Don't do stupid things on private property that doesn't belong to you. If you're trespassing on private property in the middle of the night, it's likely you're not there with good intentions. Probably shouldn't expect a warm reception ( unless I have a flamethrower ).
Besides, there are still rules that must be followed even in defense of property. It's not like it's a free for all the moment you step across some line. I would post the relevant Texas Code, but this is Slashdot and no one would read it anyway:D Just trust me when I say some very specific conditions have to be met before you can shoot.
The solution is not to rely on advertising as your primary means of financing your business. Unless you're Google, advertising is an EXPENSE designed to promote something else you wish to sell. Yanno, kind of like R&D. It's a necessary evil to get your product from concept to purchased commodity.
Trying to profit / survive on advertising alone means you seriously suck at anything other than advertising and don't deserve to be in business to begin with.
If we use Cable TV as an example, even when we paid a subscription, they still innundate us with ads because they're greedy bastards so I have zero sympathy for overkill advertising.
Is KNOWING what employee X gets paid while drooling on themselves, never doing anything nor showing any interest in learning anything. All the while you're busting your ass doing 2x the work because Captain Saliva is incapable of doing it at all.
Why should they show any motivation ?
Their pay is exactly the same as the top performing people without all the hard work and stress that comes with it. On paper the work gets done. The reality is it gets done by a fraction of the folks.
It is, however, a double edged sword. The top performers eventually burn out and question why they're working so damn hard when the pay is the same. Eventually, all the employees eventually align themselves with the bottom performers and the whole thing goes to hell.
Sometimes it sucks not being in a positio where you can negotiate salary.:|
I find it odd that we're supposed to follow the rule of law, yet the very ones in charge of enforcing those laws seem to have no qualms at all about breaking them whenever it suits their needs. All under the guise of "protecting" us from $evilplot of course.:|
In the end, Orwell was right I guess. Some animals are more equal than others.
I'll stop working on certifications when employers cease putting them on the job postings as a requirement for getting hired.
A lot of folks dismiss certifications as completely useless. While they don't gauge competency in any given field, they do at least show you've enough interest in the subject matter to jump through the hoops to attain the certification in the first place. I'm doing them because my company quit training their workforce about a decade ago. My hope is that the certifications give me other options when my company finally goes full blown stupid and implodes because the entire workforce is incapable of doing the work beyond following a flow chart.
From a Cisco point of view, it would be easy to see where a certified candidate might not be strong in all areas due to lack of exposure post certification. If your employer doesn't do BGP, IPV6 or MPLS, where does that leave you a couple of years after you test ?
Everyone seems to want a candidate with a bazillion years of experience under their belt, but it's unlikely you'll get to work at that level without a certification first . . . so you gotta start somewhere.
My current job doesn't even require a CCNA, but I went ahead and obtained it because . . . well. . . . I'm SICK of my job and I don't want to do it for the rest of my damn life. I'm studying for the CCNP for the same reasons. The odds of my getting to configure anything in my company at the CCNP level are pretty much zero, so I'm learning it in the hope I'll eventually get to leave this god-forsaken place and start doing something interesting again.
However, even if / when I achieve the next certification, I'm still currently doing a job that doesn't allow me to put to use anything I've learned. Over time, I'll forget a lot of it. But the only chance I have at landing a better job is through the certifications. It's certainly not going to be the twenty years experience in an obscure / highly specialized technology that no one outside of a telecom has ever heard of.
I was looking for some Cisco gear and found it amusing that an add for Cisco gear showed up a few days later on a page completely unrelated to it.
It would be akin to finding advertisements for some religious group while perusing some adult oriented site:D
These days I block everything. Adblock, Ghostery, No-Script, TOR, proxy servers to filter the crap out, and am kicking around the idea of a VPN just because.
"As for brands, they've got to be kidding. It's been a very long time since brands were anything but a well known name stuck on some Chinese no-name product bought from a random manufacturer."
Not always. As an example, pro-level photography gear is typically not made in some obscure factory in China with a high dollar logo stuck on it. ( Unless it's counterfeit ) Consumer level gear. . . . sure. That's why consumer gear specs aren't the same as pro gear. ( Or, why your pro lens barrel is made of magnesium vs plastic and usually has superior optical characteristics )
That said, I don't mind limited forms of advertising. Emphasis on limited. Definitely not the Billboard overkill the freeways have become or the fact that television is now nothing more than an advertising medium with brief interruptions of actual content to watch.
I don't appreciate being bombarded with products that I neither care for nor will ever use. ( I have never asked my doctor if " Product X " was right for me, it's unlikely I'll jump off the couch and run down to buy $vehiclebrand just because I saw an advertisement for it and, considering my gender, just about everything from the feminine hygiene lineup is wasted time )
A well placed targeted advertisement is more efficient than just the typical random carpet-bombing campaign that is advertising today.
I have yet to see any commercial advertisement while utilizing Netflix.
Which is a HUGE reason why I utilize their services. I loathe commercials and will go without television completely before I return to that bullshit. I put an HD antenna in the attic for local channels if / when we need it for news. Crystal clear reception from ~50 miles out from the transmission towers.
Netflix pricing, if you haven't used it in a while, is pretty decent for what you have access to.
I pay $12 USD / month which allows four concurrent devices to be logged in as well as HD service. ( two concurrent devices is $8 / month ) This is for their streaming services, I do not utilize their disc mailing program.
Effectively unlimited access to their entire library commercial and advertisement free for less than what I was paying the Cable Company to rent their HD-DVR on a monthly basis.:| ( For the record, the aforementioned DVR ran $20 / month )
It is not considered an automatic weapon as long as the weapon fires one round per actuation. Press button once and it fires once, then it's fine.
Similar to hand crank device you can put on trigger to fire as you crank it. It actuates the trigger once and the weapon fires once. Not an automatic weapon. You can crank it fast or get creative and put a motor on it, but still not considered an automatic weapon.
As a final example, a Slide Fire stock will shoot at high rates of fire, but is still one shot per trigger actuation so is perfectly legal.
Bottom line, as long as it fires one round per trigger actuation, it's legal. Only multiple shots per actuation is where the BATF starts to care.
Easily achieved with Cisco hardware ( read that enterprise class ) but can't swear to it via PfSense. Talking a beefy and / or $$$ router though for the speeds you quoted in the Cisco world.
PfSense will do a few flavors of VPN, but I've never tried to get it working with any sort of logic to flag which traffic should bring the tunnel up and which should go out unencrypted.
Public transport means I get to sit next to those I do my damndest to avoid. People.
People on their phones. People with screaming heathens in their lap. People who haven't bathed for a day or ten. People who measure out cologne or perfume by the gallon, or smell like they smoked up an entire carton of cigarretes. People who are sick, but going to work anyway.
I'm not waiting for someone elses schedule. Not going to stand at a bus stop for half an hour in the heat, rain or cold only to learn the bus is full and I'll have to hope for the next one.
Not going to change trains, trolleys or buses four times just to get to my destination. Grocery shopping is right out as are most purchases that require a vehicle to deliver it.
My vehicle is one of the few places I can retreat to anymore to avoid most of the things mentioned above.
Only in America can we roll out a service so very few will pay for* while, at the same time, big chunks of the nation are still unable to get any sort of broadband connection at all.:| The ISP's know where the money is so that's where they concentrate their deployments. At least make SOME effort to get bare minimum broadband access to everyone before you start selling the network equivalent of a sports car.
I would love to see Broadband Internet treated like the POTS lines of yester-year as part of the Title II requirements. Quit letting the monopolies cherry-pick their regions for deployment and force them to deploy into the areas where Capitalism loathes to go. ( In your best Yale or Harvard voice " You know. . . where the poor people live." ) Hey Verizon, hows that FIOS roll out coming along that you promised everyone ?
Threaten to go all 1984 on their ass ( referring to Divestiture here ) or nullify all non-compete laws when it comes to Metro Areas rolling out their own networks. It's amusing just how fast big ISP's can deploy high speed networks when a Metro area says " Screw it " and starts deploying their own.
The ONLY way I'm ever going to see true competition or even competitive pricing is if I'm lucky enough to live in an area where Google has plans to deploy their infrastructure. That seems to be the only motivating factor if you're a large ISP these days. OMGGOOGLEISGONNASTEALOURBUSINESSCUSTOMERS DO SOMETHING !!!!!
So the best thing we get out of Comcast is to roll out a service that's completely ridiculous in price. I wonder if you get a discount if you allow them to spy on your traffic like AT&T does ? ( Yes, I'm sure they all do it, but AT&T is the only one admitting to it and offering a discount for the privilege )
*Because:
a) It's Comcastic and ( one of, if not THE worst ranked ISP in the US ) b) It's $300 / month and ( hahahahahahahahah . . . . no. See A above ) c) No way in hell it will be unlimited usage ( regardless of their claims ) without some data cap or throttling mechanism
"America’s security depends on our intelligence community’s ability to detect and thwart attacks on the homeland"
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
With nearly zero oversight and the bending or outright breaking of many constitutionally protected rights, you all have done an outstanding job thus far at preventing such actions on US soil.
*** Just how many failures does it take before Congress realizes the common denominator for failure here IS the intelligence community ? ***
Off the top of my head in no particular order and limiting the list to 2001 and beyond:
World Trade Center - 9/11 Anthrax Laced Letters LA Airport shootings DC Sniper Attacks Ohio Sniper Attacks Fort Hood Shooting Boston Marathon Bombing Ricin Laced Letters Church Shootings School Shootings Most Mass Shootings for that matter
I find the lack of competence in our leadership . . . . . disturbing.:|
I'm sure it will follow the same sort of rules that lands one on the do-not-fly lists.
I suppose we can start using encryption but, knowing what level of intellect is writing these laws, using it at all is probably one of the triggers for reporting " suspicious activity ":|
OMGOMGOMGOMG looklooklook EXTREMIST TERROR LANGUAGE ! GETEMGETEMGETEM !
3D content creation for example. Loads and LOADS of videos showing folks creating 3D models and animation from scratch along with commentary of not only what they're doing but why they're doing it this way. Entire business models are built around this ( Digital Tutors and Gnomon Workshop come to mind ) and they seem to be doing rather well.
Another would be any of the numerous Network Administration training sites out there. ( Like CBT Nuggets for example ) You watch the instructors walk though not only how to build up a network from scratch, but why they're using this particular routing protocol or that version of Spanning Tree over another.
Read your books, watch the videos, start experimenting with it yourself. It's one of the better ways to learn imo.
While boring as hell to us non-programmers, folks who are inclined to be future coders might find such a thing to be rather useful.
Sometimes I wonder if the US and the UK are in a race to see who can hit bottom first.
There is so much absurdity at the decision making levels that we're in danger of creating a singularity. Once it reaches sufficient density levels, we're all pretty much f*cked.:|
As Netflix is delivering content remotely to an end user, what exactly is the difference between it and say Satellite, Cable or even broadcast TV other than the medium utilized to deliver the data bits ?
We going to apply this " information tax " to everything else in the long run too ?
Pro Tip for the nobles: Entertainment ( you know. . . the whole bread and circuses thing ) is the only thing preventing the masses from burning down the entire Kingdom. You might want to reconsider throwing a wrench into that program. Assuming you like staying in that elected position and all . . .
What legal brilliance in Chicago thought this scheme up ?
See if I can post today without all the damned errors:|
This may sound odd, but I am of the opinion Mr. Snowden would be safer staying in Russia than he would in France. The United States and their allies ( assuming they don't piss ALL of them off by getting caught spying on them ) don't have the ability to freely operate in Russia. This makes it a bit more difficult to snatch such a high priority "prize" right off the street, never to be heard from again.
There also exists the risk of future administrations in France cozying back up to the United States, putting their freedom in jeopardy once again. ( Granted, the same can happen in Russia, but is far less likely )
So, unless Russia is as bad as the Western Media likes to portray, ( unlikely, but I've never been so can't say for myself ) I would think long and hard about leaving the safety of her borders.
*Having grown up during the Cold War era, it's interesting to note how much things have changed. When US Citizens feel the need to flee to Russia ( or any non-US ally ) to escape what would most certainly be an unfair trial ( assuming you even receive one ), it has truly become a bizarre world.
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As opposed to flying a drone over the same populated areas ?
Don't want to get shot in Texas ?
Don't do stupid things on private property that doesn't belong to you. If you're trespassing on private property in the middle of the night, it's likely you're not there with good intentions. Probably shouldn't expect a warm reception ( unless I have a flamethrower ).
Besides, there are still rules that must be followed even in defense of property. It's not like it's a free for all the moment you step across some line. I would post the relevant Texas Code, but this is Slashdot and no one would read it anyway :D Just trust me when I say some very specific conditions have to be met before you can shoot.
Birdshot is commonly used when firing into the air to take down flying game. It's potent at short distances, not so much afterwards.
Not nearly as dangerous coming down as a 3-5 pound drone that loses control over your property.
The solution is not to rely on advertising as your primary means of financing your business. Unless you're Google, advertising is an EXPENSE designed to promote something else you wish to sell. Yanno, kind of like R&D. It's a necessary evil to get your product from concept to purchased commodity.
Trying to profit / survive on advertising alone means you seriously suck at anything other than advertising and don't deserve to be in business to begin with.
If we use Cable TV as an example, even when we paid a subscription, they still innundate us with ads because they're greedy bastards so I have zero sympathy for overkill advertising.
I can understand a reasonable dress code to keep flip flops and non work attire to a minimum.
However, dressing like a professional doth not a professional make. HP would do well to remember that.
Is KNOWING what employee X gets paid while drooling on themselves, never doing anything nor showing any interest in learning anything. All the while you're busting your ass doing 2x the work because Captain Saliva is incapable of doing it at all.
Why should they show any motivation ?
Their pay is exactly the same as the top performing people without all the hard work and stress that comes with it. On paper the work gets done. The reality is it gets done by a fraction of the folks.
It is, however, a double edged sword. The top performers eventually burn out and question why they're working so damn hard when the pay is the same. Eventually, all the employees eventually align themselves with the bottom performers and the whole thing goes to hell.
Sometimes it sucks not being in a positio where you can negotiate salary. :|
From a fellow old guy, I guarantee you my next phone is going to be just like yours.
It makes phone calls. Period.
To hell with Androids, Iphones and the rest. Tired of this bullshit.
I find it odd that we're supposed to follow the rule of law, yet the very ones in charge of enforcing those laws seem to have no qualms at all about breaking them whenever it suits their needs. All under the guise of "protecting" us from $evilplot of course. :|
In the end, Orwell was right I guess. Some animals are more equal than others.
I'll stop working on certifications when employers cease putting them on the job postings as a requirement for getting hired.
A lot of folks dismiss certifications as completely useless. While they don't gauge competency in any given field, they do at least show you've enough interest in the subject matter to jump through the hoops to attain the certification in the first place. I'm doing them because my company quit training their workforce about a decade ago. My hope is that the certifications give me other options when my company finally goes full blown stupid and implodes because the entire workforce is incapable of doing the work beyond following a flow chart.
From a Cisco point of view, it would be easy to see where a certified candidate might not be strong in all areas due to lack of exposure post certification. If your employer doesn't do BGP, IPV6 or MPLS, where does that leave you a couple of years after you test ?
Everyone seems to want a candidate with a bazillion years of experience under their belt, but it's unlikely you'll get to work at that level without a certification first . . . so you gotta start somewhere.
My current job doesn't even require a CCNA, but I went ahead and obtained it because . . . well. . . . I'm SICK of my job and I don't want to do it for the rest of my damn life. I'm studying for the CCNP for the same reasons. The odds of my getting to configure anything in my company at the CCNP level are pretty much zero, so I'm learning it in the hope I'll eventually get to leave this god-forsaken place and start doing something interesting again.
However, even if / when I achieve the next certification, I'm still currently doing a job that doesn't allow me to put to use anything I've learned. Over time, I'll forget a lot of it. But the only chance I have at landing a better job is through the certifications. It's certainly not going to be the twenty years experience in an obscure / highly specialized technology that no one outside of a telecom has ever heard of.
Oh yeah, they're definitely watching :D
I was looking for some Cisco gear and found it amusing that an add for Cisco gear showed up a few days later on a page completely unrelated to it.
It would be akin to finding advertisements for some religious group while perusing some adult oriented site :D
These days I block everything. Adblock, Ghostery, No-Script, TOR, proxy servers to filter the crap out, and am kicking around the idea of a VPN just because.
"As for brands, they've got to be kidding. It's been a very long time since brands were anything but a well known name stuck on some Chinese no-name product bought from a random manufacturer."
Not always. As an example, pro-level photography gear is typically not made in some obscure factory in China with a high dollar logo stuck on it. ( Unless it's
counterfeit ) Consumer level gear. . . . sure. That's why consumer gear specs aren't the same as pro gear. ( Or, why your pro lens barrel is made of magnesium vs plastic and usually has superior optical characteristics )
That said, I don't mind limited forms of advertising. Emphasis on limited. Definitely not the Billboard overkill the freeways have become or the fact that television is now nothing more than an advertising medium with brief interruptions of actual content to watch.
I don't appreciate being bombarded with products that I neither care for nor will ever use. ( I have never asked my doctor if " Product X " was right for me, it's unlikely I'll jump off the couch and run down to buy $vehiclebrand just because I saw an advertisement for it and, considering my gender, just about everything from the feminine hygiene lineup is wasted time )
A well placed targeted advertisement is more efficient than just the typical random carpet-bombing campaign that is advertising today.
I have yet to see any commercial advertisement while utilizing Netflix.
Which is a HUGE reason why I utilize their services. I loathe commercials and will go without television completely before I return to that bullshit.
I put an HD antenna in the attic for local channels if / when we need it for news. Crystal clear reception from ~50 miles out from the transmission towers.
Netflix pricing, if you haven't used it in a while, is pretty decent for what you have access to.
I pay $12 USD / month which allows four concurrent devices to be logged in as well as HD service. ( two concurrent devices is $8 / month )
This is for their streaming services, I do not utilize their disc mailing program.
Effectively unlimited access to their entire library commercial and advertisement free for less than what I was paying the Cable Company to rent their HD-DVR :| ( For the record, the aforementioned DVR ran $20 / month )
on a monthly basis.
I gotta interject here.
It is not considered an automatic weapon as long as the weapon fires one round per actuation. Press button once and it fires once, then it's fine.
Similar to hand crank device you can put on trigger to fire as you crank it. It actuates the trigger once and the weapon fires once. Not an automatic weapon. You can crank it fast or get creative and put a motor on it, but still not considered an automatic weapon.
As a final example, a Slide Fire stock will shoot at high rates of fire, but is still one shot per trigger actuation so is perfectly legal.
Bottom line, as long as it fires one round per trigger actuation, it's legal. Only multiple shots per actuation is where the BATF starts to care.
Easily achieved with Cisco hardware ( read that enterprise class ) but can't swear to it via PfSense. Talking a beefy and / or $$$ router though for the speeds you quoted in the Cisco world.
PfSense will do a few flavors of VPN, but I've never tried to get it working with any sort of logic to flag which traffic should bring the tunnel up and which should go out unencrypted.
However this link is informational:
https://doc.pfsense.org/index....
Since it's a mixed environment, it would probably be best to do it at the router level.
Public transport means I get to sit next to those I do my damndest to avoid. People.
People on their phones. People with screaming heathens in their lap. People who haven't bathed for a day or ten. People who measure out cologne or perfume by the gallon, or smell like they smoked up an entire carton of cigarretes. People who are sick, but going to work anyway.
I'm not waiting for someone elses schedule. Not going to stand at a bus stop for half an hour in the heat, rain or cold only to learn the bus is full and I'll have to hope for the next one.
Not going to change trains, trolleys or buses four times just to get to my destination. Grocery shopping is right out as are most purchases that require a vehicle to deliver it.
My vehicle is one of the few places I can retreat to anymore to avoid most of the things mentioned above.
So give it up ? hahahaha Not a chance.
Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it . . . . .
Only in America can we roll out a service so very few will pay for* while, at the same time, big chunks of the nation are still unable to get any sort of broadband connection at all. :| The ISP's know where the money is so that's where they concentrate their deployments. At least make SOME effort to get bare minimum broadband access to everyone before you start selling the network equivalent of a sports car.
I would love to see Broadband Internet treated like the POTS lines of yester-year as part of the Title II requirements. Quit letting the monopolies cherry-pick their regions for deployment and force them to deploy into the areas where Capitalism loathes to go. ( In your best Yale or Harvard voice " You know. . . where the poor people live." ) Hey Verizon, hows that FIOS roll out coming along that you promised everyone ?
Threaten to go all 1984 on their ass ( referring to Divestiture here ) or nullify all non-compete laws when it comes to Metro Areas rolling out their own networks.
It's amusing just how fast big ISP's can deploy high speed networks when a Metro area says " Screw it " and starts deploying their own.
The ONLY way I'm ever going to see true competition or even competitive pricing is if I'm lucky enough to live in an area where Google has plans to deploy their infrastructure. That seems to be the only motivating factor if you're a large ISP these days. OMGGOOGLEISGONNASTEALOURBUSINESSCUSTOMERS DO SOMETHING !!!!!
So the best thing we get out of Comcast is to roll out a service that's completely ridiculous in price. I wonder if you get a discount if you allow them to spy on your traffic like AT&T does ? ( Yes, I'm sure they all do it, but AT&T is the only one admitting to it and offering a discount for the privilege )
*Because:
a) It's Comcastic and ( one of, if not THE worst ranked ISP in the US )
b) It's $300 / month and ( hahahahahahahahah . . . . no. See A above )
c) No way in hell it will be unlimited usage ( regardless of their claims ) without some data cap or throttling mechanism
Oh and while I'm thinking about it. . . . .
"America’s security depends on our intelligence community’s ability to detect and thwart attacks on the homeland"
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
With nearly zero oversight and the bending or outright breaking of many constitutionally protected rights, you all have done an outstanding job thus far at preventing such actions on US soil.
*** Just how many failures does it take before Congress realizes the common denominator for failure here IS the intelligence community ? ***
Off the top of my head in no particular order and limiting the list to 2001 and beyond:
World Trade Center - 9/11
Anthrax Laced Letters
LA Airport shootings
DC Sniper Attacks
Ohio Sniper Attacks
Fort Hood Shooting
Boston Marathon Bombing
Ricin Laced Letters
Church Shootings
School Shootings
Most Mass Shootings for that matter
I find the lack of competence in our leadership . . . . . disturbing. :|
I'm sure it will follow the same sort of rules that lands one on the do-not-fly lists.
I suppose we can start using encryption but, knowing what level of intellect is writing these laws, using it at all is probably one of the triggers for reporting " suspicious activity " :|
OMGOMGOMGOMG looklooklook EXTREMIST TERROR LANGUAGE ! GETEMGETEMGETEM !
E2F3D 60DDE 37AAC 5E48F 9E891 2B1C7 BD6E0 D62D3 1D815 0FC96 D5679 9452E C15E9 81453 488A6 D8F84 2A39E 9365E 9897C 67857 D5182 2EE14 7A34F CC1F7 6C0A4 9FC48 28E32 57CDE A6DBE 2F3C4 57FF4 EDD44
Same. I have unsuccessfully tried to root my Samsung Galaxy S5 in an attempt to rid myself of the bloatware that is installed upon it.
Crying baby monitor ? Really ? :|
It is unlikely I will utilize another Samsung device assuming I even bother to go with a smartphone at all.
Why not ?
They do it already in other fields pretty well.
3D content creation for example. Loads and LOADS of videos showing folks creating 3D models and animation from scratch along with commentary of not only what they're doing but why they're doing it this way. Entire business models are built around this ( Digital Tutors and Gnomon Workshop come to mind ) and they seem to be doing rather well.
Another would be any of the numerous Network Administration training sites out there. ( Like CBT Nuggets for example ) You watch the instructors walk though not only how to build up a network from scratch, but why they're using this particular routing protocol or that version of Spanning Tree over another.
Read your books, watch the videos, start experimenting with it yourself. It's one of the better ways to learn imo.
While boring as hell to us non-programmers, folks who are inclined to be future coders might find such a thing to be rather useful.
Sometimes I wonder if the US and the UK are in a race to see who can hit bottom first.
There is so much absurdity at the decision making levels that we're in danger of creating a singularity. Once it reaches sufficient density levels, we're all pretty much f*cked. :|
As Netflix is delivering content remotely to an end user, what exactly is the difference between it and say Satellite, Cable or even broadcast TV other than the medium utilized to deliver the data bits ?
We going to apply this " information tax " to everything else in the long run too ?
Pro Tip for the nobles: Entertainment ( you know. . . the whole bread and circuses thing ) is the only thing preventing the masses from burning down the entire Kingdom. You might want to reconsider throwing a wrench into that program. Assuming you like staying in that elected position and all . . .
What legal brilliance in Chicago thought this scheme up ?
See if I can post today without all the damned errors :|
This may sound odd, but I am of the opinion Mr. Snowden would be safer staying in Russia than he would in France. The United States and their allies ( assuming they don't piss ALL of them off by getting caught spying on them ) don't have the ability to freely operate in Russia. This makes it a bit more difficult to snatch such a high priority "prize" right off the street, never to be heard from again.
There also exists the risk of future administrations in France cozying back up to the United States, putting their freedom in jeopardy once again. ( Granted, the same can happen in Russia, but is far less likely )
So, unless Russia is as bad as the Western Media likes to portray, ( unlikely, but I've never been so can't say for myself ) I would think long and hard about leaving the safety of her borders.
*Having grown up during the Cold War era, it's interesting to note how much things have changed. When US Citizens feel the need to flee to Russia ( or any non-US ally ) to escape what would most certainly be an unfair trial ( assuming you even receive one ), it has truly become a bizarre world.
Grammer Nazi Edit: Their = They're