The end result is often not that different even with professional law enforcement involved. There is all too much of a majority in our legal system that wants a conviction, not justice.
Without Snowden, the people submitting these FOIA requests wouldn't have known what to request, which basically kills the point of actually making the requests. FOIA requires unduly high burden on the requester to actually already know (at least in part) what they're looking for. It's not really written to create transparency, but the illusion of transparency.
Considering 40 years between construction and the incident, I'd say that is a correct analysis. They did not build it in a particularly tsunami-prone area. Especially when you consider what actually happened, compared with what a lot of people seem to think happened.
Actually, it's far from the explicit purpose of taxes. What these Oakland residents are saying is that the force paid for by their taxes is not providing them with the protection they are requesting. However, what municipal taxes fund is a sticky subject from place to place. At the municipal level, taxes largely pay for local infrastructure such as water utilities, city parks, fire departments, and yes, police departments. But this was not always so, and in the days of the US's founding, the idea of a professional police force was unheard of. When you boil it down to results, I'm less and less convinced that we need even half of the so-called "services" provided by professional law enforcement. Particularly in their heavily-militarized state.
Hate to break it to you, but as incompetent as TEPCO may be, they did not cause the tsunami. They may have failed along the way, but to claim they "set forth" a catastrophe here is nonsense.
As a German-born American, I'm shocked and dismayed that the international community has not yet declared these programs to be acts of war. The other first world nations put up with entirely too much of America's crap. I feel like I live in 1936 in a certain country that I won't specify. Watching my nation goosestep closer and closer to an unsustainable police state is more terrifying than anything a terrorist bomb has ever done.
Apple backdoored themselves into the market with the iPhone. Nobody cared about tablets until Apple made a really useful smartphone. When the applications that people found useful ran short of screen real-estate, Apple brought a huge iPhone without the phone to the market, and promised it as a way to make those apps more useful. And they were right. They presented it as an upgrade to the existing paradigm.
Microsoft, on the other hand, made the Surface as a step down from full PC/laptop. Being better than a smartphone will always beat being worse than a PC.
That's pretty much the only honest way to look at it, since the House is the only legitimate source of spending bills.
What we really need is to entirely rid our nation of omnibus spending bills and instead piecemeal it like we once did. It's the only way to get rid of a lot of unnecessary porkbarrel spending.
I think you misunderstand my post, and I actually agree entirely with what you're saying. What I'm describing is the anticompetitive, monopolistic behaviour of an industry organization. In this case, stifling, stigmatizing, or otherwise creating problems for anyone who dares work outside their auspices.
As for community, volunteer-style labels, I have released music in exactly the context you describe, with my first release produced on demo-version software on a Pentium 2 running Win98 (back in 2001). So I'm not exactly a stranger to it, even though I did drop out of it for quite a while. I've been researching the idea of doing some recording again, this time on a much more advanced Linux-based system.
Which is largely my point: It's not really going into the public domain until every copyright applying to it expires, and people are making a lot of bad assumptions regarding where the list of copyrights ends.
It's the sales of what they want to sell you. The Media/Content industry doesn't get the same power to tell you what to buy when you're free to choose it for yourself. They'd rather sell ten million copies of the latest... crap, who are they trying to push these days? Justin Bieber or Miley Cyrus or something? Anyway, they'd rather sell ten million of just one or two of those than twenty million albums spread across 200 different albums of varying genres.
This is about the power to tell you what to buy, not to tell you to buy from them.
Especially given all the obviously unnecessary ways in which Dear Leader has been making things inconvenient in ways none of the other shutdowns (and this one too, really) actually allow for. The barricading of an outdoor, unstaffed WWII memorial? The barricades in the part of the Mount Vernon parking lot that are on public land (despite Mount Vernon itself being open and privately owned)? Forcing a tavern where the Founders used to hang out in Philadelphia, a private business leasing a building from the government in the historic district, to close for the duration of the shutdown? This is not only unnecessary, but petty, dictatorial, and unprecedented.
The problem with the "job" count is that everything seems to be based off the assumption that even with new technologies, we have to fill everyone's time with something "productive" (and yes, given a lot of jobs, the quotes are absolutely necessary).
I've heard that on average, an 8-hour workday results in maybe 3 hours of actual work for most jobs. It seems to me that rather than focusing on how busy a person is in this new world of technology, perhaps we would be better off figuring out a way to allow people more flexibility and free time to pursue their passions than simply filling their time with desk-sitting and staring down the clock until 5pm.
Exactly. But the comment I was responding to was referring to broadcast rights.
And then we also get into the works created for hire aspect of the law in many countries, which would decouple the copyright from the creator's lifespan.
the music was performed as a collaboration, as is the entire work of an episode. They'd be hard-pressed to argue that a given recording is prohibited specifically because its author is not yet deceased for long enough. By that logic, we'd be arguing not about the broadcast date, but by who wrote the script.
You've got a very narrow view of this situation, and seem to be worse off for it. the more Lavabits we have refusing to be complicit in these unethical overreaches, the more we all win.
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Maybe not to you, but that's where the value of the comparison you are so quick to dismiss comes into play.
The end result is often not that different even with professional law enforcement involved. There is all too much of a majority in our legal system that wants a conviction, not justice.
Without Snowden, the people submitting these FOIA requests wouldn't have known what to request, which basically kills the point of actually making the requests. FOIA requires unduly high burden on the requester to actually already know (at least in part) what they're looking for. It's not really written to create transparency, but the illusion of transparency.
I disagree. I'll give them up to a maximum of 40%, no more.
Considering 40 years between construction and the incident, I'd say that is a correct analysis. They did not build it in a particularly tsunami-prone area. Especially when you consider what actually happened, compared with what a lot of people seem to think happened.
Actually, it's far from the explicit purpose of taxes. What these Oakland residents are saying is that the force paid for by their taxes is not providing them with the protection they are requesting. However, what municipal taxes fund is a sticky subject from place to place. At the municipal level, taxes largely pay for local infrastructure such as water utilities, city parks, fire departments, and yes, police departments. But this was not always so, and in the days of the US's founding, the idea of a professional police force was unheard of. When you boil it down to results, I'm less and less convinced that we need even half of the so-called "services" provided by professional law enforcement. Particularly in their heavily-militarized state.
Hate to break it to you, but as incompetent as TEPCO may be, they did not cause the tsunami. They may have failed along the way, but to claim they "set forth" a catastrophe here is nonsense.
As a German-born American, I'm shocked and dismayed that the international community has not yet declared these programs to be acts of war. The other first world nations put up with entirely too much of America's crap. I feel like I live in 1936 in a certain country that I won't specify. Watching my nation goosestep closer and closer to an unsustainable police state is more terrifying than anything a terrorist bomb has ever done.
Apple backdoored themselves into the market with the iPhone. Nobody cared about tablets until Apple made a really useful smartphone. When the applications that people found useful ran short of screen real-estate, Apple brought a huge iPhone without the phone to the market, and promised it as a way to make those apps more useful. And they were right. They presented it as an upgrade to the existing paradigm.
Microsoft, on the other hand, made the Surface as a step down from full PC/laptop. Being better than a smartphone will always beat being worse than a PC.
That's pretty much the only honest way to look at it, since the House is the only legitimate source of spending bills.
What we really need is to entirely rid our nation of omnibus spending bills and instead piecemeal it like we once did. It's the only way to get rid of a lot of unnecessary porkbarrel spending.
I think you misunderstand my post, and I actually agree entirely with what you're saying. What I'm describing is the anticompetitive, monopolistic behaviour of an industry organization. In this case, stifling, stigmatizing, or otherwise creating problems for anyone who dares work outside their auspices.
As for community, volunteer-style labels, I have released music in exactly the context you describe, with my first release produced on demo-version software on a Pentium 2 running Win98 (back in 2001). So I'm not exactly a stranger to it, even though I did drop out of it for quite a while. I've been researching the idea of doing some recording again, this time on a much more advanced Linux-based system.
Let's start by regulating law enforcement use of drones out of existence.
I'm trying to figure out exactly how they figure they can justify $30k in the first place. It just doesn't make any sense from where I sit.
Which is largely my point: It's not really going into the public domain until every copyright applying to it expires, and people are making a lot of bad assumptions regarding where the list of copyrights ends.
It's the sales of what they want to sell you. The Media/Content industry doesn't get the same power to tell you what to buy when you're free to choose it for yourself. They'd rather sell ten million copies of the latest ... crap, who are they trying to push these days? Justin Bieber or Miley Cyrus or something? Anyway, they'd rather sell ten million of just one or two of those than twenty million albums spread across 200 different albums of varying genres.
This is about the power to tell you what to buy, not to tell you to buy from them.
Especially given all the obviously unnecessary ways in which Dear Leader has been making things inconvenient in ways none of the other shutdowns (and this one too, really) actually allow for. The barricading of an outdoor, unstaffed WWII memorial? The barricades in the part of the Mount Vernon parking lot that are on public land (despite Mount Vernon itself being open and privately owned)? Forcing a tavern where the Founders used to hang out in Philadelphia, a private business leasing a building from the government in the historic district, to close for the duration of the shutdown? This is not only unnecessary, but petty, dictatorial, and unprecedented.
The problem with the "job" count is that everything seems to be based off the assumption that even with new technologies, we have to fill everyone's time with something "productive" (and yes, given a lot of jobs, the quotes are absolutely necessary).
I've heard that on average, an 8-hour workday results in maybe 3 hours of actual work for most jobs. It seems to me that rather than focusing on how busy a person is in this new world of technology, perhaps we would be better off figuring out a way to allow people more flexibility and free time to pursue their passions than simply filling their time with desk-sitting and staring down the clock until 5pm.
Exactly. But the comment I was responding to was referring to broadcast rights.
And then we also get into the works created for hire aspect of the law in many countries, which would decouple the copyright from the creator's lifespan.
Before, it was Yahoo being cheap. Now it's Yahoo also screwing their own staff.
the music was performed as a collaboration, as is the entire work of an episode. They'd be hard-pressed to argue that a given recording is prohibited specifically because its author is not yet deceased for long enough. By that logic, we'd be arguing not about the broadcast date, but by who wrote the script.
You've got a very narrow view of this situation, and seem to be worse off for it. the more Lavabits we have refusing to be complicit in these unethical overreaches, the more we all win.
the nuts who vote the most work in the Capitol Building.
I don't always put radioactive water in my kiddie pools. But when I do, I prefer putting them in someone else's backyard.
Seems like degree-mills are more common than actual universities by the same token.