"statists, fascists, marxists, kenyans, athiests, socialists, stalinists, and seriously and dangerously mentally ill"
That's all about government regulation. I'm not sure how well-considered their positions are, but government regulations are often the least effecitve kind.
Consumer regulation is often the most powerful. Just look at GoDaddy vs. SOPA. Their corporate behavior was absolutely regulated, entirely by customers. Of course, we'll never see governments regulating against government policy (the FTC isn't going to sanction anybody for engaging in SOPA-type activity, even though it's clearly wrong and unconstitutional) so that only leaves customer regulation as the option. This was a good example of persuasion working. Unfortunately the courts won't hear such cases either, as we have really weak property rights.
We're never going to Mars at this rate. Well, America isn't at least.
Baloney, Elon Musk is going to retire there. When he's not busy building electric cars or funding Ron Paul PAC's, he's building better rockets than NASA.
NASA just needs to keep buying rockets from SpaceX - he'll use that money to get us to Mars.
Oh, the government isn't gonna get us there. Yeah, that's been clear since the 70's.
The sole reason to go to a BestBuy is "I need this item today." That's about it.
But don't over-buy. I was in a bind and bought two cables because I didn't know which one I needed. I paid cash. I brought one back and they wanted to put my drivers license number into their database to take a return.
100% of scientists to agree that global warming is occurring
Right.
and 98% of them to agree that it's somehow caused or contributed to by human activity
Right.
obviously not wanting to believe that anything bad is really happening.
And there's where you're making an assumption. That warming is bad.
Sure, if you own seaside property it's probably bad. But if you own Sahara desert - that used to be a jungle at the time when the Antarctic coast lines were not under ice (about 6000 years ago according to ancient maps). The ice is 3 *miles* thick in places in Antarctica - we've got a global drought going on.
We have models that show increased desertification, but also models that show much larger biomass with warmer temperatures. They're all just educated guesses at this point, and probably all of our models are wrong in one way or another.
But, yeah, buy property at the 200' sealevel contour lines for your heirs to put condos on in 60,000 years.
US carriers do not offer any sort of discount if you bring your own phone with you.
Only if you have to buy your phone service at a shopping mall. I own my phone and buy service from Page Plus Cellular and don't pay any 'payment-plan' fees.
if you don't have a large supply of your own stem cells in your home fridge
They know (in the lab anyway) how to take a random cell from you, force it to turn into a pleuripotent stem-cell and then make it become a 'whatever' (e.g. bone) cell. A happy side effect of Bush's fetal stem cell ban.
So, I guess on a long-term basis, you'll have to wait a few days after you break your bone for this kind of treatment. Or, I guess if you're rich you can have this kind of stuff banked and ready. It's not worth $10,000 a year to me to guard against this kind of wait, but maybe if I had 4 billion in the bank I'd look at it differently.
Protection from self-incrimination exists to prevent cohered confessions and things of that nature.
Partly, but it's a general principle about not being forced to testify against your own self-interest. If it were only about cohered confessions we wouldn't have the spousal testimony privilege, for instance.
The contents of the hard drive are evidence, not testimony.
And they're probably free to try to break the cypher. What they want is data that only ever existed in the RAM of the computer. If they had a warrant they could have intercepted that data. But after the fact, it's like taking phone records and compelling the accused to say what was transmitted over the wires, when that was never recorded nor was there a warrant to do so.
AC is exactly right. I have a VCR hooked up to a Hauppague box for this purpose. If it weren't for the jackbooted thugs I wouldn't even have the box of tapes in my attic.
They're asking her to produce the contents of the hard drive.
They have the contents of the hard drive. They want a transform of the contents of her hard drive based on a function in her brain.
I think this is like having a set of books without names. The prosecution wants the names to make sense of the books, but that's in the defendant's brain. 5th Amendment protects that testimony.
Um... the A4 and A5 are ARM chips. That's what they're talking about this hypothetical MacBook Air running on.
Hey, no confusing the issue with facts. Yeah, so iPhone has been ARM since 2006 and runs Darwin as its core. Maybe the internship was a job interview for the CoreOS team.
Well, I suppose I could drive to Mexico first, but that's a little extreme.
I was going to start making the drive up to Montreal, and then the US Border Patrol installed whole-vehicle X-ray systems that everybody has to drive through on the way back.
Yeah, it is important to be careful about the specific country's rules, laws, regulations, and jurisprudence when talking about the topic.
In the US, for example, right of transit of the airways is an express right by statute. Fat lot of good that does, though it is always possible to charter and avoid molestation.
Similarly, in the US, the courts, if they were confronted with Australia's problem, and were they following jurisprudence, may have required the government to build a new terminal, if the issue of efficiency you raised were severe enough. Minimizing infringement of civil liberties is more important than the cost. Also, in the US, most airports are government owned, which makes a difference. But these specific common law findings may not exist in Australia.
Im sorry, but a business doesn't give the slightest toss that you think something is invading your "freedoms" - you are more than welcome to fly to another airport or use another travel method.
This has nothing to do with businesses - it's not a private airport that's implementing the procedures, it's a government. In the English Common Law countries, governments are held to not be above the law themselves. Australia has quite a few privacy laws, and the High Court has held that privacy largely stems from Common Law. Governments must also follow the rule of implementing the minimum infringement of rights necessary and cost isn't a factor - scanning every passenger due to US rules hardly qualifies. These kinds of searches also contravene the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, for whatever that's worth.
If this was really driven by the airline businesses, there'd be no screening at all, except for airlines that specialized in pandering to the fearful. Those lines and machines cost airlines money, not to mention all the people who won't fly because of them.
There is no point in having a flight waiting for their gate to be ploughed when there is another gate next to it which has already been ploughed and vacated.
There's "no point" only if you set the value of privacy and liberty to zero. Sometimes freedom isn't free, and when you place convenience above all else, you lose the principles that are of long-term importance.
In theory, a government is instituted to protect our liberties. Australia's position is, apparently, to tell most of its citizens, "we're sorry, we know you're not flying to a repressive regime, but we wouldn't want to inconvenience those who are, so we're going to have to virtually strip search you anyway."
Yeah, they say they're deleting the images afterwards. The US DHS said the same thing, until it was proved they were lying. Since Australia is acting as a client-state of the US, it's not unreasonable to assume they're following the same policies as well (for compliance with US law and to assure easy entry, of course).
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"statists, fascists, marxists, kenyans, athiests, socialists, stalinists, and seriously and dangerously mentally ill"
That's all about government regulation. I'm not sure how well-considered their positions are, but government regulations are often the least effecitve kind.
Consumer regulation is often the most powerful. Just look at GoDaddy vs. SOPA. Their corporate behavior was absolutely regulated, entirely by customers. Of course, we'll never see governments regulating against government policy (the FTC isn't going to sanction anybody for engaging in SOPA-type activity, even though it's clearly wrong and unconstitutional) so that only leaves customer regulation as the option. This was a good example of persuasion working. Unfortunately the courts won't hear such cases either, as we have really weak property rights.
but when it does, it can notice it (mine has an ultrasonic sensor) and will let you fix it immediately.
Mine always grabs multiple sheets unless they've been previously folded. Not sure if mine has an ultrasonic sensor - what does the sensor do?
We're never going to Mars at this rate. Well, America isn't at least.
Baloney, Elon Musk is going to retire there. When he's not busy building electric cars or funding Ron Paul PAC's, he's building better rockets than NASA.
NASA just needs to keep buying rockets from SpaceX - he'll use that money to get us to Mars.
Oh, the government isn't gonna get us there. Yeah, that's been clear since the 70's.
Regulations are not a "necessary evil". They are simply "necessary".
Everybody agrees regulations are necessary.
Where there is disagreement is whether evil is necessary for regulations. The question is only who does the regulating.
As Gandhi said, "the means are everything."
Am I missing something?
What's his Slashdot UID?
Thanks. The resolution still sucks though.
The resolution is fine. There's a very detailed little black sliver of my town that shows as a 'wasteland'.
Which it is, but so is lots of the rest of the town, and it's not black at all on this map.
Decent resolution, useless accuracy.
They sell TV's, car stereos, washing machines and video games.
Among the most sublime of agricultural products.
The sole reason to go to a BestBuy is "I need this item today." That's about it.
But don't over-buy. I was in a bind and bought two cables because I didn't know which one I needed. I paid cash. I brought one back and they wanted to put my drivers license number into their database to take a return.
Hell no! Who needs a $40 20' RCA cable?
100% of scientists to agree that global warming is occurring
Right.
and 98% of them to agree that it's somehow caused or contributed to by human activity
Right.
obviously not wanting to believe that anything bad is really happening.
And there's where you're making an assumption. That warming is bad.
Sure, if you own seaside property it's probably bad. But if you own Sahara desert - that used to be a jungle at the time when the Antarctic coast lines were not under ice (about 6000 years ago according to ancient maps). The ice is 3 *miles* thick in places in Antarctica - we've got a global drought going on.
We have models that show increased desertification, but also models that show much larger biomass with warmer temperatures. They're all just educated guesses at this point, and probably all of our models are wrong in one way or another.
But, yeah, buy property at the 200' sealevel contour lines for your heirs to put condos on in 60,000 years.
When they're offering $25/mo, we'll talk.
I bet when they're buying millions of DSL lines in bulk, they'll get a much better price than $25.
You do want a free Internet connection, don't you?
US carriers do not offer any sort of discount if you bring your own phone with you.
Only if you have to buy your phone service at a shopping mall. I own my phone and buy service from Page Plus Cellular and don't pay any 'payment-plan' fees.
STEER clear of sheep!?!?
You'd better or ewe might get rammed.
War is not useful. It's good for absolutely nothing.
So, I guess you neither make bombs or run a central bank. Silly, Hatta, wars are for profit.
if you don't have a large supply of your own stem cells in your home fridge
They know (in the lab anyway) how to take a random cell from you, force it to turn into a pleuripotent stem-cell and then make it become a 'whatever' (e.g. bone) cell. A happy side effect of Bush's fetal stem cell ban.
So, I guess on a long-term basis, you'll have to wait a few days after you break your bone for this kind of treatment. Or, I guess if you're rich you can have this kind of stuff banked and ready. It's not worth $10,000 a year to me to guard against this kind of wait, but maybe if I had 4 billion in the bank I'd look at it differently.
Protection from self-incrimination exists to prevent cohered confessions and things of that nature.
Partly, but it's a general principle about not being forced to testify against your own self-interest. If it were only about cohered confessions we wouldn't have the spousal testimony privilege, for instance.
The contents of the hard drive are evidence, not testimony.
And they're probably free to try to break the cypher. What they want is data that only ever existed in the RAM of the computer. If they had a warrant they could have intercepted that data. But after the fact, it's like taking phone records and compelling the accused to say what was transmitted over the wires, when that was never recorded nor was there a warrant to do so.
AC is exactly right. I have a VCR hooked up to a Hauppague box for this purpose. If it weren't for the jackbooted thugs I wouldn't even have the box of tapes in my attic.
They're asking her to produce the contents of the hard drive.
They have the contents of the hard drive. They want a transform of the contents of her hard drive based on a function in her brain.
I think this is like having a set of books without names. The prosecution wants the names to make sense of the books, but that's in the defendant's brain. 5th Amendment protects that testimony.
Um... the A4 and A5 are ARM chips. That's what they're talking about this hypothetical MacBook Air running on.
Hey, no confusing the issue with facts. Yeah, so iPhone has been ARM since 2006 and runs Darwin as its core. Maybe the internship was a job interview for the CoreOS team.
Wake me up when there's a pentasomy X WOMAN in charge of the Fedora project.
Sorry, the Windows Vista team beat us on this one.
Cost to the US economy overall is probably millions of dollars, a direct loss to the travel industry
I saw it estimated the other day as $600 Billion and counting. That 6x10^11, to keep our cross-pond communication working.
Well, I suppose I could drive to Mexico first, but that's a little extreme.
I was going to start making the drive up to Montreal, and then the US Border Patrol installed whole-vehicle X-ray systems that everybody has to drive through on the way back.
The frog - it's getting mighty uncomfortable.
Yeah, it is important to be careful about the specific country's rules, laws, regulations, and jurisprudence when talking about the topic.
In the US, for example, right of transit of the airways is an express right by statute. Fat lot of good that does, though it is always possible to charter and avoid molestation.
Similarly, in the US, the courts, if they were confronted with Australia's problem, and were they following jurisprudence, may have required the government to build a new terminal, if the issue of efficiency you raised were severe enough. Minimizing infringement of civil liberties is more important than the cost. Also, in the US, most airports are government owned, which makes a difference. But these specific common law findings may not exist in Australia.
Im sorry, but a business doesn't give the slightest toss that you think something is invading your "freedoms" - you are more than welcome to fly to another airport or use another travel method.
This has nothing to do with businesses - it's not a private airport that's implementing the procedures, it's a government. In the English Common Law countries, governments are held to not be above the law themselves. Australia has quite a few privacy laws, and the High Court has held that privacy largely stems from Common Law. Governments must also follow the rule of implementing the minimum infringement of rights necessary and cost isn't a factor - scanning every passenger due to US rules hardly qualifies. These kinds of searches also contravene the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, for whatever that's worth.
If this was really driven by the airline businesses, there'd be no screening at all, except for airlines that specialized in pandering to the fearful. Those lines and machines cost airlines money, not to mention all the people who won't fly because of them.
There is no point in having a flight waiting for their gate to be ploughed when there is another gate next to it which has already been ploughed and vacated.
There's "no point" only if you set the value of privacy and liberty to zero. Sometimes freedom isn't free, and when you place convenience above all else, you lose the principles that are of long-term importance.
In theory, a government is instituted to protect our liberties. Australia's position is, apparently, to tell most of its citizens, "we're sorry, we know you're not flying to a repressive regime, but we wouldn't want to inconvenience those who are, so we're going to have to virtually strip search you anyway."
Yeah, they say they're deleting the images afterwards. The US DHS said the same thing, until it was proved they were lying. Since Australia is acting as a client-state of the US, it's not unreasonable to assume they're following the same policies as well (for compliance with US law and to assure easy entry, of course).
What about the hassle to the people indeed? Really, there isn't any more hassle than there is going through a metal detector, so thats a moot point.
So these aren't shoes-off, no metal objects, remove your nipple rings and artificial-hips detectors?
and any aircraft can be assigned to any gate, so you need one per gate.
So, you assign US-bound aircraft to particular gates.