in National Guard civil disturbance training they stress grabbing a news crew and make sure they get plenty of things to film because stripping anonymity is the quickest way to defuse a potential riot without getting people hurt or arrested.
This is all temporary, the states are losing boatloads of fuel taxes so they'll be switching over to a usage taxation system and that will entail having vehicle enabled with mesh networking. The next step will be the steering wheel reads the RFID chip in your hand and tells the cops whose driving as well. If you've been naughty, Onstar will lock you seat belt and shut off your engine when it's convenient for the officers to pick you up.
What kind of retarded beaurocrats are there that are so slow that you can drive around 3 weeks without plates?
the typical kind.
I can go to the car dealer buy the car, pay the taxes, show the insurance, and they send in the paperwork and give me a temporary tag. The real tag shows up in a week or so in the mail, longer if they are busy. Getting the real tag is a lower priority than getting the vehicle insured and registered and the taxes and fees collected. If I go to Canada and buy a car there and import it back to the US things are a bit more complicated but not much, and there are some taxes you can avoid one time, especially if the car was built in the US but sold in Canada.
Do you honestly believe that they have the computer storage at their disposal to store that amount of data, or if they did they'd waste it storing license plates number and time-location data?
Our state is so broke right now that they will not pay the state police officers overtime for court appearances, which means that they either have to pull officers off the road to go to court or have them stay on the road and miss court dates. In the US we have a constitutional right to face our accusers, so if an officer doesn't make the court date, it's an automatic dismissal, so it's stupid to not take it to court right now.
Our state has a no-fault system and my wife totaled out her car rear-ending a county vehicle with broken tail lights. the occupations tried suing for back and retinal damage and the insurance company not only prevailed but won attorney's fees; they payed off the car without a seconds hesitation. Less than 6 months later my son borrowed our truck while we were on vacation spunout on some black ice and flipped it into the ditch and was thrown out and broke his neck and was temporarily paralysed, after all of that our rates hadn't even gone up!
Chiropractors often pay lawyer's a referral fee for sending accident "victims" to them as well as frequently getting expert witness payment for depositions.
how is have your vehicle's license plate read an invasion of privacy? Your in public, not in private at best they are reducing anonymity not privacy. An other point is they can't tell if the vehicle is being operated without insurance, only if the vehicle has no insurance policy, I maybe borrowing someone else's uninsured vehicle and my insurance is covering my public liability or public damage incurred during the operation.
We've got a no-fault system, my insurance company fixes my car, his fixes his; other than possibly suing to cover a deductible I don't normally care about the other's insurance status.
I was going to say some smart-assed but I just checked and my driver's license is expired; guess I'll have to walk over and get it renewed during lunch after I ride my bycycle to work.
they're using Patriot Act stuff now for drug investigations
That was one of the intentions all along, you just had your alternate reality filter on. Narcotic dealers frequently use terrorist tactics to defend their turf. Narco-terrorism is one of the major destabilizing forces in the western hemisphere, it's not about political or religious philosophies, it's about the money.
a prosecute could easily argue that do that would be "obstruction of justice" a felony that turns a $150.00 ticket into 2 years in prison, 2 years on parole, and of course that will cost you at least $1200.00 (24 monthly visits at $50.00 a visit) and likely a $1000.00 fine to boot.
While i agree that all of your examples would be painful, the simple fact is when you are out in public you have no expectation of privacy. Too many people equate anonymity with privacy.
you have to secure those rights before you distribute, even back to the original distributor. If Apple records said to me "'Hey, could I take a copy of your 'Sgt Pepper', we lost our copy and know you have it on vinyl." I'd have to say "I could make a copy for you but I don't have distribution rights so sorry about your luck". At that point they'd either assign me limited distribution rights and a reasonable coping fee or they'd have to eat shit and bark at the moon PERIOD. Considering that they sue people for outrageous amounts of money on tenuous and bully children, single mothers, and people in wheelchairs my reasonable coping fee would be considerable.
In a criminal case guilt has to be proven beyond a reasonable doubt and the lawyers will drone on and on about what reasonable doubt is and isn't, but basically the jury has to be 100% convinced it's reasonable. DNA evidence may statistically show a person is matched to a probability of 1 in 100 million and a jury except that expecting two people in 100 million to have their DNA match in one case to be an unreasonable occurrence, but when testing the entire population it would be expected. In a civil case the standard is a preponderance of the evidence, the jury has to be convinced more than 50%
What's always stick in my throat is that you've purchased the rights to posses a copy in addition to the physical media, if the media becomes damaged you shouldn't have to repurchase the rights but only the media. Many MPAA distributers honor this to some extent I've yet to see any RIAA member do the same.
Lawyers in these cases have argued that "making available is the same as distributing,"
The lawyers are wrong in a civil case some proof is needed so the song actually needs to be downloaded and tested to insure it's what the offering parties are actually purporting it to be.
that a single shared song is worth hundreds of thousands of dollars
no they are actually arguing that the exclusive right to distribute is worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. I'd bet that the performing artists have to have a clause in their contracts to be able to sell CD's at their concerts. the labels would be happy to have a song be worthless as long as the got their distribution fees for it!
It's time to take back ownership of our network, our computers, our rights to fair use and our right to "progress of science and useful arts" by taking back ownership of the related symbols. All of them. Where the constitution reads "securing for limited times" the framers did not intend for it to extend to over 100 years.
yeah that's much too long, most stuf is pathetically obsolete long before it's copyrights or patents expire, perhaps some stiff maintenance fess would insure that patents and copyrights are abandoned into the public domain as they fall into disuse, perhaps a percentage of average gross revenue would let the little guys still be players and get their foot in the door, yet keep the big guys from bullying a market for a century.
yes you are wrong, I think the lower limit is 7 notes for some reason. In fact with a 150 year duration on copyright song writers are either going to be licensing musical phrases to other song writers or we are going to run out of new music.
I can name that song in 16 bits or less! Seriously I've heard that 7 notes are the minimum for copyright "Infringement"; but the truth is with the duration of copyright protection, and the number of combinations of notes that will sound correct together are going to run out faster than addresses in IPv4.
a cobolt phosphate salt in the solution isn't that complicated, there are tons of researchers playing with this as we speak, once MIT get their patent granted, the other researchers will be going though it with a fine toothed comb in the hopes they've found something that can extend the MIT patent.
[sarcasm]A Hellfire Guided Missile fired from a predator drone, yeah that's about as accurate as German V1 fired at England![/sarcasm] The truth is with GPS, weather satellites laser, range finders an fire direction computers that are actual computers rather than a protector and a look-up firing table our unguided projectile are more accurate than you'd believe possible.
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in National Guard civil disturbance training they stress grabbing a news crew and make sure they get plenty of things to film because stripping anonymity is the quickest way to defuse a potential riot without getting people hurt or arrested.
This is all temporary, the states are losing boatloads of fuel taxes so they'll be switching over to a usage taxation system and that will entail having vehicle enabled with mesh networking. The next step will be the steering wheel reads the RFID chip in your hand and tells the cops whose driving as well. If you've been naughty, Onstar will lock you seat belt and shut off your engine when it's convenient for the officers to pick you up.
What kind of retarded beaurocrats are there that are so slow that you can drive around 3 weeks without plates?
the typical kind.
I can go to the car dealer buy the car, pay the taxes, show the insurance, and they send in the paperwork and give me a temporary tag. The real tag shows up in a week or so in the mail, longer if they are busy. Getting the real tag is a lower priority than getting the vehicle insured and registered and the taxes and fees collected. If I go to Canada and buy a car there and import it back to the US things are a bit more complicated but not much, and there are some taxes you can avoid one time, especially if the car was built in the US but sold in Canada.
Do you honestly believe that they have the computer storage at their disposal to store that amount of data, or if they did they'd waste it storing license plates number and time-location data?
Our state is so broke right now that they will not pay the state police officers overtime for court appearances, which means that they either have to pull officers off the road to go to court or have them stay on the road and miss court dates. In the US we have a constitutional right to face our accusers, so if an officer doesn't make the court date, it's an automatic dismissal, so it's stupid to not take it to court right now.
Our state has a no-fault system and my wife totaled out her car rear-ending a county vehicle with broken tail lights. the occupations tried suing for back and retinal damage and the insurance company not only prevailed but won attorney's fees; they payed off the car without a seconds hesitation. Less than 6 months later my son borrowed our truck while we were on vacation spunout on some black ice and flipped it into the ditch and was thrown out and broke his neck and was temporarily paralysed, after all of that our rates hadn't even gone up!
Chiropractors often pay lawyer's a referral fee for sending accident "victims" to them as well as frequently getting expert witness payment for depositions.
how is have your vehicle's license plate read an invasion of privacy? Your in public, not in private at best they are reducing anonymity not privacy. An other point is they can't tell if the vehicle is being operated without insurance, only if the vehicle has no insurance policy, I maybe borrowing someone else's uninsured vehicle and my insurance is covering my public liability or public damage incurred during the operation.
We've got a no-fault system, my insurance company fixes my car, his fixes his; other than possibly suing to cover a deductible I don't normally care about the other's insurance status.
I was going to say some smart-assed but I just checked and my driver's license is expired; guess I'll have to walk over and get it renewed during lunch after I ride my bycycle to work.
they're using Patriot Act stuff now for drug investigations
That was one of the intentions all along, you just had your alternate reality filter on. Narcotic dealers frequently use terrorist tactics to defend their turf. Narco-terrorism is one of the major destabilizing forces in the western hemisphere, it's not about political or religious philosophies, it's about the money.
a prosecute could easily argue that do that would be "obstruction of justice" a felony that turns a $150.00 ticket into 2 years in prison, 2 years on parole, and of course that will cost you at least $1200.00 (24 monthly visits at $50.00 a visit) and likely a $1000.00 fine to boot.
While i agree that all of your examples would be painful, the simple fact is when you are out in public you have no expectation of privacy. Too many people equate anonymity with privacy.
you have to secure those rights before you distribute, even back to the original distributor.
If Apple records said to me "'Hey, could I take a copy of your 'Sgt Pepper', we lost our copy and know you have it on vinyl." I'd have to say "I could make a copy for you but I don't have distribution rights so sorry about your luck". At that point they'd either assign me limited distribution rights and a reasonable coping fee or they'd have to eat shit and bark at the moon PERIOD. Considering that they sue people for outrageous amounts of money on tenuous and bully children, single mothers, and people in wheelchairs my reasonable coping fee would be considerable.
Yes you are, you are not allowed to distribute period; you have to secure those rights before you distribute, even back to the original distributor.
In a criminal case guilt has to be proven beyond a reasonable doubt and the lawyers will drone on and on about what reasonable doubt is and isn't, but basically the jury has to be 100% convinced it's reasonable. DNA evidence may statistically show a person is matched to a probability of 1 in 100 million and a jury except that expecting two people in 100 million to have their DNA match in one case to be an unreasonable occurrence, but when testing the entire population it would be expected. In a civil case the standard is a preponderance of the evidence, the jury has to be convinced more than 50%
the RIAA's revenue stream I assume, is the dues from it's member labels and a percentage of the settlements for the litigations.
What's always stick in my throat is that you've purchased the rights to posses a copy in addition to the physical media, if the media becomes damaged you shouldn't have to repurchase the rights but only the media. Many MPAA distributers honor this to some extent I've yet to see any RIAA member do the same.
I don't know about that, but if you download via p2p then you are also distributing and you definitely don't have rights to do that.
Lawyers in these cases have argued that "making available is the same as distributing,"
The lawyers are wrong in a civil case some proof is needed so the song actually needs to be downloaded and tested to insure it's what the offering parties are actually purporting it to be.
that a single shared song is worth hundreds of thousands of dollars
no they are actually arguing that the exclusive right to distribute is worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. I'd bet that the performing artists have to have a clause in their contracts to be able to sell CD's at their concerts. the labels would be happy to have a song be worthless as long as the got their distribution fees for it!
It's time to take back ownership of our network, our computers, our rights to fair use and our right to "progress of science and useful arts" by taking back ownership of the related symbols. All of them. Where the constitution reads "securing for limited times" the framers did not intend for it to extend to over 100 years.
yeah that's much too long, most stuf is pathetically obsolete long before it's copyrights or patents expire, perhaps some stiff maintenance fess would insure that patents and copyrights are abandoned into the public domain as they fall into disuse, perhaps a percentage of average gross revenue would let the little guys still be players and get their foot in the door, yet keep the big guys from bullying a market for a century.
yes you are wrong, I think the lower limit is 7 notes for some reason. In fact with a 150 year duration on copyright song writers are either going to be licensing musical phrases to other song writers or we are going to run out of new music.
I can name that song in 16 bits or less! Seriously I've heard that 7 notes are the minimum for copyright "Infringement"; but the truth is with the duration of copyright protection, and the number of combinations of notes that will sound correct together are going to run out faster than addresses in IPv4.
a cobolt phosphate salt in the solution isn't that complicated, there are tons of researchers playing with this as we speak, once MIT get their patent granted, the other researchers will be going though it with a fine toothed comb in the hopes they've found something that can extend the MIT patent.
my experienced is tires that are in the 25-28mm range in width cut throw a good 8 inches of snow with no problem, ice can get exciting.
[sarcasm]A Hellfire Guided Missile fired from a predator drone, yeah that's about as accurate as German V1 fired at England![/sarcasm] The truth is with GPS, weather satellites laser, range finders an fire direction computers that are actual computers rather than a protector and a look-up firing table our unguided projectile are more accurate than you'd believe possible.