Well, he can't leave the Ecuadorian embassy or he would be arrested by the U.K. Police; a drone attack therefore would be firing a missile into the side of the embassy which would be a very public act of war against the sovereign state of Ecuador.
Because it's impossible for the IT guy in the embassy to go into the wiring closet and unplug the patch cable from his room?
Or maybe they use an authentication scheme like 802.1x on their network, and they revoked credentials? Ever heard of an authenticated proxy combined with an outbound firewall?
There are lots of ways to do this without disrupting embassy operations.
Yeah, I forgot that NASA manufactured all the hardware used for Apollo. No wait, it was McDonnell Aircraft, Douglass Aircraft, Boeing, Grumman, Rocketdyne, and North American Aviation that designed and built the hardware to the specs that NASA put to bid.
The Mars rovers were launched in the summer of 2003, and were on the Martian dirt in January of 2004. Do you think that NASA used some kind of massively over-sized rocket for the payloads in order to get them there 6x faster than your timeline you pulled straight from your colon?
You do know that if it took 3 years to get from Earth to Mars, you would only be traveling at ~2,077 km/h. You also know that it takes an escape velocity of 40,270 km/h just to leave Earth's sphere of influence, right?
Especially considering that the number of people that vote early rises with each election. I heard a statistic from some think tank that studies early voting that says they anticipate that 34% of the ballots cast this year will be early voting, or vote-by-mail.
If 1/3 of the people likely to vote are voting right now, holding something for two weeks is very ineffective.
Oh, so we should just trust a government that has lied in order to create a pretext for war in the past, because Anonymous Coward says to "get over it".
Because it's entirely impossible for someone to set up a VPN that isn't Tor. Or (paying someone to) plug in a $150 device on a network that is geographically inside Russia.
... and if I'm not a Samsung customer, then I won't be paying for their fuck up. Also, if they raise their prices, they will be less competitive with the other smartphone manufacturers.
Nope. Pagers are still quite common for doctors. They have batteries that last weeks at a time, and use frequencies that penetrate buildings much easier.
That private venue can have (legal) restrictions and rules placed on it by the owner.
Just because it's a public venue doesn't mean you get to do anything you want. Go ahead - go to a theater on opening night of the next blockbuster movie and whip out your phone and start recording. See what happens.
So when you're driving home and there is a DUI checkpoint ahead, how do you not deal with the police?
I had this exact situation a few weeks back - on my way home with my girlfriend in the car, police had a checkpoint set up. The office claimed he could smell alcohol on my breath (total fucking horseshit) and performed a field sobriety test on me. Unsurprisingly, I passed and continued home, a little salty over the affair.
How would you "not deal" with that? Turn around as soon as you see the checkpoint, all but inviting a good legal rogering from making an illegal U-turn and giving them all the probable cause in the world to fuck you over? Tell the officer to fuck off, inviting arrest, or some other bullshit 'humble' charge they want to stick on you for not being cooperative? Refuse to get out of the car, which opens you up to being cited for DUI and the mountain of bullshit that comes with it?
Just because you "don't break the fucking law" doesn't mean that the law won't still fuck with you.
Yeah, because someone acting under the color of law is completely the same as someone performing a private show in a private venue, which you have every opportunity to not go to.
That's an interesting idea, as I've actually voted for him twice. Just because I have some criticism doesn't mean that he is terrible. The quality of a job that someone does is not a binary value.
Everyone can improve what they do, and he could do a little more constituent service.
"Enemies, foreign and domestic" has nothing to do with natural disaster relief. A massive CME from the sun that puts massive amounts of infrastructure out of commission would fall under the Congressionally approved mandate of FEMA, which as I recall is an Executive Branch entity and thus reports to the President.
Remember the giant bitch-howl about Katrina, and how FEMA was unprepared, etc. and everyone blamed Bush? Maybe Obama learned from that fiasco and is helping the proper agencies to at least have some kind of plan in place for when more than just a large city gets fucked over, but instead the whole continent...
If we needed Congress to give the nod every time the President wanted to direct departments of his own administration to make plans and study things, nothing would ever get done.
Also, that's not how the US Government works, and it never has been, going back to the times when the people who wrote the Constitution were serving as President.
You clearly don't understand what I'm saying, or you are being intentionally obtuse.
In Oregon, when you register to vote, you sign the voter registration card. This signature is then kept in the voter rolls for the county in which you reside.
You sign the secrecy envelope that contains your ballot. When you drop off / mail the ballot to the county elections office, they compare the signatures. If they are wildly different, the ballot is set aside with a voter contact scheduled. If the signature is a reasonable match, the ballot is then removed from the envelope and given over to the ballot counters.
I mentioned my passport signature because you seem to think it's trivial to forge a signature on an official government document you've never seen. Feel free to match my signature from my voter registration if that confuses you less. You're the one that said you can get me a signature if I wanted one. I want one that would fool an election official to accept a ballot that is not mine.
Do it, or shut up about it. This system has been in place in Oregon for over a decade, and yet we've not heard of massive voter fraud issues with it, even through some fairly contentious elections and referendums. Why not, if it's so god damn easy to defraud?
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Well, he can't leave the Ecuadorian embassy or he would be arrested by the U.K. Police; a drone attack therefore would be firing a missile into the side of the embassy which would be a very public act of war against the sovereign state of Ecuador.
Because it's impossible for the IT guy in the embassy to go into the wiring closet and unplug the patch cable from his room?
Or maybe they use an authentication scheme like 802.1x on their network, and they revoked credentials? Ever heard of an authenticated proxy combined with an outbound firewall?
There are lots of ways to do this without disrupting embassy operations.
Especially since there was a 6 year interval between the Apollo-Soyuz mission in 1975 and the first flight of the Columbia orbiter in 1981.
Was there as much much hand-wringing about not being able to launch a guy ourselves then? No.
False equivalence.
NASA doesn't need to deal with the bureaucracy of right-of-way disputes in order to go to the Moon. That shaves 20 years right there.
Yeah, I forgot that NASA manufactured all the hardware used for Apollo. No wait, it was McDonnell Aircraft, Douglass Aircraft, Boeing, Grumman, Rocketdyne, and North American Aviation that designed and built the hardware to the specs that NASA put to bid.
Most of those are now just Boeing, by the way.
Where the hell are you getting 3+ years from?
The Mars rovers were launched in the summer of 2003, and were on the Martian dirt in January of 2004. Do you think that NASA used some kind of massively over-sized rocket for the payloads in order to get them there 6x faster than your timeline you pulled straight from your colon?
You do know that if it took 3 years to get from Earth to Mars, you would only be traveling at ~2,077 km/h. You also know that it takes an escape velocity of 40,270 km/h just to leave Earth's sphere of influence, right?
Especially considering that the number of people that vote early rises with each election. I heard a statistic from some think tank that studies early voting that says they anticipate that 34% of the ballots cast this year will be early voting, or vote-by-mail.
If 1/3 of the people likely to vote are voting right now, holding something for two weeks is very ineffective.
No, Vegas is not paying out any odds on the Presidential election, as it is illegal to bet on political races in the United States.
Las Vegas is still in the US, isn't it?
They were "confident" that Iraq had warehouses of WMD too.
Oh, so we should just trust a government that has lied in order to create a pretext for war in the past, because Anonymous Coward says to "get over it".
Up your ass.
This isn't so much defending Russia, as calling the shit from a horse "horseshit."
Because it's entirely impossible for someone to set up a VPN that isn't Tor. Or (paying someone to) plug in a $150 device on a network that is geographically inside Russia.
... and if I'm not a Samsung customer, then I won't be paying for their fuck up. Also, if they raise their prices, they will be less competitive with the other smartphone manufacturers.
Nope. Pagers are still quite common for doctors. They have batteries that last weeks at a time, and use frequencies that penetrate buildings much easier.
So, in other words, it would be just like the previous 225 years of the existence of the United States of America.
How did Abraham "Honest Abe" Lincoln ever get elected (twice) without smartphones to keep him honest!?
That private venue can have (legal) restrictions and rules placed on it by the owner.
Just because it's a public venue doesn't mean you get to do anything you want. Go ahead - go to a theater on opening night of the next blockbuster movie and whip out your phone and start recording. See what happens.
So when you're driving home and there is a DUI checkpoint ahead, how do you not deal with the police?
I had this exact situation a few weeks back - on my way home with my girlfriend in the car, police had a checkpoint set up. The office claimed he could smell alcohol on my breath (total fucking horseshit) and performed a field sobriety test on me. Unsurprisingly, I passed and continued home, a little salty over the affair.
How would you "not deal" with that? Turn around as soon as you see the checkpoint, all but inviting a good legal rogering from making an illegal U-turn and giving them all the probable cause in the world to fuck you over? Tell the officer to fuck off, inviting arrest, or some other bullshit 'humble' charge they want to stick on you for not being cooperative? Refuse to get out of the car, which opens you up to being cited for DUI and the mountain of bullshit that comes with it?
Just because you "don't break the fucking law" doesn't mean that the law won't still fuck with you.
Yeah, because someone acting under the color of law is completely the same as someone performing a private show in a private venue, which you have every opportunity to not go to.
Super equivalent.
Don't like it? Vote with your wallet. Don't attend concerts / shows that require you to lock up your phone. You won't be missed by anybody.
Ron Wyden is a decent moderate Senator, which is usually what Oregon sends to DC. See: Bob Packwood, Mark Hatfield, Wayne Morse, Gordon Smith.
Peter Defazio gets re-elected because he's a little left of Lenin, and represents Eugene / Lane County; it's a perfect fit.
That's an interesting idea, as I've actually voted for him twice. Just because I have some criticism doesn't mean that he is terrible. The quality of a job that someone does is not a binary value.
Everyone can improve what they do, and he could do a little more constituent service.
Actually, after getting a peek at his two potential successors, I think Obama's popularity will be on the rise in 2017. As will GWB's.
The next 4 years may be quite bad.
"Enemies, foreign and domestic" has nothing to do with natural disaster relief. A massive CME from the sun that puts massive amounts of infrastructure out of commission would fall under the Congressionally approved mandate of FEMA, which as I recall is an Executive Branch entity and thus reports to the President.
Remember the giant bitch-howl about Katrina, and how FEMA was unprepared, etc. and everyone blamed Bush? Maybe Obama learned from that fiasco and is helping the proper agencies to at least have some kind of plan in place for when more than just a large city gets fucked over, but instead the whole continent...
If we needed Congress to give the nod every time the President wanted to direct departments of his own administration to make plans and study things, nothing would ever get done.
Also, that's not how the US Government works, and it never has been, going back to the times when the people who wrote the Constitution were serving as President.
You clearly don't understand what I'm saying, or you are being intentionally obtuse.
In Oregon, when you register to vote, you sign the voter registration card. This signature is then kept in the voter rolls for the county in which you reside.
You sign the secrecy envelope that contains your ballot. When you drop off / mail the ballot to the county elections office, they compare the signatures. If they are wildly different, the ballot is set aside with a voter contact scheduled. If the signature is a reasonable match, the ballot is then removed from the envelope and given over to the ballot counters.
I mentioned my passport signature because you seem to think it's trivial to forge a signature on an official government document you've never seen. Feel free to match my signature from my voter registration if that confuses you less. You're the one that said you can get me a signature if I wanted one. I want one that would fool an election official to accept a ballot that is not mine.
Do it, or shut up about it. This system has been in place in Oregon for over a decade, and yet we've not heard of massive voter fraud issues with it, even through some fairly contentious elections and referendums. Why not, if it's so god damn easy to defraud?