"The source article says specifically it lets them take the funds off of a pre-paid card. It says nothing about bank accounts, credit cards, etc."
ERAD does not transfer money from banks, but the cops can use it to scan your ATM card referncing a bank account. That means that if you get caught by Oklahoma cops in a civil forfeiture stop, immediately close any bank accounts represented by cards in your wallet and transfer them somewhere else before the cops get a signoff from some compliant local court on tapping the bank accounts they found.
"Then I would start hitting Trump hard for supporting eminent domain, because he does."
I've checked, but Trump has not given a position on civil forfeiture. He has supported use of eminent domain for private purposes, and this does not sit well with conservatives.
For some time police have had the power to steal cash from people if they 'suspect' that it might derive from some criminal activity, even if the suspect is not charged. If you are charged you are actually better off, because although the cash and other assets you have on you can be frozen as evidence, they can't be forfeited unless you are found guilty at trial.
What this article references is Oklahoma testing a new electronic device, called ERAD, which can detect money hidden on prepaid cash cards in your possession. Any such funds detected can be stolen on the same pretext as your cash.
Yes, it was a mistake. When Janssen and Lockyer discovered an unknown set of lines in the spectrum of the Sun in 1868, spectroscopy was a new discipline. They identified it as a "Metal of the Sun." Oopsie!
They were going to name the first one 'vaccium', but there was concern that liberals would reflexively protest against it on the assumption that it had something to do with antibodies.
The -ium suffix is the standard for metals other than those that were already named in ancient times. Helium was named as a metal by mistake, because it was first discovered in the spectrum of the Sun.
I have a good-sized set of apps that make use of the capabilities of my phone and tablet. As those capabilities increase, I add apps that use the added features AND which I find useful. Coming soon: it will be interesting to see what that two-lens camera can do.
"Seriously, what's the point? Given that the flight time is 23 minutes, this is virtually useless for any serious travel."
Even with that limited range, I could see a market for delivery of first-class passengers between an airport and downtown, for close-by values of 'downtown', connecting with regular flights.
"In those days a laptop was the size of a suitcase."
I had one of these, the Compaq Portable. It weighed 35 pounds, had a 5-inch green-screen display and dual floppies, and ran MSDOS. Because it had a suitcase handle in the back it was as theoretically "portable" as a Weber grill with a handle on it would be. No batteries, because you had to plug it in. Stand back, because it generated roughly the same amount of heat as that Weber grill.
And yes, the software actually ran off one floppy disk, with the 176K acreage of the other being available for storage. Uphill! Both ways!
"That one was served, and failed to show up in court and lost by default."
I was subpoenaed once, and was served the conventional way, by a clerk coming to my address and handing me the document, but there was commentary in the previous thread to the effect that you can now be served by mail. So how does a defendant determine that an official-looking patent troll broadcast letter coming from out of state is not a legal service in the state of origin?
"The biggest mistake you can make is to respond to their letter."
Now wait a minute. Didn't we establish in yesterday's legal troll thread that if you fail to respond to one of these letters the troll wins, and can execute on you for whatever amount he claims?
Yet another example that illustrates why I think we would be better off if access to the civil court system were made significantly more difficult for plaintiffs than defendants. There are various ways in which we might do this. Yesterday's thread attracted a lot of posts in favor of loser pays, which privileges the wealthier litigant unless judges have discretion in charging costs to the losing party.
My own suggestion was to tighten up the evidence rules and jury voting in civil procedure to match the tougher standards of criminal procedure, a change which would inhibit junk suits (the kind at issue yesterday) without limiting anyone's access to the courts for cases which they themselves perceive as being able to jump the higher evidence bar. This elicited predictions that civilization would collapse if even that modest reform were made to the civil lawyer gravy train.
I also think that judges should have discretion to lock out civil plaintiffs who have a filing history that fits the old common-law definition of 'barratry'. The responses were equally negative. But no, I still don't want to go on living under a legal system that feels threatened by common sense. Let's vote for the candidate most likely to blow it to hell.
We may be a long way from being able to detect extrasolar intelligence even just by radio/laser, but in the near future we will be able to characterize worlds like Europa, Enceladus and Mars. What we find or don't find at those places will shed a lot of light on what we might be able to find on extrasolar worlds. Keep in mind that these places are also in 'close panspermia range' of Earth. If we find life on Europa based on familiar DNA because of this, the possibilities for long-distance panspermia improve.
The authors couldn't resist yet another attempt to flog Warmist theory in this paper, but their argument can be applied to any environmental effect that occurs when the technological capabilities of a species become "large" in comparison to its planet.
All speculation about alien life tends to founder on the issue of small sample size, but already we observe that our machines 'like' space and extraterrestrial surface environments much better than our squishy carbon-based bodies do. So perhaps the leading candidate for LNAWKI would be something like our silicon-based emissaries. If the same process has been going on elsewhere we may find that (a) the most likely aliens we encounter will be machines, and (b) the encounter will be by our own machines.
"NK cyber team will hack the vote so trump does not win as he will crush NK."
But if the cyber team is too successful it will elect Sanders, who will bomb NK in grounds that the plutonium reactors could be used to generate power.
" I don't understand what the story is saying. He was sexually harassing men? women? or both? "
You need to understand the Sexual Allegation Rules. Allegations of sexual misconduct by anonymous victims are automatically true and your life is ruined. The victims can stay anonymous, because Tor.
I only use my Facebook account for commenting on organization pages and communicating with a few people who don't use email, and I'm thinking of deleting my account and abandoning it completely.
Every few weeks, I get that flurry of anguished messages from my FB friends that means my page has been cloned again. My friends start getting ads and invitations for various kinds of scammery. There is a simple process for reporting clone pages to management, but a few weeks later, it happens again. Cloning seems to be the same unsolvable problem for Facebook as robocalls are for phone company. They are clueless on how to stop it from happening.
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"The source article says specifically it lets them take the funds off of a pre-paid card. It says nothing about bank accounts, credit cards, etc."
ERAD does not transfer money from banks, but the cops can use it to scan your ATM card referncing a bank account. That means that if you get caught by Oklahoma cops in a civil forfeiture stop, immediately close any bank accounts represented by cards in your wallet and transfer them somewhere else before the cops get a signoff from some compliant local court on tapping the bank accounts they found.
"Then I would start hitting Trump hard for supporting eminent domain, because he does."
I've checked, but Trump has not given a position on civil forfeiture. He has supported use of eminent domain for private purposes, and this does not sit well with conservatives.
Notice that oddly, every part of the legal system that contains the term "civil" has turned into complete shit?
Is this real?
For some time police have had the power to steal cash from people if they 'suspect' that it might derive from some criminal activity, even if the suspect is not charged. If you are charged you are actually better off, because although the cash and other assets you have on you can be frozen as evidence, they can't be forfeited unless you are found guilty at trial.
What this article references is Oklahoma testing a new electronic device, called ERAD, which can detect money hidden on prepaid cash cards in your possession. Any such funds detected can be stolen on the same pretext as your cash.
Yes, it was a mistake. When Janssen and Lockyer discovered an unknown set of lines in the spectrum of the Sun in 1868, spectroscopy was a new discipline. They identified it as a "Metal of the Sun." Oopsie!
Why do we need names, beyond calling them element-n, it makes learning simpler.
Because "Element 26-Man" just doesn't have that ring to it.
They were going to name the first one 'vaccium', but there was concern that liberals would reflexively protest against it on the assumption that it had something to do with antibodies.
The -ium suffix is the standard for metals other than those that were already named in ancient times. Helium was named as a metal by mistake, because it was first discovered in the spectrum of the Sun.
"Elementy McElementface"
Or, perhaps 'ginsburgium'
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I have a good-sized set of apps that make use of the capabilities of my phone and tablet. As those capabilities increase, I add apps that use the added features AND which I find useful. Coming soon: it will be interesting to see what that two-lens camera can do.
"Seriously, what's the point? Given that the flight time is 23 minutes, this is virtually useless for any serious travel."
Even with that limited range, I could see a market for delivery of first-class passengers between an airport and downtown, for close-by values of 'downtown', connecting with regular flights.
"In those days a laptop was the size of a suitcase."
I had one of these, the Compaq Portable. It weighed 35 pounds, had a 5-inch green-screen display and dual floppies, and ran MSDOS. Because it had a suitcase handle in the back it was as theoretically "portable" as a Weber grill with a handle on it would be. No batteries, because you had to plug it in. Stand back, because it generated roughly the same amount of heat as that Weber grill.
And yes, the software actually ran off one floppy disk, with the 176K acreage of the other being available for storage. Uphill! Both ways!
"That one was served, and failed to show up in court and lost by default."
I was subpoenaed once, and was served the conventional way, by a clerk coming to my address and handing me the document, but there was commentary in the previous thread to the effect that you can now be served by mail. So how does a defendant determine that an official-looking patent troll broadcast letter coming from out of state is not a legal service in the state of origin?
"The biggest mistake you can make is to respond to their letter."
Now wait a minute. Didn't we establish in yesterday's legal troll thread that if you fail to respond to one of these letters the troll wins, and can execute on you for whatever amount he claims?
Design a Free Web that can be accessed censorship-free in China, and I'll believe you.
Yet another example that illustrates why I think we would be better off if access to the civil court system were made significantly more difficult for plaintiffs than defendants. There are various ways in which we might do this. Yesterday's thread attracted a lot of posts in favor of loser pays, which privileges the wealthier litigant unless judges have discretion in charging costs to the losing party.
My own suggestion was to tighten up the evidence rules and jury voting in civil procedure to match the tougher standards of criminal procedure, a change which would inhibit junk suits (the kind at issue yesterday) without limiting anyone's access to the courts for cases which they themselves perceive as being able to jump the higher evidence bar. This elicited predictions that civilization would collapse if even that modest reform were made to the civil lawyer gravy train.
I also think that judges should have discretion to lock out civil plaintiffs who have a filing history that fits the old common-law definition of 'barratry'. The responses were equally negative. But no, I still don't want to go on living under a legal system that feels threatened by common sense. Let's vote for the candidate most likely to blow it to hell.
We may be a long way from being able to detect extrasolar intelligence even just by radio/laser, but in the near future we will be able to characterize worlds like Europa, Enceladus and Mars. What we find or don't find at those places will shed a lot of light on what we might be able to find on extrasolar worlds. Keep in mind that these places are also in 'close panspermia range' of Earth. If we find life on Europa based on familiar DNA because of this, the possibilities for long-distance panspermia improve.
Unfortunately, these geek acronyms tend to be English-specific. Some others you will encounter here:
RTKBA - Right to keep and bear arms;
TEOTWAWKI - The end of the world as we know it;
DYKWIA - "Do you know who I am?"
SJW - Social justice warrior
"Step 2 may not be needed. Maybe you can have an intelligent giant single cell organism that can build radios."
And step 8 is important only for external detectability. It's totally possible for a species to have gone directly to fiber.
The authors couldn't resist yet another attempt to flog Warmist theory in this paper, but their argument can be applied to any environmental effect that occurs when the technological capabilities of a species become "large" in comparison to its planet.
"We don't even have the Concorde anymore, or the SR-71, in some ways we've gone backwards."
But fortunately, there is intelligent life in Asia.
All speculation about alien life tends to founder on the issue of small sample size, but already we observe that our machines 'like' space and extraterrestrial surface environments much better than our squishy carbon-based bodies do. So perhaps the leading candidate for LNAWKI would be something like our silicon-based emissaries. If the same process has been going on elsewhere we may find that (a) the most likely aliens we encounter will be machines, and (b) the encounter will be by our own machines.
"NK cyber team will hack the vote so trump does not win as he will crush NK."
But if the cyber team is too successful it will elect Sanders, who will bomb NK in grounds that the plutonium reactors could be used to generate power.
" I don't understand what the story is saying. He was sexually harassing men? women? or both? "
You need to understand the Sexual Allegation Rules. Allegations of sexual misconduct by anonymous victims are automatically true and your life is ruined. The victims can stay anonymous, because Tor.
I only use my Facebook account for commenting on organization pages and communicating with a few people who don't use email, and I'm thinking of deleting my account and abandoning it completely.
Every few weeks, I get that flurry of anguished messages from my FB friends that means my page has been cloned again. My friends start getting ads and invitations for various kinds of scammery. There is a simple process for reporting clone pages to management, but a few weeks later, it happens again. Cloning seems to be the same unsolvable problem for Facebook as robocalls are for phone company. They are clueless on how to stop it from happening.