Actually, you need 2/3 of both the House and the Senate, plus 3/4 of the state legislatures. Amending the Constitution ain't easy (intentionally so).
Freedom of assembly. Freedom of speech.
How do you tell a small businessman that others can organize and raise funds to win an election and he can't? How do you make that argument to the NRA or the NAACP? The teacher's union or the EFF?
If a congress can be bribed to make an amendment to the constitution that specifies that money, resources, or commodities cannot be equated to speech, then the verdict of the Supreme Court is nullified by the voices that represent the will of the people.
This is as blatantly corrupt a political argument as I have ever heard expressed.
I don't care whether the voice comes from the right or the left.
I do care when the reformer starts to think that because he has the money and the power, he alone has heard the voice of God --- and that anything he does is perfectly all right.
Any industry that can be replaced by technology, should be.
Every industry has a technological base and a social reason for its existence.
Taxi services have a long history of abuses which the geek conveniently chooses to forget. Perhaps because for him the taxi is a convenience and not a necessity.
In a neighboring city, black and poor, the only accessible, affordable, suburban sized supermarket is a cab ride midtown.
Google and the rest should be saying: we'll find a way to directly hook into the home as if this were the early days and we owned everything except the dirt we buried the cables in
In the early days, ca. 1880, the telephone company owned the phone and the wire.
At least one local telephone exchange in the Northeast began experimenting with phonographic music-on-demand over the lines about ten years later.
The courts began looking at the use of the public airways for paid subscription services no later than the 1920s. Then and now such services were regarded by the courts as far too useful to be compromised by the cheap and the greedy.
Then and now the courts have had no trouble whatever assigning different rights to the energy which falls from the sky and the information it may carry.
If they simply delay the stream by a tiny amount, even just a few seconds, the decision no longer applies, because then it becomes timeshifting on behalf of the customer, rather than live retransmission. Am I the only one who sees this loophole?
The Supremes don't take it well when you try to evade their decisions by resorting to half-assed tricks and gimmicks. Tricks that may be particularly embarrassing to the minority who stood by you the first time around.
They took the text of the law and decided that something that complied with the letter of the law was still in violation "because".
Because -----
Aereo was a community antenna system operating under the thinnest of legal and technical disguises and for CATV the rules have been clear at least since the mid-nineties.
People could explain something with 3 lines of text, but instead they'll make a 20 minute video about it.
100 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute. Statistics I'm sure you'll find something worth watching. As for explaining things in three lines of text, try it sometime with someone who has not mastered your own specialty.
I love bashing Microsoft, but the pickings have been slim lately, they're failing.
Whenever I hear the geek talk about how rapidly Microsoft is failing, I am consoled by the thought of the record returns certain to be posted in its next quarterly report.
Anything that improves the efficiency and effectiveness of our forces deserves recognition.... Not all medals given in the military are for combat duties.
The Commendation Medal was originally only a service ribbon and was first awarded by the U.S. Navy and U.S. Coast Guard in 1943. An Army Commendation Ribbon followed in 1945, and in 1949, the Navy, Coast Guard, and Army Commendation ribbons were renamed the "Commendation Ribbon with Medal Pendant." By 1960, the Commendation Ribbons had been authorized as full medals and were subsequently referred to as Commendation Medals.
For valorous actions in direct contact with an enemy, but of a lesser degree than required for the award of the Bronze Star Medal, a Commendation Medal with "V" Device or Combat "V" (Navy/Marine) is awarded.
The Army Commendation Medal is awarded to American and foreign military personnel in the grade of O-6 and below who have performed noteworthy service in any capacity with the United States Army. Qualifying service for the award of the medal can be for distinctive meritorious achievement and service, acts of courage involving no voluntary risk of life, or sustained meritorious performance of duty. Approval of the award must be made by an officer in the grade of Colonel (O-6) or higher.
I mean, all you have to say is that you lost the actual key and cannot comply.
Didn't work for Calvin. It won't work for you.
The lie ends in a citation for contempt and a stay in a Ricker's Island holding cell until your memory improves, or hell freezes over, whichever comes first.
So what they're saying is that since the decryption key isn't "testimony" it doesn't count under the 5th Amendment. (IANAL)
The roots of the privilege against self-incrimination lie in use of torture to extract confessions, but judges remain firmly convinced that all relevant evidence should be admissible in court. They do not like carving out exceptions.
The idea that "the sheeple" need to be lead by smart people who will make the best decisions for them is sort of endemic to that side of the aisle.
It's a single data point, strictly anecdotal, pure chance, perhaps.
But since the day I first purchased a dial-up modem, I have never heard words like "sheepie" used outside a geek forum.
The Democrats tend to draw the wonkiest of the wonks and the elite professional class into their orbit.
That is a pretty fair description of the framers of the American Constitution.
Though there are exceptions to the downward intellectual spiral on the right --- Ross Douthat at The New York Times, the people involved in this reformist project, the writers associated with The American Conservative and Front Porch Republic, and the "Postmodern Conservatives" at National Review Online --- the general trend on the right in recent years has been away from reflection on ideas for their own sake, and toward fashioning an ideology to galvanize the "conservative movement" and electorally empower its chosen political vehicle: the Republican Party.
George Will has shown an admirable independence of mind over the years: denouncing Nixon's corruption during the pre-resignation period of the Watergate scandal, when most Republicans were still defending him; calling Americans "undertaxed" during the early years of the Reagan revolution; criticizing the Iraq War at a time when dissent from George W. Bush's prosecution of the War on Terror was verboten on the right. And then there was his thoughtful 1983 book Statecraft as Soulcraft, which made a communitarian case for using government to instill civic virtue.
One wonders what the author of that book would make of the George Will of today --- peddler of Tea-Party-approved libertarian bromides, promoter of know-nothing climate-change denialism, serial spewer of bile against the all-purpose bogeyman of "progressivism." (Reading Will's column these days, you get the feeling he thinks the Republican Party needs to position itself to the right of Theodore Roosevelt circa 1912.)
They just have to change their model where the equipment including antenna goes to your house, then stored on local dvr or uploaded from there to their servers
HD reception can demand an expensive roof-top antenna installation. Ladder work.
While drone delivery is a stupid idea for the city and suburbs, I think it has some real possibilities for rural areas.
There are reasons why seemingly everyone who actually lives and works in the country owns an all-weather, all-terrain, Jeep, full size pick-up truck, or Chevy Suburban. The Amazon warehouse may be two states over and one state South.
Business A has a parking lot that isn't big enough to meet customer capacity at peak hours. They're in a position that would make it very difficult to expand their parking, but there are nearby homes that have large, unused driveways.
Not, I think, a very realistic scenario.
Homes with unusually large, unused, driveways aren't often to be found in a commercial district.
Homeowners can get very prickly about strangers using off-main-street residential parking. Police, fire and ambulance services also. When neighboring driveways begin to fill, you'll get an earful at the next meeting of the town council or the zoning board.
Nearly every time you see citizens resort to vigilante justice, it's due to a lack of effective law enforcement.
Talk to a black man of a certain age and he will remind you that law enforcement was often deeply corrupted and very much a part of the vigilante justice of his time. Look closely at the vigilantes of any era and you aren't likely to like what you see.
Not only did he block cellphones but, apparently, he was also interfering with the radio communications of first-responders.
Imagine what is going on inside the head of the officer who pulls you over for any reason just as his radios go dead. This is a tense and dangerous moment for him under the best of circumstances.
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Actually, you need 2/3 of both the House and the Senate, plus 3/4 of the state legislatures. Amending the Constitution ain't easy (intentionally so).
Freedom of assembly. Freedom of speech.
How do you tell a small businessman that others can organize and raise funds to win an election and he can't? How do you make that argument to the NRA or the NAACP? The teacher's union or the EFF?
If a congress can be bribed to make an amendment to the constitution that specifies that money, resources, or commodities cannot be equated to speech, then the verdict of the Supreme Court is nullified by the voices that represent the will of the people.
This is as blatantly corrupt a political argument as I have ever heard expressed.
I don't care whether the voice comes from the right or the left.
I do care when the reformer starts to think that because he has the money and the power, he alone has heard the voice of God --- and that anything he does is perfectly all right.
Any industry that can be replaced by technology, should be.
Every industry has a technological base and a social reason for its existence.
Taxi services have a long history of abuses which the geek conveniently chooses to forget. Perhaps because for him the taxi is a convenience and not a necessity.
In a neighboring city, black and poor, the only accessible, affordable, suburban sized supermarket is a cab ride midtown.
In the hospital district.
Julian Assange is expected to make his London Fashion Week debut this September.
What begins as tragedy ends as farce.
Therefore, you should always use a tor-like algorithm to connect to the cell tower.
How does this help when the tower has to know how to bill the call?
Google and the rest should be saying: we'll find a way to directly hook into the home as if this were the early days and we owned everything except the dirt we buried the cables in
In the early days, ca. 1880, the telephone company owned the phone and the wire.
At least one local telephone exchange in the Northeast began experimenting with phonographic music-on-demand over the lines about ten years later.
The courts began looking at the use of the public airways for paid subscription services no later than the 1920s. Then and now such services were regarded by the courts as far too useful to be compromised by the cheap and the greedy.
Then and now the courts have had no trouble whatever assigning different rights to the energy which falls from the sky and the information it may carry.
Not a community antenna. One antenna services one person.
more like a fixed array of antennas serving a great many people.
and marketed to the same audience that began subscribing to community antenna services in the late 1940s.
If they simply delay the stream by a tiny amount, even just a few seconds, the decision no longer applies, because then it becomes timeshifting on behalf of the customer, rather than live retransmission. Am I the only one who sees this loophole?
The Supremes don't take it well when you try to evade their decisions by resorting to half-assed tricks and gimmicks. Tricks that may be particularly embarrassing to the minority who stood by you the first time around.
They took the text of the law and decided that something that complied with the letter of the law was still in violation "because".
Because -----
Aereo was a community antenna system operating under the thinnest of legal and technical disguises and for CATV the rules have been clear at least since the mid-nineties.
People could explain something with 3 lines of text, but instead they'll make a 20 minute video about it.
100 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute. Statistics I'm sure you'll find something worth watching. As for explaining things in three lines of text, try it sometime with someone who has not mastered your own specialty.
I love bashing Microsoft, but the pickings have been slim lately, they're failing.
Whenever I hear the geek talk about how rapidly Microsoft is failing, I am consoled by the thought of the record returns certain to be posted in its next quarterly report.
Treat it as any other home invasion.
--- and be carried out in a body bag.
Anything that improves the efficiency and effectiveness of our forces deserves recognition. ... Not all medals given in the military are for combat duties.
The Commendation Medal was originally only a service ribbon and was first awarded by the U.S. Navy and U.S. Coast Guard in 1943. An Army Commendation Ribbon followed in 1945, and in 1949, the Navy, Coast Guard, and Army Commendation ribbons were renamed the "Commendation Ribbon with Medal Pendant." By 1960, the Commendation Ribbons had been authorized as full medals and were subsequently referred to as Commendation Medals.
For valorous actions in direct contact with an enemy, but of a lesser degree than required for the award of the Bronze Star Medal, a Commendation Medal with "V" Device or Combat "V" (Navy/Marine) is awarded.
The Army Commendation Medal is awarded to American and foreign military personnel in the grade of O-6 and below who have performed noteworthy service in any capacity with the United States Army. Qualifying service for the award of the medal can be for distinctive meritorious achievement and service, acts of courage involving no voluntary risk of life, or sustained meritorious performance of duty. Approval of the award must be made by an officer in the grade of Colonel (O-6) or higher.
Commendation Medal
It's called deniable encryption, and is intened to stand up to "rubber hose cryptanalyis".
I don't think even the Wikipedia claims that the geek's "plausible deniability" would protect him from a literal Liam Neeson interrogation.
I mean, all you have to say is that you lost the actual key and cannot comply.
Didn't work for Calvin. It won't work for you.
The lie ends in a citation for contempt and a stay in a Ricker's Island holding cell until your memory improves, or hell freezes over, whichever comes first.
So what they're saying is that since the decryption key isn't "testimony" it doesn't count under the 5th Amendment. (IANAL)
The roots of the privilege against self-incrimination lie in use of torture to extract confessions, but judges remain firmly convinced that all relevant evidence should be admissible in court. They do not like carving out exceptions.
The idea that "the sheeple" need to be lead by smart people who will make the best decisions for them is sort of endemic to that side of the aisle.
It's a single data point, strictly anecdotal, pure chance, perhaps.
But since the day I first purchased a dial-up modem, I have never heard words like "sheepie" used outside a geek forum.
The Democrats tend to draw the wonkiest of the wonks and the elite professional class into their orbit.
That is a pretty fair description of the framers of the American Constitution.
Though there are exceptions to the downward intellectual spiral on the right --- Ross Douthat at The New York Times, the people involved in this reformist project, the writers associated with The American Conservative and Front Porch Republic, and the "Postmodern Conservatives" at National Review Online --- the general trend on the right in recent years has been away from reflection on ideas for their own sake, and toward fashioning an ideology to galvanize the "conservative movement" and electorally empower its chosen political vehicle: the Republican Party.
George Will has shown an admirable independence of mind over the years: denouncing Nixon's corruption during the pre-resignation period of the Watergate scandal, when most Republicans were still defending him; calling Americans "undertaxed" during the early years of the Reagan revolution; criticizing the Iraq War at a time when dissent from George W. Bush's prosecution of the War on Terror was verboten on the right. And then there was his thoughtful 1983 book Statecraft as Soulcraft, which made a communitarian case for using government to instill civic virtue.
One wonders what the author of that book would make of the George Will of today --- peddler of Tea-Party-approved libertarian bromides, promoter of know-nothing climate-change denialism, serial spewer of bile against the all-purpose bogeyman of "progressivism." (Reading Will's column these days, you get the feeling he thinks the Republican Party needs to position itself to the right of Theodore Roosevelt circa 1912.)
The sad, sorry decline of George F. Will
They just have to change their model where the equipment including antenna goes to your house, then stored on local dvr or uploaded from there to their servers
HD reception can demand an expensive roof-top antenna installation. Ladder work.
And a person living in a basement can never legaly get aerial TV because that would entail puting an antena and running a wire on other person's roof?
You're good to go so long as you aren't reselling the off-air signal as a CATV (community antenna) service.
Personally I think we should have the UK model with a TV license. The programming is far superior and enriching to the minds of the citizenry.
How many of those wonderfully enriching UK shows are co-productions for European or global distribution?
Calling Barbara Streisand...
The geek plays this card too often.
Mostly because he only thinks about how a news story will play to other geeks, a rather small and self-referential community at the best of times.
While drone delivery is a stupid idea for the city and suburbs, I think it has some real possibilities for rural areas.
There are reasons why seemingly everyone who actually lives and works in the country owns an all-weather, all-terrain, Jeep, full size pick-up truck, or Chevy Suburban. The Amazon warehouse may be two states over and one state South.
Low-level flight should be regulated on a municipal level, not through national airspace policies.
Good lord, No!
There are 25 political subdivisions in my home county alone that would be competing for control of drone flights.
Business A has a parking lot that isn't big enough to meet customer capacity at peak hours. They're in a position that would make it very difficult to expand their parking, but there are nearby homes that have large, unused driveways.
Not, I think, a very realistic scenario.
Homes with unusually large, unused, driveways aren't often to be found in a commercial district.
Homeowners can get very prickly about strangers using off-main-street residential parking. Police, fire and ambulance services also. When neighboring driveways begin to fill, you'll get an earful at the next meeting of the town council or the zoning board.
Nearly every time you see citizens resort to vigilante justice, it's due to a lack of effective law enforcement.
Talk to a black man of a certain age and he will remind you that law enforcement was often deeply corrupted and very much a part of the vigilante justice of his time. Look closely at the vigilantes of any era and you aren't likely to like what you see.
Not only did he block cellphones but, apparently, he was also interfering with the radio communications of first-responders.
Imagine what is going on inside the head of the officer who pulls you over for any reason just as his radios go dead. This is a tense and dangerous moment for him under the best of circumstances.