"Every intelligent, well meaning person could stop voting and it wouldn't make the slightest difference."
That's pretty much wrong. Not to mention stupid.
The majority of voters are going to vote their personal party lines, which are pretty much the ones their parents, grandparents, and friends vote for, right down the line. Which in turn puts us around 45-48% D, 45-48% R.
The intelligent, well meaning people are the ones, by and large, who make up the independent "swing" vote, and the side they come down on is the side that's going to win.
Taking yourself out of the process is just setting yourself up to be a victim.
Though the government claims otherwise, everyone pretty much understands that the "We only want it once for this one phone. Honest!" claim by the FBI exists solely to set a precedent. Should Apple cave, the government will apply the same criteria to the next case. And the next. And the next.
As will the governments of China, India, Saudi Arabia, and everyplace else Apple sells iPhones. Terrorist? Murderer? Pedophile? Homosexual? Dissident? Member of an opposing political party? So sorry, but we need to search your phone.
Or to put is another way you might understand, a court could also issue a writ that authorizes someone to enter your home and screw your wife.
But just because a court issued said writ doesn't mean it's actually legal under the law, and I suspect that you might resist such an event. (Or not, who knows?)
Regardless, that writ constitutes judicial overreach. Look it up.
No, they don't. There is no law nor precedent on the books that requires that Apple do what the writ is ordering them to do. Period. Not here in the US. Not even in Communist China.
And that's why I should have put "lawful request" in quotes, as that's the question to be decided. Can the court issue that order, or does that order constitute judicial overreach?
If Apple complies with a lawful request from a government, they then have to comply with ANY lawful request from ANY government in which they sell their devices. That means the US, as well as China, India, Saudi Arabia, and on, and on.
Which brings us back to Apple's stance, and the real question, as to whether or that this is a lawful request.
A court can issue a warrant to search my premises. They could, potentially, hire someone to attempt to break into my safe. But they don't have the right to go to the manufacturer of that safe and require them to build a device that lets someone else crack the safe they can't figure out how to crack otherwise.
Apparently there's not supposed to be an autopsy. Then again, an autopsy can go both ways, you know, revealing things like, say, drugs or ED medications in the bloodstream.
I'd love to be able to see the security camera footage from that luxury resort (if any).
' I also know that even if he does, nothing will change. It will just be the same thing we have now (with slightly more comedy perhaps).... but nothing will really change..."
You really think that with Republican control of the House and with a Republican in the White House that will rubber stamp everything Congress dreams up, nothing will change?
Should that happen, Congress will slap together a Capitalist dream-come-true wish list and send it to the White House post-haste. Massive deregulation of business, defund the EPA, cut education, repeal the ACA and replace it with insurance-company backed (and as such, worthless) vouchers, transition to a corporate-run Social Security program (banks and financial markets are just drooling to get their hands on THAT money), cut corporate tax rates and tax rates in general, repeal the inheritance tax, repeal the capital gains tax, appease the Religious right backers that got them elected by zapping Planned Parenthood and promoting the US's "one true faith", and on, and on.
Thinking "nothing will change" if that happens is delusional, not to mention dangerous...
And then, of course, many want to ban all sex education, access to contraception, access to abortion for any and all reasons, and, of course, any "questionable" material in books, television, and movies.
They don't want "big" government, but they do want government to impose their own views and morals on everyone else...
It would also appear that a significant portion (if not the majority) of Medicare fraud comes not from the patient, but from hospitals, insurance companies, and other businesses inflating and/or outright faking claims for payment.
Phones are rapidly getting to the point where there's a case, screen, logic board, camera, battery and a few connectors. So what you're telling us is that you can take the big block apart into a few smaller blocks that can't be individually disassembled.
I fully expect that in the not too distant future they're going to meld the screen electronics with the logic board electronics, to the point where you have a case, screen, and battery.
"My employers have dropped the latest MS Office on us. With a 4 core processor and 8 GB RAM...."
About 1.7 seconds from launch to new empty document on my quad-core i7 MBP. 'Course, it has a really fast SSD, which is from where most of the speed benefits are derived.
I fixed ny stepson's ASUS notebook a year ago and it too needed a video repair guide to crack the case, remove the keyboard and fan and in the process gain access to the failed power board.
The power board, BTW, failed because it cracked and it cracked because the power receptor was soldered directly to the power board with no other strain relief. As such, every time you moved the laptop while it was plugged in the cable would pull on the receptor which stressed the board... until it broke.
Easy to repair? Not really, though it was repairable and parts were available. Flip side is that if the thing had been properly engineered in the first place I wouldn't have had to have made the repair at all.
In 2008, the Washington Post reported on a University of Washington study which found that teenagers who received comprehensive sex education were 60% less likely to get pregnant than someone who received abstinence-only education.
A 2007 federal report found that abstinence-only programs have had "no impacts on rates of sexual abstinence," reported ThinkProgress.
In a 2011 study published in the journal PLOS One, researchers found a similar correlation between a state's commitment to abstinence education and pregnancy rates.
One of the most interesting and notable examples of this phenomenon comes out of Texas, which, according to ThinkProgess, has one of the highest rates of teen pregnancy in the country and a track record of strict abstinence-only education.
"I used to wonder why I was always being singled out at work and that's it. Simply being smarter is an issue even if you're not being condescending."
Reminds me of a friend who's worked a dozen or so jobs over the past couple of years and inevitably ends up complaining about how his boss and coworkers don't like him. Perhaps, like him, what you consider to be condescending and what everyone else around you considers to be condescending are two different things?
I mean, if you were "really" smart, you might have figured out by now that communication skills are important.
Because of its climate, warmth, and near-year-round sunlight, CA grows 99% of all US almonds. It also grows 99% of US walnuts. 95% of US broccoli, 92% of US strawberries, 91% of US grapes, 90% of US tomatoes. 74% of all US lettuce. And it's one of the major reasons we have such things year round.
So. Given the above, it's sorta, kinda, maybe in the best interests of everyone involved (not just Californians) to figure out how to get water to one of the places best suited to using it.
BTW, the percentage of water used for almonds is roughly 3%.
CA grows 99% of all US almonds. 99% of US walnuts. 95% of US broccoli, 92% of US strawberries, 91% of US grapes, 90% of US tomatoes. And 74% of all US lettuce.
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"Every intelligent, well meaning person could stop voting and it wouldn't make the slightest difference."
That's pretty much wrong. Not to mention stupid.
The majority of voters are going to vote their personal party lines, which are pretty much the ones their parents, grandparents, and friends vote for, right down the line. Which in turn puts us around 45-48% D, 45-48% R.
The intelligent, well meaning people are the ones, by and large, who make up the independent "swing" vote, and the side they come down on is the side that's going to win.
Taking yourself out of the process is just setting yourself up to be a victim.
Though the government claims otherwise, everyone pretty much understands that the "We only want it once for this one phone. Honest!" claim by the FBI exists solely to set a precedent. Should Apple cave, the government will apply the same criteria to the next case. And the next. And the next.
As will the governments of China, India, Saudi Arabia, and everyplace else Apple sells iPhones. Terrorist? Murderer? Pedophile? Homosexual? Dissident? Member of an opposing political party? So sorry, but we need to search your phone.
Or to put is another way you might understand, a court could also issue a writ that authorizes someone to enter your home and screw your wife.
But just because a court issued said writ doesn't mean it's actually legal under the law, and I suspect that you might resist such an event. (Or not, who knows?)
Regardless, that writ constitutes judicial overreach. Look it up.
No, they don't. There is no law nor precedent on the books that requires that Apple do what the writ is ordering them to do. Period. Not here in the US. Not even in Communist China.
And that's why I should have put "lawful request" in quotes, as that's the question to be decided. Can the court issue that order, or does that order constitute judicial overreach?
If Apple complies with a lawful request from a government, they then have to comply with ANY lawful request from ANY government in which they sell their devices. That means the US, as well as China, India, Saudi Arabia, and on, and on.
Which brings us back to Apple's stance, and the real question, as to whether or that this is a lawful request.
A court can issue a warrant to search my premises. They could, potentially, hire someone to attempt to break into my safe. But they don't have the right to go to the manufacturer of that safe and require them to build a device that lets someone else crack the safe they can't figure out how to crack otherwise.
That's judicial overreach.
Also that any update of the secure enclave firmware erases the current security key. Better to make the enclave firmware flash once and not updatable.
Apparently there's not supposed to be an autopsy. Then again, an autopsy can go both ways, you know, revealing things like, say, drugs or ED medications in the bloodstream.
I'd love to be able to see the security camera footage from that luxury resort (if any).
Do you, as a typical human, feel compelled to put your name in 50-ft tall neon letters on every piece of property that you own?
It never happened because the US people were diligent! /s
' I also know that even if he does, nothing will change. It will just be the same thing we have now (with slightly more comedy perhaps).... but nothing will really change..."
You really think that with Republican control of the House and with a Republican in the White House that will rubber stamp everything Congress dreams up, nothing will change?
Should that happen, Congress will slap together a Capitalist dream-come-true wish list and send it to the White House post-haste. Massive deregulation of business, defund the EPA, cut education, repeal the ACA and replace it with insurance-company backed (and as such, worthless) vouchers, transition to a corporate-run Social Security program (banks and financial markets are just drooling to get their hands on THAT money), cut corporate tax rates and tax rates in general, repeal the inheritance tax, repeal the capital gains tax, appease the Religious right backers that got them elected by zapping Planned Parenthood and promoting the US's "one true faith", and on, and on.
Thinking "nothing will change" if that happens is delusional, not to mention dangerous...
The photographer has all rights to his photos, unless rights are reassigned.
It says it works on a "variety" of platforms, but doesn't list any by name in the release nor on their web site.
And then, of course, many want to ban all sex education, access to contraception, access to abortion for any and all reasons, and, of course, any "questionable" material in books, television, and movies.
They don't want "big" government, but they do want government to impose their own views and morals on everyone else...
It would also appear that a significant portion (if not the majority) of Medicare fraud comes not from the patient, but from hospitals, insurance companies, and other businesses inflating and/or outright faking claims for payment.
Phones are rapidly getting to the point where there's a case, screen, logic board, camera, battery and a few connectors. So what you're telling us is that you can take the big block apart into a few smaller blocks that can't be individually disassembled.
I fully expect that in the not too distant future they're going to meld the screen electronics with the logic board electronics, to the point where you have a case, screen, and battery.
"My employers have dropped the latest MS Office on us. With a 4 core processor and 8 GB RAM ...."
About 1.7 seconds from launch to new empty document on my quad-core i7 MBP. 'Course, it has a really fast SSD, which is from where most of the speed benefits are derived.
I fixed ny stepson's ASUS notebook a year ago and it too needed a video repair guide to crack the case, remove the keyboard and fan and in the process gain access to the failed power board.
The power board, BTW, failed because it cracked and it cracked because the power receptor was soldered directly to the power board with no other strain relief. As such, every time you moved the laptop while it was plugged in the cable would pull on the receptor which stressed the board... until it broke.
Easy to repair? Not really, though it was repairable and parts were available. Flip side is that if the thing had been properly engineered in the first place I wouldn't have had to have made the repair at all.
Which begs the question as to why bribing doctors should be allowed....
"... but it won't work in general because there isn't enough money generated by the economy for it."
So true. I mean, it's not like people with more income will buy more stuff or go out to dinner or the movies more often...
In 2008, the Washington Post reported on a University of Washington study which found that teenagers who received comprehensive sex education were 60% less likely to get pregnant than someone who received abstinence-only education.
A 2007 federal report found that abstinence-only programs have had "no impacts on rates of sexual abstinence," reported ThinkProgress.
In a 2011 study published in the journal PLOS One, researchers found a similar correlation between a state's commitment to abstinence education and pregnancy rates.
One of the most interesting and notable examples of this phenomenon comes out of Texas, which, according to ThinkProgess, has one of the highest rates of teen pregnancy in the country and a track record of strict abstinence-only education.
"I used to wonder why I was always being singled out at work and that's it. Simply being smarter is an issue even if you're not being condescending."
Reminds me of a friend who's worked a dozen or so jobs over the past couple of years and inevitably ends up complaining about how his boss and coworkers don't like him. Perhaps, like him, what you consider to be condescending and what everyone else around you considers to be condescending are two different things?
I mean, if you were "really" smart, you might have figured out by now that communication skills are important.
Thing is, CA is one of the few places where we can grow all of that stuff year 'round.
To repeat: "And it's one of the major reasons we have such things year round."
Because of its climate, warmth, and near-year-round sunlight, CA grows 99% of all US almonds. It also grows 99% of US walnuts. 95% of US broccoli, 92% of US strawberries, 91% of US grapes, 90% of US tomatoes. 74% of all US lettuce. And it's one of the major reasons we have such things year round.
So. Given the above, it's sorta, kinda, maybe in the best interests of everyone involved (not just Californians) to figure out how to get water to one of the places best suited to using it.
BTW, the percentage of water used for almonds is roughly 3%.
CA grows 99% of all US almonds. 99% of US walnuts. 95% of US broccoli, 92% of US strawberries, 91% of US grapes, 90% of US tomatoes. And 74% of all US lettuce.