Your welcome. This group brings the persecution on itself. Add in the fact that many of them want the US to become a Christian version of Iran, people like Cruz's father and his "Purifying Fire International" organization...it's hard to be rational with anyone who feels that the world needs to end in a fiery conflagration.
Tells you all to shut up about "climate change" or he'll hit you in the head with a snowball. The Bible says that mankind has been given domain over the planet, it's ours to do what we want to with and nothing we can possibly do can possibly mess it up. Even if it does, Jesus will fly in and save us all anyway./sarcasm
"Evangelical/Pentecostal-Charismatic Christian" ah, well, there's the real problem right there. They've got to maintain their feelings of persecution, and don't feel like a real person unless someone is trying to "nail them to the cross". I love how they capitalize Black US President, per grammerbook.com "white and black in reference to race are lowercase". The feeling of it all is invoking making all the defendants look like their all a huge group of conspiring racists without actually specifically saying so.
"At what point will legislators protect their constituents?" They are protecting them, it's just that their "constituents" are those who have the most "free speech". Which means corporations, especially since Citizens United means that "cash"="free speech".
Most of the time, civil forfeiture doesn't even require any laws to be broken. The charges are brought against the property itself, not the owners. Many cases the "charges" against the actual real humans never go through, but the property is never returned without thousands spent in court to get it back. The police often count on the fact that it costs $5k+ to fight them, so they KNOW that anything stolen under that is "free stuff".
Most likely, the cancer rates of the TSA agents wouldn't be too far off the norm. The machines are pretty focused, so unless the agents are standing inside the machine's beam area their not getting much exposure. However, "frequent fliers" (those in the 85,000+ miles per year), airline crews, etc might be more at risk but mostly due to the cosmic radiation from high altitudes. But now...adding together the cosmic radiation AND the scanners...of course there hasn't been any actual studies factoring in these two sources I can find.
Any TSA agent claiming "no radiation" is obviously incorrect, but it's not like most of them are trained in radiation exposure protocols, nor would they comprehend such training even if provided. The TSA claims the maximum exposure is 0.005 millirem per scan, with "generally less than 0.0025 millirem" on average.
And running a scan EVERY HOUR seems overkill, not to throw puns around. These devices shouldn't even have real internet access, nor should they be accessed for anything that they need 24 virus scans run on them every day.With the speeds I've seen most scanners run at, it seems to me that this machine would be spending at least 25% of it's time running one of it's 8,760 yearly scans.
Hospitals don't get to "pick", they don't get to install their own OS. All this equipment spends a long time getting FDA certified (which there are several different versions of), the "end users" (the hospital) isn't allowed to do anything on these devices. Complain to the manufacturer, in this case it's IBM. A good friend of mine works for Oregon Health & Science University, he's been fighting with GE due to their "non-supported OS's" that GE is still shipping on "brand new" devices...like Windows 2000. GE blames the FDA. Round and round it goes.
It's already started two lawsuits. But it's SD suing NewEgg and Overstock. The way many corps are going though, I see companies just geo-blocking all customers from those states instead, while letting the courts work this out.
Totally, in fact Bill was the one who brought Edward Bernays's ideas of public manipulations via "public relations" over to the USA with his "focus groups"...which is why we constantly see Hillary co-opting other people's ideas. If you have the time, the documentary "Century of the Self" (specifically episode 3). It's quite revealing; if the populous at large watched it we might actually have a real revolution.
I agree...mixing the two never seems to work out very well. Even the Founding Fathers were, in most "official papers", pretty vague about it. "Creator", "Providence", "God", that type of wording. A good chunk of them were Masons, who are Deists yet not Puritan Christians; the biggest "tell" is the pyramid / all-seeing eye on our money... It seems to me, most references to God in those original papers was to establish our rights as "equal human beings" doesn't come from any King or monarchy but from something higher than the "rule of Man".
I've noticed that whole "waiting" thing too...when it first started, I accidentally double-posted until I realized it was actually posting but the refresh was just jacked.
But a true "free market" has no governmentally-inforced laws. The only laws allowed are those that arise as a manifestation of the way the market itself works, like buyer / seller reputations, etc.
If people actually fit their ideal of "rational customers", then ideas like "buyer's remorse", "Post-purchase rationalization", "Winner's curse", etc. The fact that these terms exist show that no consumer (or human, assuming all humans are consumers) are ever 100% "rational" when it comes to the "market" and purchasing. If we were, the "impulse buy" area next to the check-outs wouldn't exist.
Taking this a step further, it also shows that the idea of the perfect "free market" is a false idea as well, since it requires a 100% rational customer 100% of the time. It also infers no marketing or product trickery, which is also obviously never going to happen. The only way THAT could happen was if somehow a new "market" that somehow intrinsically required complete transparency appeared...and all sellers involved had to "start over" so no current brands or corps could participate. Honestly, the original Silk Road was probably one of the closest manifestations of this we've seen in recent history.
Ironically enough, even the Koch boys seem to agree that Hillary is probably better than any of the current GOP candidates. That says quite a bit about the GOP IMHO.
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Your welcome. This group brings the persecution on itself. Add in the fact that many of them want the US to become a Christian version of Iran, people like Cruz's father and his "Purifying Fire International" organization...it's hard to be rational with anyone who feels that the world needs to end in a fiery conflagration.
Tells you all to shut up about "climate change" or he'll hit you in the head with a snowball. The Bible says that mankind has been given domain over the planet, it's ours to do what we want to with and nothing we can possibly do can possibly mess it up. Even if it does, Jesus will fly in and save us all anyway. /sarcasm
"Evangelical/Pentecostal-Charismatic Christian" ah, well, there's the real problem right there. They've got to maintain their feelings of persecution, and don't feel like a real person unless someone is trying to "nail them to the cross". I love how they capitalize Black US President, per grammerbook.com "white and black in reference to race are lowercase". The feeling of it all is invoking making all the defendants look like their all a huge group of conspiring racists without actually specifically saying so.
"At what point will legislators protect their constituents?" They are protecting them, it's just that their "constituents" are those who have the most "free speech". Which means corporations, especially since Citizens United means that "cash"="free speech".
blah, the death of EZTV made me sad. The shenanigans behind it all were disgusting.
Well, your always free to include the codecs yourself and then release your own livecd distro...
Not with the new season, it's now moved beyond his current books.
Most of the time, civil forfeiture doesn't even require any laws to be broken. The charges are brought against the property itself, not the owners. Many cases the "charges" against the actual real humans never go through, but the property is never returned without thousands spent in court to get it back. The police often count on the fact that it costs $5k+ to fight them, so they KNOW that anything stolen under that is "free stuff".
My advice, don't eat your cell phone batteries.
Most likely, the cancer rates of the TSA agents wouldn't be too far off the norm. The machines are pretty focused, so unless the agents are standing inside the machine's beam area their not getting much exposure. However, "frequent fliers" (those in the 85,000+ miles per year), airline crews, etc might be more at risk but mostly due to the cosmic radiation from high altitudes. But now...adding together the cosmic radiation AND the scanners...of course there hasn't been any actual studies factoring in these two sources I can find.
Any TSA agent claiming "no radiation" is obviously incorrect, but it's not like most of them are trained in radiation exposure protocols, nor would they comprehend such training even if provided. The TSA claims the maximum exposure is 0.005 millirem per scan, with "generally less than 0.0025 millirem" on average.
And running a scan EVERY HOUR seems overkill, not to throw puns around. These devices shouldn't even have real internet access, nor should they be accessed for anything that they need 24 virus scans run on them every day.With the speeds I've seen most scanners run at, it seems to me that this machine would be spending at least 25% of it's time running one of it's 8,760 yearly scans.
Hospitals don't get to "pick", they don't get to install their own OS. All this equipment spends a long time getting FDA certified (which there are several different versions of), the "end users" (the hospital) isn't allowed to do anything on these devices. Complain to the manufacturer, in this case it's IBM. A good friend of mine works for Oregon Health & Science University, he's been fighting with GE due to their "non-supported OS's" that GE is still shipping on "brand new" devices...like Windows 2000. GE blames the FDA. Round and round it goes.
Right? SD didn't "kick the hornet's nest", they just shoved their head inside the nest.
They did? That's not mentioned in TFA, nor on the original Forbes article either. Do you know this kid personally, or just guessing?
NO MEANS NO, MICROSOFT.
well, it seems he didn't actually need to have a FB or Instagram account to do any of this, so perhaps he never even had an account on either.
Musk has always been about Mars. That is the whole point of SpaceX originally, even before SpaceX, back in 2001.
It's already started two lawsuits. But it's SD suing NewEgg and Overstock. The way many corps are going though, I see companies just geo-blocking all customers from those states instead, while letting the courts work this out.
Totally, in fact Bill was the one who brought Edward Bernays's ideas of public manipulations via "public relations" over to the USA with his "focus groups"...which is why we constantly see Hillary co-opting other people's ideas. If you have the time, the documentary "Century of the Self" (specifically episode 3). It's quite revealing; if the populous at large watched it we might actually have a real revolution.
I agree...mixing the two never seems to work out very well. Even the Founding Fathers were, in most "official papers", pretty vague about it. "Creator", "Providence", "God", that type of wording. A good chunk of them were Masons, who are Deists yet not Puritan Christians; the biggest "tell" is the pyramid / all-seeing eye on our money... It seems to me, most references to God in those original papers was to establish our rights as "equal human beings" doesn't come from any King or monarchy but from something higher than the "rule of Man".
I've noticed that whole "waiting" thing too...when it first started, I accidentally double-posted until I realized it was actually posting but the refresh was just jacked.
TFA: "It has been developed by Guangzhou OED Technologies in partnership with another company in the Chongqing Province."
But a true "free market" has no governmentally-inforced laws. The only laws allowed are those that arise as a manifestation of the way the market itself works, like buyer / seller reputations, etc.
If people actually fit their ideal of "rational customers", then ideas like "buyer's remorse", "Post-purchase rationalization", "Winner's curse", etc. The fact that these terms exist show that no consumer (or human, assuming all humans are consumers) are ever 100% "rational" when it comes to the "market" and purchasing. If we were, the "impulse buy" area next to the check-outs wouldn't exist.
Taking this a step further, it also shows that the idea of the perfect "free market" is a false idea as well, since it requires a 100% rational customer 100% of the time. It also infers no marketing or product trickery, which is also obviously never going to happen. The only way THAT could happen was if somehow a new "market" that somehow intrinsically required complete transparency appeared...and all sellers involved had to "start over" so no current brands or corps could participate. Honestly, the original Silk Road was probably one of the closest manifestations of this we've seen in recent history.
Ironically enough, even the Koch boys seem to agree that Hillary is probably better than any of the current GOP candidates. That says quite a bit about the GOP IMHO.