The linked USB device costs $16.99 One shipping option to (I picked Bayern) Germany was 16.95. So you get a retro joystick for under $35. They also have another shipping option that runs $28 so you'd be looking at $45. Still not what most people would consider prohibitive.
That doesn't shoot down anything, as the first thing I said was that the Shield Law has absolutely ZERO impact on this case, as it protects Journalists from being forced to identify sources, but does nothing to prevent them from voluntarily giving up their sources. It's not like Client-Attorney privilege where failure to abide by the attorney can result in censure of the attorney.
So Regardless of what Lamo claimed to be, it has no impact and no legal risk to either Poulson or Lamo. And the shield law, even if it did somehow have relevance makes it clear that just claiming to be a journalist is insufficient to receive it's protections.
Oh and nice effort at Godwin-ing the thread. Associating me with the NAZI's doesn't weaken my points.
You misunderstand the Shield law. It protects journalists from being forced (in some but not all circumstances) to give up sources to avoid being charged with contempt of court. It does NOT prevent any journalist from willingly giving up sources or other information on their own volition.
Further Lamo's coverage under the Shield law, even if it worked like you indicate it does, would be of questionable value since he is not a Journalist. He's not even working as a freelance journalist. He's a source who provided information to a journalist. He didn't request and was not given any assurances of secrecy by Poulsen so he has no claims or protections.
There are no implications, serious or otherwise with either of them working with law enforcement. They uncovered claims of potentially damaging espionage, and they did the right thing. They reported it to the authorities. Any claims of Lamo being a journalist are of absolutely no concern. He's not a journalist, a journalist is not a law enforcement or other government agent. It is no crime to claim to be a journalist. And claiming to be one does not instill some magic responsibility to not report a crime. Espionage however; is a crime. A very serious one that can result in deaths of US personnel as well as others.
It's all fine to proclaim that information needs to be free, and that the government should be 100% transparent, but no government can operate nor will any country long stand without keeping secrets. Secrets allow us to negotiate. Secrets protect those who provide us with critical information for successful operations that keep our country free.
Does the ability to keep secrets occasionally get abused, absolutely. Is the vast majority of classified information just covering up abuses, absolutely NOT.
SPC. Manning is a fool, who is going to spend a long time in a very unpleasant prison at Ft Leavenworth. He is not a hero, and needed to be turned in.
Evidently not. It's annoying as hell to log in to a system of websites, which sites require either a CAC or a 10 character, strong password that must be changed every 150 days, and then get phishing and other warnings on every page inside that network of sites.
To make the.mil networks navigable you have to turn OFF your anti-phishing settings and frequently accept multiple unverifiable certificates for each page visited.
No the worst is trying to use a military computer (means only IE) to hit military sites, and having to approve half a dozen exceptions each time you visit a new page.
They seem to be unable to use standard certificates or even attempt to register them with internet registries.
The best is working on a classified network. And getting "WARNING!!! This page may be unsafe! WARNING!!!" notices on an entirely closed and encrypted network.
The Taliban WAS Afghanistan's official Government and military. Any claim otherwise just shows your total ignorance.
The Taliban Regime harbored Al Qaeda, they hosted their numerous training camps, (and participated in the training at the camps) and they helped fund the training. Then when we asked them to turn over Bin Laden to be tried in international courts (No death penalty risk, not that they cared about the death penalty) they refused. We warned them of the consequences and they still refused.
So we started helping the other faction in Afghanistan, the Northern Alliance. And with a little air support and careful use of special ops troops we removed the Taliban from power.
But to say that they were not the official army of Afghanistan just shows how little you know.
Iraq: The quarrel dated back to their invasion of one friend (Kuwait) and threats towards another (Saudi Arabia). The reasons give in 2003 don't exactly jibe, but to say we had no quarrel is patently false.
Afghanistan: The quarrel was directly related to 9/11 they trained there. And they were harboring a known international terrorist organization. We asked them to give up Al Qaeda and or Bin Laden but they refused. They sided with the people who had declared war on us. Thus a legitimate quarrel. Not to mention the atrocities the Taliban were committing against their own populace (specifically women) and against historical treasures within the country (Bamyan Buddhas).
I'm not trying to debate whether or not we should be there, especially with Iraq which had no connection to 9/11, but pointing out that we did indeed have quarrels with both places and that other countries have gone to war over far less.
As to your Constitutional claim, please cite the article and section you think backs that up. I seem to be unable to find that in my copy of the U.S. Consitution. Section 1 Section 8 states that the legislative branch has the authority:
To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water;
To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years;
To provide and maintain a Navy;
To make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval Forces;
To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions;
To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the Militia, and for governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the United States, reserving to the States respectively, the Appointment of the Officers, and the Authority of training the Militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress;
The closest part to your claim is the two year limit on the length of appropriations. That just ensures that congress frequently looks at the funding of the military, it is not a limit on how long or when we can have a standing army.
Yes the guy gets BAH before during and after deployment, but BAH doesn't always meet the costs, it helps but especially for lower enlisted it often is insufficient for obtaining housing of sufficient size for a family.
Well Service and pay issues aside, pehaps Verizon needs to re-evaluate their policies since their competitors will waive the ETF for a soldier deploying overseas. And They will waive the ETF if the customer cannot get service where they live.
Second Tax free at the PX isn't that great a deal. PX prices are inflated to support the MWR system so you can often (if not always) beat the PX "tax free" prices at Walmart on all but big ticket items.
An enlisted man's food is not paid for, unless he's single and living in the barracks and eating at the dining facility, this guy is married thus he's on separate rats.
His initial uniform issue is free, and he gets additional funds to pay for them but his clothes are not free. He has to maintain his uniforms in good condition and that means buying replacements at Clothing Sales. This is planned for and some money is paid specifically for this but if he's combat arms and constantly crawling on the ground, and through muck and brush he's having to buy new uniforms faster than the standard replacement rate.
Second how do you know she recieved a phone for this particular contract. Yes that's the initial purpose of the ETF, but try and change your plan after your contract has run out. 9 time out of 10 they'll try to tack on a new ETF contract any time you try to add a new calling plan feature. "Want 7 pm nights instead of the standard 9 pm? Sure thing just agree to a new two year contract and we can add that."
She most likely had received a new phone but we have no proof of that. And as she doesn't have service I'd bet she'd be willing to return the phone to Verizon.
Simply put the service drone(s) this lady talked to were flat wrong and insensitive. Phone companies will waive those fees if you die, and also if you can prove that you now live in an area with no service. (That's funny I thought Verizon claimed they cover everybody.) Thankfully the news media were able to talk to someone who did know the policies and quickly acted to follow them.
Lets see, my credit union is on a major nationwide ATM network. So often I don't have to pay fees. It had decent online banking with automated bill pay before my last bank did. (And the credit union never charged a cent unlike the bank which tried to charge $14 a month for their comparatively crappy service.)
My credit union does SMS notifications if I sign up for them, it does E-mail notifications, and has 24 hour CS. And while somewhat hurt due to the housing bubble and sub-prime collapse it wasn't nearly as exposed as the major and regional banks.
Off the top of my head, I don't recall the first person (I could look it up, but I'm lazy), but the one that he got the penalty for was a sheriffs deputy he killed while trying to escape from the courthouse while at trial for the first murder.
He also severely wounded another guard or court worker who died a few years ago due to complications of his wounds.
His tweet didn't make a joke or make light of the situation. It was a somber and concise statement of fact. Making a joke would have been something like: "LOL, Told em ta shoot da bastard. Good riddance, nine more to go. ROFLMAO at Gardner burning in Hell!!!" (Nine being the current remaining population of Utah's Death Row.)
Instead he simply stated the facts of a rather significant duty of his job, without mocking and with a prayer for mercy above for the executed. The real travesty/scandal is that it took 25 years to execute this guy who killed in broad daylight. The last murder he did was nearly caught on camera, but it still took 25 years. I'm all for being careful and serving due diligence in making sure we don't execute the wrong person, but this is way too long.
And semi-coincidently California now has so many warnings on so much stuff that the warnings do get ignored.
CA should just save time and require everyone and everything (and I mean EVERYTHING) within the magical borders of CA to be labeled as being possibly cancerous.
But we can't plot specific storms or how serious they will be three weeks out let alone three years. And we can measure the factors of earthly weather systems much ore accurately.
Sure we know the Solar cycles, but did we suffer catastrophic solar storms two or three years into the last cycle, and the one before that, or before that?
This scientist may be 100% correct and accurate, he's studied this, I haven't. But I agree with the GP post in wondering exactly how they can predict this three years in advance, when they're still trying to figure out why the current minimum lasted so long.
The solar cycle is well established, we haven't suffered these catastrophic storms in prior cycles. Why should this one be so much worse?
p.s. I seem to recall the largest solar flare ever recorded was recorded in 07 just before the last cycle ended, not just as it began. And we didn't have many problems with that flare either. Of course like the vast majority of flares that one wasn't aimed at our tiny sphere called Earth.
Funny, I was transitioned from Comcast's Analog Limited Basic to their Limited Digital Basic with no change in cost, and no significant change in channels (I seem to think I lost one channel I never watched anyway.)
Except those LED lights ($3.99 at Walmart) tend to shine for six hours or more, not a paltry 2 hours. I have a couple single LED lights among the set in my yard that will often still be lit when I leave for work in the morning.
Freeway entrances have those warnings and rules. This is a Highway, which means high speeds but it's not a controlled access freeway.
And this lady is a fool, to not realize that road has no sidewalks. Especially since her starting point was one from which she had to have driven up the highway in question to get to in the first place.
If they could simply fix the BOP, they would. But it's really hard to work on a leaking firehose, while it's gushing. Oh and do it by remote control with underwater ROV's. Don't under estimate the difficulty of the task at hand.
The BOP has failed, the device designed and installed just to prevent this kind of disaster failed. In the early days they did try to coax it into working, with no luck.
What I'm wondering is even if it's not stopping the flow, why not keep pumping mud. It seems to at least been keeping the oil in the pipe, displacing it with the mud. If nothing else, three days of mud flowing was three days of at a minimum, substantially reduced amounts of oil flowing out.
Then again I thought the movie Cars was creepy... who built those machines? And what happened to them?
Obviously they are the descendants of the Autobots a couple millennia after they finally defeated the Decepticons and eliminated the annoying human inhabitants of this planet.
Nope, you are not. I thought this vid was funny and cute. I would have had him fighting some more realistic villain, such as the ever evil Nanny. Oh and had him getting it on with some milk-a-holic floozy at the beginning of the clip.
I don't see the problem with BP trying to save the well.
You get in an accident, you don't just automatically call the vehicle totaled and write it off as a loss. You get the trained insurance appraiser out to look it over. He takes a look, and perhaps he determines that it looks ugly but that it is worth the money invested to repair the vehicle and recover it's usefulness, rather than just write it off.
They've spent a lot of money drilling this well, why should they not try to both cap the leak and recover the usefulness of the well. That is what their early efforts were, attempts to cap and recover. First they tried to get the BOP to work, then they tried the containment boxes to cap and recover. Those methods haven't worked. They are proven techniques at lesser depths. They didn't work so now they are going for just trying to plug the well. Again a technique that has worked at lesser depths, but will it at these depths? We don't know, they don't know but they are trying.
I disagree, I had a nice ecosystem in the back seat of my truck when it was totaled in an accident several years ago. The accident killed that ecosystem.
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The linked USB device costs $16.99 One shipping option to (I picked Bayern) Germany was 16.95. So you get a retro joystick for under $35. They also have another shipping option that runs $28 so you'd be looking at $45. Still not what most people would consider prohibitive.
I mean, it's easier to name the minstrels that didn't get wealthy than it is to name all of the ones that did, right?
Okay, then name me one Olde Time(tm) Minstrel who didn't get famous? Just one name is all I'm asking for.
I know all the famous ones... er... uh... no I don't. Okay, you win.
That doesn't shoot down anything, as the first thing I said was that the Shield Law has absolutely ZERO impact on this case, as it protects Journalists from being forced to identify sources, but does nothing to prevent them from voluntarily giving up their sources. It's not like Client-Attorney privilege where failure to abide by the attorney can result in censure of the attorney.
So Regardless of what Lamo claimed to be, it has no impact and no legal risk to either Poulson or Lamo. And the shield law, even if it did somehow have relevance makes it clear that just claiming to be a journalist is insufficient to receive it's protections.
Oh and nice effort at Godwin-ing the thread. Associating me with the NAZI's doesn't weaken my points.
You misunderstand the Shield law. It protects journalists from being forced (in some but not all circumstances) to give up sources to avoid being charged with contempt of court. It does NOT prevent any journalist from willingly giving up sources or other information on their own volition.
Further Lamo's coverage under the Shield law, even if it worked like you indicate it does, would be of questionable value since he is not a Journalist. He's not even working as a freelance journalist. He's a source who provided information to a journalist. He didn't request and was not given any assurances of secrecy by Poulsen so he has no claims or protections.
There are no implications, serious or otherwise with either of them working with law enforcement. They uncovered claims of potentially damaging espionage, and they did the right thing. They reported it to the authorities. Any claims of Lamo being a journalist are of absolutely no concern. He's not a journalist, a journalist is not a law enforcement or other government agent. It is no crime to claim to be a journalist. And claiming to be one does not instill some magic responsibility to not report a crime. Espionage however; is a crime. A very serious one that can result in deaths of US personnel as well as others.
It's all fine to proclaim that information needs to be free, and that the government should be 100% transparent, but no government can operate nor will any country long stand without keeping secrets. Secrets allow us to negotiate. Secrets protect those who provide us with critical information for successful operations that keep our country free.
Does the ability to keep secrets occasionally get abused, absolutely. Is the vast majority of classified information just covering up abuses, absolutely NOT.
SPC. Manning is a fool, who is going to spend a long time in a very unpleasant prison at Ft Leavenworth. He is not a hero, and needed to be turned in.
Evidently not. It's annoying as hell to log in to a system of websites, which sites require either a CAC or a 10 character, strong password that must be changed every 150 days, and then get phishing and other warnings on every page inside that network of sites.
.mil networks navigable you have to turn OFF your anti-phishing settings and frequently accept multiple unverifiable certificates for each page visited.
To make the
No the worst is trying to use a military computer (means only IE) to hit military sites, and having to approve half a dozen exceptions each time you visit a new page.
They seem to be unable to use standard certificates or even attempt to register them with internet registries. The best is working on a classified network. And getting "WARNING!!! This page may be unsafe! WARNING!!!" notices on an entirely closed and encrypted network.
The Taliban WAS Afghanistan's official Government and military. Any claim otherwise just shows your total ignorance.
The Taliban Regime harbored Al Qaeda, they hosted their numerous training camps, (and participated in the training at the camps) and they helped fund the training. Then when we asked them to turn over Bin Laden to be tried in international courts (No death penalty risk, not that they cared about the death penalty) they refused. We warned them of the consequences and they still refused.
So we started helping the other faction in Afghanistan, the Northern Alliance. And with a little air support and careful use of special ops troops we removed the Taliban from power.
But to say that they were not the official army of Afghanistan just shows how little you know.
Iraq: The quarrel dated back to their invasion of one friend (Kuwait) and threats towards another (Saudi Arabia). The reasons give in 2003 don't exactly jibe, but to say we had no quarrel is patently false.
Afghanistan: The quarrel was directly related to 9/11 they trained there. And they were harboring a known international terrorist organization. We asked them to give up Al Qaeda and or Bin Laden but they refused. They sided with the people who had declared war on us. Thus a legitimate quarrel. Not to mention the atrocities the Taliban were committing against their own populace (specifically women) and against historical treasures within the country (Bamyan Buddhas).
I'm not trying to debate whether or not we should be there, especially with Iraq which had no connection to 9/11, but pointing out that we did indeed have quarrels with both places and that other countries have gone to war over far less.
As to your Constitutional claim, please cite the article and section you think backs that up. I seem to be unable to find that in my copy of the U.S. Consitution. Section 1 Section 8 states that the legislative branch has the authority:
To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water;
To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years;
To provide and maintain a Navy;
To make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval Forces;
To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions;
To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the Militia, and for governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the United States, reserving to the States respectively, the Appointment of the Officers, and the Authority of training the Militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress;
The closest part to your claim is the two year limit on the length of appropriations. That just ensures that congress frequently looks at the funding of the military, it is not a limit on how long or when we can have a standing army.
Yes the guy gets BAH before during and after deployment, but BAH doesn't always meet the costs, it helps but especially for lower enlisted it often is insufficient for obtaining housing of sufficient size for a family.
Well Service and pay issues aside, pehaps Verizon needs to re-evaluate their policies since their competitors will waive the ETF for a soldier deploying overseas. And They will waive the ETF if the customer cannot get service where they live. Second Tax free at the PX isn't that great a deal. PX prices are inflated to support the MWR system so you can often (if not always) beat the PX "tax free" prices at Walmart on all but big ticket items. An enlisted man's food is not paid for, unless he's single and living in the barracks and eating at the dining facility, this guy is married thus he's on separate rats.
His initial uniform issue is free, and he gets additional funds to pay for them but his clothes are not free. He has to maintain his uniforms in good condition and that means buying replacements at Clothing Sales. This is planned for and some money is paid specifically for this but if he's combat arms and constantly crawling on the ground, and through muck and brush he's having to buy new uniforms faster than the standard replacement rate.
Second how do you know she recieved a phone for this particular contract. Yes that's the initial purpose of the ETF, but try and change your plan after your contract has run out. 9 time out of 10 they'll try to tack on a new ETF contract any time you try to add a new calling plan feature. "Want 7 pm nights instead of the standard 9 pm? Sure thing just agree to a new two year contract and we can add that."
She most likely had received a new phone but we have no proof of that. And as she doesn't have service I'd bet she'd be willing to return the phone to Verizon. Simply put the service drone(s) this lady talked to were flat wrong and insensitive. Phone companies will waive those fees if you die, and also if you can prove that you now live in an area with no service. (That's funny I thought Verizon claimed they cover everybody.) Thankfully the news media were able to talk to someone who did know the policies and quickly acted to follow them.
Lets see, my credit union is on a major nationwide ATM network. So often I don't have to pay fees. It had decent online banking with automated bill pay before my last bank did. (And the credit union never charged a cent unlike the bank which tried to charge $14 a month for their comparatively crappy service.)
My credit union does SMS notifications if I sign up for them, it does E-mail notifications, and has 24 hour CS. And while somewhat hurt due to the housing bubble and sub-prime collapse it wasn't nearly as exposed as the major and regional banks.
Off the top of my head, I don't recall the first person (I could look it up, but I'm lazy), but the one that he got the penalty for was a sheriffs deputy he killed while trying to escape from the courthouse while at trial for the first murder.
He also severely wounded another guard or court worker who died a few years ago due to complications of his wounds.
His tweet didn't make a joke or make light of the situation. It was a somber and concise statement of fact. Making a joke would have been something like: "LOL, Told em ta shoot da bastard. Good riddance, nine more to go. ROFLMAO at Gardner burning in Hell!!!" (Nine being the current remaining population of Utah's Death Row.)
Instead he simply stated the facts of a rather significant duty of his job, without mocking and with a prayer for mercy above for the executed. The real travesty/scandal is that it took 25 years to execute this guy who killed in broad daylight. The last murder he did was nearly caught on camera, but it still took 25 years. I'm all for being careful and serving due diligence in making sure we don't execute the wrong person, but this is way too long.
And semi-coincidently California now has so many warnings on so much stuff that the warnings do get ignored.
CA should just save time and require everyone and everything (and I mean EVERYTHING) within the magical borders of CA to be labeled as being possibly cancerous.
But we can't plot specific storms or how serious they will be three weeks out let alone three years. And we can measure the factors of earthly weather systems much ore accurately.
Sure we know the Solar cycles, but did we suffer catastrophic solar storms two or three years into the last cycle, and the one before that, or before that?
This scientist may be 100% correct and accurate, he's studied this, I haven't. But I agree with the GP post in wondering exactly how they can predict this three years in advance, when they're still trying to figure out why the current minimum lasted so long.
The solar cycle is well established, we haven't suffered these catastrophic storms in prior cycles. Why should this one be so much worse?
p.s. I seem to recall the largest solar flare ever recorded was recorded in 07 just before the last cycle ended, not just as it began. And we didn't have many problems with that flare either. Of course like the vast majority of flares that one wasn't aimed at our tiny sphere called Earth.
Funny, I was transitioned from Comcast's Analog Limited Basic to their Limited Digital Basic with no change in cost, and no significant change in channels (I seem to think I lost one channel I never watched anyway.)
Except those LED lights ($3.99 at Walmart) tend to shine for six hours or more, not a paltry 2 hours. I have a couple single LED lights among the set in my yard that will often still be lit when I leave for work in the morning.
Don't you mean last month?
But when was the base line for the standard established. 802.11n was formally standardized in 2009, yet I bought a 801.11n capable router in 2007.
Freeway entrances have those warnings and rules. This is a Highway, which means high speeds but it's not a controlled access freeway.
And this lady is a fool, to not realize that road has no sidewalks. Especially since her starting point was one from which she had to have driven up the highway in question to get to in the first place.
If they could simply fix the BOP, they would. But it's really hard to work on a leaking firehose, while it's gushing. Oh and do it by remote control with underwater ROV's. Don't under estimate the difficulty of the task at hand.
The BOP has failed, the device designed and installed just to prevent this kind of disaster failed. In the early days they did try to coax it into working, with no luck.
What I'm wondering is even if it's not stopping the flow, why not keep pumping mud. It seems to at least been keeping the oil in the pipe, displacing it with the mud. If nothing else, three days of mud flowing was three days of at a minimum, substantially reduced amounts of oil flowing out.
Then again I thought the movie Cars was creepy... who built those machines? And what happened to them?
Obviously they are the descendants of the Autobots a couple millennia after they finally defeated the Decepticons and eliminated the annoying human inhabitants of this planet.
Nope, you are not. I thought this vid was funny and cute. I would have had him fighting some more realistic villain, such as the ever evil Nanny. Oh and had him getting it on with some milk-a-holic floozy at the beginning of the clip.
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I don't see the problem with BP trying to save the well.
You get in an accident, you don't just automatically call the vehicle totaled and write it off as a loss. You get the trained insurance appraiser out to look it over. He takes a look, and perhaps he determines that it looks ugly but that it is worth the money invested to repair the vehicle and recover it's usefulness, rather than just write it off.
They've spent a lot of money drilling this well, why should they not try to both cap the leak and recover the usefulness of the well. That is what their early efforts were, attempts to cap and recover. First they tried to get the BOP to work, then they tried the containment boxes to cap and recover. Those methods haven't worked. They are proven techniques at lesser depths. They didn't work so now they are going for just trying to plug the well. Again a technique that has worked at lesser depths, but will it at these depths? We don't know, they don't know but they are trying.
I disagree, I had a nice ecosystem in the back seat of my truck when it was totaled in an accident several years ago. The accident killed that ecosystem.