"Under 18 U.S.C. 875(c), it is a federal crime, punishable by up to five years in prison and a fine of up to $250,000, to transmit any communication in interstate or foreign commerce containing a threat to injure the person of another. Internet-based communication is not exempt. Is this something you do a lot?"
Ok..thanks. It mentioned "commerce" in there...I was wondering how the feds could do this. Bastardizing interstate commerce again.
After reading this law...I have to ask myself, does ANYONE do this often? Is this really a problem that required a law?
Or..are the Feds just now trying to make any law for anything, and stick commerce in it, so they can try to enforce something?
Ok, I know this is a "get off of my lawn" type moment...but what the hell happened to us in this country??
When I grew up, you rarely if EVER heard of shit like this going on. Hell, as a family, we'd all get in the car on a cold winter night, like many other families, and go look at the decorations at homes, at churches and yes..even the capitol building (I grew up mostly in the capitol city of my state).
And yes..there was a nativity scene at the capitol...was common to see across the US and no one had a cow over it.
But seriously....no one worried about it getting stolen, we all kind of respected someone taking the time to put up some decorations at the very least.
WTF has our country come to...everything is target for theft or vandalism?
Hell, growing up...Halloween was about the only holiday you had to worry about that...and it was minor.
"Hi. Some guy keyed my car. It is not my fault. Please pay me for my loss."
In this case, it is the government keying his car...to your your analogy. The govt. is burning down his property, they should pay for the house they are damaging, rather than allow being cleaned out and reused.
"More specifically, Americans can (without a special license, although registration is usually necessary) own handguns up to 12.7mm in caliber, semiautomatic and manually-operated rifles up to 12.7mm in caliber..."
Just a couple of questions....is a 50 caliber shell larger thatn the the 12.7mm size your mentioning? I know you can own a 50 cal pistol or rifle without special license.
"...there are significant restrictions on purchasing a gun (background check, waiting period, etc.) and transferring ownership of a weapon is heavily taxed..."
Depends on where you live, what state. I've never lived in a state where I've had to register any guns I owned, and I've always bought and sold my weapons with other private individuals, no taxation or govt. involvement whatsoever. No background checks either....I've only seen them or waiting periods when purchasing new weapons from a commercial dealer.
"Huh? Whut? Who is more responsible for this... the landlord or the government? What the government should do is bill the landlord for the cost of the cleanup as well as not compensating for the house."
How so?
I mean...landlord's aren't mandated to check up on their tenants..Hell, I've rented places for years, and never had the landord come inside. I mean, if there are not complaints, when is a landlord obligated to come in an inspect things? I mean, as a tenant, I prefer not to have the landlord in, if I'm abiding by my lease, paying my rent, etc, the landlord has no business coming into my 'home'.
However, in the case of mandated cameras...they CAN and possibly WILL be used to record and monitor your activities.
There isn't much of a way seat belts, child restraints, etc...can be used to observer your behavior, driving skills, or location.
A camera can easily be used for this.
Some states were already mandating that GPS be used to monitor driving to help with taxes since revenue from gas taxes are dropping due to people driving higher mileage cars.
We already in many cars, have black boxes that collect data for the last seconds you are driving before a wreck...we've had articles here on/. that shows insurance companies have been using that.
Now..couple these types of technologies and requirements...with a mandated camera which wouldn't be that difficult to integrate with these other systems.
At some point, someone will have this *good* idea.
I've not really tried console gaming in decades..and was looking at getting a PS3. I figured it would be a gooc choice in taht you get a decent bluray player, streaming netflix and games. I also read the networking games are free to play vs paying extra for xbox or Wii.
I'm also kind of interested in the hacking of it.
Can someone explain to me exactly what 'homebrew' is all about? Are people out there independently generating games for the units or is this just code words for being able to play copied games? What all can you do with one of these units, a Wii or a PS3 that has been jailbroken. Anyone have any good links to what all this can do for you?
After this..mandate a camera in front and maybe one in the car.
Then, once cameras are everywhere, how about a little storage of the videos.
This coupled with the mandatory GPS units, etc would be just great for the insurance industry, and the govt...anyone that would like to see/monitor your driving habits.
Actually down here where I live....only one store, Winn-Dixie, still uses the damned cards. Other grocery stores here proudly advertise NO courtesy cards used or required.
"Similarly, you don't have privacy at the grocery store because you accepted the terms and conditions of that "club card" when they offered it. They didn't have to offer it to you, and you didn't have to accept. You have to know they're getting something FROM you when they let you buy their stuff for less money when you have that card. Why do you think they do that, because they are altruistic and nice and like you?"
And really....who said you had to give them real information on that club card?
Some of mine think my purchases are by an elderly hispanic lady named Ulga from Sweden.
That one HAS to skew their profiles just a little with her unexpected purchases....hahaha. And yes, I do use cash when I used those.
Interesting, I've not been up in the NE very much....I'm from the South. Things are much more spread out down here I guess, and there are roads everywhere. Texas for instance is covered in asphalt, so that's my frame of reference.
With the exception of New Orleans, I've never been in a place that had such a limited number of access points. In this city, it is 3 of them...I-10E, I-10W and the Causeway bridge (N) across Lake Pontchartrain...all are bridges.
But other than this, I've not known or seen many states that have cities locked off by only 1-2 access points over bridges. I'm not really used to seeing toll roads. Do they have a lot of them up there or something?
"Now if only Netflix had content that was less than a year old, it'd be great."
That's the thing...does it really matter at all if it is behind?
I mean, it will still be new to you when you see it streamed from NF, won't it?
Then again, I'm not one of those type so of people that HAS to stand in line for hours waiting for the first showing of "X" the movie. I'm perfectly happy if I want to see it....to wait a week or so, and go when there is less crowd and I can get a good seat.
Ever since I got my first DVR years ago...I rarely if ever watch anything in real time. Sports, and news generally I watch live, but anything else, well, heck, with the DVR, I actually have no idea what time anything comes on, nor the channel...so, streaming content is really just a natural progression for me.
"And Medicare, while technically part of the general budget, is voluntary insurance. So...we're going to cut benefits and hope that people inexplicably keep buying it? Somehow, I suspect they'd stop."
I didn't know that?!?!?
Well, hell...where do I fill out the form to tell them to stop taking withdrawls from my paycheck to go to Medicare??
If I'd known it was voluntary, I could have saved myself TONS of money in payroll taxes!!
Is Social Security just as voluntary? I'd love to opt out of that one too....
About the only GM car I'd have would be a vette...and if I ever got one of those again, first thing I'd do is rip out the fscking OnStar system.
I was shocked last year when looking at them...and asked the salesman if I could order a car without the OnStar option, he said with a puzzled look "No..it comes stock on all models".
When did they start doing that? I sure don't want them to be able to monitor conversations in my car...send a disable signal (or someone else to do it if they learn to hack into the system...etc).
I'm kinda hoping to be cremated, and I'd like my friends to go have a drink at several bars in the French Quarter, and flush a bit of my ashes down the toilet at each stop along the way.
Seems like a neat way to go....oh, and they have to play either Brown Sugar or Star Star (if they can find it) at each place too!
"What makes you think that Facebook has a choice?"
What makes you think Facebook has to obey the law or whatever in a state where they have no physical presence?
I mean, still today at this point...a store selling something on line, cannot be forced to collect tax for a state they don't have a physical presence in....and that involves $$$$$$.
I mean, if a state can't force them on the almighty tax dollar...you think they can force them to do anything with a mere social site account?
"Perhaps rather than giving a purposefully emotionally charged example that's completely unrealistic.."
Geez, I just pulled out the first law I could think of that popped into my head...what is so emotionally charged about that?
Are you saying rape is worse or more emotionally *charged* than say...murder, or torture, or arson??
I mean, I'd rather be raped than killed, at least in the former, I'd still be breathing...and not at room temperature?
Seriously, I just pulled the first law I could think of out and it happened to be rape...no big deal on that one, I could have asked about jaywalking if I'd thought of it first.
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I mean, if someone is trying to sell me something, and starts acting like and ass...they've lost a sale.
Where is the benefit of acting an ass if they're trying to sell something to you? Again...is this really a problem?
Ok..thanks. It mentioned "commerce" in there...I was wondering how the feds could do this. Bastardizing interstate commerce again.
After reading this law...I have to ask myself, does ANYONE do this often? Is this really a problem that required a law?
Or..are the Feds just now trying to make any law for anything, and stick commerce in it, so they can try to enforce something?
I grew up in reasonably large cities when I was young, my comments were not coming from a rural small town locale.
Ok...what exactly does this law entail? I'd have to guess it was so broad that almost any internet action would be illegal??
When I grew up, you rarely if EVER heard of shit like this going on. Hell, as a family, we'd all get in the car on a cold winter night, like many other families, and go look at the decorations at homes, at churches and yes..even the capitol building (I grew up mostly in the capitol city of my state).
And yes..there was a nativity scene at the capitol...was common to see across the US and no one had a cow over it.
But seriously....no one worried about it getting stolen, we all kind of respected someone taking the time to put up some decorations at the very least.
WTF has our country come to...everything is target for theft or vandalism?
Hell, growing up...Halloween was about the only holiday you had to worry about that...and it was minor.
In this case, it is the government keying his car...to your your analogy. The govt. is burning down his property, they should pay for the house they are damaging, rather than allow being cleaned out and reused.
Just a couple of questions....is a 50 caliber shell larger thatn the the 12.7mm size your mentioning? I know you can own a 50 cal pistol or rifle without special license.
"...there are significant restrictions on purchasing a gun (background check, waiting period, etc.) and transferring ownership of a weapon is heavily taxed..."
Depends on where you live, what state. I've never lived in a state where I've had to register any guns I owned, and I've always bought and sold my weapons with other private individuals, no taxation or govt. involvement whatsoever. No background checks either....I've only seen them or waiting periods when purchasing new weapons from a commercial dealer.
How so?
I mean...landlord's aren't mandated to check up on their tenants..Hell, I've rented places for years, and never had the landord come inside. I mean, if there are not complaints, when is a landlord obligated to come in an inspect things? I mean, as a tenant, I prefer not to have the landlord in, if I'm abiding by my lease, paying my rent, etc, the landlord has no business coming into my 'home'.
There isn't much of a way seat belts, child restraints, etc...can be used to observer your behavior, driving skills, or location.
A camera can easily be used for this.
Some states were already mandating that GPS be used to monitor driving to help with taxes since revenue from gas taxes are dropping due to people driving higher mileage cars.
We already in many cars, have black boxes that collect data for the last seconds you are driving before a wreck...we've had articles here on /. that shows insurance companies have been using that.
Now..couple these types of technologies and requirements...with a mandated camera which wouldn't be that difficult to integrate with these other systems.
At some point, someone will have this *good* idea.
This is different than the examples you listed.
I'm also kind of interested in the hacking of it.
Can someone explain to me exactly what 'homebrew' is all about? Are people out there independently generating games for the units or is this just code words for being able to play copied games? What all can you do with one of these units, a Wii or a PS3 that has been jailbroken. Anyone have any good links to what all this can do for you?
Then, once cameras are everywhere, how about a little storage of the videos.
This coupled with the mandatory GPS units, etc would be just great for the insurance industry, and the govt...anyone that would like to see/monitor your driving habits.
Actually down here where I live....only one store, Winn-Dixie, still uses the damned cards. Other grocery stores here proudly advertise NO courtesy cards used or required.
Hmm...I've never seen that movie....
And really....who said you had to give them real information on that club card?
Some of mine think my purchases are by an elderly hispanic lady named Ulga from Sweden.
That one HAS to skew their profiles just a little with her unexpected purchases....hahaha. And yes, I do use cash when I used those.
With the exception of New Orleans, I've never been in a place that had such a limited number of access points. In this city, it is 3 of them...I-10E, I-10W and the Causeway bridge (N) across Lake Pontchartrain...all are bridges.
But other than this, I've not known or seen many states that have cities locked off by only 1-2 access points over bridges. I'm not really used to seeing toll roads. Do they have a lot of them up there or something?
That's the thing...does it really matter at all if it is behind?
I mean, it will still be new to you when you see it streamed from NF, won't it?
Then again, I'm not one of those type so of people that HAS to stand in line for hours waiting for the first showing of "X" the movie. I'm perfectly happy if I want to see it....to wait a week or so, and go when there is less crowd and I can get a good seat.
Ever since I got my first DVR years ago...I rarely if ever watch anything in real time. Sports, and news generally I watch live, but anything else, well, heck, with the DVR, I actually have no idea what time anything comes on, nor the channel...so, streaming content is really just a natural progression for me.
There's so much highway (federal and state) that it would be pretty tough I'd think to be able to blow up enough of it to make a big difference.
I didn't know that?!?!?
Well, hell...where do I fill out the form to tell them to stop taking withdrawls from my paycheck to go to Medicare??
If I'd known it was voluntary, I could have saved myself TONS of money in payroll taxes!!
Is Social Security just as voluntary? I'd love to opt out of that one too....
About the only GM car I'd have would be a vette...and if I ever got one of those again, first thing I'd do is rip out the fscking OnStar system.
I was shocked last year when looking at them...and asked the salesman if I could order a car without the OnStar option, he said with a puzzled look "No..it comes stock on all models".
When did they start doing that? I sure don't want them to be able to monitor conversations in my car...send a disable signal (or someone else to do it if they learn to hack into the system...etc).
Sounds like a new infrastructure terrorist target. Blow up the tubes...kill trade easily.
Much harder to blow up a bunch of individual trucks driving all over the place.
Unless you're married...nothing wrong with fucking as many women as you get get in bed...
Geez...if screwing more than one woman at a time is a crime, I'd have to guess 90% of the men in the world would be locked up instantly.
Heck, as famous as he is...he should be getting laid MUCH more than just two women at a time.
Seems like a neat way to go....oh, and they have to play either Brown Sugar or Star Star (if they can find it) at each place too!
What makes you think Facebook has to obey the law or whatever in a state where they have no physical presence?
I mean, still today at this point...a store selling something on line, cannot be forced to collect tax for a state they don't have a physical presence in....and that involves $$$$$$.
I mean, if a state can't force them on the almighty tax dollar...you think they can force them to do anything with a mere social site account?
Am I the only one left that doesn't have a FB account?
Am I about the only one that is just kinda creeped out and paranoid about all the info they gather and share/sell about their members?
Geez, I just pulled out the first law I could think of that popped into my head...what is so emotionally charged about that?
Are you saying rape is worse or more emotionally *charged* than say...murder, or torture, or arson??
I mean, I'd rather be raped than killed, at least in the former, I'd still be breathing...and not at room temperature?
Seriously, I just pulled the first law I could think of out and it happened to be rape...no big deal on that one, I could have asked about jaywalking if I'd thought of it first.