That's the beauty of civil forfeiture. The government can just take your stuff without any due process if they suspect that the stuff was used in an alleged crime.
It doesn't matter whether there is a trial. The property that the FBI suspects was used is forfeit regardless of the outcome of a trial.
It's just an unmitigated disaster, and in Steve Ballmer's infinite wisdom, they simply scaled it up to desktop size and called it Windows 8.
They started with scaling XP down to phone size, and that was an abortion. So, all they could think of was to do the polar opposite, and develop a TERRIBLE phone interface, and just scale it up to desktop size.
Can we burn Microsoft to the ground already? They're completely irrelevant and only hang on because humans are afraid of change.
That might be true in some cases. I don't shop for clothing or shoes in the US, so I can't really comment. I can only comment on the one LBS we have here, and it sucks. He only stocks 105 and lower Trek and Specialized... and his wrench doesn't know the first thing about rebuilding campy shifters, and didn't even know campy uses a different cassette lockring than shimano. Ugh...
Oh, I'm sorry, I think you're mistaking free-market capitalism with charity. I am not in the business of charity. That's why the government takes 60% of my income in various taxes. I'm already forced to be charitable enough without giving away even more of my income for nothing.
I'm not giving a local retailer an extra 20% for the same thing I can buy online, unless they value-add that 20% in other services or features. There is no economic argument for doing otherwise.
ME: "Hey, do you have an XYZ Widget Plus in stock?"
Them: "No, that's not a normal stock item, but I can order one for you and have it here in a week for $250"
ME: "I can order it from Amazon Prime and have it here TOMORROW for $215, sorry."
The ONLY reason to go into a brick and mortar store is if you absolutely have to have it right now. Brick and Mortar did not adapt to the advent of online shopping. It's their fault. They needed to realize that they could no longer sell commoditized items. They would have to offer some REASON to pay MORE in a store. Without a significant value add, there's no reason to even set foot in a store anymore.
"The patriot act and all these powers were granted to the government to fight the war... to hunt down the terrorists and snuff them out. That was the point."
Yes, that was the point. However; they conveniently did not take the time to define just exactly what a terrorist was, and later adopted the mantra that "anyone who speaks critically of the Regime" is a terrorist.
Now, having a pro-NRA bumper sticker on your vehicle is reasonable suspicion of criminal activity, and police can stop you solely on that basis - all thanks to the Patriot Act.
So, if I buy data from USGS, DOT, and other sources, the same data that anyone else can buy, and use it to create a road atlas, I'm infringing on another map-maker's copyright because my map looks just like theirs, even though it might have different fonts, colors, and other unimportant things.
How about the spdy:// call routes to a media-light version of a site? You know, one that doesn't try to send the requester 100MB of Flash ads, videos, music, and other nonsense, and 50kB of actual content?
That's correct. There have been many, many contrary rulings in many, many other districts and circuits. This NEEDS to go to SCOTUS, though, while SCOTUS seems at least somewhat interested in preserving liberty. They may not always be, and so it seems prudent to strike while the iron is hot.
Whether or not the US goes to war is not an issue for popular opinion to decide. World War 1 was hugely unpopular. World War 2, slightly less so, but still had a low approval rating among the public.
It's because nobody in their right mind would go after someone from Microsoft, and everyone who does have talent knows that going to work for Microsoft is a career-ender. It kind of makes them irrelevant to the issue.
You're still allowed to hate whitey, especially if whitey has any wealth to speak of. That's perfectly okay, because wealthy whitey is the source of all of the world's ills.
Companies, in the US anyway, do not punish workers for taking vacation. They punish workers for under-performance, and rightfully so.
It just so happens that under-performers are more likely to take shorter and more frequent time off, which makes them appear to be less motivated. But, correlation is not causation.
But, it's okay. Every organization needs engineers at the lower end of the performance spectrum, just like every society needs people to pick cotton and flip hamburgers. There are shit jobs in every technical organization that need to get done. Sure, someone else could do them, but their time is better spent on flagship and mission-critical projects.
These low performers are easy to let go in a cash crunch.
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That's the beauty of civil forfeiture. The government can just take your stuff without any due process if they suspect that the stuff was used in an alleged crime.
It doesn't matter whether there is a trial. The property that the FBI suspects was used is forfeit regardless of the outcome of a trial.
Why are we allowing a company to consume precious resources just so people can tell the world when they take a dump?
28 Megawatts comes to a little over 20GWh per month. If I were to pay my residential rate, that would cost me a cool $2.2 Million per month.
It's just an unmitigated disaster, and in Steve Ballmer's infinite wisdom, they simply scaled it up to desktop size and called it Windows 8.
They started with scaling XP down to phone size, and that was an abortion. So, all they could think of was to do the polar opposite, and develop a TERRIBLE phone interface, and just scale it up to desktop size.
Can we burn Microsoft to the ground already? They're completely irrelevant and only hang on because humans are afraid of change.
That might be true in some cases. I don't shop for clothing or shoes in the US, so I can't really comment. I can only comment on the one LBS we have here, and it sucks. He only stocks 105 and lower Trek and Specialized... and his wrench doesn't know the first thing about rebuilding campy shifters, and didn't even know campy uses a different cassette lockring than shimano. Ugh...
Oh, I'm sorry, I think you're mistaking free-market capitalism with charity. I am not in the business of charity. That's why the government takes 60% of my income in various taxes. I'm already forced to be charitable enough without giving away even more of my income for nothing.
I'm not giving a local retailer an extra 20% for the same thing I can buy online, unless they value-add that 20% in other services or features. There is no economic argument for doing otherwise.
ME: "Hey, do you have an XYZ Widget Plus in stock?"
Them: "No, that's not a normal stock item, but I can order one for you and have it here in a week for $250"
ME: "I can order it from Amazon Prime and have it here TOMORROW for $215, sorry."
The ONLY reason to go into a brick and mortar store is if you absolutely have to have it right now. Brick and Mortar did not adapt to the advent of online shopping. It's their fault. They needed to realize that they could no longer sell commoditized items. They would have to offer some REASON to pay MORE in a store. Without a significant value add, there's no reason to even set foot in a store anymore.
Oh my God! An Internet smackdown?!?!? Whatever will I do with myself now?
"The patriot act and all these powers were granted to the government to fight the war... to hunt down the terrorists and snuff them out. That was the point."
Yes, that was the point. However; they conveniently did not take the time to define just exactly what a terrorist was, and later adopted the mantra that "anyone who speaks critically of the Regime" is a terrorist.
Now, having a pro-NRA bumper sticker on your vehicle is reasonable suspicion of criminal activity, and police can stop you solely on that basis - all thanks to the Patriot Act.
So, if I buy data from USGS, DOT, and other sources, the same data that anyone else can buy, and use it to create a road atlas, I'm infringing on another map-maker's copyright because my map looks just like theirs, even though it might have different fonts, colors, and other unimportant things.
Got it.
How about the spdy:// call routes to a media-light version of a site? You know, one that doesn't try to send the requester 100MB of Flash ads, videos, music, and other nonsense, and 50kB of actual content?
You know what, I'm getting out of computers as a hobby. I need to spend more time outside anyway.
After all, when XOM makes 4 cents/share, everyone is calling for their heads on a spit.
That's correct. There have been many, many contrary rulings in many, many other districts and circuits. This NEEDS to go to SCOTUS, though, while SCOTUS seems at least somewhat interested in preserving liberty. They may not always be, and so it seems prudent to strike while the iron is hot.
Whether or not the US goes to war is not an issue for popular opinion to decide. World War 1 was hugely unpopular. World War 2, slightly less so, but still had a low approval rating among the public.
The site will not allow me to create an account. How fortunate for a long time bedfellow of the White House's current occupier.
It's because nobody in their right mind would go after someone from Microsoft, and everyone who does have talent knows that going to work for Microsoft is a career-ender. It kind of makes them irrelevant to the issue.
You're still allowed to hate whitey, especially if whitey has any wealth to speak of. That's perfectly okay, because wealthy whitey is the source of all of the world's ills.
Wikipedia is viewable as long as you have NoScript...
First of all, data from one sample does not a statistical analysis make.
Second of all, the curve doesn't even fit all that well. There is significant error in most of the points.
It's a body of water, not an adjective indicating co-linearity.
Companies, in the US anyway, do not punish workers for taking vacation. They punish workers for under-performance, and rightfully so.
It just so happens that under-performers are more likely to take shorter and more frequent time off, which makes them appear to be less motivated. But, correlation is not causation.
But, it's okay. Every organization needs engineers at the lower end of the performance spectrum, just like every society needs people to pick cotton and flip hamburgers. There are shit jobs in every technical organization that need to get done. Sure, someone else could do them, but their time is better spent on flagship and mission-critical projects.
These low performers are easy to let go in a cash crunch.
Conformal coating is nothing new. That someone thought to apply it to the touch surfaces of a device is not surprising.
Just sell them to the United States! They'll happily buy compromised voting machines..
That about says it.