And if you are simply going to drop the charges, why did you take the time to charge them in the first place?... So you want time and resources wasted charging innocent people... for record-keeping?
No, I want the police to take those time and resources into account so that they think a little harder before deciding to arrest somebody. Or in other words, if you have to charge the person with something in order to arrest them, then you've just raised the bar for justifying the arrest.
You understand there's a difference between charging someone with a crime and convicting them of it, right? There's even a difference between charging them and then dropping the charges or not charging them at all. I'm advocating for the former, because then you have a record of what happened. Then, if an officer has a pattern of dropping a lot of charges, then you could suspect that he's jumping the gun on charging people. You could try to say the same thing about a pattern of arrests and releases, but the difference is that they don't keep records of that.
IANAL, but it could have something to do with the difference between a recorded performance and a live performance. Maybe you're allowed to record live plays, but not movies?
Are you saying that person SHOULDN'T be arrested in that situation?
I think the person should either be arrested and charged with the burglary, or not arrested at all. If there's not enough probable cause to charge the person with the crime, then there wasn't enough probable cause for the arrest either.
I'm sorry but the sort of person who would buy a "hybrid fusion" vehicle will absolutely NOT be driving that same car five years from today. It's trendy.
What are you talking about? Buying a hybrid Ford Fusion (or any other hybrid car that also comes in a non-hybrid version) is specifically not trendy because you can barely tell whether the thing is a hybrid at all (you'd have to look at the badge). Trendy people would buy hybrid-only models, such as the Prius or Insight.
hybrid cars do not pay back for their own investment in money
...within the 5-year payback period considered by the study!
It's still easily possible that hybrids have a positive ROI; it could just be that you have to wait 6 years, or 10 years, or some other length of time that's less than the lifetime of the vehicle.
If it isn't visible when they check the computer, assuming they do, they can't charge you for possession.
Yeah, but by the time they decide not to charge you, you've been without your computer for 6 months (while they've been "analyzing" it) and your reputation has long since been murdered by the media.
more about how one tries to conceal this information
How so? Mere possession of something being a crime is asinine as it is, but now it's a crime to be suspected of trying to hide something? That's just crazy!
You know, a corporation officially selling your info is only one of a myriad of possible problems them collecting the info could cause. For example, an individual employee with access could sell it. Or said employee could use it against you himself (e.g. blackmail). Or criminals could steal the information from the company.
In other words, in order to trust a company with your personal info it's not enough to trust that they'll act ethically and/or obey the law. You also have to trust that they're secure against internal and external threats, including but not limited to the ones I mentioned.
Of course, perhaps a grocery shopping list isn't important enough to be that worried about. But this sort of issue bears thinking about for other information that is that important.
My grocery shopping is available to the grocery store...
And that's valuable information, too -- its why the stores want you to use those shopper loyalty cards so badly, so they can track you better. But if you resist that temptation and pay with cash, your shopping is still relatively anonymous.
I really wish people would start to understand that there's more than one dimension to politics. Who the fuck cares about imaginary "left vs. right" differences; the real concern is that both parties are skewed way too far towards authoritarianism!
What if the stuff you really want secret takes up a lot of space (e.g. your kinky porn)? Won't an X GB Truecrypt container with only Y MB of visible files in it raise suspicion in and of itself?
(apparently, potential burglars don't try to rob houses with ADT lawn signs)
Yeah, that's not true. I had the stickers and even the alarm hardware to go with them (the previous owner of the house had the system installed, and I hadn't renewed the monitoring) and I still got burgled.
When my friends and I took CCNA, we would finish our web-based worksheet thingy in 5 minutes and then go in the lab and play TFC or Counterstrike for the rest of the (double) period.
If you had a class called "Intro to C" (as opposed to something like a hardware and compilers class that incidentally involves using C), your college sucked anyway.
It will require a reduction in everyone's standard of living in rough parallel with how much extra burden it puts on the economy which is related to how fast/how early the adoption occurs, and the health of the economy at the outset. Looking at current economic conditions, is this wise?
If its cost is cheaper than building levees around New York, Miami, and all the other coastal cities that'll be underwater in a few decades, then yes, it's wise!
Explain how a carbon offset works. All it does is transfer wealth. No one actually takes different actions then what they were going to do originally.
The carbon offset provides an incentive either for the recipient to maintain his low-carbon lifestyle (e.g. for the bushman to remain a bushman rather than moving to the city), for other people to switch to lower-carbon lifestyles so that they can get paid for offsetting carbon too, or for people to develop new technologies that allow lower carbon output while still maintaining or increasing the standard of living (e.g. the offset pays a solar energy company to help it better compete against a coal energy company).
Over the course of [human*] evolution, being over 45 meant you were an outlier.
No it didn't; living past 45 has always been pretty common among people who managed to survive childhood. The high child mortality rate in the past used to skew the average.
(* It doesn't make sense to talk about average lifespans over the whole of mammalian evolution, since different species have widely varying lifespans that depend mostly on factors other than the age of the species.)
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No, I want the police to take those time and resources into account so that they think a little harder before deciding to arrest somebody. Or in other words, if you have to charge the person with something in order to arrest them, then you've just raised the bar for justifying the arrest.
You understand there's a difference between charging someone with a crime and convicting them of it, right? There's even a difference between charging them and then dropping the charges or not charging them at all. I'm advocating for the former, because then you have a record of what happened. Then, if an officer has a pattern of dropping a lot of charges, then you could suspect that he's jumping the gun on charging people. You could try to say the same thing about a pattern of arrests and releases, but the difference is that they don't keep records of that.
IANAL, but it could have something to do with the difference between a recorded performance and a live performance. Maybe you're allowed to record live plays, but not movies?
I think the person should either be arrested and charged with the burglary, or not arrested at all. If there's not enough probable cause to charge the person with the crime, then there wasn't enough probable cause for the arrest either.
What are you talking about? Buying a hybrid Ford Fusion (or any other hybrid car that also comes in a non-hybrid version) is specifically not trendy because you can barely tell whether the thing is a hybrid at all (you'd have to look at the badge). Trendy people would buy hybrid-only models, such as the Prius or Insight.
It's still easily possible that hybrids have a positive ROI; it could just be that you have to wait 6 years, or 10 years, or some other length of time that's less than the lifetime of the vehicle.
Yeah, but none that aren't monopolistic, totalitarian, asinine, or flat-out bullshit.
So? That just means Verizon needs to increase the damn network capacity!
So? Verizon shouldn't be allowed to do that!
No it's not; all possible explanations for wanting an exception for wireless networks are evil!
All telecommunications providers should be Common Carriers, with all the restrictions implied therein. Period.
Wait, so you'd rather a higher proportion of images be maximally harmful (i.e., you'd rather more child porn images depict actual abuse)?
Yeah, but by the time they decide not to charge you, you've been without your computer for 6 months (while they've been "analyzing" it) and your reputation has long since been murdered by the media.
How so? Mere possession of something being a crime is asinine as it is, but now it's a crime to be suspected of trying to hide something? That's just crazy!
You know, a corporation officially selling your info is only one of a myriad of possible problems them collecting the info could cause. For example, an individual employee with access could sell it. Or said employee could use it against you himself (e.g. blackmail). Or criminals could steal the information from the company.
In other words, in order to trust a company with your personal info it's not enough to trust that they'll act ethically and/or obey the law. You also have to trust that they're secure against internal and external threats, including but not limited to the ones I mentioned.
Of course, perhaps a grocery shopping list isn't important enough to be that worried about. But this sort of issue bears thinking about for other information that is that important.
No it doesn't. You have the freedom to choose not to be protected. You may not want that freedom, but you still have it.
And that's valuable information, too -- its why the stores want you to use those shopper loyalty cards so badly, so they can track you better. But if you resist that temptation and pay with cash, your shopping is still relatively anonymous.
I really wish people would start to understand that there's more than one dimension to politics. Who the fuck cares about imaginary "left vs. right" differences; the real concern is that both parties are skewed way too far towards authoritarianism!
You know what's really asinine about that kind of idea? You could just use the fucking odometer to measure usage and it'd work just fine!
What if the stuff you really want secret takes up a lot of space (e.g. your kinky porn)? Won't an X GB Truecrypt container with only Y MB of visible files in it raise suspicion in and of itself?
He said "insurance discount."
Yeah, that's not true. I had the stickers and even the alarm hardware to go with them (the previous owner of the house had the system installed, and I hadn't renewed the monitoring) and I still got burgled.
When my friends and I took CCNA, we would finish our web-based worksheet thingy in 5 minutes and then go in the lab and play TFC or Counterstrike for the rest of the (double) period.
I'm interested in finding out about that too.
If you had a class called "Intro to C" (as opposed to something like a hardware and compilers class that incidentally involves using C), your college sucked anyway.
If its cost is cheaper than building levees around New York, Miami, and all the other coastal cities that'll be underwater in a few decades, then yes, it's wise!
The carbon offset provides an incentive either for the recipient to maintain his low-carbon lifestyle (e.g. for the bushman to remain a bushman rather than moving to the city), for other people to switch to lower-carbon lifestyles so that they can get paid for offsetting carbon too, or for people to develop new technologies that allow lower carbon output while still maintaining or increasing the standard of living (e.g. the offset pays a solar energy company to help it better compete against a coal energy company).
Why not? We've got plenty of otherwise-unused rooftops everywhere!
No it didn't; living past 45 has always been pretty common among people who managed to survive childhood. The high child mortality rate in the past used to skew the average.
(* It doesn't make sense to talk about average lifespans over the whole of mammalian evolution, since different species have widely varying lifespans that depend mostly on factors other than the age of the species.)