That would be the CIA/NSA, not DHS. Surveillance of US citizens requires a warrant, assuming that Obama followed the law on that for the last 8 years (all indications are he ignored the Muslim community, opting instead to investigate reporters who didn't carry his water: https://www.yahoo.com/news/blo... ). Surveillance on the rest of the world is open season and the purview of the CIA and NSA, but at the direction of the president. Since Obama hated the idea of US supremacy and actively tried to make the US just another global citizen, pretty sure we don't have anything that is less than 8 years old on 99.99% of the world population.
The wife and suspected catalyst in the San Bernadino massacre would have been barred from entry if the feds had had access to her social media, as she had a lot of radical stuff. So no, it doesn't just affect honest people. http://www.cbsnews.com/news/co...
Visa applicants can probably get away with saying that they don't have social media as part of the affidavit on penalty of perjury, but the US government may ask social media sites to run a facial recognition scan on you of all photo posts from your home region, and/or a scan for your name in your region. If they can pick you out in that data set, they can find all of your friends who do have social media, and the account at the center of the relational web had better be your mom or your spouse. If it is something like Islamonut42, then odds are that is your account and you are concealing it and you should probably pack a bag for Gitmo because they will get a FISA warrant and get into that account anyway along with all of your electronic devices and track you back through your IP. If you are not actively going into the visa process as a terrorist, it is in your best interest to be honest.
You are assuming that the feds have no other way to review content on Facebook. Social media may no longer be giving them an all access pass, but anything that is publicly facing is still available, and everything else is still hackable by the CIA/available with a FISA warrant. If we get another terrorist attack like San Bernadino or the Orlando nightclub massacre, unlike the previous president who just shrugged and said "oh well" the current admin will likely bend social media over and ream out every byte of data on every non-citizen person in the US, password or no. Terrorist attacks must not be business as usual, regardless of the approach of the Obama administration.
If you are found to have a dupe Facebook account in order to deceive the US government for the purpose of entry into the US, I suspect that it will not end well for you and there will be some time spent in federal PMITA prison followed by deportation, if you don't wind up in Gitmo... The risk/reward ratio is not good unless you are trying to get in as a terrorist from the getgo, in which case there will likely be other indicators about your application/interview.
*Golf clap* I totally agree. As soon as traveling Americans start blowing people up or trying to murder innocent people abroad for having different religious views it would make total sense for other countries to require access to Americans social media. Until then you may want to educate yourself on the past 40 years of Islamic terrorism, as this topic is apparently beyond your capacity/knowledge to participate in.
That smart ass comment might get you a +4 interesting on/. but in the real world it is irrational bullshit.
*Golf clap* I totally agree. As soon as traveling Americans start blowing people up or trying to murder innocent people abroad for having different religious views. Until then you may want to educate yourself on Islamic terrorism, as this topic is apparently beyond your capacity/knowledge to participate in.
That smart ass comment might get you a +5 interesting on/. but in the real world it is irrational bullshit.
And that clean account will be what? 3 months old for a 23 year old adult? You are aware that social media has a timeline that the user cant retroactively create right? What you describe would immediately flagged as suspicious based on the account age and only having US friendly content and likely fabricated to defeat the requirement. Applicant denied. Care to try again?
You give up your privacy when you go through the vetting process to enter the US. If you don't like it, no one is making you come to the US, it is a privilege that you are applying for. That is a fact that is not changing, and your ignorance of the truth does not change it's historical fact.
Refusal to provide at least some social media would probably be viewed as failure to comply and result in a rejection of the applicant. It is possible for an active terrorist to create a "clean" social media profile, but the problem there is that, because of the newness of the requirement, the media profile would have a telltale of only just being created recently.
Further, you erroneously assume that the telltale that investigators are looking for is "using FB to meet up with terrorists" while what they are actually looking for is know associates with radical views. If several of your friends that you frequently message and spend time with have a lot of radical postings about violence and jihad, chances are you are not a good risk. The old saying is still true today: You can judge a person by the company that they keep.
Regarding the 7 targeted countries, you seem to be confused. There are tens of thousands of active radicals/terrorists in those countries who are actively committing acts of violence. That none of them have successfully committed an attack on US soil recently is only for lack of opportunity. These are not nice places filled with nice people, rainbows and lollipops. They are filled with savages living their lives based on a religion that teaches subjugation of women, condones rape, condones the murder of the infidel (non-muslim) and the murder of homosexuals to name a few highlights. To not take this into account in your discussion is disingenuous. I am not sure if you have been brainwashed by your college professors/MSM, or this discussion really is beyond your capacity...
In the longer term, this additional vetting will likely not catch active ISIS/terrorist agents, but will be successful in filtering out many radicals who aren't yet intent on committing violence but are essentially the unharvested crop of talent that ISIS has been recruiting in countries like France and for the San Bernadino attack.
First off, there is a time stamp associated with every post that is outside of the users control to manipulate. Secondly, this is not a police investigation, it is an immigration investigation, which does not have the same standards or requirements. If the vetting agents don't think you should get in, you don't.
The purpose of checking out the social media posts of potential entrants is to make sure we don't have another San Bernadino massacre, where the wife who many believe was the instigator, was allowed entry, and then after the massacre, we find she had a number of radical social media entries which would have barred her from getting in.
Exactly this Tepples, I was just coming here to post that...
The outright ignorance of the far left on almost every topic these days, combined with their continuous manufactured out of proportion outrage is honestly ridiculous.
NetworkBoy, you may want to educate yourself and/or get out of your echo chamber before posting on a topic like border searchers and visa vetting, which you apparently know nothing about.
TOS has about as much legal strength as a wet paper bag. TOS is a company saying "this is what we want, if you don't do what we want we are taking our toys and you can't play with them anymore". TOS are often in violation of laws, and guess which one wins out in court.
Laws and federal government action is an armed man putting a gun in your face and saying: "do this or else." All government action is action by force, just consider the final consequence of violating any law and ignoring the consequence of that violation. You will eventually have armed men coming after you to incarcerate you. If you ignore them and resist, you may very well get shot.
In order to receive the massive privilege of entering the US (and it is a privilege), potential visitors need to sacrifice their privacy, so we can know who they are. This is not new or news, it has been this way for decades, but with the advent of FB, Twitter and other social media, the vetting process needs to catch up with technology.
Getting a visa for the US is like someone asking to come live in your house. You would want to get to know that person, do a criminal background check on them etc. You would want to know, for example, if they belonged to the ISIS or some other radical group. It is the same with immigration to the US, we don't want certain radicals coming into our collective house, especially the ones who want to kill the infidel and hurt the great satan...
Your assumption is that the 10% false positive would just be denied a flight. It is unlikely that all 10% of the inaccuracy is false positives, it is more likely that it would be 5% false positive, 5% false negative. If you are feeling fine, you could challenge the test and immediately take another. If it was some transient error, you would be cleared and could board and fly. If it was a false positive based on some biological marker, you could get a waiver, if it were some false positive based on a temporary condition, you could challenge the test in an hour and catch the next flight. For the people that do actually have the flu, it is better that they not fly. I could give two shits about what the airlines want. This would just end up as overhead across all carriers, so all prices would go up a few percent and they would be fine. It is more important as a society to control the spread of one of the most deadly pathogens (look it up) on the planet if we have the ability to. China already screens passengers on inbound flights and turns them around if they are ill. Further, to cover the unexpected costs of being ill while traveling, a few percent fee could be added to everyone's airfare for ill travelers insurance that would provide for any lodging/medical expenses incurred while recovering.
The bottom line is that it is trivial to work out solutions, if the desire is there to minimize the spread of disease. Public health used to be top priority, and with the advent of fully resistant bacteria, we cannot just shrug off influenza anymore, as it shuts down your immune system for days, which is why most of the 500,000 who die of it die from a secondary pulmonary infection.
Trumps pick for supreme court is down the line constructionist. You may disagree with constructionist judges, but that is a fact that no one is disputing, unless you are a fringe lunatic. That means he will protect the constitution as written, and as Trump nominated him, that means Trump is also a constructionist. That may mean that imaginary/pulled out of the ass rights like abortion go away unless progressives can get actual laws passed, which is the way that it is supposed to work in our democracy: Legislature passes laws/amendments and the courts interpret them... (see all the other laws and constitutional amendments ever.) I happen to like the plain language of the constitution, progressives have hated parts of it (freedom of religions that they disagree with, freedom of speech they disagree with, right to bear arms by people other than themselves/their bodyguards) and have consistently tried to end run around the constitution by placing activist judges who pull shit out of their ass in their rulings instead of reading the words on the page and doing their job of interpreting them.
Regarding immigration, the countries temporarily barred from entry have internal records/vetting problems that make the investigations around the visa granting process uncertain (basically all Obama was doing was getting them in a room and asking them if they were a terrorist... obviously they are going to lie if they are).
Furthermore, if you were telling the truth, you would not call it a Muslim ban because there are still dozens of other Muslim countries that are allowed to come and go in the US with a valid visa. It is a ban on immigration from unstable Muslim countries with active terrorism and conditions which make normal visa vetting processes less reliable. The current visa vetting process was not even able to review social media postings of visa candidates (as of the date of the San Bernadino massacre), and consisted primarily of what the home country had in it's records, combined with an interview which consisted of an investigator asking the candidate if they were a terrorist... not exactly up the wazoo as you call it... Further, waiting to get hit with a terrorist attack is what the Clinton and Obama administration did. The current administration does not find it acceptable to wait until American blood runs in the streets to take action. If you can't understand that, I can't help you. The 9-11 attack that Osama Bin Laden perpetrated on the US cost about $3.3 trillion when you take into account the lost productivity of everyone who died, all the added security, lost productivity etc. It would have cost the US a few billion dollars to better screen immigrants from Muslim countries and deny the 911 hijackers entry in the first place.
As far as assimilation goes, it worked in the past because for the most part our immigrants were from European countries who all had similar values. Islam is not just a backwards, violent religion, it is also a form of government, known as Sharia. It is medieval and is fascist, and it supports some very heinous and illegal things such as subjugation of women, rape, statutory rape, honor killings, murder of homosexuals, and the list goes on. It is fundamentally incompatible with our western values and constitution and no amount of time will make it compatible.
Regarding terrorism vs mental illness, those are just the facts. Dont act like a smart ass and then provide zero facts to support any other conclusion. The last real non-Muslim terrorist attack that we had in the US was the Oklahoma Federal building in 1995 in direct response to the murder of over 80 people including women and children at the Branch Dividian compound in Waco, Texas by Janet Reno and the FBI. Every mass casualty event since then has either been driven by Islam or mental illness.
Then it appears that you are agreeing with me? Your Ford was pre-redesign, based on a design from the early 80s(?) if I recall, back when US auto manufacturers didn't give a shit about quality and were focused on fuel economy and cutting cost because Toyota hadn't eaten their lunch yet. The redesign of the truck lines happened in 96 for the F series trucks (from what I remember) and 98 for their Ranger series. The Mustangs were also ground up redesigned around that time as well, and many of those are still on the road.
From my experience and observation, GM has not had very good quality for a long time, but parts aren't hard to find. I have had pretty good luck using Amazon for car parts and they are pretty competitive.
My advice is to junk your Astro and F250 and pick up a nice 2000 or later F250 and Explorer/Expedition for less than the repairs will cost next time something breaks. Thats what I did with my Chevy.
First, to all the liberal progressive mods, if you are so right in your beliefs, write a post and show where I am wrong. -1 Overrated is not your personal censorship tool for views you disagree with. You are supposed to champion tolerance of others, live it. I am not a huge fan of Trump, I voted against him in the primary, but as a rational human being, the cognitive dissonance from the progressive left wing is too massive to let go unchallenged.
So Trump upholds the constitution, appoints a constructionist supreme court judge who will protect the constitution and bill of rights as written (not an activist judge who believes that the constitution can mean whatever the hell he wants it to), and you are comparing him to Hitler? You are taking the few good things that Hitler did for the Germans, like building roads and airports (many other good leaders have also built roads and airports for their countries the world over) and using that as justification to compare Trump to Hitler? By your logic Dwight D. Eisenhower was just like Hitler, because he championed the US interstate freeway system. Please tell me you are not really this stupid?
Take a look at the list of actions he has taken thus far and tell me which ones have hurt you (not traumatized you emotionally based on Democrat demagoguery). Which of these actions send brown shirts to your house in the middle of the night? Which ones force everyone to like Trump (have you turned on a TV in the last year, hatred for Trump is on 90% of the channels), or outlaw a religion (as far as I know, only the progressive left and Obama tried to attack freedom of religion by forcing Little Sisters of the Poor to support abortion and Christian bakers to support homosexual marriages or lose their business). (It is interesting that this was not tried with a Muslim bakery, I wonder why). Which executive actions authorize incarceration of innocent people? (Sorry, illegal aliens are criminals, by entering the country without permission they have committed a crime, no mater how hard you wish that were not the case.)
Trump has signed executive orders to: - Kill TPP - Protecting LGBT from workplace discrimination - Banned fed officials from becoming lobbyists for 5 years - Lifetime ban on WH officials becoming lobbyists for foreign countries - 120 day travel ban (not permaban) on visitors from terrorist hotbeds (Obama banned travelers/refugees from the same countries for 6 months after they found to terrorists had made it through the vetting process) - Authorized the border "wall" that democrats voted for many years ago but never funded, a wall similar to walls all non-island nations have to protect their borders. Check out how Mexico treats illegal entry at it's southern border. - Approved the Keystone XL and Dakota Access pipelines, so you don't have to pay $4/gal for gas like you did under Obama, which was essentially a tax on poor working people who have to commute longer on average
If popular support for unpermitted immigration was so high, progressives could easily change the laws to eliminate our borders completely, but only the loonytoon left wants that. Every country must control its borders. The US still allows over 1,000,000 immigrants a year, the most immigrants of any nation on the planet. Australia won't accept any illegal immigrants and it takes its illegal immigrants and detains them indefinitely on an island with conditions so bad that they are setting themselves on fire. (But there is no moral outrage on the left for this apparently, only that Trump doesn't want to take in potential terrorists that Australia doesn't want).
It would not be up to the airlines, in much the same way airport security is not their purview. It would be required by the WHO or CDC as part of the security screening process.
It is almost as trivial to pull the hard drive out of a PS4 if you are a hacker, the root problem is the 2TB limit on laptop hard drives vs. the storage needed for the modern consoles. Hacking was never the issue, I think the concern was more related to game performance and/or they just didn't think anyone would ever need more storage (which is obviously stupid).
Glad to see they are finally fixing this. This was really the one problem that I had with the PS4. The day after I bought my PS4 I upgraded it to a 2TB internal laptop drive, but with every game taking up 40GB plus, it is not that hard to fill up a drive that big, and indeed I recently ran out of space. Contrast this with my Xbone, which I think is the loser in this generation, but at least with Xbone I was able to plug in a 5TB USB3 external drive and was good to go.
If this works as advertised, even with a confidence of 90%, I can see it quickly becoming a mandatory test before boarding an airplane worldwide, which is how the flu spreads around the world every year. Sure it might inconvenience a few people who are just carriers without much in the way of symptoms, but the flu kills around 500,000 annually. If we could use this tool to keep it from hopping continents as rapidly, we would likely see flu vaccines become much more effective, as they would have more time to prepare and the disease mutation rate would be reduced.
Actually, for the last 15 years or so US quality has steadily risen, because the only way to compete and offset the higher costs of producing in the US is to have significantly higher quality than China. I can justify having a saw made in the US if it will last me 5 years as opposed to the cheaper overseas stuff that falls apart in a year or two.
As far as cars, at least for Ford, ever since their total model up redesign in the late 90s, the quality has been pretty good. I own 3 Ford trucks all over 10 years old, purchased both new and used, and I have had to change the fuel pump and MAF in one (18 years old now, hey I should buy it a beer!) and the window lift motor in the other (12 years old), otherwise it has been oil changes and tires for all that time. Quality seems pretty high to me. I also had a Chevy sedan for 18 years, but I had to change the water pump, struts, upper and lower control arm bushings, steering linkage knuckles,electric radiator fan, door lock cylinder, ignition cylinder, drive shaft linkages, and alternator among other things. When it turned 25 I sent it to the junkyard because everything else was falling apart.
This exactly, and often, the localization is done by a small company in your country that licenses the rights for a big fraction of their operating costs. Their entire business model hinges on blocking access to that content for that country except through them. Geoblocking is really a problem internal to your country. If you want geoblocking to go away, force all the EU states (or other countries where you happen to reside) to accept the US rating system and English as the primary language and then force licensing of media to cover the entire EU. Problem solved. Unless you don't speak English (although most US releases come with Spanish and French subs as well I think).
It is the classic human factor. The sysadmin probably knew all the right steps to take, but got lazy thinking he didn't need all the extra work and then, working late he made the mistake that all those steps would have protected against.
In the US, any product sold must function as intended for 90 days (consumer protection warranty). Any defects found in that time must be repaired or replaced by the manufacturer, or a full refund issued. In some states I think that is bumped up to 6 months or a year. Since most software is continuously sold to customers and the cost to repair one is the cost to repair all, the argument can easily be made that any software that is currently for resale is required to provide free bug fixes to everyone using their software. Since real financial and sometimes even physical harm (think stalker EX) can happen with security flaws, those also must be continuously fixed as long as the software is being sold. You are thinking of an extended warranty, not the one mandated by law. Extended warranties are often offered because of competition. However, in the desktop OS market, there is essentially no competition, MS saw to that years ago.
Now we have a "choice" between a giant FU from MS, a messy cluster F with barely any software that you have to be a software engineer to use in Linux, or a walled garden that doesn't run 80% of the software out there. For 95% of people out there, there is no alternative to MS.
Can we all please just take a chill pill? Pretty much everyone in the US thinks H1B reform is a good thing, Trump just re-signed the executive order protecting LGBT in the work place. He torpedoed the TPP. Who here disagrees with those actions? He stopped all immigration from terrorist hotbeds for 90 days to make sure we can effectively screen out ISIS operatives and other terrorists (Obama did this for 6 months from the exact same countries back in 2011 to review and better vet existing and incoming immigrants from those countries after we found out that we let in two terrorist bomb makers...)
Trumps supreme court nominee is a constructionist, meaning that every article of the constitution and all the amendments mean exactly what they say they mean in plain English and the constitution is the highest law in the land. Under Gorsuch, your constitutional rights will be protected, including freedom of speech, religion and the right to bear arms (all of which were under threat in the last 8 years). Trumps actions do not bear out all the panic on the left. He won the election and he is president and people having panic attacks over it or rioting will not change that and only serve to make the left look crazy to everyone else. The Democrat politicians are playing politics and trying to keep you in panic mode, but so far Trumps actions have been good for all Americans. They have been bad for foreign governments who have abused the American worker, big companies who have abused H1B visas, big companies who wanted TPP, bad for terrorists who want to infiltrate the US, bad for progressives who want to legislate from the bench and twist the constitution and try to take away rights like the second amendment while finding special rights where none exist in the plain language of the constitution, instead of creating popular support and passing legislation. Which camp are you in?
First of all IANAL. However, the consumer protections exist on the books, but because of bad court decisions, starting with treating consumer purchase of consumer software as anything other than the purchase of a single copyrighted consumer product, we have very muddy waters. There is no doubt that a new law could help clarify for the courts, but software could and should be covered under copyright, and there is no current law saying otherwise as far as I am aware.
If software were covered under copyright law, then you would have the right to repair/ right to resell/ right to an un-flawed product/right to control modification to the software that you own, including updates/right to install on any hardware that you own, right to operate offline, etc. Software updates that fix bugs or security holes would be required in much the same way that automotive recalls are required when defects are found. Auto dealers cant hold off on recall repairs until you sign away some of the rights of use to your car or agree to let the dealer sell your personal information to advertisers, software companies should be held to the same standards. You would essentially have all the same rights that you get when you buy a car or any other consumer product that is covered by consumer protection laws.
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That would be the CIA/NSA, not DHS. Surveillance of US citizens requires a warrant, assuming that Obama followed the law on that for the last 8 years (all indications are he ignored the Muslim community, opting instead to investigate reporters who didn't carry his water: https://www.yahoo.com/news/blo... ). Surveillance on the rest of the world is open season and the purview of the CIA and NSA, but at the direction of the president. Since Obama hated the idea of US supremacy and actively tried to make the US just another global citizen, pretty sure we don't have anything that is less than 8 years old on 99.99% of the world population.
The wife and suspected catalyst in the San Bernadino massacre would have been barred from entry if the feds had had access to her social media, as she had a lot of radical stuff. So no, it doesn't just affect honest people. http://www.cbsnews.com/news/co...
Visa applicants can probably get away with saying that they don't have social media as part of the affidavit on penalty of perjury, but the US government may ask social media sites to run a facial recognition scan on you of all photo posts from your home region, and/or a scan for your name in your region. If they can pick you out in that data set, they can find all of your friends who do have social media, and the account at the center of the relational web had better be your mom or your spouse. If it is something like Islamonut42, then odds are that is your account and you are concealing it and you should probably pack a bag for Gitmo because they will get a FISA warrant and get into that account anyway along with all of your electronic devices and track you back through your IP. If you are not actively going into the visa process as a terrorist, it is in your best interest to be honest.
You are assuming that the feds have no other way to review content on Facebook. Social media may no longer be giving them an all access pass, but anything that is publicly facing is still available, and everything else is still hackable by the CIA/available with a FISA warrant. If we get another terrorist attack like San Bernadino or the Orlando nightclub massacre, unlike the previous president who just shrugged and said "oh well" the current admin will likely bend social media over and ream out every byte of data on every non-citizen person in the US, password or no. Terrorist attacks must not be business as usual, regardless of the approach of the Obama administration.
If you are found to have a dupe Facebook account in order to deceive the US government for the purpose of entry into the US, I suspect that it will not end well for you and there will be some time spent in federal PMITA prison followed by deportation, if you don't wind up in Gitmo... The risk/reward ratio is not good unless you are trying to get in as a terrorist from the getgo, in which case there will likely be other indicators about your application/interview.
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I totally agree. As soon as traveling Americans start blowing people up or trying to murder innocent people abroad for having different religious views it would make total sense for other countries to require access to Americans social media. Until then you may want to educate yourself on the past 40 years of Islamic terrorism, as this topic is apparently beyond your capacity/knowledge to participate in.
That smart ass comment might get you a +4 interesting on /. but in the real world it is irrational bullshit.
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I totally agree. As soon as traveling Americans start blowing people up or trying to murder innocent people abroad for having different religious views. Until then you may want to educate yourself on Islamic terrorism, as this topic is apparently beyond your capacity/knowledge to participate in.
That smart ass comment might get you a +5 interesting on /. but in the real world it is irrational bullshit.
And that clean account will be what? 3 months old for a 23 year old adult? You are aware that social media has a timeline that the user cant retroactively create right? What you describe would immediately flagged as suspicious based on the account age and only having US friendly content and likely fabricated to defeat the requirement. Applicant denied. Care to try again?
You give up your privacy when you go through the vetting process to enter the US. If you don't like it, no one is making you come to the US, it is a privilege that you are applying for. That is a fact that is not changing, and your ignorance of the truth does not change it's historical fact.
Refusal to provide at least some social media would probably be viewed as failure to comply and result in a rejection of the applicant. It is possible for an active terrorist to create a "clean" social media profile, but the problem there is that, because of the newness of the requirement, the media profile would have a telltale of only just being created recently.
Further, you erroneously assume that the telltale that investigators are looking for is "using FB to meet up with terrorists" while what they are actually looking for is know associates with radical views. If several of your friends that you frequently message and spend time with have a lot of radical postings about violence and jihad, chances are you are not a good risk. The old saying is still true today: You can judge a person by the company that they keep.
Regarding the 7 targeted countries, you seem to be confused. There are tens of thousands of active radicals/terrorists in those countries who are actively committing acts of violence. That none of them have successfully committed an attack on US soil recently is only for lack of opportunity. These are not nice places filled with nice people, rainbows and lollipops. They are filled with savages living their lives based on a religion that teaches subjugation of women, condones rape, condones the murder of the infidel (non-muslim) and the murder of homosexuals to name a few highlights. To not take this into account in your discussion is disingenuous. I am not sure if you have been brainwashed by your college professors/MSM, or this discussion really is beyond your capacity...
In the longer term, this additional vetting will likely not catch active ISIS/terrorist agents, but will be successful in filtering out many radicals who aren't yet intent on committing violence but are essentially the unharvested crop of talent that ISIS has been recruiting in countries like France and for the San Bernadino attack.
First off, there is a time stamp associated with every post that is outside of the users control to manipulate. Secondly, this is not a police investigation, it is an immigration investigation, which does not have the same standards or requirements. If the vetting agents don't think you should get in, you don't.
The purpose of checking out the social media posts of potential entrants is to make sure we don't have another San Bernadino massacre, where the wife who many believe was the instigator, was allowed entry, and then after the massacre, we find she had a number of radical social media entries which would have barred her from getting in.
Exactly this Tepples, I was just coming here to post that...
The outright ignorance of the far left on almost every topic these days, combined with their continuous manufactured out of proportion outrage is honestly ridiculous.
NetworkBoy, you may want to educate yourself and/or get out of your echo chamber before posting on a topic like border searchers and visa vetting, which you apparently know nothing about.
TOS has about as much legal strength as a wet paper bag. TOS is a company saying "this is what we want, if you don't do what we want we are taking our toys and you can't play with them anymore". TOS are often in violation of laws, and guess which one wins out in court.
Laws and federal government action is an armed man putting a gun in your face and saying: "do this or else." All government action is action by force, just consider the final consequence of violating any law and ignoring the consequence of that violation. You will eventually have armed men coming after you to incarcerate you. If you ignore them and resist, you may very well get shot.
In order to receive the massive privilege of entering the US (and it is a privilege), potential visitors need to sacrifice their privacy, so we can know who they are. This is not new or news, it has been this way for decades, but with the advent of FB, Twitter and other social media, the vetting process needs to catch up with technology.
Getting a visa for the US is like someone asking to come live in your house. You would want to get to know that person, do a criminal background check on them etc. You would want to know, for example, if they belonged to the ISIS or some other radical group. It is the same with immigration to the US, we don't want certain radicals coming into our collective house, especially the ones who want to kill the infidel and hurt the great satan...
Your assumption is that the 10% false positive would just be denied a flight. It is unlikely that all 10% of the inaccuracy is false positives, it is more likely that it would be 5% false positive, 5% false negative. If you are feeling fine, you could challenge the test and immediately take another. If it was some transient error, you would be cleared and could board and fly. If it was a false positive based on some biological marker, you could get a waiver, if it were some false positive based on a temporary condition, you could challenge the test in an hour and catch the next flight. For the people that do actually have the flu, it is better that they not fly. I could give two shits about what the airlines want. This would just end up as overhead across all carriers, so all prices would go up a few percent and they would be fine. It is more important as a society to control the spread of one of the most deadly pathogens (look it up) on the planet if we have the ability to. China already screens passengers on inbound flights and turns them around if they are ill. Further, to cover the unexpected costs of being ill while traveling, a few percent fee could be added to everyone's airfare for ill travelers insurance that would provide for any lodging/medical expenses incurred while recovering.
The bottom line is that it is trivial to work out solutions, if the desire is there to minimize the spread of disease. Public health used to be top priority, and with the advent of fully resistant bacteria, we cannot just shrug off influenza anymore, as it shuts down your immune system for days, which is why most of the 500,000 who die of it die from a secondary pulmonary infection.
Trumps pick for supreme court is down the line constructionist. You may disagree with constructionist judges, but that is a fact that no one is disputing, unless you are a fringe lunatic. That means he will protect the constitution as written, and as Trump nominated him, that means Trump is also a constructionist. That may mean that imaginary/pulled out of the ass rights like abortion go away unless progressives can get actual laws passed, which is the way that it is supposed to work in our democracy: Legislature passes laws/amendments and the courts interpret them... (see all the other laws and constitutional amendments ever.) I happen to like the plain language of the constitution, progressives have hated parts of it (freedom of religions that they disagree with, freedom of speech they disagree with, right to bear arms by people other than themselves/their bodyguards) and have consistently tried to end run around the constitution by placing activist judges who pull shit out of their ass in their rulings instead of reading the words on the page and doing their job of interpreting them.
http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfro...
Regarding immigration, the countries temporarily barred from entry have internal records/vetting problems that make the investigations around the visa granting process uncertain (basically all Obama was doing was getting them in a room and asking them if they were a terrorist... obviously they are going to lie if they are).
Furthermore, if you were telling the truth, you would not call it a Muslim ban because there are still dozens of other Muslim countries that are allowed to come and go in the US with a valid visa. It is a ban on immigration from unstable Muslim countries with active terrorism and conditions which make normal visa vetting processes less reliable. The current visa vetting process was not even able to review social media postings of visa candidates (as of the date of the San Bernadino massacre), and consisted primarily of what the home country had in it's records, combined with an interview which consisted of an investigator asking the candidate if they were a terrorist... not exactly up the wazoo as you call it... Further, waiting to get hit with a terrorist attack is what the Clinton and Obama administration did. The current administration does not find it acceptable to wait until American blood runs in the streets to take action. If you can't understand that, I can't help you. The 9-11 attack that Osama Bin Laden perpetrated on the US cost about $3.3 trillion when you take into account the lost productivity of everyone who died, all the added security, lost productivity etc. It would have cost the US a few billion dollars to better screen immigrants from Muslim countries and deny the 911 hijackers entry in the first place.
As far as assimilation goes, it worked in the past because for the most part our immigrants were from European countries who all had similar values. Islam is not just a backwards, violent religion, it is also a form of government, known as Sharia. It is medieval and is fascist, and it supports some very heinous and illegal things such as subjugation of women, rape, statutory rape, honor killings, murder of homosexuals, and the list goes on. It is fundamentally incompatible with our western values and constitution and no amount of time will make it compatible.
Regarding terrorism vs mental illness, those are just the facts. Dont act like a smart ass and then provide zero facts to support any other conclusion. The last real non-Muslim terrorist attack that we had in the US was the Oklahoma Federal building in 1995 in direct response to the murder of over 80 people including women and children at the Branch Dividian compound in Waco, Texas by Janet Reno and the FBI. Every mass casualty event since then has either been driven by Islam or mental illness.
Then it appears that you are agreeing with me? Your Ford was pre-redesign, based on a design from the early 80s(?) if I recall, back when US auto manufacturers didn't give a shit about quality and were focused on fuel economy and cutting cost because Toyota hadn't eaten their lunch yet. The redesign of the truck lines happened in 96 for the F series trucks (from what I remember) and 98 for their Ranger series. The Mustangs were also ground up redesigned around that time as well, and many of those are still on the road.
From my experience and observation, GM has not had very good quality for a long time, but parts aren't hard to find. I have had pretty good luck using Amazon for car parts and they are pretty competitive.
My advice is to junk your Astro and F250 and pick up a nice 2000 or later F250 and Explorer/Expedition for less than the repairs will cost next time something breaks. Thats what I did with my Chevy.
First, to all the liberal progressive mods, if you are so right in your beliefs, write a post and show where I am wrong. -1 Overrated is not your personal censorship tool for views you disagree with. You are supposed to champion tolerance of others, live it. I am not a huge fan of Trump, I voted against him in the primary, but as a rational human being, the cognitive dissonance from the progressive left wing is too massive to let go unchallenged.
So Trump upholds the constitution, appoints a constructionist supreme court judge who will protect the constitution and bill of rights as written (not an activist judge who believes that the constitution can mean whatever the hell he wants it to), and you are comparing him to Hitler? You are taking the few good things that Hitler did for the Germans, like building roads and airports (many other good leaders have also built roads and airports for their countries the world over) and using that as justification to compare Trump to Hitler? By your logic Dwight D. Eisenhower was just like Hitler, because he championed the US interstate freeway system. Please tell me you are not really this stupid?
Take a look at the list of actions he has taken thus far and tell me which ones have hurt you (not traumatized you emotionally based on Democrat demagoguery). Which of these actions send brown shirts to your house in the middle of the night? Which ones force everyone to like Trump (have you turned on a TV in the last year, hatred for Trump is on 90% of the channels), or outlaw a religion (as far as I know, only the progressive left and Obama tried to attack freedom of religion by forcing Little Sisters of the Poor to support abortion and Christian bakers to support homosexual marriages or lose their business). (It is interesting that this was not tried with a Muslim bakery, I wonder why). Which executive actions authorize incarceration of innocent people? (Sorry, illegal aliens are criminals, by entering the country without permission they have committed a crime, no mater how hard you wish that were not the case.)
Trump has signed executive orders to:
- Kill TPP
- Protecting LGBT from workplace discrimination
- Banned fed officials from becoming lobbyists for 5 years
- Lifetime ban on WH officials becoming lobbyists for foreign countries
- 120 day travel ban (not permaban) on visitors from terrorist hotbeds (Obama banned travelers/refugees from the same countries for 6 months after they found to terrorists had made it through the vetting process)
- Authorized the border "wall" that democrats voted for many years ago but never funded, a wall similar to walls all non-island nations have to protect their borders. Check out how Mexico treats illegal entry at it's southern border.
- Approved the Keystone XL and Dakota Access pipelines, so you don't have to pay $4/gal for gas like you did under Obama, which was essentially a tax on poor working people who have to commute longer on average
http://www.foxnews.com/politic...
If popular support for unpermitted immigration was so high, progressives could easily change the laws to eliminate our borders completely, but only the loonytoon left wants that. Every country must control its borders. The US still allows over 1,000,000 immigrants a year, the most immigrants of any nation on the planet. Australia won't accept any illegal immigrants and it takes its illegal immigrants and detains them indefinitely on an island with conditions so bad that they are setting themselves on fire. (But there is no moral outrage on the left for this apparently, only that Trump doesn't want to take in potential terrorists that Australia doesn't want).
http://www.independent.co.uk/n...
Hardcore Islam is at war with America, we for
It would not be up to the airlines, in much the same way airport security is not their purview. It would be required by the WHO or CDC as part of the security screening process.
It is almost as trivial to pull the hard drive out of a PS4 if you are a hacker, the root problem is the 2TB limit on laptop hard drives vs. the storage needed for the modern consoles. Hacking was never the issue, I think the concern was more related to game performance and/or they just didn't think anyone would ever need more storage (which is obviously stupid).
Glad to see they are finally fixing this. This was really the one problem that I had with the PS4. The day after I bought my PS4 I upgraded it to a 2TB internal laptop drive, but with every game taking up 40GB plus, it is not that hard to fill up a drive that big, and indeed I recently ran out of space. Contrast this with my Xbone, which I think is the loser in this generation, but at least with Xbone I was able to plug in a 5TB USB3 external drive and was good to go.
If this works as advertised, even with a confidence of 90%, I can see it quickly becoming a mandatory test before boarding an airplane worldwide, which is how the flu spreads around the world every year. Sure it might inconvenience a few people who are just carriers without much in the way of symptoms, but the flu kills around 500,000 annually. If we could use this tool to keep it from hopping continents as rapidly, we would likely see flu vaccines become much more effective, as they would have more time to prepare and the disease mutation rate would be reduced.
Actually, for the last 15 years or so US quality has steadily risen, because the only way to compete and offset the higher costs of producing in the US is to have significantly higher quality than China. I can justify having a saw made in the US if it will last me 5 years as opposed to the cheaper overseas stuff that falls apart in a year or two.
As far as cars, at least for Ford, ever since their total model up redesign in the late 90s, the quality has been pretty good. I own 3 Ford trucks all over 10 years old, purchased both new and used, and I have had to change the fuel pump and MAF in one (18 years old now, hey I should buy it a beer!) and the window lift motor in the other (12 years old), otherwise it has been oil changes and tires for all that time. Quality seems pretty high to me. I also had a Chevy sedan for 18 years, but I had to change the water pump, struts, upper and lower control arm bushings, steering linkage knuckles,electric radiator fan, door lock cylinder, ignition cylinder, drive shaft linkages, and alternator among other things. When it turned 25 I sent it to the junkyard because everything else was falling apart.
This exactly, and often, the localization is done by a small company in your country that licenses the rights for a big fraction of their operating costs. Their entire business model hinges on blocking access to that content for that country except through them. Geoblocking is really a problem internal to your country. If you want geoblocking to go away, force all the EU states (or other countries where you happen to reside) to accept the US rating system and English as the primary language and then force licensing of media to cover the entire EU. Problem solved. Unless you don't speak English (although most US releases come with Spanish and French subs as well I think).
Going to an appeals court near you in 3, 2, 1.
Seriously, this is round 1 out of 5, especially with the amount of money we are talking here.
It is the classic human factor. The sysadmin probably knew all the right steps to take, but got lazy thinking he didn't need all the extra work and then, working late he made the mistake that all those steps would have protected against.
No one is immune to complacency.
In the US, any product sold must function as intended for 90 days (consumer protection warranty). Any defects found in that time must be repaired or replaced by the manufacturer, or a full refund issued. In some states I think that is bumped up to 6 months or a year. Since most software is continuously sold to customers and the cost to repair one is the cost to repair all, the argument can easily be made that any software that is currently for resale is required to provide free bug fixes to everyone using their software. Since real financial and sometimes even physical harm (think stalker EX) can happen with security flaws, those also must be continuously fixed as long as the software is being sold. You are thinking of an extended warranty, not the one mandated by law. Extended warranties are often offered because of competition. However, in the desktop OS market, there is essentially no competition, MS saw to that years ago.
Now we have a "choice" between a giant FU from MS, a messy cluster F with barely any software that you have to be a software engineer to use in Linux, or a walled garden that doesn't run 80% of the software out there. For 95% of people out there, there is no alternative to MS.
Can we all please just take a chill pill? Pretty much everyone in the US thinks H1B reform is a good thing, Trump just re-signed the executive order protecting LGBT in the work place. He torpedoed the TPP. Who here disagrees with those actions? He stopped all immigration from terrorist hotbeds for 90 days to make sure we can effectively screen out ISIS operatives and other terrorists (Obama did this for 6 months from the exact same countries back in 2011 to review and better vet existing and incoming immigrants from those countries after we found out that we let in two terrorist bomb makers...)
Trumps supreme court nominee is a constructionist, meaning that every article of the constitution and all the amendments mean exactly what they say they mean in plain English and the constitution is the highest law in the land. Under Gorsuch, your constitutional rights will be protected, including freedom of speech, religion and the right to bear arms (all of which were under threat in the last 8 years). Trumps actions do not bear out all the panic on the left. He won the election and he is president and people having panic attacks over it or rioting will not change that and only serve to make the left look crazy to everyone else. The Democrat politicians are playing politics and trying to keep you in panic mode, but so far Trumps actions have been good for all Americans. They have been bad for foreign governments who have abused the American worker, big companies who have abused H1B visas, big companies who wanted TPP, bad for terrorists who want to infiltrate the US, bad for progressives who want to legislate from the bench and twist the constitution and try to take away rights like the second amendment while finding special rights where none exist in the plain language of the constitution, instead of creating popular support and passing legislation. Which camp are you in?
First of all IANAL. However, the consumer protections exist on the books, but because of bad court decisions, starting with treating consumer purchase of consumer software as anything other than the purchase of a single copyrighted consumer product, we have very muddy waters. There is no doubt that a new law could help clarify for the courts, but software could and should be covered under copyright, and there is no current law saying otherwise as far as I am aware.
If software were covered under copyright law, then you would have the right to repair/ right to resell/ right to an un-flawed product/right to control modification to the software that you own, including updates/right to install on any hardware that you own, right to operate offline, etc. Software updates that fix bugs or security holes would be required in much the same way that automotive recalls are required when defects are found. Auto dealers cant hold off on recall repairs until you sign away some of the rights of use to your car or agree to let the dealer sell your personal information to advertisers, software companies should be held to the same standards. You would essentially have all the same rights that you get when you buy a car or any other consumer product that is covered by consumer protection laws.