Quick, declare it a Federal Disaster Zone so the rest of the country can pay for the damages to the uninsured.
That area already got $60B of your emotion money.
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I certainly be willing to have the US government pay for part of it.
ha! - they defunded the sensor study to keep track of the separation of the two sides of the mountain years ago. Also, we're not allowed to talk about that one in the new world of asymmetric risks.
FYI, there's a tool online that will show projected inundations of various tsunami types (who's got better Google Fu than me at the moment?). The wave in question will lap up against the east side of the mountain ridge just to my east. I probably need to worry about seismic impacts here (81m inland) but will stay dry and not get crushed by the shockwave.
Not certain the argument that 'freedom of movement' equates to 'automobile license' would hold up in court.
The UN didn't intend that people go bushwhacking to get from place to place. Many of the roads where I am were privately built and then seized by the State in the 1800's. Heck, here there are even roads between towns that were taken over for the Interstate system, removing even the ability to walk or bicycle between places without a motor vehicle. Some houses are off exits that go nowhere but the side roads of what used to be State highways. They either drive cars or they cannot buy food or go to work.
Besides the UN, there are also rights of free association and assembly that are infringed by the driver licensing system. That's one trouble with having a limited government take over functions of society - it cannot infringe rights in its management of those assets. Own a private road? Sure, let whoever you want on it or not on it. Government road? Rights cannot be infringed in the supervision of it without due process of law. Well, at least in the America that was designed to protect natural rights, not what we have left of its bloody corpse.
It's actually the other way around. In NJ one must be 17 and pass the tests to get a drivers' license. 16 year olds from other states can drive on NJ roads as long as they are driving in a vehicle registered in the state from which they are licensed. And in MA the average passing grade on a drivers' exam is 60 percent, which if you've ever driven near Boston explains a lot. They still get to drive in NJ.
That Scalia dissented means he's not looking at the right parts of the Constitution but is just being selective.
I can't think of the last time I've heard of a Justice saying that he personally detests the ruling but 'this is what the law says'. They all seem to join or dissent with the ruling that they prefer and back themselves into an argument to support it, which is antithetical to the job description. Somebody please prove me wrong on that.
It says more about the wisdom of having nine final arbiters of truth than anything.
why would a business pay for an expensive business radio system if they can just issue "cheap" ham radios to their employees and encrypt their data so no one knows they are using it for business?
Maybe the problem then is that the business radio systems are (it would seem from the above) much more expensive than ham gear? The difference in oscillators can't be the contributing factor. In non-urban areas there is quite a bit of open spectrum and very low utilization. That's evidence enough that the FCC's current governance is harmful.
I understand this is probably a dull, dangerous job, but do we have to automate every line of work out of existence?
We have to automate every dull, dangerous job out of existence so we can free up the humans to enjoy their lives and focus on the creative pursuits where they really shine.
The inflation tax is the worst. Income tax sucks. The least bad are consumption taxes.
Good ordering, though I'd put a poll (aka 'head') tax at the top of the list. A per-person tax that everybody has to pay, and a government sized such that every person could afford it.
The simple way to avoid this negative effect on the poor is to send every single person in the USA their tax "prebate" at the beginning of the year.
Making every single American dependent on Federal government payments isn't the way to a liberty-based small-government system, despite the monetarists' machinations. It's a good formula for a social democracy, but would be disastrous for a Republic of Republics.
At $0.50-0.60 a watt for today's solar panels, we're almost at the point where people can power their own homes.
This is a goal of mine, but let me tell you that while panel prices are very nice right now, battery prices are still the limiting factor. What's worse, the common types need to be replaced well before the panels and the uncommon types that don't are really hard to acquire (i.e. expensive) and very inefficient.
LOL. Try actually computing how much land area is required to cover 1% of US electrical baseload given 20% solar panel efficiency and 600W - 1000W incident solar radiation per square meter on a perfectly sunny day in May (e.g. most optimal time of the year.)
FWIW, I once ran the numbers for the full load, assumed a magical 40% cell and it was still 1/4 of the entire land area of New Mexico, and that wasn't allowing for space between the panels for service or any failure rate.
When I mention this to naive people they say, "oh, that's not bad, we could still have 3/4 of New Mexico and a green economy!" completely failing to begin comprehending the scope of such a project, which far surpasses anything humans have ever tried to undertake. I should have calculated the labor costs involved using Great Walls of China as the unit.
Is this one of those rare cases where a patent holder is using patent laws as they were originally intended?
It's almost a trick question. If we break the Clause into its two parts:
purpose: To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts
and policy: by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries
then we can analyze it better. In this case very few people have access to this type of 3D printer. Through the use of Kickstarter, the developers at Formlabs came up with a business model and manufacturing capability to get these things manufactured and into people's hands. In almost all cases the recipients will invent other things using the 3D printers. That sounds like what the Founders envisioned as the desirable way for Society to proceed.
Now, then, the patent (monopoly grant) could stop them. It can also be used to funnel some of their money to the people who sued them. Both cases would be consistent with the policy part of the "Copyright Clause".
If the Internet has taught me anything, it's that ideas are a dime a dozen (humans are a gregarious, clever bunch) and execution is 95% of any product success. Cheap communication changes the way a society functions in many ways, none of which were clearly anticipated by the Founders. None of them intended their document to last this long either (and in many ways it hasn't, often for the worse).
Back to your original question, the most common current interpretation of the Constitution is that it's a document that grants powers, and any named excuses for those powers (or limitations thereof) are just rhetorical flourish. I'm not sure if that's original intent of its interpretation, but the Courts clearly found that in Heller and McDonald. So, I think the answer to your question is a resounding 'yes'. But also one that should be slated for Amendment after centuries of practical experience.
Unfortunately, the other practical experience is that the Copyright Clause makes the wealthy wealthier, and they control the political machine, so I don't expect such an Amendment would ever pass with the current government.
If you're hitting duck duck go, then the link you click?
Yes, certainly. I hope I didn't sound like I was giving the impression that there's a totally secure/private way to surf the web that's surveillance-proof. There are just measures you can take to reduce the level of penetration.
People say that all the time, but if you know of a country that offers citizens stronger assurances and greater practical liberties, we'd love to hear about it.
Perhaps the problem is that you're looking for liberties from mechanisms that are designed to infringe liberty. The 18th Century version works better than the 12th Century version, but one would expect more Slashdotters to demand a 21st Century upgrade.
I would go the other way, trying to get better hardware for cheap and putting a full OS on it.
That's the right call, though to be fair the Sony PS4 may very well be a single $100 SoC by time the second hardware release rolls around. AMD was a good choice from that perspective.
Call it Platformism, but if that citation is correct, it was very solid reasoning from Jobs
Also, Pippin was a Scully project, so that likely had bearing as well. I'm reasonably sure Jobs went to his grave believing the iPhone had nothing in common with the Newton MessagePad.
Apple did the same thing when doing the UNIX conformance; my team donated back code and test sets to more than 150 Open Source projects to enable them to be standards conformant, and, in the case of the test sets, to continue to be standards conformant going forward.
Right, but what makes sense for Apple does not necessarily make sense for Sony. Remember, Apple is invested in updates because they will release and sell OS updates and brag about OS updates at their press conferences. In contrast, Sony will fork a branch for the PS4 and do very little to it (other than security and perhaps performance patches) over the next seven years. If it all works out, we _might_ see them dump code back if they decide to go with FreeBSD 12 for PS5, which would be about five years from now.
Remember, this is the Sony that actively removed 'Other OS' from PS3. They are currently adverse to interoperability to the point of being willing to endure the risk of class action lawsuits to do it. Hrm, oddly enough the timing of the removal of the OtherOS feature would have been about the time they made the decision internally to go with FreeBSD.
The government's number one tool in the fight against terrorism.
I hate to say it, but by definition, the only way for terrorism to work is for people to be terrified.
If the People would grow a backbone again, and stop being terrified, no matter if it's salafi jihadists or government propagandists who are attempting the scaring, then there could be no terrorism. War's over, let's pack up and go home.
A skiddish populous is the #1 tool in the effort that has been misnamed the "War on Terror".
HTTPS relies on the keys in use not being compromised or broken.
I'm not sure how the keys would be broken, but if they're compromised a MitM attack is possible, but session snooping isn't possible as a side-band attack. That's one of the reasons why TLS first does public key crypto for setup and then does symmetric crypto to protect the session. Further HTTPS Everywhere does TLS key inventory with its SSL Observatory feature, so if a site is attacked and a malicious key is installed there or in the middle, it further warns you.
It also doesn't do anything for detecting what sites you are looking at, it just encrypts the content.
Technically, the IP. The sites could be handled by SNI, which happens after encyrption, but the point is fair. Still, if I'm searching Duck Duck Go, I care about the content, not the site. If you're on contribute.alqaeda.org, then yeah, bad idea.
Logs can be subpoenaed from the host once they identify which sites you are hitting anyhow.
Indeed, crypto does not defeat the lead pipe or men-with-guns attacks. However, that has always applied, and since this story is about the "Age of Surveillance", TLS is a good countermeasure for the new problem. At least Snowden claims it is and math theory predicts it to be.
the problem is, intent is a major part of espionage, and what is on the table so far, has no indication of that.
Nixon's DoJ filed espionage charges against Ellsberg too. Obama and Nixon are turning out to have very similar governance styles. Except Nixon only filed one Espionage Act charge against leaker(s) - Obama is up to seven. Before Obama the total stood at three.
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Quick, declare it a Federal Disaster Zone so the rest of the country can pay for the damages to the uninsured.
That area already got $60B of your emotion money.
I certainly be willing to have the US government pay for part of it.
ha! - they defunded the sensor study to keep track of the separation of the two sides of the mountain years ago. Also, we're not allowed to talk about that one in the new world of asymmetric risks.
FYI, there's a tool online that will show projected inundations of various tsunami types (who's got better Google Fu than me at the moment?). The wave in question will lap up against the east side of the mountain ridge just to my east. I probably need to worry about seismic impacts here (81m inland) but will stay dry and not get crushed by the shockwave.
Not certain the argument that 'freedom of movement' equates to 'automobile license' would hold up in court.
The UN didn't intend that people go bushwhacking to get from place to place. Many of the roads where I am were privately built and then seized by the State in the 1800's. Heck, here there are even roads between towns that were taken over for the Interstate system, removing even the ability to walk or bicycle between places without a motor vehicle. Some houses are off exits that go nowhere but the side roads of what used to be State highways. They either drive cars or they cannot buy food or go to work.
Besides the UN, there are also rights of free association and assembly that are infringed by the driver licensing system. That's one trouble with having a limited government take over functions of society - it cannot infringe rights in its management of those assets. Own a private road? Sure, let whoever you want on it or not on it. Government road? Rights cannot be infringed in the supervision of it without due process of law. Well, at least in the America that was designed to protect natural rights, not what we have left of its bloody corpse.
It's actually the other way around. In NJ one must be 17 and pass the tests to get a drivers' license. 16 year olds from other states can drive on NJ roads as long as they are driving in a vehicle registered in the state from which they are licensed. And in MA the average passing grade on a drivers' exam is 60 percent, which if you've ever driven near Boston explains a lot. They still get to drive in NJ.
politicians constantly remind us that driving is a privilege
Remind them that while the US is a member of the UN, its charter definitions are binding.
That Scalia dissented means he's not looking at the right parts of the Constitution but is just being selective.
I can't think of the last time I've heard of a Justice saying that he personally detests the ruling but 'this is what the law says'. They all seem to join or dissent with the ruling that they prefer and back themselves into an argument to support it, which is antithetical to the job description. Somebody please prove me wrong on that.
It says more about the wisdom of having nine final arbiters of truth than anything.
why would a business pay for an expensive business radio system if they can just issue "cheap" ham radios to their employees and encrypt their data so no one knows they are using it for business?
Maybe the problem then is that the business radio systems are (it would seem from the above) much more expensive than ham gear? The difference in oscillators can't be the contributing factor. In non-urban areas there is quite a bit of open spectrum and very low utilization. That's evidence enough that the FCC's current governance is harmful.
I understand this is probably a dull, dangerous job, but do we have to automate every line of work out of existence?
We have to automate every dull, dangerous job out of existence so we can free up the humans to enjoy their lives and focus on the creative pursuits where they really shine.
Libertarians are not pro-liberty.
big-L or little-l? I'm trying to figure out if you're making a composition error or simply trying to re-define the language.
The inflation tax is the worst. Income tax sucks. The least bad are consumption taxes.
Good ordering, though I'd put a poll (aka 'head') tax at the top of the list. A per-person tax that everybody has to pay, and a government sized such that every person could afford it.
The simple way to avoid this negative effect on the poor is to send every single person in the USA their tax "prebate" at the beginning of the year.
Making every single American dependent on Federal government payments isn't the way to a liberty-based small-government system, despite the monetarists' machinations. It's a good formula for a social democracy, but would be disastrous for a Republic of Republics.
At $0.50-0.60 a watt for today's solar panels, we're almost at the point where people can power their own homes.
This is a goal of mine, but let me tell you that while panel prices are very nice right now, battery prices are still the limiting factor. What's worse, the common types need to be replaced well before the panels and the uncommon types that don't are really hard to acquire (i.e. expensive) and very inefficient.
LOL. Try actually computing how much land area is required to cover 1% of US electrical baseload given 20% solar panel efficiency and 600W - 1000W incident solar radiation per square meter on a perfectly sunny day in May (e.g. most optimal time of the year.)
FWIW, I once ran the numbers for the full load, assumed a magical 40% cell and it was still 1/4 of the entire land area of New Mexico, and that wasn't allowing for space between the panels for service or any failure rate.
When I mention this to naive people they say, "oh, that's not bad, we could still have 3/4 of New Mexico and a green economy!" completely failing to begin comprehending the scope of such a project, which far surpasses anything humans have ever tried to undertake. I should have calculated the labor costs involved using Great Walls of China as the unit.
Is this one of those rare cases where a patent holder is using patent laws as they were originally intended?
It's almost a trick question. If we break the Clause into its two parts:
purpose: To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts
and policy: by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries
then we can analyze it better. In this case very few people have access to this type of 3D printer. Through the use of Kickstarter, the developers at Formlabs came up with a business model and manufacturing capability to get these things manufactured and into people's hands. In almost all cases the recipients will invent other things using the 3D printers. That sounds like what the Founders envisioned as the desirable way for Society to proceed.
Now, then, the patent (monopoly grant) could stop them. It can also be used to funnel some of their money to the people who sued them. Both cases would be consistent with the policy part of the "Copyright Clause".
If the Internet has taught me anything, it's that ideas are a dime a dozen (humans are a gregarious, clever bunch) and execution is 95% of any product success. Cheap communication changes the way a society functions in many ways, none of which were clearly anticipated by the Founders. None of them intended their document to last this long either (and in many ways it hasn't, often for the worse).
Back to your original question, the most common current interpretation of the Constitution is that it's a document that grants powers, and any named excuses for those powers (or limitations thereof) are just rhetorical flourish. I'm not sure if that's original intent of its interpretation, but the Courts clearly found that in Heller and McDonald. So, I think the answer to your question is a resounding 'yes'. But also one that should be slated for Amendment after centuries of practical experience.
Unfortunately, the other practical experience is that the Copyright Clause makes the wealthy wealthier, and they control the political machine, so I don't expect such an Amendment would ever pass with the current government.
If you're hitting duck duck go, then the link you click?
Yes, certainly. I hope I didn't sound like I was giving the impression that there's a totally secure/private way to surf the web that's surveillance-proof. There are just measures you can take to reduce the level of penetration.
Bingo, you're MITM'd.
Right, which is why you need something like HTTPS Everywhere's SSL Observatory to let you know about certificate changes.
People say that all the time, but if you know of a country that offers citizens stronger assurances and greater practical liberties, we'd love to hear about it.
Perhaps the problem is that you're looking for liberties from mechanisms that are designed to infringe liberty. The 18th Century version works better than the 12th Century version, but one would expect more Slashdotters to demand a 21st Century upgrade.
I would go the other way, trying to get better hardware for cheap and putting a full OS on it.
That's the right call, though to be fair the Sony PS4 may very well be a single $100 SoC by time the second hardware release rolls around. AMD was a good choice from that perspective.
So to be clear, you're just believing whatever the print says, and not relying on binary forensics?
You don't have to go that far, even. A sibling to the GP linked this page. BSD with Attribution Clause has some value, I suppose.
Call it Platformism, but if that citation is correct, it was very solid reasoning from Jobs
Also, Pippin was a Scully project, so that likely had bearing as well. I'm reasonably sure Jobs went to his grave believing the iPhone had nothing in common with the Newton MessagePad.
Apple did the same thing when doing the UNIX conformance; my team donated back code and test sets to more than 150 Open Source projects to enable them to be standards conformant, and, in the case of the test sets, to continue to be standards conformant going forward.
Right, but what makes sense for Apple does not necessarily make sense for Sony. Remember, Apple is invested in updates because they will release and sell OS updates and brag about OS updates at their press conferences. In contrast, Sony will fork a branch for the PS4 and do very little to it (other than security and perhaps performance patches) over the next seven years. If it all works out, we _might_ see them dump code back if they decide to go with FreeBSD 12 for PS5, which would be about five years from now.
Remember, this is the Sony that actively removed 'Other OS' from PS3. They are currently adverse to interoperability to the point of being willing to endure the risk of class action lawsuits to do it. Hrm, oddly enough the timing of the removal of the OtherOS feature would have been about the time they made the decision internally to go with FreeBSD.
The government's number one tool in the fight against terrorism.
I hate to say it, but by definition, the only way for terrorism to work is for people to be terrified.
If the People would grow a backbone again, and stop being terrified, no matter if it's salafi jihadists or government propagandists who are attempting the scaring, then there could be no terrorism. War's over, let's pack up and go home.
A skiddish populous is the #1 tool in the effort that has been misnamed the "War on Terror".
HTTPS relies on the keys in use not being compromised or broken.
I'm not sure how the keys would be broken, but if they're compromised a MitM attack is possible, but session snooping isn't possible as a side-band attack. That's one of the reasons why TLS first does public key crypto for setup and then does symmetric crypto to protect the session. Further HTTPS Everywhere does TLS key inventory with its SSL Observatory feature, so if a site is attacked and a malicious key is installed there or in the middle, it further warns you.
It also doesn't do anything for detecting what sites you are looking at, it just encrypts the content.
Technically, the IP. The sites could be handled by SNI, which happens after encyrption, but the point is fair. Still, if I'm searching Duck Duck Go, I care about the content, not the site. If you're on contribute.alqaeda.org, then yeah, bad idea.
Logs can be subpoenaed from the host once they identify which sites you are hitting anyhow.
Indeed, crypto does not defeat the lead pipe or men-with-guns attacks. However, that has always applied, and since this story is about the "Age of Surveillance", TLS is a good countermeasure for the new problem. At least Snowden claims it is and math theory predicts it to be.
Snowden says encryption is effective, AC says the NSA has magical technology. I'll place my bets accordingly.
the problem is, intent is a major part of espionage, and what is on the table so far, has no indication of that.
Nixon's DoJ filed espionage charges against Ellsberg too. Obama and Nixon are turning out to have very similar governance styles. Except Nixon only filed one Espionage Act charge against leaker(s) - Obama is up to seven. Before Obama the total stood at three.
hrm, that would be a choice the shareholders would accept.