Like constitutional amendments don't get debated or changed.... Or is the 18th amendment is still in force? If it is, I need to report myself to Elliot Ness..
Yea, this is apparently a 2018 election issue for democrats now... I doubt this hysteria can be kept up long enough but have at it. Good luck democratic boys, Girls and Nancy P, you are going to need it if this is all you got for now.
I support Net Neutrality but the FCC was the wrong place to enact those rules.
Yes, I wondered why this was placed in the hands of the FCC to begin with.
Because the democrats couldn't do it any other way.... Congress wasn't controlled by them and Obama couldn't/wouldn't work with the Republicans on this (or pretty much anything else for that matter).
This is what "I have a phone and a pen" governance by a president looks like....
Unless they have a couple of Republicans who are willing to go against Trump and the FCC this ain't gonna happen.
A few? A bunch! You will need 12 Republicans to agree to this, PLUS Trump (OR 18 if you don't get Trump).
This will have to be a law... Meaning it will have to be a bill, passed by both the house and Senate and signed by the president. In the Senate, this will require a number of cloture votes which require 60 Senators and a veto override will take 66. No way you get that many Republican Senators to vote this way.
Now we find out exactly how unified the GOP is. Spoiler: They're not unified at all. If it's a simple majority I think Ajit Pai is going to have his ass handed to him by Congress, and rightly so.
I person can dream I guess. What you going to do? Impeach the guy? Good luck, you are going to need it.
Yep.. Sort of revoking the FCC's rule making ability, this will not (and shouldn't) get reversed. Not worth the Senate's time... Keep going on the judicial appointments people!
What you describe isn't "due process" but more like defamation. Problem is defamation is hard to get a judgment for in the USA, AND this lawsuit doesn't claim it.
I think their lawsuit is just a PR ploy at best, or a hail Mary attempt at worst. Either way, it's going to be a loss...
A) The correction systems at the state and federal level would love to jam them. Unfortunately, that is against FCC regulations and thus against federal law.
B) The femtocell plan may or may not be feasible and/or legal and could be challenged on a variety of grounds by the guards, contractors, etc.
C) Triangulation only works well for stationary objects or moving objects that are easily identifiable at distance. Trying to match a call to a specific inmate through triangulation would be effectively impossible.
Why wouldn't you just monitor calls originating from in or around the prison? Surely the triangulation should be accurate enough to winnow out the "outliers" beyond the fence. Then you just get an agreement from *everybody* who carries a cell onto the premises to allow monitoring and a standing warrant for any calls involving a phone within the gates.
By the way... For your point A, this is not exactly true. The FCC has exceptions to this no jammer rule for law enforcement and security use. I'm sure the FCC would allow a jammer to be used in and around a prison, especially if care was taken to limit the geographic area it was effective.
I'm pretty sure triangulation speed isn't an issue. What would be the issue is resolution of a location due to the uncertainty of the bearing measurements from multiple stations. Doing the geometric calculations are not all that difficult or time consuming for an automated process
Matching a cell call to an inmate would take some investigative work for sure, but just KNOWING there is a phone to be found and a general location where it was when used is a huge thing to know. It's like telling me there IS a needle in that one haystack, and not just in a field of hay. Yea, it doesn't get you the needle, but it sure narrows the field.
Trump is only preventing Federal agencies from using Kaspersky Lab's offerings, he's not keeping them from selling to other US customers. You can still buy their products in the USA. I realize that this Federal ban does cut into their market share, but how will suing fix this?
How do they have a lawsuit? Can I now sue the Federal Government if they refuse to use *my* software product?
You cannot sue city hall, Kaspersky Lab's needs to file that suit in the circular file marked "trash" because it's going to be dumped by the courts eventually and turn into a waste of good money.
I don' think Trump cares because it doesn't matter..
IF you somehow think that having access to the road networks in China is of some importance to the USA, I can assure you that it's not. Most folks in Chia don't have the resources to buy a car to start with and most that do live in the city and don't need one. Self Driving cars are of almost zero importance to them. They won't buy them, so who cares about this?
Now if you think there is some military reason to have China's road networks clearly mapped and Trump should care for this reason... I'm willing to bet that the military already knows what it needs to know about this...
So that leaves only one possible reason you would bash Trump on this.. You think the USA should be involved in trying to check the Chinese and your perceived abuses of civil rights. I dare say that Trump's perspective on this is pretty clear from his campaign rhetoric, where he doesn't think the USA is the world's police force unless it involves a compelling national interest. I don't see a compelling national interest here..
So why are you bashing Trump on this issue?
Let me guess.. You are sore he won the election and is now president...
How do I know this? Because I live in TX where they are building houses and apartment buildings as fast as they can throw them up.
That seems like trouble waiting to happen. Oh wait, Harvey already did. Expect more.
Reminds me of Homestead after Hugo. Of course, they've rebuilt, but I know a dozen people who left those communities because they were so soulless and lacking in neighborliness.
While a lot of Huston and the low lands to the south west got hammered in places, the damage was pretty light for most of Huston for the most part. Most of the issues in Huston where flooding from all the rain, which was limited to specific areas. Most of Huston didn't have an issue once the water went down.
Some of you may have noticed that California is, has been, and likely will continue to be on fire. This is driving people out of the state.
I hate to burst your little bubble, but folks are not leaving California because Hollywood is on fire...They are leaving because it's too expensive.
Folks are leaving states like IL, NY and CA because of local and state tax rates and because their employers are moving to places like TX and FL where the taxes are lower and housing prices are not crazy high.
How do I know this? Because I live in TX where they are building houses and apartment buildings as fast as they can throw them up. I can see 5 apartment complexes with over 200 units each being built from my office window right now and when I drive around I see a large percentage of license plates from high tax states. It's like an invasion at times.
Not that I mind.... My house's value has been increasing some 10% a year of late. Homes around here are being sold above asking price almost before they get listed. Give it another 5-7 years of this and I'll have a nice profit to help make the retirement better...
Um... In your hypothetical, Putin ordered his resources to back Trump.
Problem here is that there is more involved in this a problem for Trump. First you have to show that Putin was ordering his folks to help Trump, this story doesn't show that. THEN, Trump (or his surrogate) must have agreed to Putin doing this.
If Putin was just putting his resources to work to "hack" the election to spread FUD, but didn't care about which candidate won, Trump is clear.
If Putin was supporting Trump but no duly authorized member of the Trump campaign authorized it (or asked for it), Trump is in the clear.
If you cannot prove all three of these things, Trump is in the clear.
So you have to have more than this story... Keep looking sir..
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Sarcasm is lost on you I guess... Who would use a tesla to drive Uber? It would be a Horrible business idea...
It would take 12 Republican Senators to get it to the president's desk and 18 to override the veto.
Like constitutional amendments don't get debated or changed.... Or is the 18th amendment is still in force? If it is, I need to report myself to Elliot Ness..
Yea, this is apparently a 2018 election issue for democrats now... I doubt this hysteria can be kept up long enough but have at it. Good luck democratic boys, Girls and Nancy P, you are going to need it if this is all you got for now.
I support Net Neutrality but the FCC was the wrong place to enact those rules.
Yes, I wondered why this was placed in the hands of the FCC to begin with.
Because the democrats couldn't do it any other way.... Congress wasn't controlled by them and Obama couldn't/wouldn't work with the Republicans on this (or pretty much anything else for that matter).
This is what "I have a phone and a pen" governance by a president looks like....
Unless they have a couple of Republicans who are willing to go against Trump and the FCC this ain't gonna happen.
A few? A bunch! You will need 12 Republicans to agree to this, PLUS Trump (OR 18 if you don't get Trump).
This will have to be a law... Meaning it will have to be a bill, passed by both the house and Senate and signed by the president. In the Senate, this will require a number of cloture votes which require 60 Senators and a veto override will take 66. No way you get that many Republican Senators to vote this way.
Now we find out exactly how unified the GOP is. Spoiler: They're not unified at all. If it's a simple majority I think Ajit Pai is going to have his ass handed to him by Congress, and rightly so.
I person can dream I guess. What you going to do? Impeach the guy? Good luck, you are going to need it.
The repeal will stand. #MAGA
Yep.. Sort of revoking the FCC's rule making ability, this will not (and shouldn't) get reversed. Not worth the Senate's time... Keep going on the judicial appointments people!
What about my Uber business? I don't have a charger at home guys but I got to Uber to eat!
What you describe isn't "due process" but more like defamation. Problem is defamation is hard to get a judgment for in the USA, AND this lawsuit doesn't claim it.
I think their lawsuit is just a PR ploy at best, or a hail Mary attempt at worst. Either way, it's going to be a loss...
Trump is not saying they cannot SELL they can still sell this stuff... He's only saying that the Federal government may not BUY the software.
If you want to run out and buy or sell copies of this software, it's still perfectly legal for citizens or companies to do so.
This lawsuit is bogus, frivolous and a waste of time and money. Nobody's due process rights have been violated here.
At best, this is but a PR stunt....
They are claiming that the government didn't give them "due process" with the federal ban. Tell me, what "process" are they entitled too here?
A) The correction systems at the state and federal level would love to jam them. Unfortunately, that is against FCC regulations and thus against federal law. B) The femtocell plan may or may not be feasible and/or legal and could be challenged on a variety of grounds by the guards, contractors, etc. C) Triangulation only works well for stationary objects or moving objects that are easily identifiable at distance. Trying to match a call to a specific inmate through triangulation would be effectively impossible.
Why wouldn't you just monitor calls originating from in or around the prison? Surely the triangulation should be accurate enough to winnow out the "outliers" beyond the fence. Then you just get an agreement from *everybody* who carries a cell onto the premises to allow monitoring and a standing warrant for any calls involving a phone within the gates.
By the way... For your point A, this is not exactly true. The FCC has exceptions to this no jammer rule for law enforcement and security use. I'm sure the FCC would allow a jammer to be used in and around a prison, especially if care was taken to limit the geographic area it was effective.
I'm pretty sure triangulation speed isn't an issue. What would be the issue is resolution of a location due to the uncertainty of the bearing measurements from multiple stations. Doing the geometric calculations are not all that difficult or time consuming for an automated process
Matching a cell call to an inmate would take some investigative work for sure, but just KNOWING there is a phone to be found and a general location where it was when used is a huge thing to know. It's like telling me there IS a needle in that one haystack, and not just in a field of hay. Yea, it doesn't get you the needle, but it sure narrows the field.
But Trump works for Putin. why would Putin sue him?!
Why wouldn't he?
It's a lawsuit that's going nowhere anyway... Unless the government agrees to be sued, this will be dismissed.
Trump is only preventing Federal agencies from using Kaspersky Lab's offerings, he's not keeping them from selling to other US customers. You can still buy their products in the USA. I realize that this Federal ban does cut into their market share, but how will suing fix this?
How do they have a lawsuit? Can I now sue the Federal Government if they refuse to use *my* software product?
You cannot sue city hall, Kaspersky Lab's needs to file that suit in the circular file marked "trash" because it's going to be dumped by the courts eventually and turn into a waste of good money.
I don' think Trump cares because it doesn't matter..
IF you somehow think that having access to the road networks in China is of some importance to the USA, I can assure you that it's not. Most folks in Chia don't have the resources to buy a car to start with and most that do live in the city and don't need one. Self Driving cars are of almost zero importance to them. They won't buy them, so who cares about this?
Now if you think there is some military reason to have China's road networks clearly mapped and Trump should care for this reason... I'm willing to bet that the military already knows what it needs to know about this...
So that leaves only one possible reason you would bash Trump on this.. You think the USA should be involved in trying to check the Chinese and your perceived abuses of civil rights. I dare say that Trump's perspective on this is pretty clear from his campaign rhetoric, where he doesn't think the USA is the world's police force unless it involves a compelling national interest. I don't see a compelling national interest here..
So why are you bashing Trump on this issue?
Let me guess.. You are sore he won the election and is now president...
Visitation is to the right.... Everybody else just left...
People are dying to get into this drive though...
How do I know this? Because I live in TX where they are building houses and apartment buildings as fast as they can throw them up.
That seems like trouble waiting to happen. Oh wait, Harvey already did. Expect more.
Reminds me of Homestead after Hugo. Of course, they've rebuilt, but I know a dozen people who left those communities because they were so soulless and lacking in neighborliness.
While a lot of Huston and the low lands to the south west got hammered in places, the damage was pretty light for most of Huston for the most part. Most of the issues in Huston where flooding from all the rain, which was limited to specific areas. Most of Huston didn't have an issue once the water went down.
Last hurricane that went close to Dallas, was a tropical depression by the time it got here and dumped a bunch of rain w/o much in the way of wind.
Some of you may have noticed that California is, has been, and likely will continue to be on fire. This is driving people out of the state.
I hate to burst your little bubble, but folks are not leaving California because Hollywood is on fire...They are leaving because it's too expensive.
Folks are leaving states like IL, NY and CA because of local and state tax rates and because their employers are moving to places like TX and FL where the taxes are lower and housing prices are not crazy high.
How do I know this? Because I live in TX where they are building houses and apartment buildings as fast as they can throw them up. I can see 5 apartment complexes with over 200 units each being built from my office window right now and when I drive around I see a large percentage of license plates from high tax states. It's like an invasion at times.
Not that I mind.... My house's value has been increasing some 10% a year of late. Homes around here are being sold above asking price almost before they get listed. Give it another 5-7 years of this and I'll have a nice profit to help make the retirement better...
And.. Have you considered what situation we'd be in without a military?
Oh yeah, Canada's totally going to invade us. Next thing you know, we'll be speaking Canadian French!
LOL, Where do you think Canada would be without our military then? Why in the same place you fool, only they'd be speaking Russian by now.
I thought it was traded by Clinton for a sweetheart deal for a speech by Bill to Moscow bankers and a sizable donation to the Clinton Foundation.
Um... In your hypothetical, Putin ordered his resources to back Trump.
Problem here is that there is more involved in this a problem for Trump. First you have to show that Putin was ordering his folks to help Trump, this story doesn't show that. THEN, Trump (or his surrogate) must have agreed to Putin doing this.
If Putin was just putting his resources to work to "hack" the election to spread FUD, but didn't care about which candidate won, Trump is clear.
If Putin was supporting Trump but no duly authorized member of the Trump campaign authorized it (or asked for it), Trump is in the clear.
If you cannot prove all three of these things, Trump is in the clear.
So you have to have more than this story... Keep looking sir..
Trump supporters: dumber than cattle
When all else fails, insult your opponents en mass because that's a good way to get them to vote for your ideas.
Who's dumb? I think you are all hat and no cattle myself..