Only to US citizens or aliens located within the confines of the US and it's territories. Nobody else gets the 5th Amendment, it isn't part of the UN Charter.
Don't be an idiot. It's not "just a building" It's a massive complex of big buildings with very thick walls. And armed 24 hour security that even harasses locals watching deer herds in the area (as they've been doing for years). There is no other construction project anywhere near this size anywhere else in the state. I too live and work close to it, and there is no doubt as to what is being built. You simply do not understand the scale of what we are talking about.
Further the Wired account includes illustrations from the Army Corps of Engineers giving the layout (some buildings identified, others not) and it matches every other source of info.
You are taking your paranoia too far. Yes this is a massive NSA Data (and who knows what else) center. It will very likely infringe upon at least a few citizens civil liberties. But there is no question that it is what it is, and that is where it is being built. Something this scale couldn't be easily hidden anyway. It's power requirements are too big to hide in the desert. They had to build a power substation off the main high tension lines just for this facility.
On another note, why did it take this long to hit/.? The article hit the web nearly a month ago, I got my physical copy of wired with the article nearly two weeks ago.
Actually the military probably remember that domestic part better than anyone else who swears that same or similar oaths. Since we are prohibited by law from doing anything domestically (Posse Comitatus anyone). Sure there were flagarant abuses in the past and will be abuses in the future, but the military are very aware of our oaths and for the most part want to honor the oath.
Most soldiers I know can quite that refrain from memory, even though we are prohibited from doing anything about it. Even the National Guard, which belonging to their respective states are normally exempt from Posse Comitatus, are usually heavily restricted from any involvement in police operations.
One more thing on the Waze plug and then I'm done. Map problems, with Google maps, Garmin, Tom Tom or any other mapping tool, you are at the mercy of their map editors as to when roads get added. With Waze, if you see a problem, you can login and fix the problem. It took my Tom Tom more than a year to be updated with a recent new high speed route. Waze had it before the Tom Tom update did. But even better was another more recent construction project. The new road was in place on the Waze map within weeks of it opening to traffic. It was most likely added within hours of opening but the map tiles are only rebuilt every few weeks. That road opened last September, I don't expect it to show up on my Tom Tom for months at the earliest. And even Google maps took a couple months to start showing it.
I see a problem with the maps in Waze, I go in and fix it. Within a few weeks the change is live.
And I have no connection to Waze, other than I'm a big fan of it.
If we all traveled to the same location at the exact same time this might be a risk. But as we aren't all attempting to travel at the same time to the exact same location, these dynamic systems can see the increasing traffic flow (and resulting decreases elsewhere) and cease giving everyone the same route. The trick is to actually trust the system and let it work as designed. In fact there is a smartphone app that already does this quite well. http://waze.com/ and the Waze app. Waze is used by millions of drivers across this country (and around the world). It does a very good job of dynamically routing around slowdowns. As I've driven with it I've seen many routings that seemed odd, until the radio announced an accident causing a jam on the route I thought it should have sent me on. I've yet to see it route me into any Waze caused congestion.
Just yesterday I took a drive that normally takes just under an hour drive, (about 68 miles depending on route) during rush hour. In the past, just listening to the radio and trying to pick the best route based on that info I'd be lucky to make that drive in less than 2 hrs at that time of day. With Waze picking my route I only ran into one slowdown, at a major choke point that isn't really avoidable, but I still made the drive in just over an hour due to Waze taking me on a route I wouldn't have considered taking as it did add a few miles, but it substantially cut the time I would have spent sitting in traffic on my preferred route and primary alternative.
It's not perfect, my sister also uses Waze, but had further to go to the gathering we attended. Where she lives she couldn't avoid some substantial construction delays, an alternate route simply does not exist (A lake is in the way of the best route for an alternative). Another sister doesn't use it, she called to say she was stuck in traffic, I pulled up waze and saw that both the routes she could have taken were blocked by accidents substantially slowing traffic. A quick look showed me where the accidents were, and what the average traffic speeds were, and the fact that she was stuck in traffic with no options to get around it. Once she finally got there, we showed her Waze and I'm pretty sure she tried it driving home, even thought the traffic was long gone by then.
These systems are workable, not just in hyped theory but in practice because they already exist, and work as advertised, not as you fear.
Try the Waze app. It's a working crowd sourced navigation tool. It actively routes around or at least notifies you of slowdowns ahead, as well as other traffic hazards and police locations.
Where do you shop? Most Blu-ray new releases can be found for about $25, and that is most commonly a 2 or 3 disc set with a Blu disc with the movie, a DVD with the movie and maybe a third disc with extra's. Wait a few weeks and the price start dropping as well.
Player cost? Really, that's your issue. When Wal-mart and other retailers are selling 1080p players for $89 or even less some times? Granted you can get a DVD player that upscales quite decently for $29 at Walmart. But if $90 is too expensive for you to handle I doubt you are buying many DVDs either.
Could be, but as I noted there is no track hill. anywhere along the line, it's all flush with the surrounding terrain which is not indicative of there having been a rail line there. The farmers would have leveled it, as would the construction crews for the housing areas but in the wooded areas as well?, And they lowered all the crossings to be flush as well? I grew up near an abandoned line, the tracks are long gone, but the raised rail bed is still there.
Are you sure it's a former trackline? Looking at how clear-cut the trail is through some of the wooded areas, makes me wonder if there isn't an oil or natural gas pipeline of some type running there. Thus the reason for not building over it, and keeping the land clear of trees. I also find it odd that there is no elevated trackway present anywhere along the several miles I looked at. Also indicative of a pipeline rather than a railroad.
In fact go north to the subdivision where they haven't built over the trail. And use street view on E Bemis Road right where the trail crosses into the subdivision. If you look to the north you can plainly see the Pipeline warning poles, placed next to the road on to either side of the trail. There are also such poles on the south side of the road but they don't stand out quite as clearly. It's a pipeline not a railroad track.
Verizon does seem to have the most consistent coverage. As to your trip as long as you stick to the major highways when traveling between cities you should maintain decent coverage, and in most communities with service 3G is for the most part standard, though there are some gaps as always.
And the MiFi is Verizon's trademarked device/service.
I have Sprint, my Galaxy S cost me $99, I pay $75 a month for 450 minutes (I rarely use more than a couple dozen charged minutes a month) unlimited text, and unlimited data. My cost over the two years is $1900, $150 more than you but less than the total cost of the device sans subsidy. In addition I have truly unlimited data and have exceeded the 3gb cap you have a few times at zero extra expense and zero throttling. My coverage area is also substantially more robust than T-mobile offers. I compared the two when I left AT&T.
As I said, it does occasionally happen there are bad cops out there, but I maintain they are the exceptions, not the rule. My basis is not from one incident, but from the dozens of officers from multiple jurisdictions I personally know, others I've encountered or worked with and so on. Your one anecdotal experience does not provide the citation that such illegal behaviors by police officers as evidence tampering is the standard operating procedure. Instead, I'll point out that the amount of evidence that does make it to court, the number of people who do get acquitted due to the exculpatory evidence presented does tend to support me, but I will admit I can't provide a specific counter citation off the top of my head.
Don't drink and drive. Same with don't text and drive. Just one beer isn't likely to put you over the limit or even get you pulled over (as you aren't impaired and thus give no indicators) so your argument is specious at best. But even if one beer would sufficiently impair and push you over the limit, waiting an hour should drop you under. I don't drink but from my observations one beer rarely affects people strongly enough to impair their driving.
But one beer isn't what we are worrying about. It's the six or seven or eight or equal alcohol dosage amounts from harder drinks. One beer I don't really care, 99.999% of drivers are going to show no impairment but it's those who can't stop at just one or two who kill people, and thus have been responsible for the DUI laws. Traffic fatalities are dropping in this country due to safer vehicles. Three actions seem to be present in most traffic fatalities seen these days: alcohol, texting, and not wearing a seatbelt. The first two causing accidents, the third resulting in otherwise survivable accidents not being survived.
One beer is not a problem, but get caught driving at or over the BAC limit and you deserve all the legal punishment that they throw at you.
Cite proof that such illegal acts are the standard behavior by the police. I don't doubt that it does occasionally happen, but most officers are actually trying to do an honest job. And with this program, the vial of blood used to determine BAC is sent to a lab. It has to get there to support the arrest, and the BAC can't be determined until the Lab gets it, once there it's evidence, either for or against the prosecutions case it's in the system.
Exactly! And in Utah; if it's a Highway Patrolman who pulled you over, and you refuse the breathalyzer they'll just pull the blood sample on the spot. For the last two years they've all been trained and annually re-certified on how to draw a blood sample. So better to just not drink and drive.
But the books are still good. Drop an e-reader and it may be waste (my nook has hit the ground a couple times and still works fine).
More importantly the book is still stored on the SD card that you can recover from the device, as well as on one or more hard drives, and most likely online at the location you purchased it from. Or you can torrent a replacement file. Then you just buy a new reader, or load the reader app for that device onto your computer, tablet or smart phone and finish reading the book. Drop your book with crappy glue into water or outside on a windy day and it's gone and you are buying a new copy. Unlikely but this supposed point of weakness in the ebook model is almost as non-existent.
My Rocket eBook from 2001 is dead, but I still had the book files on my computer, and they were still online in my account at Baen books. So when I purchased my nook, I had my ebooks back, years after my previous reader crapped out (non-replaceable battery died).
Every news source I've read so far, Fox, CNN, BBC, MSNBC, and Reuters are all carrying the story and naming Sabu as the head of the group and the one who flipped when he was arrested last Aug.
CNN is reporting the same news. And based on the same person being flipped. Don't discount it just because Fox broke it first, as a headline rather than buried in a list of linked articles as found on CNN.
As to pricing. You just gave a guesstimated a very reasonable $3 a copy that could evaporate in the e-book realm. So why are they charging the same or even more than the paperback costs for the e-book? Last time I was at Barnes & Noble I wandered through the sci-fi section looking at what was new. I found a book I thought interesting the paperback cost 7.99 the e-book cost 9.99!
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All my e-books are stored not only on the device where theoretically the publisher or seller can pull a Lucas edit or 1984 it Amazon style, or just yank it entirely but are also stored in other locations and formats where they don't have that ability.
Get a decent case for your reader and crushing isn't that big a deal. Same for rain or other random splashes of wetness. And most e-devices, if you pull the battery and let them dry thoroughly will recover better than a book where ink may spear or run and pages stick together.
Light, an e-ink reader is exactly as flexible as to light and readability. Tablets with LCD back-lighting are difficult to read in daylight but can be easily read in total darkness unlike e-ink or paper.
No arguments about being able to visually choose from shelves. That is a benefit, but those shelves take up space and are a pain to move.
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Only to US citizens or aliens located within the confines of the US and it's territories. Nobody else gets the 5th Amendment, it isn't part of the UN Charter.
Nope, well over a year to go, as anyone who drives by the site on a daily basis can tell you. Those buildings are far from complete.
Don't be an idiot. It's not "just a building" It's a massive complex of big buildings with very thick walls. And armed 24 hour security that even harasses locals watching deer herds in the area (as they've been doing for years). There is no other construction project anywhere near this size anywhere else in the state. I too live and work close to it, and there is no doubt as to what is being built. You simply do not understand the scale of what we are talking about.
/.? The article hit the web nearly a month ago, I got my physical copy of wired with the article nearly two weeks ago.
Further the Wired account includes illustrations from the Army Corps of Engineers giving the layout (some buildings identified, others not) and it matches every other source of info.
You are taking your paranoia too far. Yes this is a massive NSA Data (and who knows what else) center. It will very likely infringe upon at least a few citizens civil liberties. But there is no question that it is what it is, and that is where it is being built. Something this scale couldn't be easily hidden anyway. It's power requirements are too big to hide in the desert. They had to build a power substation off the main high tension lines just for this facility.
On another note, why did it take this long to hit
Actually the military probably remember that domestic part better than anyone else who swears that same or similar oaths. Since we are prohibited by law from doing anything domestically (Posse Comitatus anyone). Sure there were flagarant abuses in the past and will be abuses in the future, but the military are very aware of our oaths and for the most part want to honor the oath.
Most soldiers I know can quite that refrain from memory, even though we are prohibited from doing anything about it. Even the National Guard, which belonging to their respective states are normally exempt from Posse Comitatus, are usually heavily restricted from any involvement in police operations.
One more thing on the Waze plug and then I'm done. Map problems, with Google maps, Garmin, Tom Tom or any other mapping tool, you are at the mercy of their map editors as to when roads get added. With Waze, if you see a problem, you can login and fix the problem. It took my Tom Tom more than a year to be updated with a recent new high speed route. Waze had it before the Tom Tom update did. But even better was another more recent construction project. The new road was in place on the Waze map within weeks of it opening to traffic. It was most likely added within hours of opening but the map tiles are only rebuilt every few weeks. That road opened last September, I don't expect it to show up on my Tom Tom for months at the earliest. And even Google maps took a couple months to start showing it. I see a problem with the maps in Waze, I go in and fix it. Within a few weeks the change is live. And I have no connection to Waze, other than I'm a big fan of it.
If we all traveled to the same location at the exact same time this might be a risk. But as we aren't all attempting to travel at the same time to the exact same location, these dynamic systems can see the increasing traffic flow (and resulting decreases elsewhere) and cease giving everyone the same route. The trick is to actually trust the system and let it work as designed. In fact there is a smartphone app that already does this quite well. http://waze.com/ and the Waze app. Waze is used by millions of drivers across this country (and around the world). It does a very good job of dynamically routing around slowdowns. As I've driven with it I've seen many routings that seemed odd, until the radio announced an accident causing a jam on the route I thought it should have sent me on. I've yet to see it route me into any Waze caused congestion.
Just yesterday I took a drive that normally takes just under an hour drive, (about 68 miles depending on route) during rush hour. In the past, just listening to the radio and trying to pick the best route based on that info I'd be lucky to make that drive in less than 2 hrs at that time of day. With Waze picking my route I only ran into one slowdown, at a major choke point that isn't really avoidable, but I still made the drive in just over an hour due to Waze taking me on a route I wouldn't have considered taking as it did add a few miles, but it substantially cut the time I would have spent sitting in traffic on my preferred route and primary alternative.
It's not perfect, my sister also uses Waze, but had further to go to the gathering we attended. Where she lives she couldn't avoid some substantial construction delays, an alternate route simply does not exist (A lake is in the way of the best route for an alternative). Another sister doesn't use it, she called to say she was stuck in traffic, I pulled up waze and saw that both the routes she could have taken were blocked by accidents substantially slowing traffic. A quick look showed me where the accidents were, and what the average traffic speeds were, and the fact that she was stuck in traffic with no options to get around it. Once she finally got there, we showed her Waze and I'm pretty sure she tried it driving home, even thought the traffic was long gone by then.
These systems are workable, not just in hyped theory but in practice because they already exist, and work as advertised, not as you fear.
Try the Waze app. It's a working crowd sourced navigation tool. It actively routes around or at least notifies you of slowdowns ahead, as well as other traffic hazards and police locations.
Where do you shop? Most Blu-ray new releases can be found for about $25, and that is most commonly a 2 or 3 disc set with a Blu disc with the movie, a DVD with the movie and maybe a third disc with extra's. Wait a few weeks and the price start dropping as well.
Player cost? Really, that's your issue. When Wal-mart and other retailers are selling 1080p players for $89 or even less some times? Granted you can get a DVD player that upscales quite decently for $29 at Walmart. But if $90 is too expensive for you to handle I doubt you are buying many DVDs either.
Could be, but as I noted there is no track hill. anywhere along the line, it's all flush with the surrounding terrain which is not indicative of there having been a rail line there. The farmers would have leveled it, as would the construction crews for the housing areas but in the wooded areas as well?, And they lowered all the crossings to be flush as well? I grew up near an abandoned line, the tracks are long gone, but the raised rail bed is still there.
Are you sure it's a former trackline? Looking at how clear-cut the trail is through some of the wooded areas, makes me wonder if there isn't an oil or natural gas pipeline of some type running there. Thus the reason for not building over it, and keeping the land clear of trees. I also find it odd that there is no elevated trackway present anywhere along the several miles I looked at. Also indicative of a pipeline rather than a railroad.
In fact go north to the subdivision where they haven't built over the trail. And use street view on E Bemis Road right where the trail crosses into the subdivision. If you look to the north you can plainly see the Pipeline warning poles, placed next to the road on to either side of the trail. There are also such poles on the south side of the road but they don't stand out quite as clearly. It's a pipeline not a railroad track.
Verizon does seem to have the most consistent coverage. As to your trip as long as you stick to the major highways when traveling between cities you should maintain decent coverage, and in most communities with service 3G is for the most part standard, though there are some gaps as always.
And the MiFi is Verizon's trademarked device/service.
I have Sprint, my Galaxy S cost me $99, I pay $75 a month for 450 minutes (I rarely use more than a couple dozen charged minutes a month) unlimited text, and unlimited data. My cost over the two years is $1900, $150 more than you but less than the total cost of the device sans subsidy. In addition I have truly unlimited data and have exceeded the 3gb cap you have a few times at zero extra expense and zero throttling. My coverage area is also substantially more robust than T-mobile offers. I compared the two when I left AT&T.
As I said, it does occasionally happen there are bad cops out there, but I maintain they are the exceptions, not the rule. My basis is not from one incident, but from the dozens of officers from multiple jurisdictions I personally know, others I've encountered or worked with and so on. Your one anecdotal experience does not provide the citation that such illegal behaviors by police officers as evidence tampering is the standard operating procedure. Instead, I'll point out that the amount of evidence that does make it to court, the number of people who do get acquitted due to the exculpatory evidence presented does tend to support me, but I will admit I can't provide a specific counter citation off the top of my head.
Don't drink and drive. Same with don't text and drive. Just one beer isn't likely to put you over the limit or even get you pulled over (as you aren't impaired and thus give no indicators) so your argument is specious at best. But even if one beer would sufficiently impair and push you over the limit, waiting an hour should drop you under. I don't drink but from my observations one beer rarely affects people strongly enough to impair their driving.
But one beer isn't what we are worrying about. It's the six or seven or eight or equal alcohol dosage amounts from harder drinks. One beer I don't really care, 99.999% of drivers are going to show no impairment but it's those who can't stop at just one or two who kill people, and thus have been responsible for the DUI laws. Traffic fatalities are dropping in this country due to safer vehicles. Three actions seem to be present in most traffic fatalities seen these days: alcohol, texting, and not wearing a seatbelt. The first two causing accidents, the third resulting in otherwise survivable accidents not being survived.
One beer is not a problem, but get caught driving at or over the BAC limit and you deserve all the legal punishment that they throw at you.
Cite proof that such illegal acts are the standard behavior by the police. I don't doubt that it does occasionally happen, but most officers are actually trying to do an honest job. And with this program, the vial of blood used to determine BAC is sent to a lab. It has to get there to support the arrest, and the BAC can't be determined until the Lab gets it, once there it's evidence, either for or against the prosecutions case it's in the system.
The ones I know are actually trained. And the local news covered some of the first classes after the law authorizing it was passed.
Exactly! And in Utah; if it's a Highway Patrolman who pulled you over, and you refuse the breathalyzer they'll just pull the blood sample on the spot. For the last two years they've all been trained and annually re-certified on how to draw a blood sample. So better to just not drink and drive.
But the books are still good. Drop an e-reader and it may be waste (my nook has hit the ground a couple times and still works fine). More importantly the book is still stored on the SD card that you can recover from the device, as well as on one or more hard drives, and most likely online at the location you purchased it from. Or you can torrent a replacement file. Then you just buy a new reader, or load the reader app for that device onto your computer, tablet or smart phone and finish reading the book. Drop your book with crappy glue into water or outside on a windy day and it's gone and you are buying a new copy. Unlikely but this supposed point of weakness in the ebook model is almost as non-existent.
My Rocket eBook from 2001 is dead, but I still had the book files on my computer, and they were still online in my account at Baen books. So when I purchased my nook, I had my ebooks back, years after my previous reader crapped out (non-replaceable battery died).
Didn't TFA teach you anything? The US is the International Authority!
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This is probably a big reason why GoDaddy has started marketing the .co domain. The US can't assert jurisdiction over Columbia's national domain.
Every news source I've read so far, Fox, CNN, BBC, MSNBC, and Reuters are all carrying the story and naming Sabu as the head of the group and the one who flipped when he was arrested last Aug.
CNN is reporting the same news. And based on the same person being flipped. Don't discount it just because Fox broke it first, as a headline rather than buried in a list of linked articles as found on CNN.
As to pricing. You just gave a guesstimated a very reasonable $3 a copy that could evaporate in the e-book realm. So why are they charging the same or even more than the paperback costs for the e-book? Last time I was at Barnes & Noble I wandered through the sci-fi section looking at what was new. I found a book I thought interesting the paperback cost 7.99 the e-book cost 9.99!
All my e-books are stored not only on the device where theoretically the publisher or seller can pull a Lucas edit or 1984 it Amazon style, or just yank it entirely but are also stored in other locations and formats where they don't have that ability.
Get a decent case for your reader and crushing isn't that big a deal. Same for rain or other random splashes of wetness. And most e-devices, if you pull the battery and let them dry thoroughly will recover better than a book where ink may spear or run and pages stick together.
Light, an e-ink reader is exactly as flexible as to light and readability. Tablets with LCD back-lighting are difficult to read in daylight but can be easily read in total darkness unlike e-ink or paper.
No arguments about being able to visually choose from shelves. That is a benefit, but those shelves take up space and are a pain to move.