BS cop out. Pretty much every country at some point in its history had invasion or colonization providing a portion of the modern inhabitants.
Of course, I'm also a descendant of the "invadees" so I have every right. However, when I did work in a foreign country, I had enough respect for them to apply for a work visa. When I brought foreign citizen family back, I also complied with the laws. I have an exemption from your BS and double grounds to complain about illegals.
"Undocumented" is just a modern euphemism for "illegal." If you are here legally, then you have documentation because you applied for it and received it before entering the country. If you don't have it on you because you lost it, you can request new documentation from the government. There is no bootstrapping necessary.
If you are illegal, you are not supposed to be in the country. You have no grounds on which to complain that the country's laws and customs are not friendly to your illegal status.
I may add other words if they try to look through your stuff -- "I do not consent to this search."
And when they come back with a search warrant saying "all files on the device" you challenge it. To be pertinent to the investigation it must be restricted to video files with a creation or modification date during the time of the movie.
She doesn't need to leave to benefit. Her husband is an investment banker, and she's been doing many things in government to make him more money. She even got a government property foreclosure contract steered to a company he has a part in.
This is the logic that has led to a massive violation of rights in this country. I can remember two really good cases, and there are more. I can try to find the names if you want.
One day, a Hispanic male with no checked luggage, alone, carrying lots of cash landed in a Florida airport. Obviously this is a crime in the making, a drug buy. So the government interrogated him and confiscated his cash. The problem is that he was a landscaper who would fly to where his supplier is, check the merchandise, make a big order in person, and pay in cash. He was never charged with a crime because he had committed none, and had no connection to any criminal enterprise. IIRC, he gave up getting his money back because the fight to get it would cost more than the money.
Another was the case of the charter airline pilot and owner. He took a customer as usual, but when he landed the passenger was arrested and his Lear Jet was confiscated. He was never arrested, and the passenger, who was connected with the drug industry, was never convicted. However his efforts to recover his airplane (his livelihood) were futile. Eventually he bought it back when the government auctioned it off. This is of course only for the little guys where fighting is financially futile. Could you imagine a Delta Airlines 747 being confiscated because a drug mule was onboard?
Confiscation has become a profit industry. Even where states try to reign in the abuses by directing the profits away from the police, the locals just have the feds do the bust, and the feds kick back a portion of the booty.
So what do you do when the grim-looking man with the black robe and no sense of humor orders that no such measures be employed on your website
They can't order you after the fact. The infrastructure is there, and no law makes it illegal. Removing the infrastructure would naturally trigger the dead-man's switch.
give the world a false sense of security not by saying nothing about government oversight but by actively keeping the indicator (HTML tag?) in place
They can force you to not do something. They can't force you to lie to a customer. The gag order only says that you can't say anything. Lavabit not saying after the shutdown led everybody to know what was going on, and they couldn't be punished. Note, Lavabit had plenty of time to fight the order, enough to shut down operations. They just weren't allowed to actively tell anybody about it.
HTML tags? Really? So far the best idea has been encrypted certificates that include a pass phrase in the generation. If you don't type in a correct pass phrase before the deadline, the next certificate sent will not be correct, triggering the warning. Bad guys come in, you shut up and demand to see your attorney, who is under no obligation to appear before the deadline. Eventually a court may force you to cough up the pass phrase, and you will comply to avoid sanction, but that will be far too late.
This could also be effectively tied to other laws by making the switch part of a service that constitutes a financial, regulatory or contractual obligation of the company. The courts will have to sort out which law takes precedence. You certainly may lose such a claim and be forced to maintain the switch, but again such determination will be made after it has been tripped.
CONTROL has agents ready to take over the administration and operation of your website should you prove uncooperative.
Then they will be running the machines that send out the incorrect certificate, triggering the warning.
They have to have an indicator somewhere saying they have not allowed any government access. Since it's their phones, maybe broadcast the fact of no-contact every day to all phones, and have the phones alert when they haven't received the notice.
Also, may want to to hash the binaries at their web site and make it available as a web service, and have a program to hash binaries for that version on the phone and check online. Make it SSL with certificates to avoid spoofing. This way, people can know if their individual phones may have been compromised.
A free market doesn't mean anarchy. A free market requires laws to work, basic protection from theft and coersion, and the ability to have contracts enforced. Somalia doesn't have that to a large degree. Free market means that there is no manipulation of it by the government through things like subsidies and burdensome regulation (but remember, regulations against fraud support the free market).
Of course we don't have an absolute free market. At the present we have crony capitalism with government-granted monopolies. What we would like to get to is as free a market as is possible. Probably the biggest obstacle though is that a working free market requires an informed public making decisions to its advantage (they are part of the market), but much of the public is dumb or doesn't care, or expects the government to take care of that hard thinking stuff for them.
You know, how the public needs the government to force conspicuous display of the calorie count on a two-pound quadruple mega monster bacon cheesburger. If you don't already know it's extremely loaded with fat, calories, salt and cholesterol from the name, you are damn idiot who deserves whatever short end of the stick the free market gives you.
The Democrats and media wouldn't be going on all-out attack mode for no reason. The reason is obviously that they need to create enough of a scandal to torpedo his 2016 presidential chances to let Hillary ride to the win. From now until then they'll be attacking him mercilessly as long as they think he may run, or they've destroyed him. A centrist Republican who can appeal to the average Democrat is too dangerous.
Not that I would ever vote for Christie myself were he to run, but it is an interesting dynamic to watch in our politics and media.
Neither conservatives nor liberals believe in a free market. Each side loves to bend the market to its own ends, to pay off its corporate sponsors in furtherance of crony capitalism. Only libertarians believe in the free market..
In private sector unions, you have two parties: the management (representing the company) and the union (representing workers). Neither one wants to get screwed, and they both negotiate to ensure that happens. Each is looking out for its own interests.
But in public sector unions you have three parties: the politicians, the union, and the taxpayers. Normally you would think the politicians are representing the taxpayers, but they're often not. The politicians ensure the union gets fat benefits at the expense of the taxpayer, and the unions pay handsomely to keep those politicians reelected, who then funnel more money back to the unions. It's a nice vicious circle where the politician gets to use taxpayer money, laundered through unions, to stay in office. The only ones who get screwed are the taxpayers.
The private sector equivalent would be if the union bosses were bribing the company managers to make sweetheart deals, but eventually such a scheme would collapse with the company's finances. Unlike the politician, the bribes wouldn't serve to keep him in his position of power -- it would get him fired and end the circle. Unlike the politician, the manager actually has to represent his company's interests.
Finland has private schools, which are funded by the state the same as public schools -- kind of like our charter schools, but with more restrictions.
Compared to us, in Finland all students are expected to learn the language of the school (Suomi or Swedish, depending on the location), and their parents are also expected to know it. Finland also lets teachers choose textbooks. I'm sure the creationists would love that one, and we'd be complaining about how it's lowering our education standards.
Compulsory school in Finland doesn't begin until children are 7 years old.
But free educational opportunities are available from an early age.
I present the Automotive and Fashion industries which sell primarily on design and are very innovative and lucrative despite not having copyrights or design patents
Car makers do get design patents, and make good business off of the copyright for their repair and parts manuals. And with the advent of computer-driven systems in cars, you bet those programs are copyrighted.
However, there was debate before the Constitution was ratified. Jefferson wanted no such artificial monopolies. Madison considered that a very light monopoly would be helpful, and that the people would prevent the monopolies from becoming abusive. Madison thought too much of the power of the people.
The Bank was arguing that it can't be penalized by the US for following Cayman (and Canadian) law in the Caymans and Canada. The Court ruled "Fuck them."
The bank dragged its heels, and the Caymans government allowed the release of the records in cases where it is a criminal investigation not related to taxes. The bank only tried to use Caymans general privacy policy as an excuse. The fun part is that should they try to apply this to a US company with overseas data, it gets to hit court.
Somebody didn't bother reading his own link. There, information was requested from the American branch of a Canadian bank, seeking information about American customers where the files resided in the Caymans.
You need to look up Robert F. Williams, black civil rights activist, who registered an NRA charter to help arm and organize local blacks against the KKK. The white officials needed a trumped-up charge of kidnapping to finally get rid of him.
I agree, English only, except in cases where we need to deal with foreign citizens and such.
It is a fake language
There is no such thing as a fake language. It is a constructed language, like many before it throughout history. You can think of French as partially constructed, since it has had an official group determining its vocabulary and evolution for over 300 years.
Doohan made some first bits of Klingon, but after that it was completely created as a whole language by a known linguist. It has all the elements of a functional language, and people can write and converse in it. It is no more a "fake language" than Esperanto or Interlingua. Klingon even has its own ISO language code.
I'm pretty confident in stating that the U.S. would be better off if the amount of effort spent on Klingon were directed to improving English proficiency for native U.S. residents whose first language is English!
People learning Klingon are doing that on their own. Aside from that, I agree, we should work on improving English, but for everyone in the US, especially immigrants. I prefer the Swiss model where if you don't learn of of the local languages within a certain time, you get deported.
He is not in the military, he did not immediately risk his life (conspiracy theories of NSA assassins don't count, general risk doesn't count), and he didn't do it against an opposing force recognized by the government as an enemy of the United States.
This medal is meant for "charged the machine gun nest" kind of actions, the kind of actions that few people live through. This is why most recipients get it posthumously. Now if you tell me he dodged a hail of bullets and grenades to get to that computer to download the stuff, you may have a point.
In handing in his resignation, he was doing business with the government. Furthermore, Klingon is as real a language as any. People can write and converse in it, and some classics have even been translated to it. I recognize it is a stunt, but it is no more wrong than doing business with the government in any other non-English language.
If people can conduct public business in Spanish, he can do it in Klingon. If you don't like it, I urge you to support measures to make English the only legal language for official use in the country.
Hamm is good, very good. He can talk circles around anybody who is prepared for a regular logical debate and come out looking like the winner. After the debate you can look at the transcript and see he did not actually adress any of his opponent's points nor really defend his own, but by then the crowd will have left thinking creationism trounced evolution.
I suggest Nye spend the next month watching as many Hamm debates as possible, reading the transcripts, and the commentaries on the transcripts. Otherwise, he'll be blindsided with BS.
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BS cop out. Pretty much every country at some point in its history had invasion or colonization providing a portion of the modern inhabitants.
Of course, I'm also a descendant of the "invadees" so I have every right. However, when I did work in a foreign country, I had enough respect for them to apply for a work visa. When I brought foreign citizen family back, I also complied with the laws. I have an exemption from your BS and double grounds to complain about illegals.
"Undocumented" is just a modern euphemism for "illegal." If you are here legally, then you have documentation because you applied for it and received it before entering the country. If you don't have it on you because you lost it, you can request new documentation from the government. There is no bootstrapping necessary.
If you are illegal, you are not supposed to be in the country. You have no grounds on which to complain that the country's laws and customs are not friendly to your illegal status.
Fluid dynamics describes, and buoyancy is effective in, both gasses and liquids.
Strange concept, people who are in a country illegally, having broken that country's laws, have difficulties doing business in that country.
My sympathy factor is about zero.
It is split, but Step-Saver Data Systems, Inc. v. Wyse Technology and Vault Corp. v. Quaid Software Ltd. went against the EULAs.
I may add other words if they try to look through your stuff -- "I do not consent to this search."
And when they come back with a search warrant saying "all files on the device" you challenge it. To be pertinent to the investigation it must be restricted to video files with a creation or modification date during the time of the movie.
She doesn't need to leave to benefit. Her husband is an investment banker, and she's been doing many things in government to make him more money. She even got a government property foreclosure contract steered to a company he has a part in.
This is the logic that has led to a massive violation of rights in this country. I can remember two really good cases, and there are more. I can try to find the names if you want.
One day, a Hispanic male with no checked luggage, alone, carrying lots of cash landed in a Florida airport. Obviously this is a crime in the making, a drug buy. So the government interrogated him and confiscated his cash. The problem is that he was a landscaper who would fly to where his supplier is, check the merchandise, make a big order in person, and pay in cash. He was never charged with a crime because he had committed none, and had no connection to any criminal enterprise. IIRC, he gave up getting his money back because the fight to get it would cost more than the money.
Another was the case of the charter airline pilot and owner. He took a customer as usual, but when he landed the passenger was arrested and his Lear Jet was confiscated. He was never arrested, and the passenger, who was connected with the drug industry, was never convicted. However his efforts to recover his airplane (his livelihood) were futile. Eventually he bought it back when the government auctioned it off. This is of course only for the little guys where fighting is financially futile. Could you imagine a Delta Airlines 747 being confiscated because a drug mule was onboard?
Confiscation has become a profit industry. Even where states try to reign in the abuses by directing the profits away from the police, the locals just have the feds do the bust, and the feds kick back a portion of the booty.
They can't order you after the fact. The infrastructure is there, and no law makes it illegal. Removing the infrastructure would naturally trigger the dead-man's switch.
They can force you to not do something. They can't force you to lie to a customer. The gag order only says that you can't say anything. Lavabit not saying after the shutdown led everybody to know what was going on, and they couldn't be punished. Note, Lavabit had plenty of time to fight the order, enough to shut down operations. They just weren't allowed to actively tell anybody about it.
HTML tags? Really? So far the best idea has been encrypted certificates that include a pass phrase in the generation. If you don't type in a correct pass phrase before the deadline, the next certificate sent will not be correct, triggering the warning. Bad guys come in, you shut up and demand to see your attorney, who is under no obligation to appear before the deadline. Eventually a court may force you to cough up the pass phrase, and you will comply to avoid sanction, but that will be far too late.
This could also be effectively tied to other laws by making the switch part of a service that constitutes a financial, regulatory or contractual obligation of the company. The courts will have to sort out which law takes precedence. You certainly may lose such a claim and be forced to maintain the switch, but again such determination will be made after it has been tripped.
Then they will be running the machines that send out the incorrect certificate, triggering the warning.
They have to have an indicator somewhere saying they have not allowed any government access. Since it's their phones, maybe broadcast the fact of no-contact every day to all phones, and have the phones alert when they haven't received the notice.
Also, may want to to hash the binaries at their web site and make it available as a web service, and have a program to hash binaries for that version on the phone and check online. Make it SSL with certificates to avoid spoofing. This way, people can know if their individual phones may have been compromised.
A free market doesn't mean anarchy. A free market requires laws to work, basic protection from theft and coersion, and the ability to have contracts enforced. Somalia doesn't have that to a large degree. Free market means that there is no manipulation of it by the government through things like subsidies and burdensome regulation (but remember, regulations against fraud support the free market).
Of course we don't have an absolute free market. At the present we have crony capitalism with government-granted monopolies. What we would like to get to is as free a market as is possible. Probably the biggest obstacle though is that a working free market requires an informed public making decisions to its advantage (they are part of the market), but much of the public is dumb or doesn't care, or expects the government to take care of that hard thinking stuff for them.
You know, how the public needs the government to force conspicuous display of the calorie count on a two-pound quadruple mega monster bacon cheesburger. If you don't already know it's extremely loaded with fat, calories, salt and cholesterol from the name, you are damn idiot who deserves whatever short end of the stick the free market gives you.
The Democrats and media wouldn't be going on all-out attack mode for no reason. The reason is obviously that they need to create enough of a scandal to torpedo his 2016 presidential chances to let Hillary ride to the win. From now until then they'll be attacking him mercilessly as long as they think he may run, or they've destroyed him. A centrist Republican who can appeal to the average Democrat is too dangerous.
Not that I would ever vote for Christie myself were he to run, but it is an interesting dynamic to watch in our politics and media.
Neither conservatives nor liberals believe in a free market. Each side loves to bend the market to its own ends, to pay off its corporate sponsors in furtherance of crony capitalism. Only libertarians believe in the free market..
In private sector unions, you have two parties: the management (representing the company) and the union (representing workers). Neither one wants to get screwed, and they both negotiate to ensure that happens. Each is looking out for its own interests.
But in public sector unions you have three parties: the politicians, the union, and the taxpayers. Normally you would think the politicians are representing the taxpayers, but they're often not. The politicians ensure the union gets fat benefits at the expense of the taxpayer, and the unions pay handsomely to keep those politicians reelected, who then funnel more money back to the unions. It's a nice vicious circle where the politician gets to use taxpayer money, laundered through unions, to stay in office. The only ones who get screwed are the taxpayers.
The private sector equivalent would be if the union bosses were bribing the company managers to make sweetheart deals, but eventually such a scheme would collapse with the company's finances. Unlike the politician, the bribes wouldn't serve to keep him in his position of power -- it would get him fired and end the circle. Unlike the politician, the manager actually has to represent his company's interests.
Finland has private schools, which are funded by the state the same as public schools -- kind of like our charter schools, but with more restrictions.
Compared to us, in Finland all students are expected to learn the language of the school (Suomi or Swedish, depending on the location), and their parents are also expected to know it. Finland also lets teachers choose textbooks. I'm sure the creationists would love that one, and we'd be complaining about how it's lowering our education standards.
But free educational opportunities are available from an early age.
Car makers do get design patents, and make good business off of the copyright for their repair and parts manuals. And with the advent of computer-driven systems in cars, you bet those programs are copyrighted.
However, there was debate before the Constitution was ratified. Jefferson wanted no such artificial monopolies. Madison considered that a very light monopoly would be helpful, and that the people would prevent the monopolies from becoming abusive. Madison thought too much of the power of the people.
The bank dragged its heels, and the Caymans government allowed the release of the records in cases where it is a criminal investigation not related to taxes. The bank only tried to use Caymans general privacy policy as an excuse. The fun part is that should they try to apply this to a US company with overseas data, it gets to hit court.
I believe it was O2 that gave a little information to the German police without a warrant in the 90s. There was a total public shit fit.
Somebody didn't bother reading his own link. There, information was requested from the American branch of a Canadian bank, seeking information about American customers where the files resided in the Caymans.
You need to look up Robert F. Williams, black civil rights activist, who registered an NRA charter to help arm and organize local blacks against the KKK. The white officials needed a trumped-up charge of kidnapping to finally get rid of him.
I agree, English only, except in cases where we need to deal with foreign citizens and such.
There is no such thing as a fake language. It is a constructed language, like many before it throughout history. You can think of French as partially constructed, since it has had an official group determining its vocabulary and evolution for over 300 years.
Doohan made some first bits of Klingon, but after that it was completely created as a whole language by a known linguist. It has all the elements of a functional language, and people can write and converse in it. It is no more a "fake language" than Esperanto or Interlingua. Klingon even has its own ISO language code.
People learning Klingon are doing that on their own. Aside from that, I agree, we should work on improving English, but for everyone in the US, especially immigrants. I prefer the Swiss model where if you don't learn of of the local languages within a certain time, you get deported.
He is not in the military, he did not immediately risk his life (conspiracy theories of NSA assassins don't count, general risk doesn't count), and he didn't do it against an opposing force recognized by the government as an enemy of the United States.
This medal is meant for "charged the machine gun nest" kind of actions, the kind of actions that few people live through. This is why most recipients get it posthumously. Now if you tell me he dodged a hail of bullets and grenades to get to that computer to download the stuff, you may have a point.
In handing in his resignation, he was doing business with the government. Furthermore, Klingon is as real a language as any. People can write and converse in it, and some classics have even been translated to it. I recognize it is a stunt, but it is no more wrong than doing business with the government in any other non-English language.
If people can conduct public business in Spanish, he can do it in Klingon. If you don't like it, I urge you to support measures to make English the only legal language for official use in the country.
Hamm is good, very good. He can talk circles around anybody who is prepared for a regular logical debate and come out looking like the winner. After the debate you can look at the transcript and see he did not actually adress any of his opponent's points nor really defend his own, but by then the crowd will have left thinking creationism trounced evolution.
I suggest Nye spend the next month watching as many Hamm debates as possible, reading the transcripts, and the commentaries on the transcripts. Otherwise, he'll be blindsided with BS.