For the measly $70K, I think I might have continued fighting it through to an actual judgement. That won't even begin to cover their costs to date, nor will it cover the costs of home-schooling for six years. In addition to suing the district, I'd be suing the school administrator personally, and be suing the officer personally for criminal acts done under color of law.
Actually $70 probably could cover the cost or just nearly so for a private school where she will get a better education than what the public schools had to offer anyway. Had she kept fighting it might not have gone her way. I would have countered probably with "I'll go away for 70K + legal fees to date" but I would have wanted to settle too; a bird in the hand is worth two in bush.
Which is the wost part of it. At the end of the day there was at least a period where they were accepting money and promising to deliver bitcoins he did not have and had no plan to obtain.
Yet everyone is jumping all over this to point out: see see you have to have regulations.
Which is bullshit. What they were doing was simple fraud. It does not matter if bitcoin is a currency, commodity, security or anything else, it does not require additional banking laws. Already a crime without any fancy securities laws, or regulators.
Common law fraud: is the intentional misrepresentation of material facts presented to and relied upon by another party to his detriment and in order to get them to act.
You are right naturally, but look around we stopped living in a civilized society a long time ago. There is a clearly classes of people that are above the law.
I don't know what the answer is but every day it seems a little more hopeless as far as getting anything fixed working with in the system. So more an more I feel inclined towards settling for vengeance because there is little justice to be had.
A lot of that those because the customers are sheep. Netflix is an amazing catalog and amazing back catalogue, sure there's some pretty bad movies on there but there are a lot of good ones of frankly are every bit as satisfying as Hollywood's AAA titles. You just have to A) be a willing to seek them out and B) accept that you can't talk about the water cooler cause probably nobody else seen them.
The real problem is consumers of been sold on the idea they can't enjoy film that did not cost few hundred million to make and has especially shiny special-effects.
Effective the industry actually overproduces movies in terms of quantity, and relies on whole lot of anticompetitive anticonsumer collusion, to prop it self up and keep it profitable. Best way for the court cutters to win let me to stand up to the major studios and ignore the blockbusters. Don't go to the theaters don't rent them.
I forget what brand it was a few homes ago. I did have another heading on timer, you could preset the temperature and have a come on in a particular time you specified. This man for instance you can put casserole in the oven and head off to the movies. You knew about you get home you knew the thing in 45 minutes to bake, you could arrange for to be just about ready when you walk in the door.
And I was just with a simple timer was quite nice. Of course there was always the risk that you might be delayed, which of course meant your dinner might burn. I haven't seen this feature in a while probably because they were safety problems. I suppose IP enabled device could sort of solve that: goingto be late Pletcher iPhone cancel the oven or just the schedule.
So not totally stupid but in general I agree, often as that might be convenient probably not worth the cost and risk
yea the problem it solved is ensuring there will exist continued access to udev and udisks which are a hard dependency a long way up the stack now. The systemd folks are doing everything they can to make sure the udev and udisks projects end up having systemd as a dependency.
So in short no I guess nobody held a gun to any other distro maintainers heads and forced them to package systemd but its been made abundantly clear that not doing so means they will have to devote enormous resources to maintaining compatible forks of udev an udisks.
I am not suggesting that burger flipping in your neighborhood McDonald's or toilet scrubbing in your office building will never be automated. I can see how my post might be read that way though. I just don't think the very very bottom will be the first to go.
Automation will be added to the second rung up jobs deskilling it and pushing the wages down to the minimum turning them into more bottom rung menial task oriented jobs but where the economics of tossing a body at it is again cheaper than solving all the automation problems.
Think 80/20 rule, with respect to my janitor example. The parts of the job that require a more reliable and skilled human to do, inventory management, ordering, etc, are the easiest parts to automate. Then the next easiest parts are sweeping up etc (roomba). Leaving the last 20% scrubbing toilets, socking towel dispensers etc; that is a little bit more complex and costly to automate but a human who does nothing but scrub the can and install towels, well you hand them a bucket, soap and a sponge and they can get started.
I think will find is the very bottom it will be the last to go. The guy standing over the grill of the burgle have a job, the guy actually scrubbed the toilet will have a job. The person taking orders will be replaced of the machine, the facilities manager at least have to do things like keep inventory of paper products and such will be replaced by automatic reorders and machines. Essentially the jobs will be further deskilled.
The very bottom rung earning minimum wage probably has less to worry the next rung up who earns a couple dollars above minimum wage today. The guy making 725 will certainly be making 10, the guy making 10 is going to get the pink slip.
Its not like there were no terrorists when Carter was president. Has the technology changed yes, have the threats evolved I am sure they have to some degree. Cater has remained active and involved in these issues, he has lots of contacts and as I said he has been President! He has and therefor can speak with lots of authority compared to most. Would Bush or Clinton's opinions also be strong perhaps stronger, probably.
We the voters are not going to get perfect information on this. We know some facts thanks to Snowden, we know some voices in this debate have exposed themselves as liars, but not ultimately faced with incomplete information and a sea of disinformation we are going to have to settle for some appeals to authority and rely somewhat on opinions of people we know are qualified to have them.
Frankly based on all the revelations, Were I locked in cave I'd be more inclined to entertain the truthfulness of Carter telling me the sky is now red, than to GWB or Obummer trying to sell me on the idea it remains blue.
Well I hardly think pointing out the problems to authorities would have worked. I mean Clapper can't even tell Congress anything truthful, its not like he or anyone else at NSA was going to act on some low level sys admin questioning the legality of the program, no I pretty much think Snowden's only real options were either (1) or (3) because (2) might as well be (1) for all it would matter.
That said yea, he probably should be prosecuted. He is suspected of having committed serious criminal acts, its the prosecutors job to prosecute people who have apparently violated the law. Its a juries job to recognize he did society a favor and acquit him either through some legal fact finding like he qualifies as a whistle blower, or simply via nullification.
Right, Whatever you think of Carter one of the common defenses jerks like Obama hide behind and lots of other people is, "the realities of the office."
And typically is pretty hard to counter argument because very few of us have any where near the information privilege the President does, and probably none can really understand the responsibility. However someone who has been President can; so that it cuts that argument off at the knees.
Carter condemning the surveillance, and calling the Snowden disclosures good for Americans, helps expose the "national security" lie.
How about we start with just not renewing the PATRIOT act. That would probably still leave plenty of room for way over line surveillance but it would be a good start.
911 was a decade and a half ago, we don't need it anymore; because the only reason we ever needed it was a purely psychological one where people had to feel the government was "doing something".
We can treat it, put it in a concrete cask, and store the casks somewhere, but we have no ways to actually dispose of it other than to wait for millions of years.
Not really true its more a political problem than anything. The casks are in some senses better than burring the stuff because we can get to them. If we could get over the political hurtles around breeder reactors not only would we stop producing almost all the spent fuel waste we could actually start using the existing spent fuel in the casks as new fuel. That would leave us with a very tiny amount of spent fuel in terms of sq feet of storage required. It would also leave us retired reactors and plant component materials which don't remain especially hazardous for very long.
As for the plastic, actually that could be reprocessed in to useful hydrocarbons to for the most part we just don't because its not quite economical yet, so its easier to pitch it in the Ocean. The good news there though is it might not be to hard to scoop back up and bring back to shore to process if humanity ever gets its act together.
Well the Navy guys have a lot of incentive to do things right, they are in many cases forced to live in small metal can right along side their reactors. I would not want to cut corners either.
Ask them to manage a situation where they can get out of Dodge so to speak if things get really hairy and I suspect they will gradually get as sloppy as everyone else.
They pretty much do this now. I have 2013 Dart. If the traction control is on when you take your foot off the break the break basically remains applied for I don't know long exactly I want to say almost a second, unless forward motion is detected. So you can hill start without it rolling backwards unless you are way way way slow with your feet. It may also know if you
If you actually do want to just roll backwards, like I often do to get out of my own driveway you just wait the second.
I think it may also only do this if a forward gear is selected possibly only first but I am not 100% sure.
No i don't think it matters from a practical standpoint. I think the preponderance of evidence we do have suggests it's very very likely the transponders were deliberately shut off, so crime. Even if it was mechanical so many 777s fly every day and the plane has a long and exemplary safety record, so it was either a freak accident that probably will never happen again, or it was the battery cargo, which many countries civil aviation authorities alread forbid transporting on aircrafts with passengers. Other airlines and authorities should probably just adopt that policy, there are already good reasons for it.
So no I don't think it's all that import to anyone who did not have a loved one on that plane that we find it. The rest of us can only be expected to invest so much in serivce of making a few folks feel better
Because the tool boxes (QT, GTK, and others) don't provide a complete abstraction layer, at least not when your project gets to the point of doing anything 'fancy' if all your application does is display some forms fine, but more complex stuff, window managers, media players with odd shapes and over lays etc; you have to interact with the display server directly or its APIs anyway.
More display servers more code paths and its not easy for one developer to test all that, sure they can have a bunch of VMs but now he has to know how work with multiple systems etc. It would be PITA. Its going to be bad enough for some with just X and Wayland to support.
My guess is many won't end up supporting multiple display servers and if there are to many it will just fragment the Linux desktop worse than even in the bad old days.
While important evidence, it's hardly proof - we will need actual debris.
Why do we need the debris? If the evidence is good enough that governments are willing to issue death certificates to the families, the book on this thing could be closed. Sure its not satisfying especially to the families that might really want the remains found but as a practical matter actually finding the plane won't change much.
Are you seriously going to pretend that that same hunter gets all their meat from hunting? No one does and you know it.
I'll agree with the general point you are trying to make in your post but, there certainly are populations in very rural parts of this country, think Alaska (some cities are not even connected by roads to this day) and northern Maine, parts of Montana, some Indian reservations, etc were some people certainly do obtain all or at least the vast majority of the meat they consume from hunting and fishing. Is it a tiny part of population, yes, but they do exist.
its also because hunting is supposed to be a 'sport'. Hunters constantly are getting access to better and better technology, the Moose, and deer not so much. They playing field is already plenty slanted.
Over hunting can ruin things for everyone, even non hunters. There is a legitimate social interest in NOT allowing hunters to become more effective.
In some ways hunting on public game lands is like an MMO. Some people might like to use cheat codes, to avoid the grind of tracking and stalking or sitting and waiting, potentially spending all weekend and coming home without a prize, etc. If you let some people do this though it would ruin the 'game' for everyone.
Except there is essentially no change Clinton would not have gone into at least Afghanistan. Clinton had one of the most interventionist foreign policies ever. "Police actions" left and right.
How we handled Baltic conflicts are apparently still a sore point with Russia which is causing us grief even today, 15 years on.
The left loves to talk about needless wars but loves to ignore the fact that all of there guys pretty much been the ones who got us into some of the most costly and fruitless ones such as Korea. Ike did all he could to keep us out of Vietnam but pressure from the establishment left as much right eventually forced him into it. The problem is not the American Left of the American Right, its the American Establishment in general that is ridiculously hawkish.
Exactly the correct way to implement this is not mass data collection. Sure put the scanners up, program them with plate numbers of expired registrations, and that are registered to people with warrants out for them etc. Have the scanner send a trap when it spots one.
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For the measly $70K, I think I might have continued fighting it through to an actual judgement. That won't even begin to cover their costs to date, nor will it cover the costs of home-schooling for six years. In addition to suing the district, I'd be suing the school administrator personally, and be suing the officer personally for criminal acts done under color of law.
Actually $70 probably could cover the cost or just nearly so for a private school where she will get a better education than what the public schools had to offer anyway. Had she kept fighting it might not have gone her way. I would have countered probably with "I'll go away for 70K + legal fees to date" but I would have wanted to settle too; a bird in the hand is worth two in bush.
Which is the wost part of it. At the end of the day there was at least a period where they were accepting money and promising to deliver bitcoins he did not have and had no plan to obtain.
Yet everyone is jumping all over this to point out: see see you have to have regulations.
Which is bullshit. What they were doing was simple fraud. It does not matter if bitcoin is a currency, commodity, security or anything else, it does not require additional banking laws. Already a crime without any fancy securities laws, or regulators.
Common law fraud: is the intentional misrepresentation of material facts presented to and relied upon by another party to his detriment and in order to get them to act.
You are right naturally, but look around we stopped living in a civilized society a long time ago. There is a clearly classes of people that are above the law.
I don't know what the answer is but every day it seems a little more hopeless as far as getting anything fixed working with in the system. So more an more I feel inclined towards settling for vengeance because there is little justice to be had.
A lot of that those because the customers are sheep. Netflix is an amazing catalog and amazing back catalogue, sure there's some pretty bad movies on there but there are a lot of good ones of frankly are every bit as satisfying as Hollywood's AAA titles. You just have to A) be a willing to seek them out and B) accept that you can't talk about the water cooler cause probably nobody else seen them.
The real problem is consumers of been sold on the idea they can't enjoy film that did not cost few hundred million to make and has especially shiny special-effects.
Effective the industry actually overproduces movies in terms of quantity, and relies on whole lot of anticompetitive anticonsumer collusion, to prop it self up and keep it profitable. Best way for the court cutters to win let me to stand up to the major studios and ignore the blockbusters. Don't go to the theaters don't rent them.
I forget what brand it was a few homes ago. I did have another heading on timer, you could preset the temperature and have a come on in a particular time you specified. This man for instance you can put casserole in the oven and head off to the movies. You knew about you get home you knew the thing in 45 minutes to bake, you could arrange for to be just about ready when you walk in the door.
And I was just with a simple timer was quite nice. Of course there was always the risk that you might be delayed, which of course meant your dinner might burn. I haven't seen this feature in a while probably because they were safety problems. I suppose IP enabled device could sort of solve that: goingto be late Pletcher iPhone cancel the oven or just the schedule.
So not totally stupid but in general I agree, often as that might be convenient probably not worth the cost and risk
yea the problem it solved is ensuring there will exist continued access to udev and udisks which are a hard dependency a long way up the stack now. The systemd folks are doing everything they can to make sure the udev and udisks projects end up having systemd as a dependency.
So in short no I guess nobody held a gun to any other distro maintainers heads and forced them to package systemd but its been made abundantly clear that not doing so means they will have to devote enormous resources to maintaining compatible forks of udev an udisks.
Another question can you use this technology to effectively defeat the stealth of the nuclear subs?
I am not suggesting that burger flipping in your neighborhood McDonald's or toilet scrubbing in your office building will never be automated. I can see how my post might be read that way though. I just don't think the very very bottom will be the first to go.
Automation will be added to the second rung up jobs deskilling it and pushing the wages down to the minimum turning them into more bottom rung menial task oriented jobs but where the economics of tossing a body at it is again cheaper than solving all the automation problems.
Think 80/20 rule, with respect to my janitor example. The parts of the job that require a more reliable and skilled human to do, inventory management, ordering, etc, are the easiest parts to automate. Then the next easiest parts are sweeping up etc (roomba). Leaving the last 20% scrubbing toilets, socking towel dispensers etc; that is a little bit more complex and costly to automate but a human who does nothing but scrub the can and install towels, well you hand them a bucket, soap and a sponge and they can get started.
I think will find is the very bottom it will be the last to go. The guy standing over the grill of the burgle have a job, the guy actually scrubbed the toilet will have a job. The person taking orders will be replaced of the machine, the facilities manager at least have to do things like keep inventory of paper products and such will be replaced by automatic reorders and machines. Essentially the jobs will be further deskilled.
The very bottom rung earning minimum wage probably has less to worry the next rung up who earns a couple dollars above minimum wage today. The guy making 725 will certainly be making 10, the guy making 10 is going to get the pink slip.
I agree that would be nice.
Its not like there were no terrorists when Carter was president. Has the technology changed yes, have the threats evolved I am sure they have to some degree. Cater has remained active and involved in these issues, he has lots of contacts and as I said he has been President! He has and therefor can speak with lots of authority compared to most. Would Bush or Clinton's opinions also be strong perhaps stronger, probably.
We the voters are not going to get perfect information on this. We know some facts thanks to Snowden, we know some voices in this debate have exposed themselves as liars, but not ultimately faced with incomplete information and a sea of disinformation we are going to have to settle for some appeals to authority and rely somewhat on opinions of people we know are qualified to have them.
Frankly based on all the revelations, Were I locked in cave I'd be more inclined to entertain the truthfulness of Carter telling me the sky is now red, than to GWB or Obummer trying to sell me on the idea it remains blue.
Well I hardly think pointing out the problems to authorities would have worked. I mean Clapper can't even tell Congress anything truthful, its not like he or anyone else at NSA was going to act on some low level sys admin questioning the legality of the program, no I pretty much think Snowden's only real options were either (1) or (3) because (2) might as well be (1) for all it would matter.
That said yea, he probably should be prosecuted. He is suspected of having committed serious criminal acts, its the prosecutors job to prosecute people who have apparently violated the law. Its a juries job to recognize he did society a favor and acquit him either through some legal fact finding like he qualifies as a whistle blower, or simply via nullification.
Right, Whatever you think of Carter one of the common defenses jerks like Obama hide behind and lots of other people is, "the realities of the office."
And typically is pretty hard to counter argument because very few of us have any where near the information privilege the President does, and probably none can really understand the responsibility. However someone who has been President can; so that it cuts that argument off at the knees.
Carter condemning the surveillance, and calling the Snowden disclosures good for Americans, helps expose the "national security" lie.
How about we start with just not renewing the PATRIOT act. That would probably still leave plenty of room for way over line surveillance but it would be a good start.
911 was a decade and a half ago, we don't need it anymore; because the only reason we ever needed it was a purely psychological one where people had to feel the government was "doing something".
Its been more than decade, maybe we just don't reauthorize the PATRIOT act.
We can treat it, put it in a concrete cask, and store the casks somewhere, but we have no ways to actually dispose of it other than to wait for millions of years.
Not really true its more a political problem than anything. The casks are in some senses better than burring the stuff because we can get to them. If we could get over the political hurtles around breeder reactors not only would we stop producing almost all the spent fuel waste we could actually start using the existing spent fuel in the casks as new fuel. That would leave us with a very tiny amount of spent fuel in terms of sq feet of storage required. It would also leave us retired reactors and plant component materials which don't remain especially hazardous for very long.
As for the plastic, actually that could be reprocessed in to useful hydrocarbons to for the most part we just don't because its not quite economical yet, so its easier to pitch it in the Ocean. The good news there though is it might not be to hard to scoop back up and bring back to shore to process if humanity ever gets its act together.
Well the Navy guys have a lot of incentive to do things right, they are in many cases forced to live in small metal can right along side their reactors. I would not want to cut corners either.
Ask them to manage a situation where they can get out of Dodge so to speak if things get really hairy and I suspect they will gradually get as sloppy as everyone else.
They pretty much do this now. I have 2013 Dart. If the traction control is on when you take your foot off the break the break basically remains applied for I don't know long exactly I want to say almost a second, unless forward motion is detected. So you can hill start without it rolling backwards unless you are way way way slow with your feet. It may also know if you
If you actually do want to just roll backwards, like I often do to get out of my own driveway you just wait the second.
I think it may also only do this if a forward gear is selected possibly only first but I am not 100% sure.
No i don't think it matters from a practical standpoint. I think the preponderance of evidence we do have suggests it's very very likely the transponders were deliberately shut off, so crime. Even if it was mechanical so many 777s fly every day and the plane has a long and exemplary safety record, so it was either a freak accident that probably will never happen again, or it was the battery cargo, which many countries civil aviation authorities alread forbid transporting on aircrafts with passengers. Other airlines and authorities should probably just adopt that policy, there are already good reasons for it.
So no I don't think it's all that import to anyone who did not have a loved one on that plane that we find it. The rest of us can only be expected to invest so much in serivce of making a few folks feel better
Because the tool boxes (QT, GTK, and others) don't provide a complete abstraction layer, at least not when your project gets to the point of doing anything 'fancy' if all your application does is display some forms fine, but more complex stuff, window managers, media players with odd shapes and over lays etc; you have to interact with the display server directly or its APIs anyway.
More display servers more code paths and its not easy for one developer to test all that, sure they can have a bunch of VMs but now he has to know how work with multiple systems etc. It would be PITA. Its going to be bad enough for some with just X and Wayland to support.
My guess is many won't end up supporting multiple display servers and if there are to many it will just fragment the Linux desktop worse than even in the bad old days.
While important evidence, it's hardly proof - we will need actual debris.
Why do we need the debris? If the evidence is good enough that governments are willing to issue death certificates to the families, the book on this thing could be closed. Sure its not satisfying especially to the families that might really want the remains found but as a practical matter actually finding the plane won't change much.
Are you seriously going to pretend that that same hunter gets all their meat from hunting? No one does and you know it.
I'll agree with the general point you are trying to make in your post but, there certainly are populations in very rural parts of this country, think Alaska (some cities are not even connected by roads to this day) and northern Maine, parts of Montana, some Indian reservations, etc were some people certainly do obtain all or at least the vast majority of the meat they consume from hunting and fishing. Is it a tiny part of population, yes, but they do exist.
its also because hunting is supposed to be a 'sport'. Hunters constantly are getting access to better and better technology, the Moose, and deer not so much. They playing field is already plenty slanted.
Over hunting can ruin things for everyone, even non hunters. There is a legitimate social interest in NOT allowing hunters to become more effective.
In some ways hunting on public game lands is like an MMO. Some people might like to use cheat codes, to avoid the grind of tracking and stalking or sitting and waiting, potentially spending all weekend and coming home without a prize, etc. If you let some people do this though it would ruin the 'game' for everyone.
Except there is essentially no change Clinton would not have gone into at least Afghanistan. Clinton had one of the most interventionist foreign policies ever. "Police actions" left and right.
How we handled Baltic conflicts are apparently still a sore point with Russia which is causing us grief even today, 15 years on.
The left loves to talk about needless wars but loves to ignore the fact that all of there guys pretty much been the ones who got us into some of the most costly and fruitless ones such as Korea. Ike did all he could to keep us out of Vietnam but pressure from the establishment left as much right eventually forced him into it. The problem is not the American Left of the American Right, its the American Establishment in general that is ridiculously hawkish.
Exactly the correct way to implement this is not mass data collection. Sure put the scanners up, program them with plate numbers of expired registrations, and that are registered to people with warrants out for them etc. Have the scanner send a trap when it spots one.