The BIGGER point is that when Obama wanted to close Gitmo and send those occupants to US prison or other legit foreign prisons CONGRESS put up block to stop him.
I find the power to EXTRACT me from the USA with zero oversight and then do "whatever" to me was over the top compared to ordering bombs dropped on "wanted: dead or alive" types.
The FAA regulates airspace not the States... So this is pointless.
Of course the FAA has previously declared "airspace" over 500 -1000 feet because that's the minimum they allow standard aircraft to fly. The whole drone thing is greased DoD palms... So it's going to happen.
For many things the Country is heavily subsidized. For instance my mailman delivers several hundred ones ON FOOT in the city. To deliver rural mail takes paying for gas to deliver half as many addresses. Same for electric or phone.... In town, homes are 70 feet apart (even closer in tall city apartment buildings) In the country they are 100's or 1000's of feet apart yet the utility companies are forced to charge the same per month rates inspire of more repair costs.
Without junk mail you'd have to pay the mailman a lot more per envelope. Probably well over $1. Unlike Spam, junk mail PAYS the mailman to walk around to ALL the houses. Right now advertising is probably the only thing making per home delivery profitable.
UPS and FEDEX certainly don't deliver to EVERY house, EVERY day.... And not for $.45
It is vital... And highly profitable... They have pulled multiple BILLIONs out in prepaid benefits into the Federal general fund since 2006. Few private companies could survive such payments.
The last guy already claimed the power to arrest you without specific charge and then deport you from the USA for illegal torture (but if the Constitution doesn't apply how was he president there?) and IF they got around to it, try a citizen in a military tribunal with NO legal representation.
So the President being able to order a strike on a band of military related thugs is small peanuts. He's commander-in-Chief and chooses who to blow up... Much more "Constitutional" than establishing an illegal prison.
Remember it is CONGRESS that BLOCKED Obama from closing up Gitmo and setting things more normal (even though Gitmo prison was established without their consent, they blocked closing it?)
The military is shooting at known enemies.... Best not be standing too close... Ya think.
Most of these actions are taking place in countries a normal US citizen is not LEGALLY ALLOWED to visit, or at least severely discouraged by the State Department. These people are taking extrordnary This just isn't something normal folk have to worry about. In fact it probably should not have been written as a "change" in any policy at all... The Army doesn't have to check ID on baddies before they dispatch them... The program should simply be to get the bad guys... And we're not taking prisoners.
Don't want to be shot like a terrorist, don't stand so close!
The problem is that physics disagree. When you bomb a car full of terrorists and one American the bomb is what's not following the Constitution. These people are being "assassinated" while engaging with KNOWN terrorists. It doesn't really matter if its having tea and crumpets at a preschool... They are giving instructions to terrorists on foreign soil.
This is why the MILITARY is doing this.. Because they just kill things... They dont arrest people. That's their job. The CIA has a similar mandate to "just kill" enemies. We don't have resources for the FBI to chase these guys... More just pop up.
These people have chosen to be enemies of the USA. Back in the days of Cowboys and Indians, your only defense against "aiding the enemy" was to be as far away as possible. The US Army killed plenty of American citizens that lived with Natives...
The only real change here is that the DoD is actually targeting the terrorist bases WHEN American "citizens" are standing on them. They used to pretend they were getting them along with the other terrorists... But no more.
I have less of a problem with the government killing confirmed traitors while ENGAGED in plotting against the USA, in a foreign country, with other enemies. That's open and shut... The military KILLS PEOPLE... They don't arrest people.
This nonsense of picking up US Citizens, on US soil for things that may have happened, then shipping them OUT of the USA without trial was a much larger affront to the Constitution than this new procedure is.
You don't want to get blowed up, don't stand with the enemy. American citizenship has no bearing if you are actively engaged in planning WAR against the USA.
But if two $40 mil planes shoot down one $140 mil plane you are ahead in the next round.
Part of the issue with Sims is that planes are SO expensive now we can't keep enough pilots ready to fly them. Back to your example, they have three ready pilots to one... The amount of things that go wrong on these expensive planes without being shot at evens the odds a bit while your pilot waits for another plane.
Also, the US military is really trained to fight Russia or China.. About the only countries that can put equivalent aircraft in the sky... So the other European countries just need planes for external threats... The occasional Middle East operation... They have no intension of going against USA, China, or Russia head on.
Like 1 in 4 black men have been jailed at some point... Don't complain about the bail bond advertisements, complain that REALITY is still pretty racist.
When Watson. Went to Preschool he learned a great deal about "colorful metaphors". Now he's going to college!!!
He's gonna be running naked across campus. Drunk Sexting his GF. Posting pictures of his "private junk" on Facebook. Probably will join the young communists too.
Watson really seems to be a lot like Bender... He does "human things" hilariously wrong.
This is the easiest way to demonstrate the unprecedented lockdown given to Software Patents versus regular mechanical patents. A software mousetrap would cover "electronic methods for mouse catching" and the patent office doesn't even make you prove the blinky light on top actually is part of catching the mouse! Glue a RJ-45 jack on this and you've just added "on the Internet" to your mousetrap!
There's no sanity check and the patent office is granting dozens of people a patent on the same "magic box".
It's simple. $2-$3 of that $9.99 went to the boss... And that INCLUDED charge backs.. So the phone company was dipping in both sides... It was free money either way.
If State Attorney Generals forced phone companies to be half as honest as they forced Apple to be we wouldn't have these little chats.
Actually THAT was one of the biggest shifts that Apple pushed on the telcos. In the pre-iPhone days ALL SALES went through the phone company at exorbitant up charges.
When Apple introduced iPhone everybody made their online purchase with a separate iTunes account, not with their phone bill. Combine with the "all in one" plans that eliminated most common overages such scams mostly went away for normal, careful folk.
The best example by far is the Mouse Trap. There are literally thousands of patents on various devices to catch a pesky mouse in your house. You can look them all up and develop your OWN physical design that might catch a mouse too.
Software patents are effectively a closed box with a blinky light that "catches a mouse" using various mechanisms and sensors that we don't have to fully explain or even show you. Any "box with a mouse-sized hole" can potentially be infringing.
Remove the index, void all the contracts based on that index. If they can't self regulate the results, then take away the index... For regular folk, it doesn't mean anything... For bankers it means RISK IS HERE... BEWARE. Which is the proper libertarian answer to the problem... Responsibility for managing risk.
Except when reserve banks and central banks release such numbers it is legally binding that they offer that rate to their "customers". Granted "customers" is a really small pool and most days most Banks wouldn't qualify... But those are all known things.
From the sounds of it the Libor is the other direction.. Bank, what average are you paying for loans in this category TODAY. Due to the complexity of figuring that out at all, can you complain people were basically making it what they WANTED it to be and not what they were actually paying. There was obviously no audit process involved in submissions, so it would be interesting what crime was committed.
This is a number that never meant anything... It might as well have been what they paid for lunch. It's extra funny when financial systems are built on supercomputers.. When the basic input is RAW superstition or guessing. It's funny that the same complex supercomputers aren't watching the inputs on these indexes for foul play... Should have been easy to find.... That guy from "Numbers" has time to help.
I have an Eye-if card in my digital camera. I don't take the card out of the camera except to reformat every six months or so. Syncs just beautifully to my iPad while out taking pictures.
But he did not "crack" any security other than hiding the laptop in a closet. He didn't fake credentials, he didn't use any more access to the journal than MIT granted him.
A good comparison would be if he was refilling hundreds of water bottles from a public water fountain. Yes, he was misusing the resource... But the resource was not secured to begin with... Nobody at MIT was performing basic WATCHING to simply ask him to stop. In fact they had a policy of "ignoring" minor indiscretions.
If I lent my neighbor my water hose to water his garden.. But never checked for tree days he was filling his pool instead, the problem is between me and the water service people to cover that bill. It's not LEGALLY my neighbor's fault I didn't check at the end of the day my hose was turned off... Even if he "selectively forgot" to tell me it's still my job to remember to turn my hose off... Or pay the bill.
Healthcare isn't the cost of "workers" even "highly paid" specialists aren't really that well paid compared to equivalent skills in other sectors. Regular staff is paid sub par wages per education levels we would expect in the IT world.
It's the cost of complying with legal rules, malpractice insurance, and padding the drug industry profits that drives up costs... Wages aren't the problem, just the easiest to blame.
I think he was referring to that once he get on the plane to his country, the US immigration office in HIS country has to give him a NEW visa to get back. Even if its just one day.
So he could never get "turn around" to apply for another job and fill out paperwork in the 10-day window following the law is summarily fired. Or risk it and stay in the US for 11+ days and hope like hell he scored a job. At which point he risks being deported anyway.
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The BIGGER point is that when Obama wanted to close Gitmo and send those occupants to US prison or other legit foreign prisons CONGRESS put up block to stop him.
I find the power to EXTRACT me from the USA with zero oversight and then do "whatever" to me was over the top compared to ordering bombs dropped on "wanted: dead or alive" types.
The FAA regulates airspace not the States... So this is pointless.
Of course the FAA has previously declared "airspace" over 500 -1000 feet because that's the minimum they allow standard aircraft to fly. The whole drone thing is greased DoD palms... So it's going to happen.
For many things the Country is heavily subsidized. For instance my mailman delivers several hundred ones ON FOOT in the city. To deliver rural mail takes paying for gas to deliver half as many addresses. Same for electric or phone.... In town, homes are 70 feet apart (even closer in tall city apartment buildings) In the country they are 100's or 1000's of feet apart yet the utility companies are forced to charge the same per month rates inspire of more repair costs.
Without junk mail you'd have to pay the mailman a lot more per envelope. Probably well over $1. Unlike Spam, junk mail PAYS the mailman to walk around to ALL the houses. Right now advertising is probably the only thing making per home delivery profitable.
UPS and FEDEX certainly don't deliver to EVERY house, EVERY day.... And not for $.45
It is vital... And highly profitable... They have pulled multiple BILLIONs out in prepaid benefits into the Federal general fund since 2006. Few private companies could survive such payments.
The last guy already claimed the power to arrest you without specific charge and then deport you from the USA for illegal torture (but if the Constitution doesn't apply how was he president there?) and IF they got around to it, try a citizen in a military tribunal with NO legal representation.
So the President being able to order a strike on a band of military related thugs is small peanuts. He's commander-in-Chief and chooses who to blow up... Much more "Constitutional" than establishing an illegal prison.
Remember it is CONGRESS that BLOCKED Obama from closing up Gitmo and setting things more normal (even though Gitmo prison was established without their consent, they blocked closing it?)
The military is shooting at known enemies.... Best not be standing too close... Ya think.
Most of these actions are taking place in countries a normal US citizen is not LEGALLY ALLOWED to visit, or at least severely discouraged by the State Department. These people are taking extrordnary This just isn't something normal folk have to worry about. In fact it probably should not have been written as a "change" in any policy at all... The Army doesn't have to check ID on baddies before they dispatch them... The program should simply be to get the bad guys... And we're not taking prisoners.
Don't want to be shot like a terrorist, don't stand so close!
The problem is that physics disagree. When you bomb a car full of terrorists and one American the bomb is what's not following the Constitution. These people are being "assassinated" while engaging with KNOWN terrorists. It doesn't really matter if its having tea and crumpets at a preschool... They are giving instructions to terrorists on foreign soil.
This is why the MILITARY is doing this.. Because they just kill things... They dont arrest people. That's their job. The CIA has a similar mandate to "just kill" enemies. We don't have resources for the FBI to chase these guys... More just pop up.
These people have chosen to be enemies of the USA. Back in the days of Cowboys and Indians, your only defense against "aiding the enemy" was to be as far away as possible. The US Army killed plenty of American citizens that lived with Natives...
The only real change here is that the DoD is actually targeting the terrorist bases WHEN American "citizens" are standing on them. They used to pretend they were getting them along with the other terrorists... But no more.
I have less of a problem with the government killing confirmed traitors while ENGAGED in plotting against the USA, in a foreign country, with other enemies. That's open and shut... The military KILLS PEOPLE... They don't arrest people.
This nonsense of picking up US Citizens, on US soil for things that may have happened, then shipping them OUT of the USA without trial was a much larger affront to the Constitution than this new procedure is.
You don't want to get blowed up, don't stand with the enemy. American citizenship has no bearing if you are actively engaged in planning WAR against the USA.
But if two $40 mil planes shoot down one $140 mil plane you are ahead in the next round.
Part of the issue with Sims is that planes are SO expensive now we can't keep enough pilots ready to fly them. Back to your example, they have three ready pilots to one... The amount of things that go wrong on these expensive planes without being shot at evens the odds a bit while your pilot waits for another plane.
Also, the US military is really trained to fight Russia or China.. About the only countries that can put equivalent aircraft in the sky... So the other European countries just need planes for external threats... The occasional Middle East operation... They have no intension of going against USA, China, or Russia head on.
It's the DATA that's racist!
Or reality?
Like 1 in 4 black men have been jailed at some point... Don't complain about the bail bond advertisements, complain that REALITY is still pretty racist.
As President it's not his job to GIVE UP POWER. Is Congress' job to TAKE BACK the power...
If Congress didn't pass the law again, the President couldn't approve it.
When Watson. Went to Preschool he learned a great deal about "colorful metaphors". Now he's going to college!!!
He's gonna be running naked across campus. Drunk Sexting his GF. Posting pictures of his "private junk" on Facebook. Probably will join the young communists too.
Watson really seems to be a lot like Bender... He does "human things" hilariously wrong.
This is the easiest way to demonstrate the unprecedented lockdown given to Software Patents versus regular mechanical patents. A software mousetrap would cover "electronic methods for mouse catching" and the patent office doesn't even make you prove the blinky light on top actually is part of catching the mouse! Glue a RJ-45 jack on this and you've just added "on the Internet" to your mousetrap!
There's no sanity check and the patent office is granting dozens of people a patent on the same "magic box".
I suppose your son could be a utility lineman... And your daughter a prison guard.
It's simple. $2-$3 of that $9.99 went to the boss... And that INCLUDED charge backs.. So the phone company was dipping in both sides ... It was free money either way.
If State Attorney Generals forced phone companies to be half as honest as they forced Apple to be we wouldn't have these little chats.
Actually THAT was one of the biggest shifts that Apple pushed on the telcos. In the pre-iPhone days ALL SALES went through the phone company at exorbitant up charges.
When Apple introduced iPhone everybody made their online purchase with a separate iTunes account, not with their phone bill. Combine with the "all in one" plans that eliminated most common overages such scams mostly went away for normal, careful folk.
The best example by far is the Mouse Trap. There are literally thousands of patents on various devices to catch a pesky mouse in your house. You can look them all up and develop your OWN physical design that might catch a mouse too.
Software patents are effectively a closed box with a blinky light that "catches a mouse" using various mechanisms and sensors that we don't have to fully explain or even show you. Any "box with a mouse-sized hole" can potentially be infringing.
Remove the index, void all the contracts based on that index. If they can't self regulate the results, then take away the index... For regular folk, it doesn't mean anything... For bankers it means RISK IS HERE... BEWARE. Which is the proper libertarian answer to the problem... Responsibility for managing risk.
Except when reserve banks and central banks release such numbers it is legally binding that they offer that rate to their "customers". Granted "customers" is a really small pool and most days most Banks wouldn't qualify... But those are all known things.
From the sounds of it the Libor is the other direction.. Bank, what average are you paying for loans in this category TODAY. Due to the complexity of figuring that out at all, can you complain people were basically making it what they WANTED it to be and not what they were actually paying. There was obviously no audit process involved in submissions, so it would be interesting what crime was committed.
This is a number that never meant anything... It might as well have been what they paid for lunch. It's extra funny when financial systems are built on supercomputers.. When the basic input is RAW superstition or guessing. It's funny that the same complex supercomputers aren't watching the inputs on these indexes for foul play... Should have been easy to find.... That guy from "Numbers" has time to help.
I have an Eye-if card in my digital camera. I don't take the card out of the camera except to reformat every six months or so. Syncs just beautifully to my iPad while out taking pictures.
But he did not "crack" any security other than hiding the laptop in a closet. He didn't fake credentials, he didn't use any more access to the journal than MIT granted him.
A good comparison would be if he was refilling hundreds of water bottles from a public water fountain. Yes, he was misusing the resource... But the resource was not secured to begin with... Nobody at MIT was performing basic WATCHING to simply ask him to stop. In fact they had a policy of "ignoring" minor indiscretions.
If I lent my neighbor my water hose to water his garden.. But never checked for tree days he was filling his pool instead, the problem is between me and the water service people to cover that bill. It's not LEGALLY my neighbor's fault I didn't check at the end of the day my hose was turned off... Even if he "selectively forgot" to tell me it's still my job to remember to turn my hose off... Or pay the bill.
Healthcare isn't the cost of "workers" even "highly paid" specialists aren't really that well paid compared to equivalent skills in other sectors. Regular staff is paid sub par wages per education levels we would expect in the IT world.
It's the cost of complying with legal rules, malpractice insurance, and padding the drug industry profits that drives up costs... Wages aren't the problem, just the easiest to blame.
I think he was referring to that once he get on the plane to his country, the US immigration office in HIS country has to give him a NEW visa to get back. Even if its just one day.
So he could never get "turn around" to apply for another job and fill out paperwork in the 10-day window following the law is summarily fired. Or risk it and stay in the US for 11+ days and hope like hell he scored a job. At which point he risks being deported anyway.