1. Update the 4th amendment so it clearly covers personal data. 2. Turn back Citizen's United. 3. Term limits. No federal elected official should serve more than 12 years. 4. Eliminate laws that provide special privileges to members of Congress. 5. H1-B visas should be allowed for people educated in the US, only. 6. Eliminate carried interest tax exemption. 7. Repeal the DMCA. 8. Eliminate software and business process patents. 9. Decriminalize not-for-profit copyright infringement. Eliminate the outrageous statutory penalties. 10. Repeal the Patriot Act. 11. Adopt a national single payer health care system. 12. Legalize marijuana 13. Pass national laws explicitly authorizing recording and filming of any law enforcement activities that occur in public. 14. Cap copyright term to 50 years or life of author whichever is longer. 15. Re-fund NASA. 16. Double the national R&D budget. 17. Raise the bar for patent granting to be "not obvious to one with ordinary skill in the art" to "not obvious to one with significant skill in the art"
One of the suspects was wearing his hat backwards in the video. Now really if you are wearing a hat to hide your face from security cams that is about as dumb a thing as you can do.
The thing is that they may be able to hide and lie low etc. But the FBI doesn't forget.
My father in law was an insurance inspector for Lloyds.
He inspected ships carrying guano from Chile to Europe. Guano of course is what was used prior to the Haber process being commercialized.
The need for an inspector became pretty obvious after some of these ships disappeared en route. No warning. One day everything was fine, the next no contact.
The insurance company was more worried about the ships going up in port - much more liability.
The largest industrial accident in US history was a nitrate ship explosion killing 581 people.
When I was about 12 I used to make small amounts of explosives in my basement. Of course nowadays that would be grounds for internment, but back then we had a more reasonable society.
The real issue here is not the data which seems to be holding up, but the deeper question as to whether correlation implies causation. It clearly does not - that is low economic growth could be causing high deficits just as likely as the reverse.
HOWEVER it does seem pretty unlikely that one can claim that high deficits cause higher economic growth. That is the real take away here.
"Jamming devices, however, are ineligible to receive a grant of equipment authorization from the FCC or an FCC ID. (The FCCâ(TM)s Office of Engineering and Technology oversees the authorization of non-jamming equipment that uses the radio frequency spectrum. More information is available at http://www.fcc.gov/encyclopedia/equipmentauthorization.) "
"To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries."
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Eliminate all attempts to legislate morals.
1. Update the 4th amendment so it clearly covers personal data.
2. Turn back Citizen's United.
3. Term limits. No federal elected official should serve more than 12 years.
4. Eliminate laws that provide special privileges to members of Congress.
5. H1-B visas should be allowed for people educated in the US, only.
6. Eliminate carried interest tax exemption.
7. Repeal the DMCA.
8. Eliminate software and business process patents.
9. Decriminalize not-for-profit copyright infringement. Eliminate the outrageous statutory penalties.
10. Repeal the Patriot Act.
11. Adopt a national single payer health care system.
12. Legalize marijuana
13. Pass national laws explicitly authorizing recording and filming of any law enforcement activities that occur in public.
14. Cap copyright term to 50 years or life of author whichever is longer.
15. Re-fund NASA.
16. Double the national R&D budget.
17. Raise the bar for patent granting to be "not obvious to one with ordinary skill in the art" to "not obvious to one with significant skill in the art"
For a start.
Out of how many? 42? 420? 69105? 10^42?
One of the suspects was wearing his hat backwards in the video. Now really if you are wearing a hat to hide your face from security cams that is about as dumb a thing as you can do.
The thing is that they may be able to hide and lie low etc. But the FBI doesn't forget.
About 70% of bombings conducted in the US since 9/11 have been conducted by neo-nazis and similar radical groups.
http://homegrown.newamerica.net/map
That's the M.O. of the Washington Times - attack other sources.
http://www.newscorpse.com/ncWP/?p=1306
Typical neocon news source.
My father in law was an insurance inspector for Lloyds.
He inspected ships carrying guano from Chile to Europe. Guano of course is what was used prior to the Haber process being commercialized.
The need for an inspector became pretty obvious after some of these ships disappeared en route. No warning. One day everything was fine, the next no contact.
The insurance company was more worried about the ships going up in port - much more liability.
The largest industrial accident in US history was a nitrate ship explosion killing 581 people.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_City_Disaster
Explosions are a traditional nerd interest.
When I was about 12 I used to make small amounts of explosives in my basement. Of course nowadays that would be grounds for internment, but back then we had a more reasonable society.
The Washington Times? You have got to be kidding.
This is one of the reasons I recommend Google phones to my friends who like Android.
The difference is MS makes patches available.
Now for the people still running Windows 2000, not so much.
The authors of the study have posted a response that refutes these criticisms.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mark-gongloff/reinhart-rogoff-research-response_b_3099185.html?utm_hp_ref=tw
The real issue here is not the data which seems to be holding up, but the deeper question as to whether correlation implies causation. It clearly does not - that is low economic growth could be causing high deficits just as likely as the reverse.
HOWEVER it does seem pretty unlikely that one can claim that high deficits cause higher economic growth. That is the real take away here.
Tell that to all the people getting rung up for illegal trades recently.
http://www.sec.gov/spotlight/insidertrading/cases.shtml
http://www.sec.gov/litigation/admin/34-43270.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_UBS_rogue_trader_scandal
Yes. Unauthorized large transactions = jail time. Win or lose.
-- SEC, FINRA Enforcement Section
http://www.finra.org/web/groups/industry/@ip/@reg/@notice/documents/notices/p038276.pdf
Having a plugin is what they do already. It is in fact the problems with these plugins that are causing this move.
It really doesn't matter because you are ending up with DRM in your browser either way.
Are you sure? I did a little research and found this:
http://transition.fcc.gov/eb/jammerenforcement/jamfaq.pdf
"Jamming devices, however, are ineligible to receive a grant of equipment authorization
from the FCC or an FCC ID. (The FCCâ(TM)s Office of Engineering and Technology oversees
the authorization of non-jamming equipment that uses the radio frequency spectrum.
More information is available at http://www.fcc.gov/encyclopedia/equipmentauthorization.) "
Somebody has a problem with that.
> Actually, I'm quite enjoying this
You are fucking sick.
Fractional reserve banking can be done with a physically backed currency.
So for example MtGox could start issuing the BitBuck which contains a promise that it can be exchanged for 1.0e-8 bitcoins on presentation.
This currency can then become the basis of a fractional reserve banking system.
This will work until enough bitibucks are in circulation to scare folks into all demanding an exchange at once.
A good reason for going away from metal coins.
So you are saying this is a pyramid scheme?
Human genes as they occur naturally are not patentable.
It is only after they are isolated and a use is found for them in the isolated form that they become patentable.
Probably much further.
"To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries."
Um the genes the Monsanto has patented are not naturally occurring.
What is patented is the isolated gene, which is not a natural product.
Every patented composition is in fact a transformation of naturally occurring substances. The so-called gene patents are no exception.