California has the -best- SLAPP statute. Funny thing is that CC chose the venue while he himselve is in Tuscon and Inman is in Washington State. He's actually pivoting his lawsuit not on Innman but on the business location of Indegogo and -their- terms of service in the click-through agreement that Innman must have agreed to.
(He also talks about "Does 1 through 5" and "Does 1 through 100" in the intro but only then mentions "Doe 1" in the text. Its all quite badly done even for being a bad idea.)
Everyone who has ever felt "wrongd on the internet" should contat this man and tell him their story. Not as harassment but as object lesson. Explain to him his doom in ways both polite and emphatic. Re-tell him his fate. Convince him to take your case on a you-pay-only-if-we-win terms.
Word "diode" disapeared in a few places. Basically serial resistence isn't that hard to figure out in AC based purely on voltage drop in the two directions as the AC waveform reverses. In DC you just measure voltage. The noise is just noise and it provides a little back-charging for the cmparators.
I'm not a double-E but given how hard it is to make -smoth- electricity, detecting good signal in -lumpy- electricty is kid of a gimmie.
Let's see: Eve takes two sets of two, then faces them in opposite directions -->|--S1-->|-- and --|--S2--|-- and then inserts these two into the wire in parallel such that S1 and S2 isolate the electrical flow in each dirction respectively. S1 and S2 are each separately coupled to ground using a very small cap --)|-- . A voltage comparator is used to determine whether S1 or S2 has the higher voltage to ground at any given time. At any given time the arrows on the schematic diodes point to the lower resistence when the segment S1/2 is at the higher voltage.
That presumes DC. With AC I think you use inductive voltage deviders..
-- or --
First Eve magnetically induces profound disruptions in the wire with inductive coupling. Either Bob and Alice call technical support or they "adapt" to the noise of the bouncing magnetic/inductive disruption. Said disruption becomes so commonplace that the system learns to ignore it. At this point Eve can just tap in at will.
Alice and Bob call technical support and during the power cycle:
Eve cuts the wire and establishes the classic man in the middle.
Eve adds capacitance to inhibit communications at will.
Eve uses voltage drop to determine the high and low resistences and then uses parallel resistences to to insert "low" events when highs are sent from one end, giving Eve the correct key and either Bob or Alice incorrect keys such that Alice or Bob no longer know that they are accepting transcribed messages from Eve instead of their peer.
The same things go for Quantum Key Exchanges. Since the sender(s) don't ever compare notes, a dedicated attacker just cuts into the conversation and becomes man in the middle. The fact that Alice and Bob are no longer using the same key is invisible if 100% of the cypher text data is also flowing through Eve.
We need to have bandwith pricing based on pipe size and not bits delivered per time period.
Of course since that would make every link symmetric there would be no chash-flow pressure.
Which is why internet connectivity should be a public good monopoly and not a competetive business.
The model itself, which was created once people started "charging for site access" and then the bandwith providers decided they wanted a piece of that action, is unsustainable because the Dance of the Sugar-Plumb CDN Providers requires the gateway agreements to churn if any money is to be made, but that churn is "considered harmful" to the gateway owners...
Yep, your capitalism dollar at work.
Restore the advertising ban on the internet, so that everything has to be pure content.
That's largely because you cannot acheive a search listing as a leaf node. If you don't point outward from you site you are judged to have no value.
This becomes a black-body radiation problem, New conent can go onto the radiant surface anywhere, but it gets lost in the geography becasue if that new content isn't part of a site containing a massive number of outbound links (usually ads and the "natrual link farm" of, say, youtube video pages having links to other youtube video pages) then your site is "beneath notice".
So as users are added to the net in general, their content can only be recognized if it is in a "big" site.
A "big" site is, of course, a place that is super easy to get lost within, so the problem becomes "lather-rinse-repeat" for each content subdomain.
The calm, quiet voice that only speaks when it has something to say, must therefore remain unheard for the din of people shouting for attention.
There's an XKCD commic (isn't there always) where the "two pundits" (Ender's siblings) from Ender's Game get the treatment they -would- -really- receive on the internet as opposed to the rarified treatment required for the plot point(s) to work. 8-)
The internet -must- fracture becasue valuable content is opposed by hucksterism. It won't colapse but "sites" will evolve into subnets, in the darknet sense, jsut to recover the signal-to-noise ratio needed for discourse.
That leaves the vast majority of people "just watching" for any context or content. So yes, TV mark 2.
IF the firewall kicked in and "walled off" the stock exchange the instant that the magic number showed up, then the exhange may have been "stopped" at the magi number -because- of the censorship.
Indeed, anything with a "rolling number" that was influenced by user action could have been "memorialized" by the censorship itself.
Imagine if every web site in China had a "daily visitor counter" then they all would have been shut off at 6489 visitors. Several might have incremented one-to-X times more than that as the filter took hold, sure. But there is the effect is lagged.
Now if every page sent from the stock exchange included the index value, the number of discrete actions necessary to get the composite 64.89 to 64.90 was likely dwarfed by the average size of each transaction.
The problem with all net filters is unintended consequence.
This reeks of unintended consequence of that sort if you really think about it as a wide-area phenomonia.
What is this "adding a pin-stripe" you speak of...?
Just rename the paint color from Monte Carlo Green to Forest Racing Green, don't change the color mind you as that would disrupt consumer conciousness. Then say well clearly this is not the same car, it wasn't available in Forest Racing Green...
Optionally remove the passenger seats (we only sell this car for use by the owner) [e.g. DRM] and charge more for it as "the sport edition" -and- get to claim its a different car so only you get to profit.
Profit is a huge liability in a movie produciton. Profits are taxable as corporate income. Profits cost money since they sold/promised people percentages of the Net Profit. If a movie makes a profit someone has fucked up hugely and it will cost massive amounts of money.
Neither is "big business" its all "big kickback", e.g. they don't care where the "election money" comes from as long as they get it.
Both are in a race for the "religious vote" as it is the most volatile and humans are "loss adverse" so they worry more about the religious vote they wont get than the "don't give a fuck about that stuff" vote that they could buy quite easily with a reasonable platform.
Most voters vote for Borrow and Spend because either (a) I cannot vote for Democrats because it would be good for the darkies, or (b) I cannot be bothered to pay for things now when they are reasonably priced, I'd rather hope I am dead before I have to pay this bill ten times over. (e.g. I have three moneies now and I don't want to live in a world where I only have two).
Plus we let the parties decide who gets to vote for each position instead of letting geography decide, so there is no way for a third option to survive long enough to become an option.
Yea, HR and General Council are heafty blows, but the poster is already saying he's worried about reprocssions.
In a government contract related setting, however, there are apporpraite people (your ethics focal, your compliance manager, your direct report, etc.)
The quesiton is posed as "Marketing told us all", so the response has to be "I told the very-limited subset of directly interested parties".
Since the questioner is -aready- in fear, targeted and effective aggression -is- the only answer that works. Being correct is just icing.
Passive aggression with "reply-all" is far more likely to tweak a managers gnads than a managerially correct action. Not knowing the size of the company, I picked titles that would be correct in general as examples to the crowd.
The one thing managers cannot stand is weakness, if you are going to fight the issue at all, don't be a wuss about it or you will get roasted.
CC: boss, HR, general council RE:request dated (date) that I link, like, and promote our applicaiton in my private social media.
Dear Marketing Person,
In accordance with our companies Due Dilligence requirement I have examined the request of (person) on (date) and determined that following the suggestions therein could cause (app name) to be removed from the (app store) service. Since this request may be against our Ethics Policy, and following it may be detrimental to the company in general, I will not be able to perfrom the actions detailed.
I strongly suggest that management bar other employees from following the request at this time, pending formal review of the contractual requirements of (app store) and the possible reprocussions should (app) be banned.
Sincerely, (Employee Name).
=====
The lesson: if you act all furtive about your rejection you look non-compliant or threatening. If you act very publicly and give citations you are potentially heroic or at least colatterally known to be acting in the company's interests as you understand them. The bigger the company the better this works. It is -particularly- effective if your company does any government or finincial work because then "due dilligence" and "ethics" are magical words not just good ideas.
Atually the Prius B (e.g. second gen) is pretty peppy if you punch it, and the guys at the dealership have had them up to the 100+ miles-per-hour range with multiple passengers. Most gas cars will beat me from zero to sixty. Few will beat me from zero to 15 or 45 to 60. I have no willing declaration to make about getting from 55 to 85 on the grounds that I am making public statements concerning actions of interests of legal authorities... 8-)
The acceleration curves don't "feel the same" as a gas car, and you dont get the same "throat" out of a prius as a straining gas mahine with an automatic 3-speed transmission, but it ain't half bad really.
So no, my Prius B donesn't have the "performance feel" that a twenty-something who cannot use the break with any subtlty (hi Xue) so is constantly gunning it and then breaking harshly. But driven with subtlty and predictive awarenes of changing conditions, well it will "road rally through traffic" rather better than you probably have expected.
I also tend to end up speeding if I don't pay attention because decades of training to match engine feel to road speed between spedometer checks keeps getting foiled by the way the speed-MG will trade off with the torque-MG. So after I set my mental speedometer to the engine speed, the same engine speed will often lead to a creeping-up of the actual speed. Then you look down and Gah!... 8-)
You know, the -design- of the Prius et. al. was -not- to have it "pay for itself". This isn't surprising. My household refrigerator and washing machine don't "pay for themselves" either.
The Prius was tuned for -emissions- -efficency- not mileage. I knew this. For instance, in climbing hills the gasolene engine goes -much- faster than a comprable non-hybrid sedan. The higher speed is turned into electricty and then back into torque. If I punch it on the hill the engine goes faster still. The rule of losses in the transformation of energy dictates that energy (mileage) will be lost to transformation. Entropy must be paid. But the whole thing is squeaky clean.
People who expected to "make money" on their 40k car were idiots buying for the wrong reason. The rest of us bought for the green, and the smug, (be honest, there is smug to be had. 8-) and to drive down the price points as earily adopters.
And "mileage" is nearly the worst measurement of efficency there possibly could be. It is no wonder that big flat florida has people who -are- making back their money. The state is -flat-. If my commute were flat it would my mileage would be much better than it is today (42mpg). I have gotten 55mpg driving from Seattle to Portland, and only 48 driving the other direction (the sawtooth patern of the hills along I-5 is a determinant, very helpful going south, somewhat wasteful going north).
I lose most of my "mileage" in a prius in that once the engine starts it wants to run till it has "warmed up", which takes a significant part of my commute and is concentrated in the stationary time while I am stuck in surface street at terrible traffic lights, trying to get onto the highway. This meanst that all of my gas is spent pointlessly making heat.
I will likely not buy another hybrid though. I am planning on going electric next (e.g. leaf). Or to a Volt-Alike hybrid if I must.
Further on, I don't expect the electric to be much cheaper to run than the Prius. The state of Washington is gonny slap on a GPS tax any day, and electricty is clean but it aint as cheap as you might think. Ask anybody with an elevator or regularly used winch in a space they pay for. But I can aford the hit. I like having the smug, and I like having the cleaner tailpipe in general. -Someone- has to start paying to break the oil addiciton and having that opinion without willing to back it with my wallet would be hypocritical.
Full Disclosure: I also am midst of installing a geothermal heat pump in my house. I am expecting some savings, and some resale value improvement, but I doubt it will "pay for itself" for a very long time if ever. I'd like to back it with solar pannels because if I can get my energy bill down I expect to be able to sell the flash of having a negative electric bill several times a year when I sell the house.
Deprivations of ones data can can threaten ones life if it is medical data or the finincial data necessary to ones survival. Granted, putting such data on exclusively Megaupload or similar services might not be prudent. But since we -don't- know what is in there "the side of caution" on which we should err would be to leave the data accessible in the name of justice.
Said justice might well be a matter of life or death to someone.
Railroading someone in pursuit of "Justice(tm)" has become commonplace in this country. Each form of railroading has its very onw pro-forma means and mode of operation. In drugs offenses, for instance, they get to weigh the packaging as part of the drug and assign "street value" that corresponds to no known street in order to lay on extra charges etc. In this case they used border seizure on a politically undersireable person. This was not the correct means or venue. e.g. "they picked the wrong railroad" to go after this guy. (the e instad of u was just a typo.)
Violating the First Amendment is a violation of Apparent Freedom(tm) and is part of Political Theater(tm).
Violating the Fourth Amendment is a violation of Apparent Secrecy(tmp and is part of Security Theater(tm).
The DHS, in its puppet role over the TSA is in charge of Security Theater(tm) and so had no leg to stand on against the First Amendment.
If proper form were followed, the DHS would have picked a fight with House in a public place away from the border but within view of a political edifice, and "accidentally damaged" the material seized, then claimed it was known to contain child pornogrpahy because someone saw it over House's shoulder.
In short, this was all a failure of Due Process, as they used the entirely incorrect Rail Road in its persuit.
It'll be fixed in post production before air... just you wait...
Re "relocating my family for the job" I usually go with something like "a fairly generous commitment of time and money by the company or golden parachute sufficent to reverse the relocation stipulated as an unconditional term of the employment contract". That is, turn it into a cash negotaition point and blindly ignore the non-relevance of the secret query.
Getting -in- to Dubi with a poppy-seed muffin is easy, getting out can take 30 years.
As a gay heratic I won't go anywhere near TDY in a "muslim country". This isn't a religious thing on my part, I just know I'm not kosher enough for the trip to any place wiht any faction known by the tag "hard liners".
There was some *incredibly* fine beef running around the Visa Corp headquarters back in the late eighties and earily ninties. I'm thinking that the hiring manager was really into compact little gym rats in Levis... I was never sure if I didn't get the job because of my (at the time) crappy credit score the way they said, or just the fact that I was not beefcake enough to qualify for the locker room... 8-)
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California has the -best- SLAPP statute. Funny thing is that CC chose the venue while he himselve is in Tuscon and Inman is in Washington State. He's actually pivoting his lawsuit not on Innman but on the business location of Indegogo and -their- terms of service in the click-through agreement that Innman must have agreed to.
(He also talks about "Does 1 through 5" and "Does 1 through 100" in the intro but only then mentions "Doe 1" in the text. Its all quite badly done even for being a bad idea.)
He's really not a good lawyer.
Everyone who has ever felt "wrongd on the internet" should contat this man and tell him their story. Not as harassment but as object lesson. Explain to him his doom in ways both polite and emphatic. Re-tell him his fate. Convince him to take your case on a you-pay-only-if-we-win terms.
Let him -be- the go-to guy he desires to be. 8-)
Word "diode" disapeared in a few places. Basically serial resistence isn't that hard to figure out in AC based purely on voltage drop in the two directions as the AC waveform reverses. In DC you just measure voltage. The noise is just noise and it provides a little back-charging for the cmparators.
I'm not a double-E but given how hard it is to make -smoth- electricity, detecting good signal in -lumpy- electricty is kid of a gimmie.
Let's see: Eve takes two sets of two, then faces them in opposite directions -->|--S1-->|-- and --|--S2--|-- and then inserts these two into the wire in parallel such that S1 and S2 isolate the electrical flow in each dirction respectively. S1 and S2 are each separately coupled to ground using a very small cap --)|-- . A voltage comparator is used to determine whether S1 or S2 has the higher voltage to ground at any given time. At any given time the arrows on the schematic diodes point to the lower resistence when the segment S1/2 is at the higher voltage.
That presumes DC. With AC I think you use inductive voltage deviders..
-- or --
First Eve magnetically induces profound disruptions in the wire with inductive coupling. Either Bob and Alice call technical support or they "adapt" to the noise of the bouncing magnetic/inductive disruption. Said disruption becomes so commonplace that the system learns to ignore it. At this point Eve can just tap in at will.
Alice and Bob call technical support and during the power cycle:
Eve cuts the wire and establishes the classic man in the middle.
Eve adds capacitance to inhibit communications at will.
Eve uses voltage drop to determine the high and low resistences and then uses parallel resistences to to insert "low" events when highs are sent from one end, giving Eve the correct key and either Bob or Alice incorrect keys such that Alice or Bob no longer know that they are accepting transcribed messages from Eve instead of their peer.
The same things go for Quantum Key Exchanges. Since the sender(s) don't ever compare notes, a dedicated attacker just cuts into the conversation and becomes man in the middle. The fact that Alice and Bob are no longer using the same key is invisible if 100% of the cypher text data is also flowing through Eve.
They discovered, upon opening th box, that Dr Schrodinger had killed the cat with a hammer.
What say you Brutis?
If they knew it was going to make you wince just buying it, at least they had the common curtesy to name it after the act of withdrawing in pain.
We need to have bandwith pricing based on pipe size and not bits delivered per time period.
Of course since that would make every link symmetric there would be no chash-flow pressure.
Which is why internet connectivity should be a public good monopoly and not a competetive business.
The model itself, which was created once people started "charging for site access" and then the bandwith providers decided they wanted a piece of that action, is unsustainable because the Dance of the Sugar-Plumb CDN Providers requires the gateway agreements to churn if any money is to be made, but that churn is "considered harmful" to the gateway owners...
Yep, your capitalism dollar at work.
Restore the advertising ban on the internet, so that everything has to be pure content.
What a world! 8-)
That's largely because you cannot acheive a search listing as a leaf node. If you don't point outward from you site you are judged to have no value.
This becomes a black-body radiation problem, New conent can go onto the radiant surface anywhere, but it gets lost in the geography becasue if that new content isn't part of a site containing a massive number of outbound links (usually ads and the "natrual link farm" of, say, youtube video pages having links to other youtube video pages) then your site is "beneath notice".
So as users are added to the net in general, their content can only be recognized if it is in a "big" site.
A "big" site is, of course, a place that is super easy to get lost within, so the problem becomes "lather-rinse-repeat" for each content subdomain.
The calm, quiet voice that only speaks when it has something to say, must therefore remain unheard for the din of people shouting for attention.
There's an XKCD commic (isn't there always) where the "two pundits" (Ender's siblings) from Ender's Game get the treatment they -would- -really- receive on the internet as opposed to the rarified treatment required for the plot point(s) to work. 8-)
The internet -must- fracture becasue valuable content is opposed by hucksterism. It won't colapse but "sites" will evolve into subnets, in the darknet sense, jsut to recover the signal-to-noise ratio needed for discourse.
That leaves the vast majority of people "just watching" for any context or content. So yes, TV mark 2.
IF the firewall kicked in and "walled off" the stock exchange the instant that the magic number showed up, then the exhange may have been "stopped" at the magi number -because- of the censorship.
Indeed, anything with a "rolling number" that was influenced by user action could have been "memorialized" by the censorship itself.
Imagine if every web site in China had a "daily visitor counter" then they all would have been shut off at 6489 visitors. Several might have incremented one-to-X times more than that as the filter took hold, sure. But there is the effect is lagged.
Now if every page sent from the stock exchange included the index value, the number of discrete actions necessary to get the composite 64.89 to 64.90 was likely dwarfed by the average size of each transaction.
The problem with all net filters is unintended consequence.
This reeks of unintended consequence of that sort if you really think about it as a wide-area phenomonia.
What is this "adding a pin-stripe" you speak of...?
Just rename the paint color from Monte Carlo Green to Forest Racing Green, don't change the color mind you as that would disrupt consumer conciousness. Then say well clearly this is not the same car, it wasn't available in Forest Racing Green...
Optionally remove the passenger seats (we only sell this car for use by the owner) [e.g. DRM] and charge more for it as "the sport edition" -and- get to claim its a different car so only you get to profit.
Profit is a huge liability in a movie produciton. Profits are taxable as corporate income. Profits cost money since they sold/promised people percentages of the Net Profit. If a movie makes a profit someone has fucked up hugely and it will cost massive amounts of money.
Our choices in the US are:
In the pocket of the MPAA and RIAA.
-or-
In the pocket of any successful monetary concern (churches are monitary concerns here as are the entertainment industries).
So one is pro MAFIAA and the other is pro MAFIAA with a side of "what are you doing wiht that there reproductive organ".
Your choices are:
Tax and Spend: Deomcrats....
Borrow and Spend: Republians...
Neither is "big business" its all "big kickback", e.g. they don't care where the "election money" comes from as long as they get it.
Both are in a race for the "religious vote" as it is the most volatile and humans are "loss adverse" so they worry more about the religious vote they wont get than the "don't give a fuck about that stuff" vote that they could buy quite easily with a reasonable platform.
Most voters vote for Borrow and Spend because either (a) I cannot vote for Democrats because it would be good for the darkies, or (b) I cannot be bothered to pay for things now when they are reasonably priced, I'd rather hope I am dead before I have to pay this bill ten times over. (e.g. I have three moneies now and I don't want to live in a world where I only have two).
Plus we let the parties decide who gets to vote for each position instead of letting geography decide, so there is no way for a third option to survive long enough to become an option.
Yea, HR and General Council are heafty blows, but the poster is already saying he's worried about reprocssions.
In a government contract related setting, however, there are apporpraite people (your ethics focal, your compliance manager, your direct report, etc.)
The quesiton is posed as "Marketing told us all", so the response has to be "I told the very-limited subset of directly interested parties".
Since the questioner is -aready- in fear, targeted and effective aggression -is- the only answer that works. Being correct is just icing.
Passive aggression with "reply-all" is far more likely to tweak a managers gnads than a managerially correct action. Not knowing the size of the company, I picked titles that would be correct in general as examples to the crowd.
The one thing managers cannot stand is weakness, if you are going to fight the issue at all, don't be a wuss about it or you will get roasted.
CC: boss, HR, general council
RE:request dated (date) that I link, like, and promote our applicaiton in my private social media.
Dear Marketing Person,
In accordance with our companies Due Dilligence requirement I have examined the request of (person) on (date) and determined that following the suggestions therein could cause (app name) to be removed from the (app store) service. Since this request may be against our Ethics Policy, and following it may be detrimental to the company in general, I will not be able to perfrom the actions detailed.
I strongly suggest that management bar other employees from following the request at this time, pending formal review of the contractual requirements of (app store) and the possible reprocussions should (app) be banned.
Sincerely,
(Employee Name).
=====
The lesson: if you act all furtive about your rejection you look non-compliant or threatening. If you act very publicly and give citations you are potentially heroic or at least colatterally known to be acting in the company's interests as you understand them. The bigger the company the better this works. It is -particularly- effective if your company does any government or finincial work because then "due dilligence" and "ethics" are magical words not just good ideas.
You don't have to have the hardware made over seas if you home your firmware god-copies on an american made petri dish.
(obligatory windowz suxors reference, proving that anything can be turned into a partisan rant. 8-)
Atually the Prius B (e.g. second gen) is pretty peppy if you punch it, and the guys at the dealership have had them up to the 100+ miles-per-hour range with multiple passengers. Most gas cars will beat me from zero to sixty. Few will beat me from zero to 15 or 45 to 60. I have no willing declaration to make about getting from 55 to 85 on the grounds that I am making public statements concerning actions of interests of legal authorities... 8-)
The acceleration curves don't "feel the same" as a gas car, and you dont get the same "throat" out of a prius as a straining gas mahine with an automatic 3-speed transmission, but it ain't half bad really.
So no, my Prius B donesn't have the "performance feel" that a twenty-something who cannot use the break with any subtlty (hi Xue) so is constantly gunning it and then breaking harshly. But driven with subtlty and predictive awarenes of changing conditions, well it will "road rally through traffic" rather better than you probably have expected.
I also tend to end up speeding if I don't pay attention because decades of training to match engine feel to road speed between spedometer checks keeps getting foiled by the way the speed-MG will trade off with the torque-MG. So after I set my mental speedometer to the engine speed, the same engine speed will often lead to a creeping-up of the actual speed. Then you look down and Gah!... 8-)
You know, the -design- of the Prius et. al. was -not- to have it "pay for itself". This isn't surprising. My household refrigerator and washing machine don't "pay for themselves" either.
The Prius was tuned for -emissions- -efficency- not mileage. I knew this. For instance, in climbing hills the gasolene engine goes -much- faster than a comprable non-hybrid sedan. The higher speed is turned into electricty and then back into torque. If I punch it on the hill the engine goes faster still. The rule of losses in the transformation of energy dictates that energy (mileage) will be lost to transformation. Entropy must be paid. But the whole thing is squeaky clean.
People who expected to "make money" on their 40k car were idiots buying for the wrong reason. The rest of us bought for the green, and the smug, (be honest, there is smug to be had. 8-) and to drive down the price points as earily adopters.
And "mileage" is nearly the worst measurement of efficency there possibly could be. It is no wonder that big flat florida has people who -are- making back their money. The state is -flat-. If my commute were flat it would my mileage would be much better than it is today (42mpg). I have gotten 55mpg driving from Seattle to Portland, and only 48 driving the other direction (the sawtooth patern of the hills along I-5 is a determinant, very helpful going south, somewhat wasteful going north).
I lose most of my "mileage" in a prius in that once the engine starts it wants to run till it has "warmed up", which takes a significant part of my commute and is concentrated in the stationary time while I am stuck in surface street at terrible traffic lights, trying to get onto the highway. This meanst that all of my gas is spent pointlessly making heat.
I will likely not buy another hybrid though. I am planning on going electric next (e.g. leaf). Or to a Volt-Alike hybrid if I must.
Further on, I don't expect the electric to be much cheaper to run than the Prius. The state of Washington is gonny slap on a GPS tax any day, and electricty is clean but it aint as cheap as you might think. Ask anybody with an elevator or regularly used winch in a space they pay for. But I can aford the hit. I like having the smug, and I like having the cleaner tailpipe in general. -Someone- has to start paying to break the oil addiciton and having that opinion without willing to back it with my wallet would be hypocritical.
Full Disclosure: I also am midst of installing a geothermal heat pump in my house. I am expecting some savings, and some resale value improvement, but I doubt it will "pay for itself" for a very long time if ever. I'd like to back it with solar pannels because if I can get my energy bill down I expect to be able to sell the flash of having a negative electric bill several times a year when I sell the house.
Deprivations of ones data can can threaten ones life if it is medical data or the finincial data necessary to ones survival. Granted, putting such data on exclusively Megaupload or similar services might not be prudent. But since we -don't- know what is in there "the side of caution" on which we should err would be to leave the data accessible in the name of justice.
Said justice might well be a matter of life or death to someone.
Railroading someone in pursuit of "Justice(tm)" has become commonplace in this country. Each form of railroading has its very onw pro-forma means and mode of operation. In drugs offenses, for instance, they get to weigh the packaging as part of the drug and assign "street value" that corresponds to no known street in order to lay on extra charges etc. In this case they used border seizure on a politically undersireable person. This was not the correct means or venue. e.g. "they picked the wrong railroad" to go after this guy. (the e instad of u was just a typo.)
Violating the First Amendment is a violation of Apparent Freedom(tm) and is part of Political Theater(tm).
Violating the Fourth Amendment is a violation of Apparent Secrecy(tmp and is part of Security Theater(tm).
The DHS, in its puppet role over the TSA is in charge of Security Theater(tm) and so had no leg to stand on against the First Amendment.
If proper form were followed, the DHS would have picked a fight with House in a public place away from the border but within view of a political edifice, and "accidentally damaged" the material seized, then claimed it was known to contain child pornogrpahy because someone saw it over House's shoulder.
In short, this was all a failure of Due Process, as they used the entirely incorrect Rail Road in its persuit.
It'll be fixed in post production before air... just you wait...
Re "relocating my family for the job" I usually go with something like "a fairly generous commitment of time and money by the company or golden parachute sufficent to reverse the relocation stipulated as an unconditional term of the employment contract". That is, turn it into a cash negotaition point and blindly ignore the non-relevance of the secret query.
Getting -in- to Dubi with a poppy-seed muffin is easy, getting out can take 30 years.
As a gay heratic I won't go anywhere near TDY in a "muslim country". This isn't a religious thing on my part, I just know I'm not kosher enough for the trip to any place wiht any faction known by the tag "hard liners".
There was some *incredibly* fine beef running around the Visa Corp headquarters back in the late eighties and earily ninties. I'm thinking that the hiring manager was really into compact little gym rats in Levis... I was never sure if I didn't get the job because of my (at the time) crappy credit score the way they said, or just the fact that I was not beefcake enough to qualify for the locker room... 8-)