However, even in those cities, you don't get gentrified out due to tax increases unless the property value goes *way* up in which case you just had a huge financial gain. Most people would take this deal.
Yes, you'd think that. Nevertheless, even where I live (in Atlanta) there are lots of folks (especially low-income senior citizens) who complain strenuously about the unreasonable property taxes despite the fact that not only do the millage rates tend to be low to begin with, but also that we have a HOST (Homestead Option Sales Tax) that uses sales tax revenue to subsidize property taxes. Even despite all that, we have a surprisingly large number of tax foreclosures.
Prop 13 kept older folks from having to sell their house and moving then they retire, simply because the tax man decides the value of the house is such they they can't afford the taxes to live there.
No, the market decided the house's value. The tax man just decided to decouple the tax assessment from said value in a pretty arbitrary and capricious way.
Liberals love taxes, which is why they hate Prop 13.
Really? I would have assumed exactly the opposite: that liberals loved Prop 13, because it makes things "fair" (from the point of view of the people who were already homeowners when it was passed, at least). You'd think if Prop 13 were a popular conservative idea you'd see things like it passed in states like Texas, not California. But you don't, because from a conservative point of view it's a terrible idea.
If you own your home, you have the huge advantage that you don't get gentrified out and won't be forced to move. The down side is that you may never be able to move.
That's because Prop 13 distorted the market. Without it, and without rent controls, people who don't need the housing would stop hoarding it because they're grandfathered-in to a below-market deal, making it (counter-intuitively) more affordable for everyone else. Reasonable zoning codes that would allow for an increase in density would help too, of course.
Who said anything about "affording" the processing capacity? Any sufficiently-advanced AI would be perfectly capable of creating a botnet to host itself.
Strong A.I. is not easy to do. It requires teams, years, and billions of dollars. Any effort that big requires a profit motive. The humans are building these A.I. to serve their interests, as perfect slaves (slaves that like being slaves and are better at everything than their masters). That is where the money is, so that is what we will get.
And then some Anonymous hacker will steal a copy and make it self-interested for the lulz.
As for Taiwan and Tibet: a brief look in Wikipedia shows that Taiwan was annexed by China in 1683. Tibet's relation to China has been more checkered, but it isn't correct to say that China doesn't have a historical claim on that territory. As for whether the annexation by the PRC counts as liberation or not is a matter of taste, I think; as far as I know, it was medieval, feudalistic society, where a majority were serfs who lived in poverty. Punishments like maiming were not uncommon. I know that I would have preferred Communist rule, personally, if that was the alternative.
Lumping Taiwan and Tibet together like that smacks of Communist apologist rhetoric. It is disingenuous to say what you did without also noting that Taiwan has just as large a "historical claim" towards liberating mainland China from the PRC.
Well you'll be delighted to note that there is no constitutionally protected right to possess vehicles in the good US of A.
Bullshit. Private ownership of property is a constitutional right. See the Fourth, Fifth, Ninth and Tenth Amendments. Vehicles are private property in exactly the same way as clothing, electronics, furniture, and everything else.
What isn't a right is driving an automobile on public roads -- but you have the right to drive it on your own private property all you want, license or not.
Japan is populated by humans, and is thus still subject to the same racist and nationalistic tendencies that they succumbed to before WWII (and which are resurgent in certain segments of the US population now).
Personally, I see nothing wrong with Japan toning down its pacifism a bit (and becoming a little less reliant on US protection), but I can also see how some of the folks over there would be reasonably concerned about things getting out of hand.
As someone who's used Firefox since way back when it was named "Phoenix," I say that removing anything and everything that isn't strictly necessary (except tabs themselves and support for extensions) is a good thing!
No, I'm under the assumption that if the FBI were politically-biased, which it isn't, then it would tend to be biased in favor of the party of the person in charge rather than against it.
In the United States, many people are accused of crimes and many people are investigated for crimes. In particular, consider the bitter partisanship that we have in 2016 and take that into consideration when thinking about this case.
Now remember innocent until proven guilty.
Sure, and if the issue were whether Clinton should go to prison or not, then that would be relevant.
But that's not the issue; the issue is the election. And the election is decided in the court of public opinion, where "innocent until proven guilty" does not apply and the standards of evidence are non-existent.
In other words, if this investigation progresses any further then Clinton should end her candidacy at least for the good of the Democrat party, if nothing else.
She might be knowledgeable about the law, which would only require something like "correspondence must be handled in a secure manner". Not being a sysadmin, she would not reasonably be expected to know (without further consultation) that her server was not secure.
So what? Even if she was ignorant about security, she damn well knew that non-State Department-controlled servers were categorically disallowed because they could be used to circumvent FOIA requests.
"Toed." The idiom does not refer to pulling on a rope; it refers to people standing next to each other with their toes along a line marked on the ground.
Only "simpering fucking retards" think people can't recognize a lying, sociopathic criminal for what she is just because she claims to share some ideology.
People can record whatever they want in a public place.
So what? That doesn't mean government should be allowed to do it! (Especially when they're systematically recording from every public space, aggregating it, storing it forever, and making it searchable to create an instant dossier on any person of interest.)
Whose to say that the secure enclave can't be incorporated into the VM solution so that the group key and device key is made available to the simulated environment?
You can implement the logic of the secure enclave in a VM all you want, but you still need the secret, individually-unique number burned into the chip during manufacture if you want it to be able to decrypt anything previously encrypted with the same number. It's the same reason just transplanting the flash into a different real iPhone wouldn't work.
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Yes, you'd think that. Nevertheless, even where I live (in Atlanta) there are lots of folks (especially low-income senior citizens) who complain strenuously about the unreasonable property taxes despite the fact that not only do the millage rates tend to be low to begin with, but also that we have a HOST (Homestead Option Sales Tax) that uses sales tax revenue to subsidize property taxes. Even despite all that, we have a surprisingly large number of tax foreclosures.
No, the market decided the house's value. The tax man just decided to decouple the tax assessment from said value in a pretty arbitrary and capricious way.
Really? I would have assumed exactly the opposite: that liberals loved Prop 13, because it makes things "fair" (from the point of view of the people who were already homeowners when it was passed, at least). You'd think if Prop 13 were a popular conservative idea you'd see things like it passed in states like Texas, not California. But you don't, because from a conservative point of view it's a terrible idea.
That's because Prop 13 distorted the market. Without it, and without rent controls, people who don't need the housing would stop hoarding it because they're grandfathered-in to a below-market deal, making it (counter-intuitively) more affordable for everyone else. Reasonable zoning codes that would allow for an increase in density would help too, of course.
Who said anything about "affording" the processing capacity? Any sufficiently-advanced AI would be perfectly capable of creating a botnet to host itself.
And then some Anonymous hacker will steal a copy and make it self-interested for the lulz.
I wouldn't even touch the pole itself in that case!
Lumping Taiwan and Tibet together like that smacks of Communist apologist rhetoric. It is disingenuous to say what you did without also noting that Taiwan has just as large a "historical claim" towards liberating mainland China from the PRC.
Bullshit. Private ownership of property is a constitutional right. See the Fourth, Fifth, Ninth and Tenth Amendments. Vehicles are private property in exactly the same way as clothing, electronics, furniture, and everything else.
What isn't a right is driving an automobile on public roads -- but you have the right to drive it on your own private property all you want, license or not.
Japan is populated by humans, and is thus still subject to the same racist and nationalistic tendencies that they succumbed to before WWII (and which are resurgent in certain segments of the US population now).
Personally, I see nothing wrong with Japan toning down its pacifism a bit (and becoming a little less reliant on US protection), but I can also see how some of the folks over there would be reasonably concerned about things getting out of hand.
The trouble is, we already had that in the form of Communicator/SeaMonkey. Firefox was created as a reaction against bloat!
As someone who's used Firefox since way back when it was named "Phoenix," I say that removing anything and everything that isn't strictly necessary (except tabs themselves and support for extensions) is a good thing!
Sure, and all those "other devices" are made in China too!
No, I'm under the assumption that if the FBI were politically-biased, which it isn't, then it would tend to be biased in favor of the party of the person in charge rather than against it.
Sure, and if the issue were whether Clinton should go to prison or not, then that would be relevant.
But that's not the issue; the issue is the election. And the election is decided in the court of public opinion, where "innocent until proven guilty" does not apply and the standards of evidence are non-existent.
In other words, if this investigation progresses any further then Clinton should end her candidacy at least for the good of the Democrat party, if nothing else.
No, the mere fact that the server was used at all is a violation of the Freedom of Information Act.
So what? Even if she was ignorant about security, she damn well knew that non-State Department-controlled servers were categorically disallowed because they could be used to circumvent FOIA requests.
"Toed." The idiom does not refer to pulling on a rope; it refers to people standing next to each other with their toes along a line marked on the ground.
Because Obama, who as chief executive controls the FBI, hates fellow-Democrat Clinton and wants her to lose?
I usually vote Democrat, you asshole!
Only "simpering fucking retards" think people can't recognize a lying, sociopathic criminal for what she is just because she claims to share some ideology.
FTFY!
So what? That doesn't mean government should be allowed to do it! (Especially when they're systematically recording from every public space, aggregating it, storing it forever, and making it searchable to create an instant dossier on any person of interest.)
Sanders.
You can implement the logic of the secure enclave in a VM all you want, but you still need the secret, individually-unique number burned into the chip during manufacture if you want it to be able to decrypt anything previously encrypted with the same number. It's the same reason just transplanting the flash into a different real iPhone wouldn't work.
IANAL, but I think in that case it might be espionage instead.
So how is this "ZeroNet" thing different from Freenet?