I read the summary.... A WARRANT was issued, this means some judge has signed off that there is probable cause necessary for the request.
This is obviously a law enforcement activity that is going by the rules, not a political witch hunt by the DOJ. It is obvious they are investigating crimes as some of those crimes where on broadcast and cable TV for days.
So, are you claiming the warrant was improperly approved by the judge? If so, how's that make this a politically motivated..
Your Trump supports the Nazi's tripe is a bald faced lie trumped up by the left. It speaks to the desperation of the left when they resort to such ridiculous name calling. Such bellowing rhetoric might keep the left ginned up in their anti Trump fervor, but it's starting to become ineffective. Remember Chicken Little and Peter both end up in trouble because they raised alarm too often so when the real danger arrives, nobody believes them anymore.
Actually, the issue is online entertainment is eating Hollywood's lunch. Netflix, AMC, et all, are out producing original content that is actually entertaining so you don't need to go to the movies anymore. It's the same issue broadcast TV is having.
That's not to say they are not putting out garbage. They are doing that too... I'm just saying that there is more to this issue.
Disagreeing with government is NOT illegal... Felony rioting, destruction of property and conspiracy to do the afore mentioned crimes IS illegal. This is not about disagreeing with the government and protesting, this is about committing crimes while protesting.
Protest all you like, just don't break windows or torch cars and buildings in the process... OK?
On its face this warrant seems overly broad. If you are looking for bad actors who actually threatened or cause physical harm/disruption - then use regular police work to fid that out.
This IS regular police work. The DOJ has a warrant which is properly issued in an effort to investigate obviously criminal activity on January 20th and beyond. Some of the violence and rioting that took place was criminal activity (felony level activity) so the DOJ is now looking into possible conspiracy to commit these crimes, which is ALSO a violation of law.
Simply sniffing out all who disagree with the current administration (raises hand), and would protest it (raises other hand), stinks of police state tactics.
Now, why are both my hands in the air again?
This is totally mischaracterization of what's happening. This is NOT a politically motivated investigation at all, but a criminal inquiry into actual crimes. We already have people charged in these cases and the DOJ is doing it's job like it should. Your implication that this is a politically motivated investigation is not really valid given the evidence we have. This is not an issue of free speech, but an investigation into obvious crimes.
Of course you might think that destruction of property, inciting riots, assault and conspiracy to commit these things should be allowed under the 1st Amendment, but you'd be totally wrong. I understand your confusion though, given the last administration's failure to deal with these kinds of crimes for obvious political reasons.
What's new? AMD has been playing catch up in the APU world for a long time. Who knows though, it might be that Nivida isn't quite ready to squash them with a new GPU offering just yet...
Go-Daddy is free to define it's TOS and enforce their rules as they see fit.
I'm not so sure they (go-daddy) are not over reacting to the events over the weekend, but I support their right to TOS a customer (or group of customers) if they choose to. I suppose they *might* be sued if they don't apply their rules equally, but that's not the question here.
And before someone tries to advocate that this is a 1st amendment violation, it's clearly not. The 1st amendment applies to the government's suppression of speech (and religion). Go-Daddy is NOT part of the government, they are a corporation. The government cannot suppress speech (with in defined limits of course), but Go Daddy can refuse you service if they whish, especially if, as is this case, it would affect their ability to service their other customers and the reason is covered in their TOS.
LOL... I AM older and I'm losing my hearing for the normal aging reasons, not because I listen to my headphones to loud. I'm losing my low end sensitivity because I'm getting older, but I am very careful about hearing protection and not listening to headphones very loud.
Did I mention that my headphones are the type that totally cover my ears and although wouldn't be sufficient for hearing protection while shooting, do provide a high amount of isolation? I'm not going to lose my hearing, at least not from using headphones... Maybe at the shooting range or turning screws and nailing stuff in the garage, but not from headphones.
I would agree with that. We shouldn't give away government money w/o getting something in return, especially over the long haul. Short term tax credits used to stimulate economic activity *might* be OK in some instances, but should be the exception rather than the rule. Industry that depends on government supporting it (say solar/Wind power generation) in the long term, are generally bad ideas.
Examples of this government intervention would be the latest GM bailout. Where I didn't think it was a good idea to do this (bankruptcy court would have been better), I understand the reasons it was done. Bailing out some of the Wall Street banks after the sub-prime meltdown was another example. Short term tax abatements or credits are fine with me, as long as the underlying idea is to spur on economic activity and there is at least SOME hope of accomplishing something good overall. Just dumping money in the form of tax abatements, rebates, tax credits or loan guarantees on some industry that has no hope of surviving w/o the government money is a bad idea...
So, if you want to compare this to welfare.... Dumping money on folks with the view of getting them back on their feet and working to support themselves is a great idea... Dumping good money after bad for years on people who could work but refuse to is a bad idea... Same with business "investments" by government. Dumping money into businesses temporally to get them started and working on their own, works for me... Supporting then forever, not so much.
And for a counter example... Why do we not feed the bears in national parks? Because, it encourages dependency on the handouts.
I'm not opposed to welfare per say, but the longer you allow able bodied people to stay on welfare roles, the more you foster a culture of dependence. We have allowed GENERATIONS of people to stay on welfare in some places (like where I grew up) and we have thus created a culture that fosters dependency on welfare. How do you fix that? How do you wean those bears off handouts in the national parks?
See the problem yet?
I'm not advocating the end of Welfare, but I am advocating that we put definite time limits on how long you can receive it if you are otherwise able bodied. Why? Because I know folks who simply choose not to work. I knew multiple kids in High School who's main goal was to turn 18 and then move to get their own address so they could start collecting their own welfare checks. How do you fix this kind of thing?
For the truly needy? Those who are disabled and cannot work (and I know people in this class too), by all means we need to keep supporting them. But the ones who could work, they need to work doing something... Perhaps some kind of vocational training or low skilled government tasks could be provided as a condition for welfare? Working for a living seems to be the answer to getting people off welfare and not sucked into the culture of dependency.
Why don't they just take that money and give it to taxpayers instead?
Because... Give a man a fish and he's fed for a day, teach him to fish and you feed him for life.
Giving away government money directly to citizens is just such a situation and why Welfare is usually a bad thing for those who receive it for extended periods.
Less than 1% of businesses are located on a railroad line. For long haul it might be worth using multi-modal, but for less than 1000 km the delays and queueing on both ends may be too much.
This is for military logistics use. Hey you automated idiots, follow me!
That's why they call it "work" and not "play" and why they pay me to do it instead of me paying them. I'd much rather be doing my own thing than sitting in my cube at work, but the open bay environment I'm working in now is MUCH nicer than the dark and dingy rat maze we had before we moved to the new digs. Nothing is perfect and that applies to "work" for sure.
Don't get me wrong, I see the down side of this open bay concept. I'm just saying that it's better than what we had before and most of the issues folks complain about are manageable if you think about it.
Not likely to mislead me, but very likely will be taken as gospel by a computer. (which is my point) Automation is more subject to this risk than I am.
If they do, I'll give them two options. Either I work from home, or I'm going to start looking for alternate employement.
I actually don't find it that bad. I have a good set of headphones to cut down on sound, good music to work to and large monitors to cover my field of view. I don't find it hard to concentrate or work effectively, just crank up the tunes and go at it. It sure beats the 6' cube walls in the dark corner of the rat maze I used to have with no windows in sight for 20 yards. I felt like a caged animal with nothing to see in the last place, here I can actually look outside when I like...
I must be weird then... We've been in an open floor plan now for a year at the new digs and I actually like it. I NEVER had a window view before and I like it much better than the 6' cube walls I had before. I also like being able to see if a coworker is in the office or not at a glance and I like being able to keep up with office happenings by listening in when I want to. I also feel like it helps me keep good discipline, keeping my desk space clean and staying on task and off things like Slashdot...
I get the complaints though, they are distracting, loud and don't offer ANY privacy but I've found ways to cope. I have a set of headphones that cover my ears so I can tune out the noise. The monitors on my computers cover most of my vision area when I want.
If YOU change the signs, I'm not paying attention to them.. All your examples are GOVERNMENT changing the signs... That I would notice because I'd likely see the road crews out in the official government vehicles and read the news story about the regulatory changes in the press releases.
But my point is, I know the route, false signs are not likely to mislead me. A computer isn't so thoughtful about this kind of thing because it cannot consider the wider context...
For instance, I know where a bridge is under construction on my daily commute route. Last week, I was driving over the old bridge, this week the new one, though the road and signs still are up as before on the old road, only a route change has been made with some orange barrels. Next week that old bridge may be gone. I know the context of the construction effort, so I know that I will need to pay closer attention at various locations because I'm expecting the route to change. A computer doesn't have this contextual information nor does it have the reason required to think though the implications of it. I do. So if you remove those barrels, I'm not going to blindly drive the old route now, a computer likely would.
But, how many are prevented by pilots that you don't hear about? I dare say a LOT more than are caused by pilots, orders of magnitude more.
You see, nobody cares about an aircraft that has a malfunction and lands safely, unless there is some video of it. Pilots do this every day, but you never know because the passengers don't' ever know and it never gets reported because it's not newsworthy.
I was flying touch and goes in a Cessna 150 that had a flap malfunction, I commanded the flaps to go up and they didn't. This is a serious problem because a C-150 at full flaps barely, barely will climb at full throttle. I was flying at a controlled field, so I notified the tower that I had limited climb ability and would have to extend the climb out. They kept asking me if I wanted to declare an emergency, which I refused. I flew an extended pattern, landed to a full stop and when at got the airplane fixed. No report, no emergency, no paperwork, just got the aircraft fixed. This kind of thing happens all the time I say.
Reported? Yes, to the maintenance crews to get it fixed, who, might if the malfunction is out of the ordinary or happens too often, share a concern with the manufacturer or the FAA. However, you and I don't see how often this happens because it's not big news, like a pilot mistake that costs a planeload of passengers their lives.
You people don't seem to understand just how often things fail on these commercial aircraft... Important things, things that make the pilots actually have to handle the controls and fly the aircraft by hand.
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I read the summary.... A WARRANT was issued, this means some judge has signed off that there is probable cause necessary for the request.
This is obviously a law enforcement activity that is going by the rules, not a political witch hunt by the DOJ. It is obvious they are investigating crimes as some of those crimes where on broadcast and cable TV for days.
So, are you claiming the warrant was improperly approved by the judge? If so, how's that make this a politically motivated..
Your Trump supports the Nazi's tripe is a bald faced lie trumped up by the left. It speaks to the desperation of the left when they resort to such ridiculous name calling. Such bellowing rhetoric might keep the left ginned up in their anti Trump fervor, but it's starting to become ineffective. Remember Chicken Little and Peter both end up in trouble because they raised alarm too often so when the real danger arrives, nobody believes them anymore.
Actually, the issue is online entertainment is eating Hollywood's lunch. Netflix, AMC, et all, are out producing original content that is actually entertaining so you don't need to go to the movies anymore. It's the same issue broadcast TV is having.
That's not to say they are not putting out garbage. They are doing that too... I'm just saying that there is more to this issue.
Disagreeing with government is NOT illegal... Felony rioting, destruction of property and conspiracy to do the afore mentioned crimes IS illegal. This is not about disagreeing with the government and protesting, this is about committing crimes while protesting.
Protest all you like, just don't break windows or torch cars and buildings in the process... OK?
On its face this warrant seems overly broad. If you are looking for bad actors who actually threatened or cause physical harm/disruption - then use regular police work to fid that out.
This IS regular police work. The DOJ has a warrant which is properly issued in an effort to investigate obviously criminal activity on January 20th and beyond. Some of the violence and rioting that took place was criminal activity (felony level activity) so the DOJ is now looking into possible conspiracy to commit these crimes, which is ALSO a violation of law.
Simply sniffing out all who disagree with the current administration (raises hand), and would protest it (raises other hand), stinks of police state tactics. Now, why are both my hands in the air again?
This is totally mischaracterization of what's happening. This is NOT a politically motivated investigation at all, but a criminal inquiry into actual crimes. We already have people charged in these cases and the DOJ is doing it's job like it should. Your implication that this is a politically motivated investigation is not really valid given the evidence we have. This is not an issue of free speech, but an investigation into obvious crimes.
Of course you might think that destruction of property, inciting riots, assault and conspiracy to commit these things should be allowed under the 1st Amendment, but you'd be totally wrong. I understand your confusion though, given the last administration's failure to deal with these kinds of crimes for obvious political reasons.
What's new? AMD has been playing catch up in the APU world for a long time. Who knows though, it might be that Nivida isn't quite ready to squash them with a new GPU offering just yet...
Go-Daddy is free to define it's TOS and enforce their rules as they see fit.
I'm not so sure they (go-daddy) are not over reacting to the events over the weekend, but I support their right to TOS a customer (or group of customers) if they choose to. I suppose they *might* be sued if they don't apply their rules equally, but that's not the question here.
And before someone tries to advocate that this is a 1st amendment violation, it's clearly not. The 1st amendment applies to the government's suppression of speech (and religion). Go-Daddy is NOT part of the government, they are a corporation. The government cannot suppress speech (with in defined limits of course), but Go Daddy can refuse you service if they whish, especially if, as is this case, it would affect their ability to service their other customers and the reason is covered in their TOS.
LOL... I AM older and I'm losing my hearing for the normal aging reasons, not because I listen to my headphones to loud. I'm losing my low end sensitivity because I'm getting older, but I am very careful about hearing protection and not listening to headphones very loud.
Did I mention that my headphones are the type that totally cover my ears and although wouldn't be sufficient for hearing protection while shooting, do provide a high amount of isolation? I'm not going to lose my hearing, at least not from using headphones... Maybe at the shooting range or turning screws and nailing stuff in the garage, but not from headphones.
I would agree with that. We shouldn't give away government money w/o getting something in return, especially over the long haul. Short term tax credits used to stimulate economic activity *might* be OK in some instances, but should be the exception rather than the rule. Industry that depends on government supporting it (say solar/Wind power generation) in the long term, are generally bad ideas.
Examples of this government intervention would be the latest GM bailout. Where I didn't think it was a good idea to do this (bankruptcy court would have been better), I understand the reasons it was done. Bailing out some of the Wall Street banks after the sub-prime meltdown was another example. Short term tax abatements or credits are fine with me, as long as the underlying idea is to spur on economic activity and there is at least SOME hope of accomplishing something good overall. Just dumping money in the form of tax abatements, rebates, tax credits or loan guarantees on some industry that has no hope of surviving w/o the government money is a bad idea...
So, if you want to compare this to welfare.... Dumping money on folks with the view of getting them back on their feet and working to support themselves is a great idea... Dumping good money after bad for years on people who could work but refuse to is a bad idea... Same with business "investments" by government. Dumping money into businesses temporally to get them started and working on their own, works for me... Supporting then forever, not so much.
And for a counter example... Why do we not feed the bears in national parks? Because, it encourages dependency on the handouts.
I'm not opposed to welfare per say, but the longer you allow able bodied people to stay on welfare roles, the more you foster a culture of dependence. We have allowed GENERATIONS of people to stay on welfare in some places (like where I grew up) and we have thus created a culture that fosters dependency on welfare. How do you fix that? How do you wean those bears off handouts in the national parks?
See the problem yet?
I'm not advocating the end of Welfare, but I am advocating that we put definite time limits on how long you can receive it if you are otherwise able bodied. Why? Because I know folks who simply choose not to work. I knew multiple kids in High School who's main goal was to turn 18 and then move to get their own address so they could start collecting their own welfare checks. How do you fix this kind of thing?
For the truly needy? Those who are disabled and cannot work (and I know people in this class too), by all means we need to keep supporting them. But the ones who could work, they need to work doing something... Perhaps some kind of vocational training or low skilled government tasks could be provided as a condition for welfare? Working for a living seems to be the answer to getting people off welfare and not sucked into the culture of dependency.
WRONG! They are tax abatements.
First line says "TAX BREAKS".. So they are NOT just handing Foxcom money.
Why don't they just take that money and give it to taxpayers instead?
Because... Give a man a fish and he's fed for a day, teach him to fish and you feed him for life.
Giving away government money directly to citizens is just such a situation and why Welfare is usually a bad thing for those who receive it for extended periods.
That's what speed is for, when you are booking though the night..
LOL... Leftists are not in their right minds...
Mercy sakes, I think we got ourselves a convoy...
It could get pretty exciting if you need to change lanes with one of these convoys going by...
i.e. trains???
Less than 1% of businesses are located on a railroad line. For long haul it might be worth using multi-modal, but for less than 1000 km the delays and queueing on both ends may be too much.
This is for military logistics use. Hey you automated idiots, follow me!
That's why they call it "work" and not "play" and why they pay me to do it instead of me paying them. I'd much rather be doing my own thing than sitting in my cube at work, but the open bay environment I'm working in now is MUCH nicer than the dark and dingy rat maze we had before we moved to the new digs. Nothing is perfect and that applies to "work" for sure.
Don't get me wrong, I see the down side of this open bay concept. I'm just saying that it's better than what we had before and most of the issues folks complain about are manageable if you think about it.
Not likely to mislead me, but very likely will be taken as gospel by a computer. (which is my point) Automation is more subject to this risk than I am.
Not idiots.. Freshly minted Masters of Business Administration holders.
Wait... I repeated myself..
If they do, I'll give them two options. Either I work from home, or I'm going to start looking for alternate employement.
I actually don't find it that bad. I have a good set of headphones to cut down on sound, good music to work to and large monitors to cover my field of view. I don't find it hard to concentrate or work effectively, just crank up the tunes and go at it. It sure beats the 6' cube walls in the dark corner of the rat maze I used to have with no windows in sight for 20 yards. I felt like a caged animal with nothing to see in the last place, here I can actually look outside when I like...
I must be weird then... We've been in an open floor plan now for a year at the new digs and I actually like it. I NEVER had a window view before and I like it much better than the 6' cube walls I had before. I also like being able to see if a coworker is in the office or not at a glance and I like being able to keep up with office happenings by listening in when I want to. I also feel like it helps me keep good discipline, keeping my desk space clean and staying on task and off things like Slashdot...
I get the complaints though, they are distracting, loud and don't offer ANY privacy but I've found ways to cope. I have a set of headphones that cover my ears so I can tune out the noise. The monitors on my computers cover most of my vision area when I want.
I suppose they are not for everybody though..
If YOU change the signs, I'm not paying attention to them.. All your examples are GOVERNMENT changing the signs... That I would notice because I'd likely see the road crews out in the official government vehicles and read the news story about the regulatory changes in the press releases.
But my point is, I know the route, false signs are not likely to mislead me. A computer isn't so thoughtful about this kind of thing because it cannot consider the wider context...
For instance, I know where a bridge is under construction on my daily commute route. Last week, I was driving over the old bridge, this week the new one, though the road and signs still are up as before on the old road, only a route change has been made with some orange barrels. Next week that old bridge may be gone. I know the context of the construction effort, so I know that I will need to pay closer attention at various locations because I'm expecting the route to change. A computer doesn't have this contextual information nor does it have the reason required to think though the implications of it. I do. So if you remove those barrels, I'm not going to blindly drive the old route now, a computer likely would.
But, how many are prevented by pilots that you don't hear about? I dare say a LOT more than are caused by pilots, orders of magnitude more.
You see, nobody cares about an aircraft that has a malfunction and lands safely, unless there is some video of it. Pilots do this every day, but you never know because the passengers don't' ever know and it never gets reported because it's not newsworthy.
I was flying touch and goes in a Cessna 150 that had a flap malfunction, I commanded the flaps to go up and they didn't. This is a serious problem because a C-150 at full flaps barely, barely will climb at full throttle. I was flying at a controlled field, so I notified the tower that I had limited climb ability and would have to extend the climb out. They kept asking me if I wanted to declare an emergency, which I refused. I flew an extended pattern, landed to a full stop and when at got the airplane fixed. No report, no emergency, no paperwork, just got the aircraft fixed. This kind of thing happens all the time I say.
Reported? Yes, to the maintenance crews to get it fixed, who, might if the malfunction is out of the ordinary or happens too often, share a concern with the manufacturer or the FAA. However, you and I don't see how often this happens because it's not big news, like a pilot mistake that costs a planeload of passengers their lives.
You people don't seem to understand just how often things fail on these commercial aircraft... Important things, things that make the pilots actually have to handle the controls and fly the aircraft by hand.