But here in North Dakota, we're bigger fans of fuels like Ethanol and Soy Biodisel. Rumors abound lately of some new techniques in ethanol production that can reduce the energy required to produce the fuel by more than half! Why muddle about with high maintenance wind farms when plants will do the work for us?
I think you're mistaken on this. In fact there was a recent Supreme Court of the United States case which considered the issue of whether a police officer could even demand your name, much less a state-issued identification. It was narrowly held that a name could be demanded if state law provided such. Anything more, it suggests, is probably unconstitutional.
The case was Hiibel v. Sixth Judicial District Court of Nevada.
This post is not intended as legal advice and should not be relied on as such.
In most states there is no penalty for forgetting your driver's license at home, or for travelling without it if you're not driving. (The latter would raise all sorts of right to travel issues. The former results in a warning to produce the license within 10 days.)
So from a privacy perspective, am I not better off just leaving my license at home wrapped up in my tinfoil hat?
What exactly is a NeoCon? Is this some kind of club people join like the stonecutters on the Simpsons? How are they organized? Do they have bylaws and membership dues? Do they have a website? I mean, its pretty clear you don't like them, but if they have that much influence I might like to join.
Most Americans, SUVs and Atkins aside, wouldn't wilfully screw other countries
Actually, I'm perfectly content screwing other states, and they're perfectly content screwing us back... why would foreign nations be any different?
- What types of purchases you make - What types of books you read ( or don't read ) - What types of web sites you visit - Which routes you take to your relatives house - Which routes you take to work - What time you wake up and go to bed - What reasons you ever visited a doctor
I am familiar with this and other companies. Almost all of the information I listed can be gleaned from your bank statement.
If your bank lists the route you take to work, your alarm clock settings, medical information, browser cache, or library records... I suggest getting a new bank. Mine lists... mym account number, deposits, withdrawals, and dates. It includes my address & phone number. Thats it.
I don't however recall seeing an option for personal banking records on the abika site. Can you provide a url?
If you'll read my first post in this thread, I lay out the kinds of information this website provides. Apart from house purchases none of the information you list is available on the abika site.
Actually, I agree with most of this. But to be fair:
1. The market for grazing on federal land is going to be poor when federal ag subsidies are removed, as that will open up land currently enrolled in CRP to grazing and production.
2. Charging more for oil, gas, and mineral leases on federal lands will only increase the value of all the privately owned oil under my state.
3. I assume this plan would also turn over management of the missouri river dams (a continual money looser) and finally see to payment for flooded and tribal lands still owing.
My party is pretty easy to guess from the signs in the yard and the loud arguments at the coffee shop. The newspaper published it along with the other public notices when I got my pistol permit. I guess my income is not widely known though... Perhaps thats an issue.
I'm a citizen of North Dakota. My state is in the black. 90% of the government services I enjoy come from the state. Federal money for state programs is more of a burden than a benefit, because of all the strings attached. Why should I be all that worried about whether folks in far-away Washington D.C. go bankrupt?
1. If they raise taxes beyond what most people are willing to pay, the system will collapes.
2. If they don't and they go bankrupt, 90% of my services are intact.
At least from the perspective of someone living in a Untied State, none of the information available on the akiba website is all that private. My name is in the phone book, and in the yellow pages next to my firm. My house is much like others on my block so the value is easy to guess. Any crime I commit gets published in the local newspaper.
I gues the short of it is, everyone in town already knows all of this stuff about me. The akiba site does not appear to search small financial transactions in my bank, or library records, or magazine subscriptions, or letters I send to the Libertarian party's division of metal headware.
Also, it may be worth noting that clever lawyers now tend to include ambiguous values in deeds at the courthouse to foil searches such as this, like "sold for $10 and other valuable consideration."
I took a lot of notes in College. I took a lot more notes in graduate school. I've even taken notes on books I've read for the fun of it. If I could run all of these through my scanner & search them from an application on my desktop, I could be really obnoxious in an argument.
Two counties that I recall having no government in South Dakota are Shannon and Todd. Neither of these has a county seat, and neithe provides any government functions. (THough I think one of them has some sort of agreement with an adjacent county to plow snow)
As for scalability, I wasn't aware that a particular size was required to be considered civilized.
We could reduce the burden of elections (by one) even further if State Legislatures would just have the intestinal fortitude to pick Presidential Electors themselves. Having a statewide vote & locking in electors is a cop-out.
Actually, i guess I'm leaning towards civilization where the individuals police themselves, or at least see that the conduct of others stays within acceptable norms without the help of professionals.
I present for your consideration any of a thousand small towns in the midwest, hiring police is neither affordable nor necessary. Or whole counties in South Dakota that do not even have a government, much less a police force. Everyone knows everyone, and nobody is going to get away with anything too outrageous. It seems to work pretty well.
Your concern is, in principle, a fine thing. But keep in mind that Policemen of Good Will have some thoroughly legitimate reasons to keep secrets, and civilization depends in part on their ability to do so.
Are you suggesting that civilization depends on policemen? I've lived in places that had no police, and it seemed pretty civilized to me.
There are not very many places in the world where there is nothing to shoot. I mean, beer & soda cans are pretty ubiquitous and make great targets... especially if you fill them with water first. Then they explode!
What a relief, I was worried that with local governments providing free internet access, small startup wireless ISPs would be driven out of business. Its good to see that corporations like Verizon are looking out for the little guy.
Nope, I'm a laywer, they're lawyers, this is how we're taught to think. If we can assume that a sheet of paper signed by a judge will keep your ex girlfriend from stalking you, we can certainly assume that the law will keep spam at bay. (And thus technological solutions are not needed.)
I'm finally getting the other folks in my office to use Thunderbird as an email client, the big selling point was spam filtering. Trends like this may make such FOSS evangelism harder, since people (esp. the lawyers) can just rely on the law to protect them rather than go to the trouble of trying software that didn't come with the machine.
Yep, Drogan won handily (He's a Republican candidate in North Dakota, go figure...) but the real question to be resolved is exactly what to ask for.
Do we want a statutory safe harbor whereby if you make a good faith effort to contact the holder of copyright and get no response you're free and clear so long as you stop publishing if asked?
Or perhaps should we go for the gold and restore the old renewal process for works over 14 years old?
Federal spending bills come from the House and the Senate. Usually they do not match and a compromise needs to reached. The President then signs or vetoes the single compromised spending bill from Congress.
Perhaps I was unclear, I was refering to the following section of the United States' Constituion"
Article I, Section 7. All bills for raising revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives; but the Senate may propose or concur with amendments as on other Bills.
But then (at least on paper) we should be able to rely on the democratic process. People who are paying taxes without receiving services will demand lower taxes in the Federal Column.
Of course I'm from North Dakota, and Federal spending bills come from the House of Representatives of which I have ONE....
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How is this different than simply burning the garbage in a steam-turbine power plant?
But here in North Dakota, we're bigger fans of fuels like Ethanol and Soy Biodisel. Rumors abound lately of some new techniques in ethanol production that can reduce the energy required to produce the fuel by more than half! Why muddle about with high maintenance wind farms when plants will do the work for us?
I think you're mistaken on this. In fact there was a recent Supreme Court of the United States case which considered the issue of whether a police officer could even demand your name, much less a state-issued identification. It was narrowly held that a name could be demanded if state law provided such. Anything more, it suggests, is probably unconstitutional.
The case was Hiibel v. Sixth Judicial District Court of Nevada.
This post is not intended as legal advice and should not be relied on as such.
In most states there is no penalty for forgetting your driver's license at home, or for travelling without it if you're not driving. (The latter would raise all sorts of right to travel issues. The former results in a warning to produce the license within 10 days.)
So from a privacy perspective, am I not better off just leaving my license at home wrapped up in my tinfoil hat?
What exactly is a NeoCon? Is this some kind of club people join like the stonecutters on the Simpsons? How are they organized? Do they have bylaws and membership dues? Do they have a website? I mean, its pretty clear you don't like them, but if they have that much influence I might like to join.
Most Americans, SUVs and Atkins aside, wouldn't wilfully screw other countries
Actually, I'm perfectly content screwing other states, and they're perfectly content screwing us back... why would foreign nations be any different?
- What types of purchases you make
- What types of books you read ( or don't read )
- What types of web sites you visit
- Which routes you take to your relatives house
- Which routes you take to work
- What time you wake up and go to bed
- What reasons you ever visited a doctor
I am familiar with this and other companies. Almost all of the information I listed can be gleaned from your bank statement.
If your bank lists the route you take to work, your alarm clock settings, medical information, browser cache, or library records... I suggest getting a new bank. Mine lists... mym account number, deposits, withdrawals, and dates. It includes my address & phone number. Thats it.
I don't however recall seeing an option for personal banking records on the abika site. Can you provide a url?
If you'll read my first post in this thread, I lay out the kinds of information this website provides. Apart from house purchases none of the information you list is available on the abika site.
Actually I'm out on the southwest end. Its warmer here. Maybe its the oil vapors?
Actually, I agree with most of this. But to be fair:
1. The market for grazing on federal land is going to be poor when federal ag subsidies are removed, as that will open up land currently enrolled in CRP to grazing and production.
2. Charging more for oil, gas, and mineral leases on federal lands will only increase the value of all the privately owned oil under my state.
3. I assume this plan would also turn over management of the missouri river dams (a continual money looser) and finally see to payment for flooded and tribal lands still owing.
North Dakota.
My party is pretty easy to guess from the signs in the yard and the loud arguments at the coffee shop. The newspaper published it along with the other public notices when I got my pistol permit. I guess my income is not widely known though... Perhaps thats an issue.
I'm a citizen of North Dakota. My state is in the black. 90% of the government services I enjoy come from the state. Federal money for state programs is more of a burden than a benefit, because of all the strings attached. Why should I be all that worried about whether folks in far-away Washington D.C. go bankrupt?
1. If they raise taxes beyond what most people are willing to pay, the system will collapes.
2. If they don't and they go bankrupt, 90% of my services are intact.
3. I really don't mind driving on gravel roads.
At least from the perspective of someone living in a Untied State, none of the information available on the akiba website is all that private. My name is in the phone book, and in the yellow pages next to my firm. My house is much like others on my block so the value is easy to guess. Any crime I commit gets published in the local newspaper.
I gues the short of it is, everyone in town already knows all of this stuff about me. The akiba site does not appear to search small financial transactions in my bank, or library records, or magazine subscriptions, or letters I send to the Libertarian party's division of metal headware.
Also, it may be worth noting that clever lawyers now tend to include ambiguous values in deeds at the courthouse to foil searches such as this, like "sold for $10 and other valuable consideration."
I took a lot of notes in College. I took a lot more notes in graduate school. I've even taken notes on books I've read for the fun of it. If I could run all of these through my scanner & search them from an application on my desktop, I could be really obnoxious in an argument.
Two counties that I recall having no government in South Dakota are Shannon and Todd. Neither of these has a county seat, and neithe provides any government functions. (THough I think one of them has some sort of agreement with an adjacent county to plow snow)
As for scalability, I wasn't aware that a particular size was required to be considered civilized.
We could reduce the burden of elections (by one) even further if State Legislatures would just have the intestinal fortitude to pick Presidential Electors themselves. Having a statewide vote & locking in electors is a cop-out.
Actually, i guess I'm leaning towards civilization where the individuals police themselves, or at least see that the conduct of others stays within acceptable norms without the help of professionals.
I present for your consideration any of a thousand small towns in the midwest, hiring police is neither affordable nor necessary. Or whole counties in South Dakota that do not even have a government, much less a police force. Everyone knows everyone, and nobody is going to get away with anything too outrageous. It seems to work pretty well.
Your concern is, in principle, a fine thing. But keep in mind that Policemen of Good Will have some thoroughly legitimate reasons to keep secrets, and civilization depends in part on their ability to do so.
Are you suggesting that civilization depends on policemen? I've lived in places that had no police, and it seemed pretty civilized to me.
There are not very many places in the world where there is nothing to shoot. I mean, beer & soda cans are pretty ubiquitous and make great targets... especially if you fill them with water first. Then they explode!
What a relief, I was worried that with local governments providing free internet access, small startup wireless ISPs would be driven out of business. Its good to see that corporations like Verizon are looking out for the little guy.
Thats what they're doing, right?
Nope, I'm a laywer, they're lawyers, this is how we're taught to think. If we can assume that a sheet of paper signed by a judge will keep your ex girlfriend from stalking you, we can certainly assume that the law will keep spam at bay. (And thus technological solutions are not needed.)
I'm finally getting the other folks in my office to use Thunderbird as an email client, the big selling point was spam filtering. Trends like this may make such FOSS evangelism harder, since people (esp. the lawyers) can just rely on the law to protect them rather than go to the trouble of trying software that didn't come with the machine.
Wow... wrong thread... too late to read /.!
Yep, Drogan won handily (He's a Republican candidate in North Dakota, go figure...) but the real question to be resolved is exactly what to ask for.
Do we want a statutory safe harbor whereby if you make a good faith effort to contact the holder of copyright and get no response you're free and clear so long as you stop publishing if asked?
Or perhaps should we go for the gold and restore the old renewal process for works over 14 years old?
And how do we coordinate this?
Federal spending bills come from the House and the Senate. Usually they do not match and a compromise needs to reached. The President then signs or vetoes the single compromised spending bill from Congress.
Perhaps I was unclear, I was refering to the following section of the United States' Constituion"
Article I, Section 7. All bills for raising revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives; but the Senate may propose or concur with amendments as on other Bills.
But then (at least on paper) we should be able to rely on the democratic process. People who are paying taxes without receiving services will demand lower taxes in the Federal Column.
Of course I'm from North Dakota, and Federal spending bills come from the House of Representatives of which I have ONE....