20,000.
Does the question apply to when they are still the lienholder?
A lienholder is not a shareholder. The only revenue they are entitled to is the eventual repayment to them over the agreed period of your loan of the money you borrowed plus the interest at the agreed rate.
This is likely to result in Antitrust actions against Tesla, for the same reason that Ford can't run their own gas station chain and ban you from using fuel supplied by other brands. You don't have to be a monopoly for it to be illegal for you to attempt to restrict a manufactured good to your particular service, when there are otherwise competing options.
Regardless of legal issues, it is logistically enforceable - they remotely disable your car.
This would be likely to result in customers hauling Tesla's ass to court and Tesla having to compensate them for the full value of the vehicle.
convert the ethanol back into electricity
OK..... Fair enough.... let's consider another scenario though. Suppose you just want Ethanol to drink.
For some reason, Ethanol made from Corn, Barley, or Wheat is ridiculously and terribly expensive.
A pint can cost $20 easily.
Perhaps the energy efficiency isn't all that matters.... if this can reduce the cost of drinkable ethanol to say $0.10 a gallon, and
make it widely available --- cheaper than milk at the grocery store.
The fuel product produced is not just energy; Ethanol has the special property that it is consumable by biological life forms.
The ethanol solution could then be cultured with bacteria to consume the ethanol to produce things with nutritional value.
This means we could potentially convert all the world's farmland into solar power plants, stop growing crops --- store our energy in batteries;
use the excess Electricity with a catalyst to produce Ethanol.
And have the entire human population survive by drinking Ethanol and ethanol-products for the calories, instead of farmed crops.
The ability to convert Electricity into food with a re-usable catalyst could also make sure there's never a food shortage again.
Battery storage is extremely efficient and pumped storage also isn't too bad.
Each battery is efficient in its operation, BUT Batteries are extremely capital-intensive to purchase, to manufacture, and require precious metals such as Copper to build.
On the other hand.... in order to store Ethanol, you just need some metal tanks which are cheaper by orders of magnitude.....
It would be more efficient just to run an electric heater.
Unless you're concerned about power outages, so you would like to store some electricity is Ethanol, which you could then burn later to power a generator or fuel-based heating system.
he could still be arrested for exporting munitions without a permit...
120.17 Export.
(6) A launch vehicle or payload shall not, by reason of the launching of such vehicle, be considered an export for purposes of this subchapter.
If the trajectory of your rifle round intentionally caused a bullet cross the border between the US and Canada and inflict damage or loss of life in Canada, then you would have committed an international act of terrorism, or a transnational crime.
I believe you will find that it is against the laws of both the US and Canada to shoot and kill a person, and the two countries have agreements to mutually co-operate with each other to obtain evidence of crime and assure your timely prosecution.
Bad weather Or bad traffic signals are conditions likely to result in AI making an error as well. Fog obstructs view in a way that affects computers even more, because they are relying on seeing more directions than humans. Also, icy roads, and lateral winds can be quite sudden and affect driving conditions in ways that self-driving cars have little ability to predict, and no experience with to learn, thus far.
As for bees.... well, bugs are an issue for both humans and computers, but I keep my doors and windows shut while driving, in 20 years never had a bee get in my car. On the other hand, AIs have had bugs such as Tesla's which caused actual crashes.
I can't relate to any of the other above distractions.
I don't have or provide transport for any kids.
I don't scope out hot women/men.
I don't go near any drugs or alcohol.
If i'm fatigued, then I sleep and don't start driving.
I'm single, not a chance of marrying, and I doubt I will ever get a date.
Most of those examples could only apply to some people.