The StarTribune article said the warrant included seizing MP3 players. How can these be used to break the law? Okay, you can throw it at someone, but that covers plates as well. For that matter, is it illegal to own a gun in the twin cities? Article said someone was arrested for having a gun. And hey, what's wrong with having boltcutters?
I'll agree with you on the buckets of urine and caltrops. Then again, buckets of urine and feces sitting around is probably a health department issue, not an intent to commit crime issue.
Since when do people get arrested for fire-code violations? It's usually "disperse and leave the premises", isn't it?
Egads, are you talking about Rourke's Drift? It was 135 British and other ranks against 4,000 Zulu. The British had a superior defensive position and went through 26,000 rounds of ammunition. Read some history for Ghu's sake. Even the movie was an order of magnitude more accurate than your description.
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Yeah, Robert Downey Jr is going to have to work real hard to play an alcoholic.
TFA generalized the bunch of 20-year-olds to "young males." But yeah, half a second of a photo makes it pretty hard to imagine accurate decision making.
This wasn't a human mistake. These people knew what they were doing, or someone in the chain of command knew they were breaking laws. Federal employees go through annual training covering Federal Records Management. They knew these emails were supposed to be kept, and they destroyed them.
Remember, warrantless wiretapping isn't enough to keep us safe. Only telecom immunity can keep us safe. Warrantless wiretapping without telecom immunity means buildings exploding when the terrorists attack.
Yes, but did you see the campaign fliers he and Oberwies were sending out? They were almost mirror images of each other. "My opponent eats babies." vs "My opponent will slaughter your children." I didn't see any that said what the candidate supported or would do, only smears against the other guy. It was like it was Victor Wogen all over again.
Why would a US carrier get within range of Iranian missiles? A USN CVBG is built around using it's aircraft to strike the enemy, and they can use air-to-air refueling to extend their range more than ten times that of an Iranian shore-to-sea missile. If the Iranian Navy wants to come out to fight they'll sink quite quickly. Iran has no hope of striking a US carrier.
If you're referring to the 2006 Hizbollah attack on a Saar 5 corvette, keep in mind that the Saar 5 has a displacement of 1227 tons, and a Nimitz-class carrier displaces over 100,000 tons. Damaging a Saar 5 is a long, long way from sinking a carrier.
Iran's airforce hasn't had proper maintenance since the days of the Shah. This was made clear in the first Persian Gulf war, when they couldn't defeat Iraq. The Iranian F-14s stayed clear of combat and acted as AWACS planes. Iran was using massed infantry attacks against armor, minefields, and large earthen fortifications. Remember the Korean-made plastic keys to heaven? After the Shah was ousted they did their best to drive out the technorati. If you were a geek, you were in unwelcome. If you could maintain electronics, they wanted you to take up camel herding.
If we had the manpower to invade Iran, and I'll agree that we don't, it would be an exercise in logistics to supply ammunition and fuel. Hopefully we'd have to manage large numbers of prisoners, but only a fool would count on that. Trying to occupy Iran would make Iran look pleasant. If they try to stand against us on a battlefield, they'll lose. If they want to sit in cities and kills us in ones and twos, they'll do so. As it is, we can bomb all we want.
Larry Niven wrote a bit about the problems with teleportation, such as conservation of momentum and energy. You also have to do two-way teleportation, otherwise you're teleporting into matter (that includes air). If you change elevations, what happens to the potential energy? Does it convert to heat?
The keys are a physical object. The password phrase is contained in his brain, and requires him to provide information. Was Al Capone's accountant legally required to reveal the code used for bookkeeping?
At first my reaction was that people who get medical information on YouTube deserve what they get. Then the light went on. They're getting bad information about vaccinations. That means they won't get immunized, and that behavior leads to outbreaks of illnesses and epidemics. It can put a lot of us at risk.
Misinformation about science bothers me in general as well.
Install a GPS receiver connected to a data collection platform with GOES radio transmitter. Instrumentation would cost you under $5K. Record the locations of the rocks in time series data. If they only move when it's windy after rainstorms, that's a good clue. If they move when it doesn't rain, that's another clue. If they don't move, and then move at 60 mph, that means you've got a theft problem.
I seem to recall that sleep deprivation is prohibited by the Geneva Conventions. Why are we doing this to our own citizens when we've agreed not to do it to foreign soldiers?
Yes, but we had to return the Mig-29 that landed in Japan. The Chinese returned the favor after one of our EC aircraft "Lurched erratically and struck one of their innocent top-of-the-line fighters in spite of the pilot's best efforts to avoid a collision". Or maybe it was that our converted cargo aircraft "Engaged in air combat maneuvers and using it's superior maneuverability intentionally rammed the unsuspecting Chinese aircraft."
Despite that, revolutions have a pretty high probability to go awfully wrong. Just because one went right doesn't guarantee the next will.
The next one didn't succeed, although the losing side still refers to it as the war of northern aggression.
How has anyone abused weather predictions or census data? I'm with you that there's a lot of abuse of government power, but you're saying "Everything."
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The StarTribune article said the warrant included seizing MP3 players. How can these be used to break the law? Okay, you can throw it at someone, but that covers plates as well. For that matter, is it illegal to own a gun in the twin cities? Article said someone was arrested for having a gun. And hey, what's wrong with having boltcutters?
I'll agree with you on the buckets of urine and caltrops. Then again, buckets of urine and feces sitting around is probably a health department issue, not an intent to commit crime issue.
Since when do people get arrested for fire-code violations? It's usually "disperse and leave the premises", isn't it?
Yes, it falls under the phrase "petition the Government for a redress of grievances." It's that pesky first amendment thing.
Egads, are you talking about Rourke's Drift? It was 135 British and other ranks against 4,000 Zulu. The British had a superior defensive position and went through 26,000 rounds of ammunition. Read some history for Ghu's sake. Even the movie was an order of magnitude more accurate than your description.
Yeah, Robert Downey Jr is going to have to work real hard to play an alcoholic.
TFA generalized the bunch of 20-year-olds to "young males." But yeah, half a second of a photo makes it pretty hard to imagine accurate decision making.
This wasn't a human mistake. These people knew what they were doing, or someone in the chain of command knew they were breaking laws. Federal employees go through annual training covering Federal Records Management. They knew these emails were supposed to be kept, and they destroyed them.
Remember, warrantless wiretapping isn't enough to keep us safe. Only telecom immunity can keep us safe. Warrantless wiretapping without telecom immunity means buildings exploding when the terrorists attack.
Yes, but did you see the campaign fliers he and Oberwies were sending out? They were almost mirror images of each other. "My opponent eats babies." vs "My opponent will slaughter your children." I didn't see any that said what the candidate supported or would do, only smears against the other guy. It was like it was Victor Wogen all over again.
I can't believe this hasn't been mentioned yet.
Why would a US carrier get within range of Iranian missiles? A USN CVBG is built around using it's aircraft to strike the enemy, and they can use air-to-air refueling to extend their range more than ten times that of an Iranian shore-to-sea missile. If the Iranian Navy wants to come out to fight they'll sink quite quickly. Iran has no hope of striking a US carrier.
If you're referring to the 2006 Hizbollah attack on a Saar 5 corvette, keep in mind that the Saar 5 has a displacement of 1227 tons, and a Nimitz-class carrier displaces over 100,000 tons. Damaging a Saar 5 is a long, long way from sinking a carrier.
Iran's airforce hasn't had proper maintenance since the days of the Shah. This was made clear in the first Persian Gulf war, when they couldn't defeat Iraq. The Iranian F-14s stayed clear of combat and acted as AWACS planes. Iran was using massed infantry attacks against armor, minefields, and large earthen fortifications. Remember the Korean-made plastic keys to heaven? After the Shah was ousted they did their best to drive out the technorati. If you were a geek, you were in unwelcome. If you could maintain electronics, they wanted you to take up camel herding.
If we had the manpower to invade Iran, and I'll agree that we don't, it would be an exercise in logistics to supply ammunition and fuel. Hopefully we'd have to manage large numbers of prisoners, but only a fool would count on that. Trying to occupy Iran would make Iran look pleasant. If they try to stand against us on a battlefield, they'll lose. If they want to sit in cities and kills us in ones and twos, they'll do so. As it is, we can bomb all we want.
Larry Niven wrote a bit about the problems with teleportation, such as conservation of momentum and energy. You also have to do two-way teleportation, otherwise you're teleporting into matter (that includes air). If you change elevations, what happens to the potential energy? Does it convert to heat?
Article says they'll have two printers at each polling station, so jams or smudges are covered. Incorrect print files aren't addressed in the article.
I think you're looking for the phrase, "No ex post facto laws."
Don't search warrants list the specifics of the search?
The keys are a physical object. The password phrase is contained in his brain, and requires him to provide information. Was Al Capone's accountant legally required to reveal the code used for bookkeeping?
At first my reaction was that people who get medical information on YouTube deserve what they get. Then the light went on. They're getting bad information about vaccinations. That means they won't get immunized, and that behavior leads to outbreaks of illnesses and epidemics. It can put a lot of us at risk.
Misinformation about science bothers me in general as well.
Install a GPS receiver connected to a data collection platform with GOES radio transmitter. Instrumentation would cost you under $5K. Record the locations of the rocks in time series data. If they only move when it's windy after rainstorms, that's a good clue. If they move when it doesn't rain, that's another clue. If they don't move, and then move at 60 mph, that means you've got a theft problem.
I seem to recall that sleep deprivation is prohibited by the Geneva Conventions. Why are we doing this to our own citizens when we've agreed not to do it to foreign soldiers?
Yes, but we had to return the Mig-29 that landed in Japan. The Chinese returned the favor after one of our EC aircraft "Lurched erratically and struck one of their innocent top-of-the-line fighters in spite of the pilot's best efforts to avoid a collision". Or maybe it was that our converted cargo aircraft "Engaged in air combat maneuvers and using it's superior maneuverability intentionally rammed the unsuspecting Chinese aircraft."
You didn't have to go to Madison. You could go to Rockford instead.
Despite that, revolutions have a pretty high probability to go awfully wrong. Just because one went right doesn't guarantee the next will.
The next one didn't succeed, although the losing side still refers to it as the war of northern aggression.
How has anyone abused weather predictions or census data? I'm with you that there's a lot of abuse of government power, but you're saying "Everything."
Curses, I've already spent my mod points, otherwise you'd get one.