But overreacting just kills credibility. Telling everyday people that they have to pay twice as much for electricity and $5/gal or more for gasoline to get to work because CARBON BAD!!! while China India, Brazil and Al Gore game the system to their benefit just pisses people off.
Just like you are killing your own credibility (not that an AC had any in the first place). Because of investments in wind and solar power, these technologies are now amongst the cheapest ways to install new generation capacity. China knows this and invests more than any other country in renewable energy.
The real issue is that, a decade or two from now, the US will have the most expensive electricity generation, because other countries will have moved on.
Fingerprints reveal something about who you are, not what you know.
Imagine, in the future, a technology is developed that allows someone's brain to be scanned and memories read from the brain. Would a 4th amendment search of the memories in someone's brain be OK?
It's not the 4th amendment that is important here. Instead, it's the 5th. What is an implanted medical device? What if you have an artificial heart? Does a device ever become part of a person?
What does this do that my TiVo doesn't do? I can already access the "On Demand" shows from Comcast via the TiVo. I already get the $2.50 credit and don't pay for the cable box* (although there is a monthly service fee for the TiVo box).
Even after returning a cable box, I had to call to actually stop them billing me for it. Also, the same for my cable modem after I bought my own and returned the rented cable modem to Comcast.
You can argue whether or not joining the EU has been a net benefit to Ireland (I believe it has, massively), the plain fact is that Ireland agreed to certain conditions as a result of joining and now needs to live up to its international obligations.
As usual, Okian Coward misrepresents the text to which he is referring, by quoting only a small part of it. So, here is the missing part, which makes it clear that it is much more difficult to get the exception to apply:
but only so long as they determine that the admission of such individuals as refugees is in the national interest -- including when the person is a religious minority in his country of nationality facing religious persecution, when admitting the person would enable the United States to conform its conduct to a preexisting international agreement,
Also, in practice, since the airlines incur a large cost for returning people denied entry, the airlines won't board people who are already in transit for their final leg to the USA, so these people have no opportunity for their case-by-case review.
As the SCOTUS has repeatedly stated, aliens have no Right of Entry to the US, and non-citizens have reduced guarantees (and certainly reduced privileges).
While that may well be true, there is a massive amount of doublethink involved at the borders. These unfortunates are deprived of constitutional rights because they haven't entered the US, yet, lots of US laws do apply to them. Do US customs wait until someone has passed immigration before pulling them up on on (frequently minor) violations of import laws? If one of these unfortunates assaulted someone while in custody, do you think that a court would accept that US laws don't apply?
The real question is, does the law give the executive branch the right to unilaterally void valid visas held by people who have already been vetted and granted permission (ie. green card holders)?
What's the point of even doing a backup if you overwrite the only copy every time?
Like many, you don't understand the difference between a backup and an archive. A backup is meant to preserve data in the event of a hardware or other failure. An archive is supposed to preserve the data as it was at some point in history.
What about the transaction under which the IP rights were transferred? What payment did Apple Ireland make to now own those rights?
If there wasn't a payment, then it's a sham arrangement, designed with the sole purpose of saving tax and no actual business purpose. Those types of transactions are often treated by the law as tax evasion, not tax avoidance.
It's applied psychology being used for anti-social ends. The ends which state that time is money.
Then it's counter-productive because, in my experience, two things happen:
1. Customer service person wastes time begging for good reviews. 2. Customers hate the business because of their wasted time and the embarrassment of being the recipient of the begging.
Firstly, the car was not ready when it should have been. They blamed the delay on the time to charge it, but the dealer has a fast DC charger, so the charge time should have been no more than 30 minutes.
The salesman who begged for the good review also kept me waiting in his office for no good reason. As far as I can tell, that time was purely so that he could entreat me to give a good review.
I ended up giving no review, but had I given one, it would not have been good.
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Nutritional Science almost doesn't exist. Almost all the "science" that we hear about is really opinion.
Furthermore what "science" there was has been pushed by big companies with vested interests. In the AGW debate, the big money is on the other side.
How much do you think it costs the Koch brothers and friends to keep forums like /. filled with pro fossil-fuel posts?
Just like you are killing your own credibility (not that an AC had any in the first place). Because of investments in wind and solar power, these technologies are now amongst the cheapest ways to install new generation capacity. China knows this and invests more than any other country in renewable energy.
The real issue is that, a decade or two from now, the US will have the most expensive electricity generation, because other countries will have moved on.
It's clear that I am not going to convince you, so all I can say it this:
Good luck living in your police state.
So please explain, if the hypothetical device existed, what protection from self-incrimination anyone would have.
So, basically, in your opinion, the 5th amendment is meaningless?
My wife talks to me no matter what. Does that void any presumption of privacy that she has?
The issue is that there should be a presumption of privacy relating to this data. Good policy dictates this.
Fingerprints reveal something about who you are, not what you know.
Imagine, in the future, a technology is developed that allows someone's brain to be scanned and memories read from the brain. Would a 4th amendment search of the memories in someone's brain be OK?
It's not the 4th amendment that is important here. Instead, it's the 5th. What is an implanted medical device? What if you have an artificial heart? Does a device ever become part of a person?
Why not? All kinds of pseudo-science and bogus evidence has been accepted in the past. Arson and bite mark "evidence" are clear examples of this.
What does this do that my TiVo doesn't do? I can already access the "On Demand" shows from Comcast via the TiVo. I already get the $2.50 credit and don't pay for the cable box* (although there is a monthly service fee for the TiVo box).
Even after returning a cable box, I had to call to actually stop them billing me for it. Also, the same for my cable modem after I bought my own and returned the rented cable modem to Comcast.
You can argue whether or not joining the EU has been a net benefit to Ireland (I believe it has, massively), the plain fact is that Ireland agreed to certain conditions as a result of joining and now needs to live up to its international obligations.
That's another one of those "alternative facts".
Also, in practice, since the airlines incur a large cost for returning people denied entry, the airlines won't board people who are already in transit for their final leg to the USA, so these people have no opportunity for their case-by-case review.
While that may well be true, there is a massive amount of doublethink involved at the borders. These unfortunates are deprived of constitutional rights because they haven't entered the US, yet, lots of US laws do apply to them. Do US customs wait until someone has passed immigration before pulling them up on on (frequently minor) violations of import laws? If one of these unfortunates assaulted someone while in custody, do you think that a court would accept that US laws don't apply?
Apparently you don't believe in the essential principle of justice n the USA:innocent until proven guilty
Because that shitface (Comey, who should himself be under indictment) could change his mind and prosecute.
/Checks where this took place... Austria. /Considers the possiblity for off-color jokes....
Same action? You should go back to school and learn to read, because it's clear that you cannot.
The real question is, does the law give the executive branch the right to unilaterally void valid visas held by people who have already been vetted and granted permission (ie. green card holders)?
WTF do you think is happening? The US is defined by its principles and, since 9/11, these principles are being discarded.
Some people might think that it was never edible.
Like many, you don't understand the difference between a backup and an archive. A backup is meant to preserve data in the event of a hardware or other failure. An archive is supposed to preserve the data as it was at some point in history.
What about the transaction under which the IP rights were transferred? What payment did Apple Ireland make to now own those rights?
If there wasn't a payment, then it's a sham arrangement, designed with the sole purpose of saving tax and no actual business purpose. Those types of transactions are often treated by the law as tax evasion, not tax avoidance.
Then it's counter-productive because, in my experience, two things happen:
1. Customer service person wastes time begging for good reviews.
2. Customers hate the business because of their wasted time and the embarrassment of being the recipient of the begging.
I had a similar experience leasing a car.
Firstly, the car was not ready when it should have been. They blamed the delay on the time to charge it, but the dealer has a fast DC charger, so the charge time should have been no more than 30 minutes.
The salesman who begged for the good review also kept me waiting in his office for no good reason. As far as I can tell, that time was purely so that he could entreat me to give a good review.
I ended up giving no review, but had I given one, it would not have been good.