SCOTUS has already ruled Customs can search anything it pleases at the border including electronic devices because one of the fundamental powers of a sovereign is to protect its borders.
So that's up to Congress. Which means anything common sense is right out.
Despite federal law allowing certain federal agents to conduct suspicionless search and seizures within 100 miles of the border, the Supreme Court has clearly and repeatedly confirmed that the border search exception applies only at international borders and their functional equivalent (such as international airports).
Nope. This applies to police searches after arrests. Anywhere in the United States. Period.
Only customs agents have the ability to conduct warrantless searches and only at ports of entry. These ports of entry are at either airports or at the border.
Customs can also establish stations for immigration control up to 100 miles from the border, and stop and question vehicle occupants at these locations. HOWEVER any searches at these internal spots must follow the normal constitutional rules. The only 4th amendment protection lost here is the fact that these internal checkpoints allow stopping and questioning without cause. Not searches.
Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as freedom should not be highly rated.
This is just wrong. Basic R&D does not work for companies because it is not usually the the company that pays for the work that benefits from it. It's just too long term and the results are too unpredictable. Even the drug companies are finding R&D gives them questionable returns.
Basic R&D is an external economy with a societal impact. The only way to get enough of it is to fund it across society as whole.
Depends on the school. The top research universities are apparently still the best in the world in terms of the quality of the work they churn out. At least some of the rankings say so.
Lower tier and the for-profits not so much. These have mediocre instruction and lots of students that fail to graduate and lots of students in majors that don't qualify them for meaningful employment.
That's not exactly clear to me. The voting for this bill seemed to be a combination of almost all the Democrats and a good percentage but not majority of Republicans. That's the kind of thing that would work in the Senate.
The thing about this is that it's the wrong bill. What needs to be done is to pass legislation that actually makes these activities illegal, including evisceration of the Patriot Act and updating of the Electronic Communications Privacy act, and definition of 'devices' such as laptops and cell phones as being covered as 'effects' under the 4th Amendment.
> This is unlike Germany, where the only quality level is "high", and you pay for German manufacture. German manufacturers won't provide you with a lower cost-tier and a lesser-duty-cycle product.
German cars have recently had lousy reliability and miserably high repair costs. It's an incredibly poisonous combination. The only way I'd own one is via a lease. As soon as the warranty is up you are in for a world of pain.
"A series of IRS documents, provided to ThinkProgress under the Freedom of Information Act, appears to contradict the claims by Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) and his House Oversight and Government Reform Committee that only Tea Party organizations applying for tax-exempt status âoereceived systematic scrutiny because of their political beliefs.â The 22 âoeBe On the Look Outâ keywords lists, distributed to staff reviewing applications between August 12, 2010 and April 19, 2013, included more explicit references to progressive groups, ACORN successors, and medical marijuana organizations than to Tea Party entities. The IRS provided the heavily-redacted lists to ThinkProgress, after nearly a year-long search. From the earliest lists through 2012, the âoehistoricalâ section of the lists encouraged reviewers to watch out for âoeprogressiveâ groups with names like âoeblue,â as their requests for 501(c)(3) charitable status might be inappropriate. Their inclusion in this section suggests that the concern predates the initial 2010 list.
Explicit references to âoeTea Party,â included in the âoeemerging issuesâ section of the lists, also began in August 2010 â" but stopped appearing after the May 10, 2011 list. From that point on, the lists instructed agents to flag all political advocacy groups of any stripe. The documents instructed the agents to forward any âoeorganization involved with political, lobbying, or advocacyâ applying for 501(c)(3) or 501(c)(4) status be forwarded to âoegroup 7822â for additional review. Groups under both categories are limited in the amount of of lobbying and political activity each can undertake."
Any product that has been in production for a while will incorporate engineering changes during it's production cycle.
These changes can arise from some perfectly legitimate reasons including:
1. Fixes for problems found after production starts. 2. Improvements in manufacturing process to improve yield etc. 3. Changes needed to compensate for changes in upstream sources.
The idea that something essentially a prototype given to reviewers will not be changed once it's been in production for a while is nuts.
HOWEVER if the product is changed in such a way that the result is inferior as this article seems to indicate then the manufacturer has a lot to answer for.
This is nothing new. Andrew Jackson one refused to scoffed at a Supreme Court decision, saying in a letter to John Coffee, "...the decision of the Supreme Court has fell still born, and they find that they cannot coerce Georgia to yield to its mandate," (that is, the Court's opinion because it had no power to enforce its edict).
The Supreme Court has ALWAYS had to rely on the cooperation of the the other branches of government because they have no constitutional mandate to enforce their decisions. It is a clear part of the limitation of the powers of one of the branches of government.
Congress on the other hand does hold the power to impeach the President if they can agree on such. However it has to rise beyond the petty partisanship we have today and get to the point where 2/3 of the Senate will vote for it. If it happened to occur in a partisan manner watch out because then the office of President will become a completely empty shell.
The real danger to the Republic is the factionalism we see today, which was written about by James Madison in the Federalist #10 long ago.
As far as GMO drug labelling, I am alive today because of GMO insulin. If you start label requirements it will discourage commercial development of life saving drugs. That's a REALLY BAD IDEA.
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No they can't. See ALMEIDA-SANCHEZ v. UNITED STATES
http://scholar.google.com/scho...
SCOTUS has already ruled Customs can search anything it pleases at the border including electronic devices because one of the fundamental powers of a sovereign is to protect its borders.
So that's up to Congress. Which means anything common sense is right out.
Uh no. From your citation:
Despite federal law allowing certain federal agents to conduct suspicionless search and seizures within 100 miles of the border, the Supreme Court has clearly and repeatedly confirmed that the border search exception applies only at international borders and their functional equivalent (such as international airports).
Nope. This applies to police searches after arrests. Anywhere in the United States. Period.
Only customs agents have the ability to conduct warrantless searches and only at ports of entry. These ports of entry are at either airports or at the border.
Customs can also establish stations for immigration control up to 100 miles from the border, and stop and question vehicle occupants at these locations. HOWEVER any searches at these internal spots must follow the normal constitutional rules. The only 4th amendment protection lost here is the fact that these internal checkpoints allow stopping and questioning without cause. Not searches.
Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as freedom should not be highly rated.
- Thomas Paine, The American Crisis
0.72C?
Surely that must be a relative measure.
This is just wrong. Basic R&D does not work for companies because it is not usually the the company that pays for the work that benefits from it. It's just too long term and the results are too unpredictable. Even the drug companies are finding R&D gives them questionable returns.
Basic R&D is an external economy with a societal impact. The only way to get enough of it is to fund it across society as whole.
Not right. Patents only apply to the country they are filed in. So a patent granted in China has no relevance in the United States.
Samsung has by far the bulk of the patents in this field. If we are going to see anyone suing a US Company it's most likely to be Samsung.
covered all this sort of thing.
It seems that a copy of Peopleware would cost a lot less than some Orwellian surveillance system.
Thermite works great on just about any kind of storage media. Maybe even clay tablets.
Despite the statements on Slashdot to the contrary. cops do server major jail time in these cases.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...
It may not happen enough but it does happen.
Depends on the school. The top research universities are apparently still the best in the world in terms of the quality of the work they churn out. At least some of the rankings say so.
http://www.timeshighereducatio...
Lower tier and the for-profits not so much. These have mediocre instruction and lots of students that fail to graduate and lots of students in majors that don't qualify them for meaningful employment.
That's not exactly clear to me. The voting for this bill seemed to be a combination of almost all the Democrats and a good percentage but not majority of Republicans. That's the kind of thing that would work in the Senate.
The thing about this is that it's the wrong bill. What needs to be done is to pass legislation that actually makes these activities illegal, including evisceration of the Patriot Act and updating of the Electronic Communications Privacy act, and definition of 'devices' such as laptops and cell phones as being covered as 'effects' under the 4th Amendment.
Is warrant-less surveillance of the 123 rat bastards who voted against this.
Seems unlikely since the US has stated that the US-Japan mutual defense treaty would be triggered by a Chinese grab of this disputed territory.
If China doesn't want to encourage Japan to build nuclear weapons they really need to be less belligerent.
Having a full color gamut is important too. And a really good contrast ratio.
So I'm saving my pennies for a OLED 4K display. At 80". And none of that curved bullshit.
> This is unlike Germany, where the only quality level is "high", and you pay for German manufacture. German manufacturers won't provide you with a lower cost-tier and a lesser-duty-cycle product.
German cars have recently had lousy reliability and miserably high repair costs. It's an incredibly poisonous combination. The only way I'd own one is via a lease. As soon as the warranty is up you are in for a world of pain.
http://www.autoexpress.co.uk/c...
Examples of Cars/Trucks with 75+% US manufactured content:
Ford F-150
Toyota Camry
Dodge Avenger
Honda Odessey
Toyota Sienna
Chevy Traverse
Toyota Tundra
GMC Acadia
Buick Enclave
Toyota Avalon
Honda Accord
Bullshit right back at you.
"A series of IRS documents, provided to ThinkProgress under the Freedom of Information Act, appears to contradict the claims by Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) and his House Oversight and Government Reform Committee that only Tea Party organizations applying for tax-exempt status âoereceived systematic scrutiny because of their political beliefs.â The 22 âoeBe On the Look Outâ keywords lists, distributed to staff reviewing applications between August 12, 2010 and April 19, 2013, included more explicit references to progressive groups, ACORN successors, and medical marijuana organizations than to Tea Party entities.
The IRS provided the heavily-redacted lists to ThinkProgress, after nearly a year-long search. From the earliest lists through 2012, the âoehistoricalâ section of the lists encouraged reviewers to watch out for âoeprogressiveâ groups with names like âoeblue,â as their requests for 501(c)(3) charitable status might be inappropriate. Their inclusion in this section suggests that the concern predates the initial 2010 list.
Explicit references to âoeTea Party,â included in the âoeemerging issuesâ section of the lists, also began in August 2010 â" but stopped appearing after the May 10, 2011 list. From that point on, the lists instructed agents to flag all political advocacy groups of any stripe. The documents instructed the agents to forward any âoeorganization involved with political, lobbying, or advocacyâ applying for 501(c)(3) or 501(c)(4) status be forwarded to âoegroup 7822â for additional review. Groups under both categories are limited in the amount of of lobbying and political activity each can undertake."
http://www.dailykos.com/story/...
Any product that has been in production for a while will incorporate engineering changes during it's production cycle.
These changes can arise from some perfectly legitimate reasons including:
1. Fixes for problems found after production starts.
2. Improvements in manufacturing process to improve yield etc.
3. Changes needed to compensate for changes in upstream sources.
The idea that something essentially a prototype given to reviewers will not be changed once it's been in production for a while is nuts.
HOWEVER if the product is changed in such a way that the result is inferior as this article seems to indicate then the manufacturer has a lot to answer for.
Freedom is not free, and it never has been.
This is nothing new. Andrew Jackson one refused to scoffed at a Supreme Court decision, saying in a letter to John Coffee, "...the decision of the Supreme Court has fell still born, and they find that they cannot coerce Georgia to yield to its mandate," (that is, the Court's opinion because it had no power to enforce its edict).
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/suprem...
The Supreme Court has ALWAYS had to rely on the cooperation of the the other branches of government because they have no constitutional mandate to enforce their decisions. It is a clear part of the limitation of the powers of one of the branches of government.
Congress on the other hand does hold the power to impeach the President if they can agree on such. However it has to rise beyond the petty partisanship we have today and get to the point where 2/3 of the Senate will vote for it. If it happened to occur in a partisan manner watch out because then the office of President will become a completely empty shell.
The real danger to the Republic is the factionalism we see today, which was written about by James Madison in the Federalist #10 long ago.
GMO crop safety testing is already a requirement.
As far as GMO drug labelling, I am alive today because of GMO insulin. If you start label requirements it will discourage commercial development of life saving drugs. That's a REALLY BAD IDEA.
That is complete bullshit. There are no studies that show this contamination has resulted in viable crosses.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
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