When you're called before a Grand Jury in the US, you don't have the right to remain silent. The prosecution can effectively force you to answer questions, and if you refuse, you can be jailed for years.
Based on my memories as a Grand Juror some years back, you have no "right to remain silent" before a Grand Jury, but NOTHING you say can be used against you in court.
Which is why a Grand Jury is NOT going to ask you "did you kill Joe Schmoe?" - if you answer yes, they're basically screwed.
Lucky you, free recycling pickup has stopped in my community.
Well, and that's why you have a trash can. I stopped using a recycle bin as soon as the Parish decided that they should charge extra for the privilege of recycling, so it all goes in the trash bin now.
In Canada, it's not. It's considered semi-public. Because it allows access to your front door(or side door, depending on which is your primary entrance), and your front door is considered an 'invitation' to allow access to people to come and visit you. This was upheld by the SCC. Your backdoor/yard, is private.
Just curious, how does this work if your backdoor is your primary entrance?
For that matter, how does it work if the door in the garage is your primary entrance? Does that imply that strangers are allowed to open your garage door to reach your "primary entrance"?
Did you note in the WH response that they supported unlocking of cells/tablets "when they are no longer bound by a service agreement or other obligation"?
If you read the LoC's original decision, the "you can't unlock your phone" applied while you were under contract.
The assumption that someone is likely to make a valid point if his spelling and grammar would be unacceptable in most grade schools is a pretty hard one to make.
Personally, I make allowances for foreigners (who, oddly, frequently are better spellers and write more grammatically than native speakers), and common spelling mistakes based on bad typing (double-striking a key to turn 'to' into 'too' doesn't bother me much, or off-by-one key mistyping, that sort of thing).
But if you don't know the difference between "your" and you're", you hardly qualify as literate, much less as someone I'm going to waste time analyzing for great insight.
And during prohibition, most people who wanted to drink managed to anyway.
Note that it was NOT illegal to drink alcohol during Prohibition.
Nor was it illegal to OWN alcohol.
What was illegal was making it and selling it.
And the negative effects of enforcement efforts, up to and including the rise of organized crime and widespread violence and corruption, ultimately led to a frickin' constitutional amendment being ratified!
I'm assuming you're talking about the Constitutional Amendment that repealed the Constitutional Amendment that allowed Prohibition in the first place?
Note that "ultimately led to a frickin' constitutional amendment being ratified!" wouldn't have been possible without the previous Amendment, which also got the required votes in Congress and the various State Legislatures.
It isn't a 5% budget cut. 85 billion is more like 9%.
The Federal Budget is ~3.6Trillion dollars.
85Billion dollars is about 2.4%, NOT 9%.
Add in the fact that some 66% of the budget is untouched SS, Medicare and debt payments it is in fact about a 25% cut on the rest of the budget.
The untouchable part of the budget is a bit less than 66%, but even if it were that high, the $85B would amount to only a 7% reduction of the remainder of the budget.
That's a pretty decent whack.
It would be, if your numbers had any basis in reality.
When Clinton left office, he had a multi trillion dollar surplus in the federal budget. When Bush came into office it took his administration less than a year to turn that into multi trillion dollar deficits.
A couple of things:
1) Contrary to rumour, Clinton did not create a surplus (much less a trillion dollar surplus) in the budget. If you bother to check, National Debt went UP every single year he was President.
2) Trillion dollar deficits didn't happen until Obama got to be president.
And just kiss access to all these accounts goodbye? I don't know about you, but I have difficulty trying to remember 20 passwords with 20+ random characters.
Password Safe. I let it remember my passwords for me, and only have to remember the one to open the password safe.
Is it legal to make a campaign donation to a candidate who does not (potentially) represent you?
That depends on the campaign finance laws of the individual State. Some allow it, some don't.
I don't know which side of the fence New Jersey comes down on, having never lived there, but it would probably be advisable to find out before donating money to this guy if you don't live/work in Jersey....
As the AI points out, if taken to its logical end, you'd get the ultimate (and most repressive) nanny state, where you literally wouldn't be allowed to do anything that might involve risk -- including gymnastics, football, or most other sports.
Hmm, sounds like the "Humanoids", then - as I recall, they eventually just sedated everyone and kept them in big nurseries....
Not sure why this is regarded as "leakinng badly" though...
Six tanks leaking at rates of a few to a few hundred gallons PER YEAR doesn't seem like a serious leak.
The problem should definitely be dealt with, but we're talking replacing only six tanks (each holding "tens of thousands of gallons" (not "millions") of radioactive wastes), pumping the old tanks' contents into the new tanks, then disposing of the old tanks and cleaning up under them to the extent that's practical.
In other words, TFS blows the problem up to sound much bigger and scarier than it actually is. But what else is new?
The wikpedia page says the 2011 defense budget was $929 billion, out of a total $3,598 billion - or 26%. It's pretty hard to "dwarf" a budget item that large.
From your link:
Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid expenditures are funded by more permanent Congressional appropriations and so are considered mandatory spending.
And
Mandatory spending accounted for 57.4% of total federal outlays in FY2012
Hmm, looks like the entitlements are rather more than twice as much in total as the military spending.
Note, by the by, again from your source, that "military spending" was inflated by including DHS and VA into it. The actual military budget was only about 80% of that.
Which would make the entitlements closer to three times the military budget.
Hmm, more than twice as much entitlements up to nearly three times as much entitlements, depending on how you count "military spending"...
Yep, looks like the guy you were responding to was right, doesn't it?
Moreover, as the economy recovers more, the remaining deficit will turn into a surplus that we can use to pay down some of the massive debt we racked up in the last decade.
We haven't paid down the massive debt since the 1950's...in spite of what Clinton tried to suggest about "balancing the budget".
Pretty easy to check, really. The Feds maintain a website that shows national debt by year - and the last time the number got smaller when Eisenhower was President. It went UP every year that Clinton was President, in spite of "balancing the budget"....
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Based on my memories as a Grand Juror some years back, you have no "right to remain silent" before a Grand Jury, but NOTHING you say can be used against you in court.
Which is why a Grand Jury is NOT going to ask you "did you kill Joe Schmoe?" - if you answer yes, they're basically screwed.
Well, and that's why you have a trash can. I stopped using a recycle bin as soon as the Parish decided that they should charge extra for the privilege of recycling, so it all goes in the trash bin now.
Just curious, how does this work if your backdoor is your primary entrance?
For that matter, how does it work if the door in the garage is your primary entrance? Does that imply that strangers are allowed to open your garage door to reach your "primary entrance"?
Did you note in the WH response that they supported unlocking of cells/tablets "when they are no longer bound by a service agreement or other obligation"?
If you read the LoC's original decision, the "you can't unlock your phone" applied while you were under contract.
In other words, no real change there.
The assumption that someone is likely to make a valid point if his spelling and grammar would be unacceptable in most grade schools is a pretty hard one to make.
Personally, I make allowances for foreigners (who, oddly, frequently are better spellers and write more grammatically than native speakers), and common spelling mistakes based on bad typing (double-striking a key to turn 'to' into 'too' doesn't bother me much, or off-by-one key mistyping, that sort of thing).
But if you don't know the difference between "your" and you're", you hardly qualify as literate, much less as someone I'm going to waste time analyzing for great insight.
Note that it was NOT illegal to drink alcohol during Prohibition.
Nor was it illegal to OWN alcohol.
What was illegal was making it and selling it.
I'm assuming you're talking about the Constitutional Amendment that repealed the Constitutional Amendment that allowed Prohibition in the first place?
Note that "ultimately led to a frickin' constitutional amendment being ratified!" wouldn't have been possible without the previous Amendment, which also got the required votes in Congress and the various State Legislatures.
Spanish Civil War?
Russian Revolution?
French Revolution?
English Civil War?
Closer to 500 years.
There were rifled matchlocks made for the Austrian emperor in the 1490-1510 time period.
The Federal Budget is ~3.6Trillion dollars.
85Billion dollars is about 2.4%, NOT 9%.
The untouchable part of the budget is a bit less than 66%, but even if it were that high, the $85B would amount to only a 7% reduction of the remainder of the budget.
It would be, if your numbers had any basis in reality.
Alas, they don't.
A couple of things:
1) Contrary to rumour, Clinton did not create a surplus (much less a trillion dollar surplus) in the budget. If you bother to check, National Debt went UP every single year he was President.
2) Trillion dollar deficits didn't happen until Obama got to be president.
Wasn't it this President's Justice Department arguing that the plaintiffs had no standing?
Doesn't sound like he's really on your side here.
Password Safe. I let it remember my passwords for me, and only have to remember the one to open the password safe.
I saw that Dr. Who story just a couple days ago - "Rise of the Cybermen" and "Age of Steel".
Plus anyone else who wanted to see it....
Or are you really stupid enough to think that you could store such a thing online in such a way that NOONE could get access to it but you?
The first question you need to be asking about any such recording of your life and times is:
Would it be a good idea to record this if CrimsonAvenger [or Julian Assange, or anyone else] is going to have access to it?
MY personal feeling is that recordings like this would be a stalker's paradise....
Of course, Israel is NOT a member of the NPT, and is not obligated in any way to cooperate with the IAEA.
That depends on the campaign finance laws of the individual State. Some allow it, some don't.
I don't know which side of the fence New Jersey comes down on, having never lived there, but it would probably be advisable to find out before donating money to this guy if you don't live/work in Jersey....
Alas, it was meant as a joke - used to live in Atlanta, and everything being named "Peachtree" was a running gag then (probably still is)....
I agree.
Plus "Silence in the Library" ("I'm the Doctor, this is the largest library in the Universe. LOOK. ME. UP")
Or "Girl in the Fireplace" (Rennet - "What do monsters have nightmares about", the Doctor "Me...").
Yes, I've been re-watching a lot of Doctor Who recently....
Pzkw VI (Tiger) was also used in North Africa, toward the end.
For that matter, pzkw-II was used in North Africa too. Possibly even a few -I's as well, but they were mostly phased out by then.
Oddly enough, the proper designation for the "Tiger tank" was "Panzer VI".
Note, by the way, that "Panzer" was short for PanzerKampfWagen, a generic German term for tank (which means literally "armoured war vehicle".
So, no, it's not correct to say "Panzer tank", unless you're the kind of person who knows nothing to speak of about the subject.
It's not that bad. Probably not more than a dozen or so named Peachtree.
Or were you including the ones outside the downtown area too?
Hmm, sounds like the "Humanoids", then - as I recall, they eventually just sedated everyone and kept them in big nurseries....
Not sure why this is regarded as "leakinng badly" though...
Six tanks leaking at rates of a few to a few hundred gallons PER YEAR doesn't seem like a serious leak.
The problem should definitely be dealt with, but we're talking replacing only six tanks (each holding "tens of thousands of gallons" (not "millions") of radioactive wastes), pumping the old tanks' contents into the new tanks, then disposing of the old tanks and cleaning up under them to the extent that's practical.
In other words, TFS blows the problem up to sound much bigger and scarier than it actually is. But what else is new?
From your link:
Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid expenditures are funded by more permanent Congressional appropriations and so are considered mandatory spending.
And
Mandatory spending accounted for 57.4% of total federal outlays in FY2012
Hmm, looks like the entitlements are rather more than twice as much in total as the military spending.
Note, by the by, again from your source, that "military spending" was inflated by including DHS and VA into it. The actual military budget was only about 80% of that.
Which would make the entitlements closer to three times the military budget.
Hmm, more than twice as much entitlements up to nearly three times as much entitlements, depending on how you count "military spending"...
Yep, looks like the guy you were responding to was right, doesn't it?
We haven't paid down the massive debt since the 1950's...in spite of what Clinton tried to suggest about "balancing the budget".
Pretty easy to check, really. The Feds maintain a website that shows national debt by year - and the last time the number got smaller when Eisenhower was President. It went UP every year that Clinton was President, in spite of "balancing the budget"....