The 4th amendment does not apply. As with every other country, the US considers domestic law to only apply when you are inside the country. If you have not yet cleared customs, you are technically not in the country. Therefore, you do not benefit from the protections of domestic law. This may seem like quibbling, but it is how every country controls its borders.
Whether or not such searches make any sense is another question altogether.
I don't know about you, the courts or DHS but,
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized. Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution
Seems pretty clear to me, I don't see how they get a way with it. Inspecting a vehicle or person to verify accuracy of customs declarations and duties is one thing, but seizing computers and digital devices to search for criminal activity is beyond that scope.
Hilary is unlikely to be fired unless it's something so bad it'll make her unelectable after Obama is term-limited, would a Clinton vs. Palin election be interesting?
I'm call BS here, some of my uber-liberal acquaintances had been fawning over Obama around the time of the beginning of Bush's 2nd term, any appearance of Obama being just a face in the crowd was well orchestrated.
Actually the article was about Google getting out of China, so my "get out of Dodge" was posted, I assumed you would take it in that context, rather than Google + several billion people. I wish them well but I'm glad I'm not them, If Latif is correct they are in for a hell of a ride.
Personally I think China in it's present form is toast, first the Himalayan glaciers are receding precipitously due to Black soot particulates,which will devastate the Asian watershed, we're heading into 30 years of mini-ice age, Beijing was hit by its heaviest snowfall in 60 years so Asian agriculture may be in for quite a hard time. Cold, thirsty and hungry people get mean, and some kind of massive change is coming as far as China, the magic eight ball says "it's a good time to get the hell out of Dodge".
The one that makes me laugh the most is a little girl that's "shy" and was diagnosed as Autistic. She was on medication for it and after two years a psychiatrist told her parents the medication was effective and there daughter was becoming much more "normal" in her development later her parents found out that out she had been spitting the pills out, throwing them away and hiding them in a compartment of her jewelry box.
There is no medication for Autism, hopefully it was for a comorbid condition.
The Indians had a saying "Don't judge a man by his Children, judge him by his Grand-Children.", I'd have to say my generation came up short by that standard. Kids need discipline, firm, fair and parents that lead by example. Kids are best disciplined within clearly defined behavioral limits by the application of both positive reinforcement for good behavior, and negative reinforcement for bad behavior. How much positive and negative reinforcement has to be appropriate for the individual temperament of the child. Rewarding mediocrity, is as bad as excessive punishment trivial offenses. Don't try to micro-manage children's behavior, but keep them within behavioral boundaries appropriate for the environment.
Aptera had designs for a diesel/electric hybrid, but had to drop it because (if I remember correctly) California calculates Diesel Emissions based on a per gallon basis rather than a per mile basis. The gasoline/electric aptera should get 130MPH on gasoline only ( the volt is 50MPG) and 96wHr/mile vs. the Volts 250wHr/mile. The Opel Flextreme should be a diesel hybrid on the Volt chassis/drivetrain.
I don't think medical science can "define" autism as uncurable, though it might currently list it in that category. I disagree that the concept of curing it is nonsensical, but it would certainly be along the lines of "curing" amputation, i.e. it would take some serious neurological rewiring to accomplish what could reasonably be considered a cure. And that is certainly beyond the pale of current medicine, but at least for the milder cases like my son's, I have some hope that (should he need and desire it) such a treatment would be available within his lifetime.
I hope you realize that talking about "cures" scares the shit out of most people on the spectrum, at least those who aren't wrestling with suicidal depression. To some one on the spectrum, being autistic or an aspie is a fundamental part of their personality, the amount of "rewiring" required to cure "it" would be psychological suicide, you would be a different person. Sure if there was a was to ameliorate some of the disabilities without muting the superabilities too much, the community might move that way, but I don't think it's possible. Do we talk about curing Einstein, Newton or Edison?
I find it even more amusing that there is no worry about the privacy of adults. Isn't their privacy being abused by these full-body scanners?
Why would anyone have an expectation of privacy when they are in a public place? If your in public anybody can take your picture, there's no differentiation between Visible light, IR, thermal or millimeter, photons are photons. Some places have various laws limiting photography such as some states have up-skirt laws, but that's about it.
The premise is that the pedophiles once aroused will demand more and where there is demand, there will come supply that will eventually cause real harm to real children. Seems the real problem lies less on the demand side than on the supply side where suppliers compete by trying to "outdo" each other.
The United States entered the war to prevent a communist takeover of South Vietnam as part of their wider strategy of containment. Military advisors arrived beginning in 1950. U.S. involvement escalated in the early 1960s, with U.S. troop levels tripling in 1961 and tripling again in 1962.[13] U.S. combat units were deployed beginning in 1965. Operations spanned borders, with Laos and Cambodia heavily bombed. Involvement peaked in 1968 at the time of the Tet Offensive. After this, U.S. ground forces were withdrawn as part of a policy called Vietnamization. Despite the Paris Peace Accords, signed by all parties in January 1973, fighting continued. Vietnam War
We got into it under President Eisenhower/VP Nixon (republicans), followed by John F. Kennedy/Lyndon B. Johnson, Lyndon B. Johnson/Hubert Humphrey, Nixon/Agnew; Nixon finally got us out of it in his second term of presidency
Now this is the first time I regret, not being Goatse. ^^ But I think of at least making it look like a huge buttplug. ^^
I've always thought that the ability of terrorists to smuggle explosives would always be greater than our ability to detect them, but the mental picture of a terrorist getting a 2 liter pop bottle full of explosives being pulled out of his ass by the bomb-squad is strangely satisfying.
android,: a mobile robot usually with a human form, Etymology: Late Greek androeids manlike, from Greek andr- + -oeids -oid Date: circa 1751,android
and
nexus 2 : a connected group or series, Etymology: Latin, from nectere to bind nexus
making both common word and furhter more the USPTO lists 12 trademarks for android, one of which is
Services IC 009. US 021 023 026 036 038. G & S: mobile phones; operating system software; software for use in developing, executing, and running other software on mobile devices, computers, computer networks, and global communication networks; computer software development tools; computer software for use in transmitting and receiving data over computer networks and global communication networks; computer software for managing communications and data exchange among and between mobile devices and desktop computers; computer middleware, namely, software that mediates between the operating system of a mobile device and the application software of a mobile device; computer application software for mobile phones (APPLICANT) Google Inc. CORPORATION DELAWARE 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway Mountain View CALIFORNIA 94043
Real greenhouses work very differently than atmospheric "greenhouse" gases. An actual greenhouse warms because the glazing stops the convecting hot air, not by absorbing or blocking IR energy. This is easy to prove, all you have to do is build two model greenhouses, make one out of window glass that absorbs IR and make one out of a crystallized salt sheet that transmits IR, after exposure to sunlight both will reach the same temperature.
While the large amount of year-to-year variability in global temperatures seen in the above plot makes it difficult to provide meaningful statements about long-term temperature trends in the context of global warming, the running 25-month average suggests there has been no net warming in the last 11 years or so. December 2009 UAH Global Temperature Update +0.28 Deg. C
I'm not surprised, these guys are so up to the necks in secrecy day in and day out, they almost get an all day woody when they can share interesting things with the people who pay there salaries.
If people are willing to kill for territory and nationalism now, imagine how much more aggressive starving people will be. This is what worries me. Not the immediate effects of climate change, but their secondary effects on international relations.
News flash people are starving right now, if we have less money to feed them due to fighting climate change more will die, if climate change reduces productive crop land more will die; we can't afford to go off half-cocked based on results from sparse data, improperly homogenized and fed into shoddy computer models.
It dosnt matter how, why, whether it was done for the best reasons, it is just plain wrong. If you go further and look at the CRU code, it is clearly fraudulent....
It dosnt matter "this is all done in an automated manner" if the program was fraudulant, or even just wrong.
do you mean code like this briff_sep98_e.pro: ; ; PLOTS ‘ALL’ REGION MXD timeseries from age banded and from hugershoff ; standardised datasets. ; Reads Harry’s regional timeseries and outputs the 1600-1992 portion ; with missing values set appropriately. Uses mxd, and just the ; “all band” timeseries;****** APPLIES A VERY ARTIFICIAL CORRECTION FOR DECLINE********* or maybe like this pro maps12,yrstart,doinfill=doinfill ; ; Plots 24 yearly maps of calibrated (PCR-infilled or not) MXD reconstructions ; of growing season temperatures. Uses “corrected” MXD – but shouldn’t usually ; plot past 1960 because these will be artificially adjusted to look closer to ; the real temperatures.
or even this ; Computes regressions on full, high and low pass Esper et al. (2002) series, ; anomalies against full NH temperatures and other series. ; CALIBRATES IT AGAINST THE LAND-ONLY TEMPERATURES NORTH OF 20 N ; ; Specify period over which to compute the regressions (stop in 1960 to avoid ; the decline;
The data that the scientific consensus used is bogus, they define a day's average temperature as half the difference between the daily maximum and the daily minimum. The only reliable data comes from satellites. No one is arguing that there isn't a link between CO2 and global temperatures, yet I will not let myself believe that this so called consensus really believes that decisions about the fate of mankind is based on such a sparse dataset analyzed by computer code that is at best pathetically sloppy and at worst hard-coded to give the desired result irregardless of the input data. Of course I could be wrong and well educated people really can be that evil.
288a. Privileges, exemptions, and immunities of international organizations (c) Property and assets of international organizations, wherever located and by whomsoever held, shall be immune from search, unless such immunity be expressly waived, and from confiscation. The archives of international organizations shall be inviolable.
288d. Privileges, exemptions, and immunities of officers, employees, and their families; waiver (b) Representatives of foreign governments in or to international organizations and officers and employees of such organizations shall be immune from suit and legal process relating to acts performed by them in their official capacity and falling within their functions as such representatives, officers, or employees except insofar as such immunity may be waived by the foreign government or international organization concerned.
288e. Personnel entitled to benefits (b) Deportation of undesirables Should the Secretary of State determine that the continued presence in the United States of any person entitled to the benefits of this subchapter is not desirable, he shall so inform the foreign government or international organization concerned, as the case may be, and after such person shall have had a reasonable length of time, to be determined by the Secretary of State, to depart from the United States, he shall cease to be entitled to such benefits. (c) Extent of diplomatic status No person shall, by reason of the provisions of this subchapter, be considered as receiving diplomatic status or as receiving any of the privileges incident thereto other than such as are specifically set forth herein.
It's nice that they don't have diplomatic status, but that's pretty much a moot point since we can't serve them processes or sue them, all we seem to be able to do is tell them to leave. Sure looks like parking on the right is now parking on the left to me, I'd have expected something like this to be more Nixon's style.
The orbit has decayed since the binary system was initially discovered, in precise agreement with the loss of energy due to gravitational waves predicted by Einstein's General Theory of Relativity. Hulse-Taylor binary
Cool, maybe in a couple billion years we'll finally know what happens when two waltzing blackhole kiss each other.
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The 4th amendment does not apply. As with every other country, the US considers domestic law to only apply when you are inside the country. If you have not yet cleared customs, you are technically not in the country. Therefore, you do not benefit from the protections of domestic law. This may seem like quibbling, but it is how every country controls its borders.
It is not only laptops: many people have also been required to show the photos on their cameras, as well as the contents of other electronic devices.
Whether or not such searches make any sense is another question altogether.
I don't know about you, the courts or DHS but,
Seems pretty clear to me, I don't see how they get a way with it. Inspecting a vehicle or person to verify accuracy of customs declarations and duties is one thing, but seizing computers and digital devices to search for criminal activity is beyond that scope.
Hilary is unlikely to be fired unless it's something so bad it'll make her unelectable after Obama is term-limited, would a Clinton vs. Palin election be interesting?
I'm call BS here, some of my uber-liberal acquaintances had been fawning over Obama around the time of the beginning of Bush's 2nd term, any appearance of Obama being just a face in the crowd was well orchestrated.
Actually the article was about Google getting out of China, so my "get out of Dodge" was posted, I assumed you would take it in that context, rather than Google + several billion people. I wish them well but I'm glad I'm not them, If Latif is correct they are in for a hell of a ride.
Personally I think China in it's present form is toast, first the Himalayan glaciers are receding precipitously due to Black soot particulates,which will devastate the Asian watershed, we're heading into 30 years of mini-ice age, Beijing was hit by its heaviest snowfall in 60 years so Asian agriculture may be in for quite a hard time. Cold, thirsty and hungry people get mean, and some kind of massive change is coming as far as China, the magic eight ball says "it's a good time to get the hell out of Dodge".
The one that makes me laugh the most is a little girl that's "shy" and was diagnosed as Autistic. She was on medication for it and after two years a psychiatrist told her parents the medication was effective and there daughter was becoming much more "normal" in her development later her parents found out that out she had been spitting the pills out, throwing them away and hiding them in a compartment of her jewelry box.
There is no medication for Autism, hopefully it was for a comorbid condition.
The Indians had a saying "Don't judge a man by his Children, judge him by his Grand-Children.", I'd have to say my generation came up short by that standard. Kids need discipline, firm, fair and parents that lead by example. Kids are best disciplined within clearly defined behavioral limits by the application of both positive reinforcement for good behavior, and negative reinforcement for bad behavior. How much positive and negative reinforcement has to be appropriate for the individual temperament of the child. Rewarding mediocrity, is as bad as excessive punishment trivial offenses. Don't try to micro-manage children's behavior, but keep them within behavioral boundaries appropriate for the environment.
Aptera had designs for a diesel/electric hybrid, but had to drop it because (if I remember correctly) California calculates Diesel Emissions based on a per gallon basis rather than a per mile basis. The gasoline/electric aptera should get 130MPH on gasoline only ( the volt is 50MPG) and 96wHr/mile vs. the Volts 250wHr/mile. The Opel Flextreme should be a diesel hybrid on the Volt chassis/drivetrain.
I don't think medical science can "define" autism as uncurable, though it might currently list it in that category. I disagree that the concept of curing it is nonsensical, but it would certainly be along the lines of "curing" amputation, i.e. it would take some serious neurological rewiring to accomplish what could reasonably be considered a cure. And that is certainly beyond the pale of current medicine, but at least for the milder cases like my son's, I have some hope that (should he need and desire it) such a treatment would be available within his lifetime.
I hope you realize that talking about "cures" scares the shit out of most people on the spectrum, at least those who aren't wrestling with suicidal depression. To some one on the spectrum, being autistic or an aspie is a fundamental part of their personality, the amount of "rewiring" required to cure "it" would be psychological suicide, you would be a different person. Sure if there was a was to ameliorate some of the disabilities without muting the superabilities too much, the community might move that way, but I don't think it's possible. Do we talk about curing Einstein, Newton or Edison?
I find it even more amusing that there is no worry about the privacy of adults. Isn't their privacy being abused by these full-body scanners?
Why would anyone have an expectation of privacy when they are in a public place? If your in public anybody can take your picture, there's no differentiation between Visible light, IR, thermal or millimeter, photons are photons. Some places have various laws limiting photography such as some states have up-skirt laws, but that's about it.
The premise is that the pedophiles once aroused will demand more and where there is demand, there will come supply that will eventually cause real harm to real children. Seems the real problem lies less on the demand side than on the supply side where suppliers compete by trying to "outdo" each other.
Well actually
We got into it under President Eisenhower/VP Nixon (republicans), followed by John F. Kennedy/Lyndon B. Johnson, Lyndon B. Johnson/Hubert Humphrey, Nixon/Agnew; Nixon finally got us out of it in his second term of presidency
Carbon fiber or graphite should work and it would be easier to work into fabric.
Now this is the first time I regret, not being Goatse. ^^
But I think of at least making it look like a huge buttplug. ^^
I've always thought that the ability of terrorists to smuggle explosives would always be greater than our ability to detect them, but the mental picture of a terrorist getting a 2 liter pop bottle full of explosives being pulled out of his ass by the bomb-squad is strangely satisfying.
You perv, I bet you sat in the balcony so you could look down Snow White's cleavage!
Considering that
and
making both common word and furhter more the USPTO lists 12 trademarks for android, one of which is
It doesn't look good for the estates suit.
Real greenhouses work very differently than atmospheric "greenhouse" gases. An actual greenhouse warms because the glazing stops the convecting hot air, not by absorbing or blocking IR energy. This is easy to prove, all you have to do is build two model greenhouses, make one out of window glass that absorbs IR and make one out of a crystallized salt sheet that transmits IR, after exposure to sunlight both will reach the same temperature.
One would think that Roy Spencer has enough stature to be considered a serious scientist, you might find this piece interesting, Global Warming as a Natural Response to Cloud Changes Associated with the Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO)
I'm not surprised, these guys are so up to the necks in secrecy day in and day out, they almost get an all day woody when they can share interesting things with the people who pay there salaries.
If people are willing to kill for territory and nationalism now, imagine how much more aggressive starving people will be. This is what worries me. Not the immediate effects of climate change, but their secondary effects on international relations.
News flash people are starving right now, if we have less money to feed them due to fighting climate change more will die, if climate change reduces productive crop land more will die; we can't afford to go off half-cocked based on results from sparse data, improperly homogenized and fed into shoddy computer models.
It dosnt matter how, why, whether it was done for the best reasons, it is just plain wrong. If you go further and look at the CRU code, it is clearly fraudulent. ...
It dosnt matter "this is all done in an automated manner" if the program was fraudulant, or even just wrong.
do you mean code like this
;****** APPLIES A VERY ARTIFICIAL CORRECTION FOR DECLINE*********
;
briff_sep98_e.pro:
;
; PLOTS ‘ALL’ REGION MXD timeseries from age banded and from hugershoff
; standardised datasets.
; Reads Harry’s regional timeseries and outputs the 1600-1992 portion
; with missing values set appropriately. Uses mxd, and just the
; “all band” timeseries
or maybe like this
pro maps12,yrstart,doinfill=doinfill
;
; Plots 24 yearly maps of calibrated (PCR-infilled or not) MXD reconstructions
; of growing season temperatures. Uses “corrected” MXD – but shouldn’t usually
; plot past 1960 because these will be artificially adjusted to look closer to
; the real temperatures.
or even this
; Computes regressions on full, high and low pass Esper et al. (2002) series,
; anomalies against full NH temperatures and other series.
; CALIBRATES IT AGAINST THE LAND-ONLY TEMPERATURES NORTH OF 20 N
;
; Specify period over which to compute the regressions (stop in 1960 to avoid
; the decline
I'd say its leaning toward fraudulant
The data that the scientific consensus used is bogus, they define a day's average temperature as half the difference between the daily maximum and the daily minimum. The only reliable data comes from satellites. No one is arguing that there isn't a link between CO2 and global temperatures, yet I will not let myself believe that this so called consensus really believes that decisions about the fate of mankind is based on such a sparse dataset analyzed by computer code that is at best pathetically sloppy and at worst hard-coded to give the desired result irregardless of the input data. Of course I could be wrong and well educated people really can be that evil.
It's nice that they don't have diplomatic status, but that's pretty much a moot point since we can't serve them processes or sue them, all we seem to be able to do is tell them to leave. Sure looks like parking on the right is now parking on the left to me, I'd have expected something like this to be more Nixon's style.
Cool, maybe in a couple billion years we'll finally know what happens when two waltzing blackhole kiss each other.
,that you traded for your chaotic-evil +9 wizard D & D character for.