Phenobarbitol (barbiturate) is what they use to kill people. The only manufacturer is in Europe and refuses to sell it to the US to kill people. Hence, the secrecy, mad scramble and botched executions.
So... what's an acceptable error rate? If "only" 10% of the people we kill are innocent, is that OK? It is well established that innocent people have been killed and that innocent people who are on death row are regularly found out and released. So... how many innocent people are you comfortable in killing?
The Feds need the cooperation of California law enforcement and California corporations to spy on Californians. If they have a warrant, this is not a problem. If no warrant, there is a problem.
So... this means nothing? it would impose sanctions on companies that share information with the NSA without warrants, and would target utility companies and universities which did the same. There are a lot of tech companies in California.
Reading is a useful skill: http://www.digitaljournal.com/... [digitaljournal.com] "The bill, entitled Senate Bill 828, would require a warrant for any information collected through data mining to be admissible in court. Furthermore, it would impose sanctions on companies that share information with the NSA without warrants, and would target utility companies and universities which did the same. "
Read before you post: http://www.digitaljournal.com/... [digitaljournal.com] "The bill, entitled Senate Bill 828, would require a warrant for any information collected through data mining to be admissible in court. Furthermore, it would impose sanctions on companies that share information with the NSA without warrants, and would target utility companies and universities which did the same. "
I know it's against the rules but you should read some more before you go off on a rant: http://www.digitaljournal.com/... [digitaljournal.com] "The bill, entitled Senate Bill 828, would require a warrant for any information collected through data mining to be admissible in court. Furthermore, it would impose sanctions on companies that share information with the NSA without warrants, and would target utility companies and universities which did the same. "
I think the problem is that the NSA doesn't get warrants for most of it's data collection. It just sucks up everything without a warrant. That is the basic problem with the NSA... it doesn't get warrants. http://www.digitaljournal.com/... "The bill, entitled Senate Bill 828, would require a warrant for any information collected through data mining to be admissible in court. Furthermore, it would impose sanctions on companies that share information with the NSA without warrants, and would target utility companies and universities which did the same. "
This applies to California State law enforcement. California certainly does have jurisdiction over their own employees. It requires a court order signed by a judge before California state employees assist the Feds. This is something that Federal law and NSA skirt around. In California, it should slow them down.
Microsoft was still selling XP until October 2010 and ending support less than 4 years later so this is about par for an average OS. However, XP is far from average and still runs on about half of the computers in China, most ATMs worldwide and, of course, most developing country computers, granny computers as well as on many corporate computers which are in the dinosaur category. Everyone knows they need to get rid of XP but "change is hard". China seems concerned about loss of support for XP (i.e. can't rely on Microsoft) and US spying in Win 8 (can't rely on Microsoft). They would be better off going with their own home grown Linux distro but "change is hard" and they have an incredible installed base problem.
Only after they have gone through committees and had a lot of "behind closed doors" discussions. This agreement will be debated by every government that needs to enact it.
Debated as a take it or leave it proposition. No real debate. No chance to change it.
It'll be dumped in a "take it or leave it" form.
There is a third option; send it back for revision.
No option to send it back. This is a truly "take it or leave it" question.
why the secrecy here?
Do you really think is is a good idea for every proposal or wording to be debated in the open? Most of these idea/proposals will not make it into the final draft yet having to publicly defend them will just distract from the work at hand.
Because the peasants might have objections and the peasants are always a distraction. Corporations, OTOH, have the inside track to get their proposals in place without distraction.
Because they're afraid that people will object to certain provisions that never get into the final draft.
FTFY
The problem with public review of every proposal is that it stifles creativity. Try having a creative discussion when every proposal must be perfect before it is presented. It does not work.
Yes, it's certainly much more "creative" to just have the corporations and bureaucrats write the agreement. Those peasants are too creative and just gum up the works.
Great... another group of rich assholes deciding what we should think and do and say and running our government.
Would be much better if we had an actual democracy where the government did what the majority of people wanted rather than just what the rich bastards wanted.
Cars are a problem. They far outlive technology. My older car (2000 Land Rover Discovery) has a cassette player and CD changer... both pretty useless. It does have a great sound system (11 speakers and megawatts), though. I was able to capture the CD changer input and graft a standard headphone plug on to it so I can plug it into my phone, MP3 player, etc. but it's still a kludge.
I have three active smart phones, one dog tagg sim, two wireless access points, alarm system with cell modem. That's only 7 but just shows how these things can add up.
BTW, stop showing your ignorance of "poor countries" with comments about clean toilets. Take this test and see how you do: http://www.cnn.com/2013/12/10/... (For the record, I didn't do very well on the survey.)
Actually, there are all kinds of inter-species exchanges of DNA going on all of the time. Bacteria and viruses are important vectors for this. This happens literally billions of times a day. I don't think it's a good argument to say that inter-species DNA transfer is "not natural" or would never happen since it does happen all of the time. Evolution has a way of sorting out things... survival of the fittest and all of that. Nature comes up with it's own GMO organisms more rapidly than any lab and they are tested in the real world daily. Most of them fail. Some have a beneficial effect. The problem with GMO organisms is that they have primarily been used to lock in corporate technology and reliance of pesticides/herbicides.
The output of solar panels varies from zero (at night) to some peak value (when the sun is hitting them just right). Most solar installations generate significant power for about 5 hours a day. When describing solar installations, the peak output is useful for understanding the size of the installation and what can be expected in power output. Everyone knows that the peak is not the average, etc. Solar power is very quiet, just like the Library of Congress.
This has already been done. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt01... The 1991 movie "Point Break" featured a gang of surfers who robbed banks wearing masks of presidents. Pretty good movie.
The history of the past 30 years has been that all productivity gains from people working harder, etc. have gone to the corporate owners, not to employees. It's not in their interest to work harder or longer because they won't get paid any more. Slackers unite!
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Phenobarbitol (barbiturate) is what they use to kill people. The only manufacturer is in Europe and refuses to sell it to the US to kill people. Hence, the secrecy, mad scramble and botched executions.
So... what's an acceptable error rate? If "only" 10% of the people we kill are innocent, is that OK?
It is well established that innocent people have been killed and that innocent people who are on death row are regularly found out and released.
So... how many innocent people are you comfortable in killing?
The Feds need the cooperation of California law enforcement and California corporations to spy on Californians. If they have a warrant, this is not a problem. If no warrant, there is a problem.
I think that one important point is that the Federal warrantless searches are illegal and this law would force that to be tested in court.
So... this means nothing?
it would impose sanctions on companies that share information with the NSA without warrants, and would target utility companies and universities which did the same.
There are a lot of tech companies in California.
Reading is a useful skill:
http://www.digitaljournal.com/... [digitaljournal.com]
"The bill, entitled Senate Bill 828, would require a warrant for any information collected through data mining to be admissible in court. Furthermore, it would impose sanctions on companies that share information with the NSA without warrants, and would target utility companies and universities which did the same. "
Read before you post:
http://www.digitaljournal.com/... [digitaljournal.com]
"The bill, entitled Senate Bill 828, would require a warrant for any information collected through data mining to be admissible in court. Furthermore, it would impose sanctions on companies that share information with the NSA without warrants, and would target utility companies and universities which did the same. "
I know it's against the rules but you should read some more before you go off on a rant:
http://www.digitaljournal.com/... [digitaljournal.com]
"The bill, entitled Senate Bill 828, would require a warrant for any information collected through data mining to be admissible in court. Furthermore, it would impose sanctions on companies that share information with the NSA without warrants, and would target utility companies and universities which did the same. "
I think the problem is that the NSA doesn't get warrants for most of it's data collection. It just sucks up everything without a warrant. That is the basic problem with the NSA... it doesn't get warrants.
http://www.digitaljournal.com/...
"The bill, entitled Senate Bill 828, would require a warrant for any information collected through data mining to be admissible in court. Furthermore, it would impose sanctions on companies that share information with the NSA without warrants, and would target utility companies and universities which did the same. "
This applies to California State law enforcement. California certainly does have jurisdiction over their own employees.
It requires a court order signed by a judge before California state employees assist the Feds. This is something that Federal law and NSA skirt around. In California, it should slow them down.
Microsoft was still selling XP until October 2010 and ending support less than 4 years later so this is about par for an average OS.
However, XP is far from average and still runs on about half of the computers in China, most ATMs worldwide and, of course, most developing country computers, granny computers as well as on many corporate computers which are in the dinosaur category.
Everyone knows they need to get rid of XP but "change is hard".
China seems concerned about loss of support for XP (i.e. can't rely on Microsoft) and US spying in Win 8 (can't rely on Microsoft).
They would be better off going with their own home grown Linux distro but "change is hard" and they have an incredible installed base problem.
Congress and parliaments openly debate bills,
Only after they have gone through committees and had a lot of "behind closed doors" discussions. This agreement will be debated by every government that needs to enact it.
Debated as a take it or leave it proposition. No real debate. No chance to change it.
It'll be dumped in a "take it or leave it" form.
There is a third option; send it back for revision.
No option to send it back. This is a truly "take it or leave it" question.
why the secrecy here?
Do you really think is is a good idea for every proposal or wording to be debated in the open? Most of these idea/proposals will not make it into the final draft yet having to publicly defend them will just distract from the work at hand.
Because the peasants might have objections and the peasants are always a distraction.
Corporations, OTOH, have the inside track to get their proposals in place without distraction.
Because they're afraid that people will object to certain provisions that never get into the final draft.
FTFY
The problem with public review of every proposal is that it stifles creativity. Try having a creative discussion when every proposal must be perfect before it is presented. It does not work.
Yes, it's certainly much more "creative" to just have the corporations and bureaucrats write the agreement.
Those peasants are too creative and just gum up the works.
So, now he's an official convicted real pirate so he should be able to watch pirate movies.... aarrrrgghhh!
Off ye go, now!
How do you "trust" any malware?
Well, these are criminals, after all (some of them may be actual pirates).
Arrrgh... Of course they should be shown pirated movies.
Great... another group of rich assholes deciding what we should think and do and say and running our government.
Would be much better if we had an actual democracy where the government did what the majority of people wanted rather than just what the rich bastards wanted.
Cars are a problem. They far outlive technology. My older car (2000 Land Rover Discovery) has a cassette player and CD changer... both pretty useless. It does have a great sound system (11 speakers and megawatts), though. I was able to capture the CD changer input and graft a standard headphone plug on to it so I can plug it into my phone, MP3 player, etc. but it's still a kludge.
I don't know anybody who still plays CDs.
All of my CDs went into storage a long time ago next to my old vinyl.
What's skipping?
I have three active smart phones, one dog tagg sim, two wireless access points, alarm system with cell modem.
That's only 7 but just shows how these things can add up.
BTW, stop showing your ignorance of "poor countries" with comments about clean toilets. Take this test and see how you do:
http://www.cnn.com/2013/12/10/...
(For the record, I didn't do very well on the survey.)
Actually, there are all kinds of inter-species exchanges of DNA going on all of the time. Bacteria and viruses are important vectors for this. This happens literally billions of times a day. I don't think it's a good argument to say that inter-species DNA transfer is "not natural" or would never happen since it does happen all of the time. Evolution has a way of sorting out things... survival of the fittest and all of that. Nature comes up with it's own GMO organisms more rapidly than any lab and they are tested in the real world daily. Most of them fail. Some have a beneficial effect.
The problem with GMO organisms is that they have primarily been used to lock in corporate technology and reliance of pesticides/herbicides.
Stop trying to distract us from this very serious discussion.
The output of solar panels varies from zero (at night) to some peak value (when the sun is hitting them just right). Most solar installations generate significant power for about 5 hours a day. When describing solar installations, the peak output is useful for understanding the size of the installation and what can be expected in power output. Everyone knows that the peak is not the average, etc.
Solar power is very quiet, just like the Library of Congress.
This has already been done.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt01...
The 1991 movie "Point Break" featured a gang of surfers who robbed banks wearing masks of presidents.
Pretty good movie.
The history of the past 30 years has been that all productivity gains from people working harder, etc. have gone to the corporate owners, not to employees. It's not in their interest to work harder or longer because they won't get paid any more.
Slackers unite!
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