You sir are either an idiot, or blissfully ignorant of the actions of police officers in your area. I was peripherally connected to the police commission in my last US abode, thus I was not.
You're right, it's not the job of local law enforcement to deal with exports. It's (in this case) Apple's job. Apple (in the form of the store employees) elected not to sell. The lady didn't exit when asked, which is the job of the local cops.
We didn't see what Ms. Li was up to prior to being dropped to the floor. She may or may not have proved a handful, and if she wasn't following directions to get out of the store, it was going to end badly however you sliced it: the cops weren't going to just leave, and they aren't encouraged to grapple - handguns can get loose. So, prior to tasers, they'd have used any of a number of take-downs involving batons.... eg. she'd have gotten clubbed.
Having said that, I realize that many officers have a tendency to quickly get physical just because josephine public fails the attitude test.
It may come as a surprise to some, but the introduction of tasers in US police inventories has offered officers a humane alternative to previous practice, which often involved a baton chokehold, or a firearm. It may or may not be double-plus-bad that US officers aren't as sweet as they are in Canada or the UK, preferring compliance with orders now, discussion later, but it is what it is, and it may be a bit naive to be unaware of that.
For the record: Yes, failing to follow the orders of police in the US is a good way to come in close contact with a taser or baton, fact of life. Whether or not Ms. Li knew enough English to know what her situation was will without a doubt become clear.
As for the Apple Store, here's the deal: if you, the customer, makes it clear that you're buying electronics to export, the retailer is potentially on the hook with the Federal Government for aiding unlicensed exports of technology. Yes, I'm aware that much of the technology in question was manufactured overseas. The fact remains that this isn't the first, and won't be the last time someone innocently mentions export, and is shown the door.
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I was one of the first DSL customers in Hawaii. At the time, my non-technical circle didn't see the point. "Always on? 10x faster? 2x as expensive? Whatever for?" Indeed. Based on your (I suspect) tougue-in-cheek comment, I'd note that neither distro d/ls or streaming video would be possible without it.... but we didn't know until we could *could* do it.
In Australia, they're busy debating whether the proposed National Broadband Network of fibre optics links is "worth it". What would you run over it that we can't run now?
I thought it was common knowledge that it's the adult section that's kept mom-n-pop (or brother of a friend) video stores in the black since the mid-aughts. What would make that profit center's browsing experience more pleasant are electronic kiosks with well lit seating. Less risk of in-store fapping when the erotica isn't hidden away in narrow back aisles, and with a decent kiosk UI, you may get quicker turn-around and more browsing converted to sales.
I used to think offering iPod, et al loading for music and video would be a winner, albeit only for individual stores in the sticks that can stay under the licensing radar.
Yes, both major parties are market-oriented, and the market drivers are middle to large grossing companies and their largest shareholders. Research suggests that constituent issues primarily concerning the bottom 50% are utterly ignored, the 2nd quartile are barely acknowledged, while the top quartile get varying levels of service correlating with their campaign donation levels.
That said, despite fact that social democratic, libertarian, et al voters are marginalized within the two parties there is significant policy differences between them. There was a difference in 2000, 2004, 2008, and today. The 2000 election was a large-scale experiment testing the theory that since both parties by-and-large represented corporate interests, that was the end of the story. A significant number of voters decided to have some fun in the booth and voted Mickey Mou... Ralph Nader. The theory wasn't answered with a no, it was a fuck no, even if you discount the wee matter of a war with Iraq.
I was shocked when I read the original post. I suppose I've lived a very different career, and thus can't really relate to her/his position. I've never been an engineer solely working within environment X, and never got onto a support track. Started out learning Pascal in school, Fortran at work. When I needed to begin to learn 'C', I picked up the K&R, later bolstered with class time. Started my experience with MATLAB by vectorizing someone's Fortran-like m-code. Took several on-line classes to get going on PL/SQL. Java class using a Sun curriculum. I just completed a C++ refresher. On and on.
Unless 'Talcyon' is sick of the thought at getting back into development, then the answer is yes, you retrain and get back up to speed. If you're looking for a kick in the okole to get it back in gear, consider yourself motivated.
I believe you're confusing "state sovereignty" with "republican form of government". Stealing the basic definition in Wikipedia:
A republic is a form of government in which the country is considered a "public matter" (Latin: res publica), not the private concern or property of the rulers, and where offices of states are subsequently directly or indirectly elected or appointed rather than inherited.
For all the bleating about state sovereignty, historically it has been used primarily to protect ownership in human chattel (worth several trillion $US in current dollars) and later to defend wholesale disenfranchising non-caucasians and denying them basic civil rights. The virtually unlimited sovereignty of US states was thus shown to be non-optimal for promotion of the democracy. Federalism has and does allow a laboratory in democracy, and when one of the experiments fails, there's no sin in shutting it down and trying something else.
Do electric SmartMeters constantly emit RF? No. SmartMeters communicate intermittently, with each RF-signal typically lasting from 2 to 20 milliseconds. These intermittent signals total, on average, 45 seconds per day. For the other 23 hours and 59 minutes of the day, the meter is not transmitting any RF.
If someone wants to reduce RF exposure, they can start by getting rid of their landline wireless phone, their cell phone, their wifi access point, and - in particular - their electric blanket. The meter isn't even a player in this game.
I don't care about the subset of Cisco owner/licencees who are getting the shaft, because I use a PC-based router ( to nit-pick, a Mac mini ). But, as more and more of my devices come "smart" by default, I will.... might as well get a running start
On the off chance you're not being sarcastic: yes, employees do. As with all conscious humans, they have the ability to make decisions, to balance ethics. If they choose wrong (by whatever measure), and are seen to do so, the individuals engaged in the legal fiction of the state can and will attempt to bring them to account. Similarly, if owners and executives of a corporation go off the deep end, the state can "pierce the veil", and remove protection from and limits to liability.
A computer is a piece of capital equipment (or, if sufficiently low-end, an expense item) that can be and is turned off and on, and "speaks on behalf" of anyone as much as a light switch.
Computers don't have independent agency. They are utterly in thall to their programmers, admins, and users. The responsibility for their actions rests with the humans, much as if I set an automotive transmission to "D", put a brick on the gas pedal, and step aside.
At such point as computers develop self-guided heuristics, we can revisit the idea. In the meantime, this is just another exercise in humans looking for another legal fiction to add to the arsenal of limited liability provided by the fiction of a corporation.
The vast majority of bank robbers are unlikely to have developed a career plan, and sufficient training and study to buttress it. Rather, they tend to be running on desperation. When someone(s) go on a bank robbing spree, it's usually a sign they've reached some sort of crisis in their lives, and aren't really thinking things through.
Pervasive video surveillance makes life difficult for the modern retail robber, just as it would for traders making heavily leveraged bets at trading desks in the CBD offices. But, who'll hit the silent alarm when they see someone make a trade that's almost certain to lose a couple billion (your unit of currency here)?
Successful robbers don't go in through the front door, that's amateur hour. The pros put in the work to tunnel in.
Gold star, I concur. But, sometimes even the best candidate and thoughtful voters need a date with Lady Luck. Per a New Yorker commentary shortly before the election, someone on the President's transition team [should have sent] inauguration tickets to Richard Fuld for managing to screw the pooch so throughly in September '08. Perhaps it was Chris Rock's line that things got so bad, white people said "fuck it, let's give the black guy a try."
Nationally, there may or may not have been fewer votes for Barack Hussein Obama than a generic Caucasian Democratic candidate (say, Hillary Rodham Clinton).
However, not only wasn't there a "Bradley Effect" against Obama, there wasn't even one against Bradley. Rather, the very hypothesis was based on - at best - an incomplete look at the 1982 California Governor's election results. The exit polls suggested a Bradley win, and in fact Bradley won at the polling stations. However, the state GOP put out a major absentee ballot effort, votes that tended strongly for Deukmejian.
I think Obama is one of the most left leaning, divisive and ideological people I've ever seen in power in the US, much less in the presidency. I think he is so very stuck to his ideals based agenda, that he cannot truly compromise or even see when things he tries and supports just do not work. I think he is so bent on going with fundamentally changing the US, its principals...etc...that he wants to keep pushing it even to the detriment of our country and its people.
No. This statement is so diametrically at odds with the facts, you'll need to provide specific citations to support your contention. "You've seen?" This doesn't make sense even if you were six, much less a grown adult.
Assuming for a moment that Flame is a work by or created under contract for the USG:
Based on my laymen understanding of how a classified work is handled by the USG, if it marks a work with a security classification, said work is therefore condemned and solely owned by the USG, making all previous contracts and copyrights moot.
That's not to say that they would claim sole ownership and copyright of Lua and the other works used to create the final product, but rather just the final product. Therefore, no code release, and not even under the FOIA.
May be hard to insure... unless said insurer figures that the reinsurance will cover their losses, and the reinsurer figures the retrocessionaire will cover their losses. Everything dandy until an illegal (to predict) storm surge comes along and generates claims along the entire NC salt water frontage: outer banks, Albemarle-Pamlico Sound, and a way's up river for good measure, making it more of a Federal problem.
David Lowery makes excellent points. Yes, Google looks like a major ass playing the Chilling Effects card. However, although the EFF, et al look from Lowery's POV to be asshats fighting for free-everything, the copyright and patent issue is a lot bigger than musicians trying to earn a living. The old & new bosses are trying and thus far succeeding at a new enclosure movement, to preemptively and proactively put all IP under lock and key, and rented out. If not rented out, then quashed if the material appears to be bad PR for whichever powers that be.
Where we're headed is an environment where creative expression becomes almost impossible to market/share/use unless you're party to one of the patent cross licensing schemes, or corporate copyright back catalogs. Yes, the musicians are getting fucked, as are many small players in creative endeavors, and as most labor in general continues to be devalued.
The horse is long out of the barn. Making money at playing music is going to revert to the pre-Edison model. We are going to get less new music, and it'll be harder to find, web search or no. The model of the future is the Chinese music scene, and I'm not going to pretend that it's a good thing.
IANAL, and thus I can only conjecture based on hearsay that any prenuptial agreement Mr. Zuckerberg and Ms. Chan may have signed may prove pointless. If they had a previous written or oral agreement to treat assets like community property or she was promised lifetime support, despite the fact that both partners knew they were not married at the time, she may be entitled to support or property rights under California contract law.
That's very cute calling Social Security "welfare". Why don't you tell that one to your grandparents?
All the taxes go into the general fund. Congress creates obligations to spend money, and passes to budgets authorizing the Treasury to come up with it. Social Security and Medicare actually do get first dibs on funds, due to the obligation not to default on bonds on the trust funds' books. Beyond that, any branch of the Federal government has as much or as little entitlement to the remaining money as another.
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You sir are either an idiot, or blissfully ignorant of the actions of police officers in your area. I was peripherally connected to the police commission in my last US abode, thus I was not.
You're right, it's not the job of local law enforcement to deal with exports. It's (in this case) Apple's job. Apple (in the form of the store employees) elected not to sell. The lady didn't exit when asked, which is the job of the local cops.
We didn't see what Ms. Li was up to prior to being dropped to the floor. She may or may not have proved a handful, and if she wasn't following directions to get out of the store, it was going to end badly however you sliced it: the cops weren't going to just leave, and they aren't encouraged to grapple - handguns can get loose. So, prior to tasers, they'd have used any of a number of take-downs involving batons.... eg. she'd have gotten clubbed.
Having said that, I realize that many officers have a tendency to quickly get physical just because josephine public fails the attitude test.
It may come as a surprise to some, but the introduction of tasers in US police inventories has offered officers a humane alternative to previous practice, which often involved a baton chokehold, or a firearm. It may or may not be double-plus-bad that US officers aren't as sweet as they are in Canada or the UK, preferring compliance with orders now, discussion later, but it is what it is, and it may be a bit naive to be unaware of that.
For the record: Yes, failing to follow the orders of police in the US is a good way to come in close contact with a taser or baton, fact of life. Whether or not Ms. Li knew enough English to know what her situation was will without a doubt become clear.
As for the Apple Store, here's the deal: if you, the customer, makes it clear that you're buying electronics to export, the retailer is potentially on the hook with the Federal Government for aiding unlicensed exports of technology. Yes, I'm aware that much of the technology in question was manufactured overseas. The fact remains that this isn't the first, and won't be the last time someone innocently mentions export, and is shown the door.
I was one of the first DSL customers in Hawaii. At the time, my non-technical circle didn't see the point. "Always on? 10x faster? 2x as expensive? Whatever for?" Indeed. Based on your (I suspect) tougue-in-cheek comment, I'd note that neither distro d/ls or streaming video would be possible without it.... but we didn't know until we could *could* do it.
In Australia, they're busy debating whether the proposed National Broadband Network of fibre optics links is "worth it". What would you run over it that we can't run now?
It hasn't been invented yet.
I thought it was common knowledge that it's the adult section that's kept mom-n-pop (or brother of a friend) video stores in the black since the mid-aughts. What would make that profit center's browsing experience more pleasant are electronic kiosks with well lit seating. Less risk of in-store fapping when the erotica isn't hidden away in narrow back aisles, and with a decent kiosk UI, you may get quicker turn-around and more browsing converted to sales.
I used to think offering iPod, et al loading for music and video would be a winner, albeit only for individual stores in the sticks that can stay under the licensing radar.
Yes, both major parties are market-oriented, and the market drivers are middle to large grossing companies and their largest shareholders. Research suggests that constituent issues primarily concerning the bottom 50% are utterly ignored, the 2nd quartile are barely acknowledged, while the top quartile get varying levels of service correlating with their campaign donation levels.
That said, despite fact that social democratic, libertarian, et al voters are marginalized within the two parties there is significant policy differences between them. There was a difference in 2000, 2004, 2008, and today. The 2000 election was a large-scale experiment testing the theory that since both parties by-and-large represented corporate interests, that was the end of the story. A significant number of voters decided to have some fun in the booth and voted Mickey Mou... Ralph Nader. The theory wasn't answered with a no, it was a fuck no, even if you discount the wee matter of a war with Iraq.
I was shocked when I read the original post. I suppose I've lived a very different career, and thus can't really relate to her/his position. I've never been an engineer solely working within environment X, and never got onto a support track. Started out learning Pascal in school, Fortran at work. When I needed to begin to learn 'C', I picked up the K&R, later bolstered with class time. Started my experience with MATLAB by vectorizing someone's Fortran-like m-code. Took several on-line classes to get going on PL/SQL. Java class using a Sun curriculum. I just completed a C++ refresher. On and on.
Unless 'Talcyon' is sick of the thought at getting back into development, then the answer is yes, you retrain and get back up to speed. If you're looking for a kick in the okole to get it back in gear, consider yourself motivated.
I believe you're confusing "state sovereignty" with "republican form of government". Stealing the basic definition in Wikipedia:
A republic is a form of government in which the country is considered a "public matter" (Latin: res publica), not the private concern or property of the rulers, and where offices of states are subsequently directly or indirectly elected or appointed rather than inherited.
For all the bleating about state sovereignty, historically it has been used primarily to protect ownership in human chattel (worth several trillion $US in current dollars) and later to defend wholesale disenfranchising non-caucasians and denying them basic civil rights. The virtually unlimited sovereignty of US states was thus shown to be non-optimal for promotion of the democracy. Federalism has and does allow a laboratory in democracy, and when one of the experiments fails, there's no sin in shutting it down and trying something else.
Per the PG&E FAQ:
Do electric SmartMeters constantly emit RF?
No. SmartMeters communicate intermittently, with each RF-signal typically lasting from 2 to 20 milliseconds. These intermittent signals total, on average, 45 seconds per day. For the other 23 hours and 59 minutes of the day, the meter is not transmitting any RF.
If someone wants to reduce RF exposure, they can start by getting rid of their landline wireless phone, their cell phone, their wifi access point, and - in particular - their electric blanket. The meter isn't even a player in this game.
I don't care about the subset of Cisco owner/licencees who are getting the shaft, because I use a PC-based router ( to nit-pick, a Mac mini ). But, as more and more of my devices come "smart" by default, I will .... might as well get a running start
On the off chance you're not being sarcastic: yes, employees do. As with all conscious humans, they have the ability to make decisions, to balance ethics. If they choose wrong (by whatever measure), and are seen to do so, the individuals engaged in the legal fiction of the state can and will attempt to bring them to account. Similarly, if owners and executives of a corporation go off the deep end, the state can "pierce the veil", and remove protection from and limits to liability.
A computer is a piece of capital equipment (or, if sufficiently low-end, an expense item) that can be and is turned off and on, and "speaks on behalf" of anyone as much as a light switch.
Computers don't have independent agency. They are utterly in thall to their programmers, admins, and users. The responsibility for their actions rests with the humans, much as if I set an automotive transmission to "D", put a brick on the gas pedal, and step aside.
At such point as computers develop self-guided heuristics, we can revisit the idea. In the meantime, this is just another exercise in humans looking for another legal fiction to add to the arsenal of limited liability provided by the fiction of a corporation.
The vast majority of bank robbers are unlikely to have developed a career plan, and sufficient training and study to buttress it. Rather, they tend to be running on desperation. When someone(s) go on a bank robbing spree, it's usually a sign they've reached some sort of crisis in their lives, and aren't really thinking things through.
Pervasive video surveillance makes life difficult for the modern retail robber, just as it would for traders making heavily leveraged bets at trading desks in the CBD offices. But, who'll hit the silent alarm when they see someone make a trade that's almost certain to lose a couple billion (your unit of currency here)?
Successful robbers don't go in through the front door, that's amateur hour. The pros put in the work to tunnel in.
Gold star, I concur. But, sometimes even the best candidate and thoughtful voters need a date with Lady Luck. Per a New Yorker commentary shortly before the election, someone on the President's transition team [should have sent] inauguration tickets to Richard Fuld for managing to screw the pooch so throughly in September '08. Perhaps it was Chris Rock's line that things got so bad, white people said "fuck it, let's give the black guy a try."
Nationally, there may or may not have been fewer votes for Barack Hussein Obama than a generic Caucasian Democratic candidate (say, Hillary Rodham Clinton).
However, not only wasn't there a "Bradley Effect" against Obama, there wasn't even one against Bradley. Rather, the very hypothesis was based on - at best - an incomplete look at the 1982 California Governor's election results. The exit polls suggested a Bradley win, and in fact Bradley won at the polling stations. However, the state GOP put out a major absentee ballot effort, votes that tended strongly for Deukmejian.
I think Obama is one of the most left leaning, divisive and ideological people I've ever seen in power in the US, much less in the presidency. I think he is so very stuck to his ideals based agenda, that he cannot truly compromise or even see when things he tries and supports just do not work. I think he is so bent on going with fundamentally changing the US, its principals...etc...that he wants to keep pushing it even to the detriment of our country and its people.
No. This statement is so diametrically at odds with the facts, you'll need to provide specific citations to support your contention. "You've seen?" This doesn't make sense even if you were six, much less a grown adult.
Assuming for a moment that Flame is a work by or created under contract for the USG:
Based on my laymen understanding of how a classified work is handled by the USG, if it marks a work with a security classification, said work is therefore condemned and solely owned by the USG, making all previous contracts and copyrights moot.
That's not to say that they would claim sole ownership and copyright of Lua and the other works used to create the final product, but rather just the final product. Therefore, no code release, and not even under the FOIA.
Mod me troll, whatever... the gentleperson posting the parent is either an idiot or a shill.
The proper analogy is to fill a glass to the brim with water and ice. As the ice begins to melt, throw in more ice.
May be hard to insure... unless said insurer figures that the reinsurance will cover their losses, and the reinsurer figures the retrocessionaire will cover their losses. Everything dandy until an illegal (to predict) storm surge comes along and generates claims along the entire NC salt water frontage: outer banks, Albemarle-Pamlico Sound, and a way's up river for good measure, making it more of a Federal problem.
David Lowery makes excellent points. Yes, Google looks like a major ass playing the Chilling Effects card. However, although the EFF, et al look from Lowery's POV to be asshats fighting for free-everything, the copyright and patent issue is a lot bigger than musicians trying to earn a living. The old & new bosses are trying and thus far succeeding at a new enclosure movement, to preemptively and proactively put all IP under lock and key, and rented out. If not rented out, then quashed if the material appears to be bad PR for whichever powers that be.
Where we're headed is an environment where creative expression becomes almost impossible to market/share/use unless you're party to one of the patent cross licensing schemes, or corporate copyright back catalogs. Yes, the musicians are getting fucked, as are many small players in creative endeavors, and as most labor in general continues to be devalued.
The horse is long out of the barn. Making money at playing music is going to revert to the pre-Edison model. We are going to get less new music, and it'll be harder to find, web search or no. The model of the future is the Chinese music scene, and I'm not going to pretend that it's a good thing.
IANAL, and thus I can only conjecture based on hearsay that any prenuptial agreement Mr. Zuckerberg and Ms. Chan may have signed may prove pointless. If they had a previous written or oral agreement to treat assets like community property or she was promised lifetime support, despite the fact that both partners knew they were not married at the time, she may be entitled to support or property rights under California contract law.
That's very cute calling Social Security "welfare". Why don't you tell that one to your grandparents?
All the taxes go into the general fund. Congress creates obligations to spend money, and passes to budgets authorizing the Treasury to come up with it. Social Security and Medicare actually do get first dibs on funds, due to the obligation not to default on bonds on the trust funds' books. Beyond that, any branch of the Federal government has as much or as little entitlement to the remaining money as another.
I suggesting ES needed anal rape, and you think I'm an ugly American for trying to keep him off a plane?