Yup. China will be first to Mars while the US sits around like Europe does, old men on their porches filled with no-longer-valid rhetoric of how great they used to be.
The idea is to seize the computers sending the illegally-obtained data before it gets out. This touches on several parts of the First Amendment. Speech for one, as long as you aren't the one who stole the info, the government can't shut you up.
The other is the lesser-used part about freedom of the press, which is less about a 1940s high pants quick talker with a "Press" card tucked in his hat band and more about actual printing presses -- the mechanical means of mass production of speech for distribution, carried through to modern life via computers and so on.
Kings can and did regulate or outlaw presses as a back door censorship method.
Here they are seizing the computers that will be distributing the information. Hence the possible violation if the law is sloppy.
China and the US are the only countries that matter anymore, and they're gonna do what they want, kicking sand in the face of the 97 pound weaklings of the world.
Henry Rollins' character goes off on a rant about omnipresent consumer electronics and their fields causing all their health problems in Johnny Mnemonic from 1995.
People are fine with it as a tracking device. Even the concept of a nearby business sending a quick coupon is cool.
It is unauthorized access by government that is a serious issue. By that I mean warrantless. Attaching a tracking device to a car without a warrant was ruled unconstiutional.
Every politician has had a little birdie sing softly into their ear, "Imagine the next attack, and you are on the record as hampering government from its panopticon of observation."
I also point out the idiocy of the "metadata" concept in relation to constitutional design. In this cas, good old King George III would indeed have happily warrantlessly tracked founding father phone calls to see who was in their network.
As such the founding fathers would have banned it, sans warrant.
Again, warrants are all we ask. Do not build the tools of dictatorship. Disallow government those powers. That is the central constitutional design principle.
There he is! The leftist who declares we should not be bound by 200 year old documents, because it gets in the way of the arrogation of power into the government, the kinds of which dictators like. He fancies himself better than they, and a wise wielder of it, and that there is no danger of it ever being used to form a dictatorship, so it's safe.
You ask the wrong question. Do not ask "What else from 1776 would you use?" That is a fraud's rhetorical device.
Ask instead what problem they were trying to solve, based on thousands of years of observation.
They sought to strip the power of kings to use the power of government to maintain power. Hence not just things like freedom of speech, but the absolutist wording of it, to prevent creeping control, of the type we currently see in Europe and elsewhere in nominally free countries.
Each item has deep and well-debated reasoning behind it. You need warrants to prevent government from rooting through your stuff to hamper political opponents. You need specific warrants, as opposed to general ones, for the same reason.
The best you can say about the current state is it relies on an outdated, landline era telephony concept where "people had no expectation of privacy in corporate business records of their calls", needed for billing.
Well that has shifted with Internet/cloud concept. As people shift "their papers" online, out of their house and off their body, they shift with it an expectation of privacy.
Regardless of any sea rising problems, free reign to come live and work in the US is a boon to any 3rd world nation, and many will take advantage of it.
This fights against the "Go read the 2000 page manual, you idiot!"-itis found on specialist sites.
A reference manual is a terrible learning tool. It is only useful if you know what you are looking for. For that matter, it is difficult to use if you don't know the correct words to search for, as he mentions elsewhere when discussing duplicate questions.
Programmers who get off on saying RTFM are useless and should not be allowed anywhere near such discussions. If you were sitting next to the guy, you would answer the answer, not say this. Help someone find the answer to an actual question quickly.
On a personal note for SE, "This is a duplicate question." needs a link to the duplicate question. Again terminology for search issues. And if they provide it, note to their UI people, I can't easily see it. It just seems like a snotty response + "Denied!"
The hate derives from free people out-competing every manner of entrenched interest.
This shows there is more going on then just government regulations and government licensing, to restrict competition.
Oh, look. Another vector to power, via government, to hamper free people from competing. Government allows a union to take over all employees, not just those who freely join.
Palestine is recognised as a independent state. Therefore this is a war between states.
One Israeli of my acquaintance stated that "They are not 'Palestinians', they are Arabs and as such they should be happy to live anywhere in the Arab world. Israel isn't part of the Arab world."
Aside from Australians I have never met a group more prone to racism than Israelis. But unlike Aussies the Israeli men didn't seem to be entirely misogynistic.
Interesting how Judaism is pretty much the only religion alive today which is almost entirely racial in nature and focussed on parentage. Who your mother is matters very much in Judaism; I don't believe there is any other religion for which your parents, your genealogy, actually matters at all.
Does Jordan plowing under entire Palestinian villages count as racism in your Israel-hating Euro-fashionable worldview?
The correct thing is to debate it, not to abuse the mod system, confusing disagreement with trolling in an attempt to hide politically disagreeable, to the modder, viewpoints.
-1: Post disagrees with my already-settled worldview -- Not a valid mod option.
Slashdot had (has?) a metamod system, where moderations are modded, the idea unfair mods will themselves get modded down, such that with enough infractions, shall we say, the original, unfair modder's mods will no longer carry weight.
Clearly it doesn't work well, and for that matter suffers from the same biases, as -1 troll Israeli Supporter is just as likely to be approved as a fair mod.
It isn't really for true trolls, thoug they may seek it out. It is for the occasional rude jackass who has a public, non-anonymous persona (even though censored on the billboard.)
It is also part of the beginning of the borgification of a human hive mind.
I can't imagine Galactic evening news, with several planets getting hit by massive asteroids daily. 9/11 stuff and nuclear wars won't even make the cut.
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Yup. China will be first to Mars while the US sits around like Europe does, old men on their porches filled with no-longer-valid rhetoric of how great they used to be.
Wait it isn't even illegally-obtained info, my bad. This is even worse.
The idea is to seize the computers sending the illegally-obtained data before it gets out. This touches on several parts of the First Amendment. Speech for one, as long as you aren't the one who stole the info, the government can't shut you up.
The other is the lesser-used part about freedom of the press, which is less about a 1940s high pants quick talker with a "Press" card tucked in his hat band and more about actual printing presses -- the mechanical means of mass production of speech for distribution, carried through to modern life via computers and so on.
Kings can and did regulate or outlaw presses as a back door censorship method.
Here they are seizing the computers that will be distributing the information. Hence the possible violation if the law is sloppy.
China and the US are the only countries that matter anymore, and they're gonna do what they want, kicking sand in the face of the 97 pound weaklings of the world.
Thanks. Anyone can imagine a mechanical man; the "dancing bear" is actually making it work.
"Yes, Mommy Dearest."
Joan Crawford, in her will: I gave away all my money rather than leave it to my kids. They will know why."
Son: Well, as usual, she had the last laugh.
Daughter: Oh did she? Oh did she?
Henry Rollins' character goes off on a rant about omnipresent consumer electronics and their fields causing all their health problems in Johnny Mnemonic from 1995.
Reserting the circuit breaker is like Han whacking the Falcon and saying, "Hold together, baby."
I was able to open a Master combo lock by yanking it mildly hard. I found out why that model was on sale for 99 cents.
People are fine with it as a tracking device. Even the concept of a nearby business sending a quick coupon is cool.
It is unauthorized access by government that is a serious issue. By that I mean warrantless. Attaching a tracking device to a car without a warrant was ruled unconstiutional.
Just get the damned warrants.
Every politician has had a little birdie sing softly into their ear, "Imagine the next attack, and you are on the record as hampering government from its panopticon of observation."
I also point out the idiocy of the "metadata" concept in relation to constitutional design. In this cas, good old King George III would indeed have happily warrantlessly tracked founding father phone calls to see who was in their network.
As such the founding fathers would have banned it, sans warrant.
Again, warrants are all we ask. Do not build the tools of dictatorship. Disallow government those powers. That is the central constitutional design principle.
There he is! The leftist who declares we should not be bound by 200 year old documents, because it gets in the way of the arrogation of power into the government, the kinds of which dictators like. He fancies himself better than they, and a wise wielder of it, and that there is no danger of it ever being used to form a dictatorship, so it's safe.
You ask the wrong question. Do not ask "What else from 1776 would you use?" That is a fraud's rhetorical device.
Ask instead what problem they were trying to solve, based on thousands of years of observation.
They sought to strip the power of kings to use the power of government to maintain power. Hence not just things like freedom of speech, but the absolutist wording of it, to prevent creeping control, of the type we currently see in Europe and elsewhere in nominally free countries.
Each item has deep and well-debated reasoning behind it. You need warrants to prevent government from rooting through your stuff to hamper political opponents. You need specific warrants, as opposed to general ones, for the same reason.
The best you can say about the current state is it relies on an outdated, landline era telephony concept where "people had no expectation of privacy in corporate business records of their calls", needed for billing.
Well that has shifted with Internet/cloud concept. As people shift "their papers" online, out of their house and off their body, they shift with it an expectation of privacy.
"Did Amy Schumer's breast pop out in this scene? Click here to see!"
Yup, you may be right.
Regardless of any sea rising problems, free reign to come live and work in the US is a boon to any 3rd world nation, and many will take advantage of it.
This fights against the "Go read the 2000 page manual, you idiot!"-itis found on specialist sites.
A reference manual is a terrible learning tool. It is only useful if you know what you are looking for. For that matter, it is difficult to use if you don't know the correct words to search for, as he mentions elsewhere when discussing duplicate questions.
Programmers who get off on saying RTFM are useless and should not be allowed anywhere near such discussions. If you were sitting next to the guy, you would answer the answer, not say this. Help someone find the answer to an actual question quickly.
On a personal note for SE, "This is a duplicate question." needs a link to the duplicate question. Again terminology for search issues. And if they provide it, note to their UI people, I can't easily see it. It just seems like a snotty response + "Denied!"
The hate derives from free people out-competing every manner of entrenched interest.
This shows there is more going on then just government regulations and government licensing, to restrict competition.
Oh, look. Another vector to power, via government, to hamper free people from competing. Government allows a union to take over all employees, not just those who freely join.
But what if the elevator carried some extra mass and shot it out sideways as it went up, to take advantage of the slingshot effect?
This is the longest "Oh yeah? Yo momma stinks!" post I have ever read.
Palestine is recognised as a independent state. Therefore this is a war between states.
One Israeli of my acquaintance stated that "They are not 'Palestinians', they are Arabs and as such they should be happy to live anywhere in the Arab world. Israel isn't part of the Arab world."
Aside from Australians I have never met a group more prone to racism than Israelis. But unlike Aussies the Israeli men didn't seem to be entirely misogynistic.
Interesting how Judaism is pretty much the only religion alive today which is almost entirely racial in nature and focussed on parentage. Who your mother is matters very much in Judaism; I don't believe there is any other religion for which your parents, your genealogy, actually matters at all.
Does Jordan plowing under entire Palestinian villages count as racism in your Israel-hating Euro-fashionable worldview?
The correct thing is to debate it, not to abuse the mod system, confusing disagreement with trolling in an attempt to hide politically disagreeable, to the modder, viewpoints.
-1: Post disagrees with my already-settled worldview -- Not a valid mod option.
Slashdot had (has?) a metamod system, where moderations are modded, the idea unfair mods will themselves get modded down, such that with enough infractions, shall we say, the original, unfair modder's mods will no longer carry weight.
Clearly it doesn't work well, and for that matter suffers from the same biases, as -1 troll Israeli Supporter is just as likely to be approved as a fair mod.
It isn't really for true trolls, thoug they may seek it out. It is for the occasional rude jackass who has a public, non-anonymous persona (even though censored on the billboard.)
It is also part of the beginning of the borgification of a human hive mind.
The future belongs to the adventurous. Screw these old world power centers.
Well, I guess America is the old world, sending ships to the new for colonization. Europe is the Old Old World.
That is why articles like this, fed by economic studies, are so important to counteracting how you feel as a reflection of the news.
I can't imagine Galactic evening news, with several planets getting hit by massive asteroids daily. 9/11 stuff and nuclear wars won't even make the cut.