Heck, insurance companies won't pay for FDA-approved drugs if they aren't used for FDA-approved purposes, despite any useful "side-effects" that are in the literature.
Getting the insurance companies to pay for anything damned near takes 3 acts of God & an act of Congress. They try to classify anything more advanced than leeches as 'experimental'.
True enough, but that made it a fairly local problem, not a national problem. Once you got across state lines, you were ok. It's like driving from a dry county to a wet county to pick up a 12 pack. Illegal to own at home, but cross the county line and they have package stores lined up just waiting to sell you whatever booze you want.
I was gonna say, what about My Lai, but the US lost that war, too.
An Army captain named Medina got orders from MACV in Saigon to have the village of My Lai destroyed and everybody there killed. He passed that order to Lt Calley, who followed it. Calley got prison. Medina & his superiors got off. The court martial's explaination was of course, 'Following orders is no excuse!'. However, at the time, there was no such thing as an illegal order, so Calley could have been cort martialed for refusing a direct order and gotten shot. Calley knew this, and it came out at the trial.
Later, the UCMJ was annoted to allow refusal to follow illegal orders as a defense at a court martial.
When did we stop actually trying to look for terrorists, and instead started trying to look for American citizens we could paint as potential terrorists?
When it looked like there weren't any terrorists to throw in Gitmo anymore cause they were all dead or someplace else. Gotta justify the DHS budget somehow ya know.
It's thinking like that which risks turning me into a terrorist.
I know what you're getting at, but you would really be an activist. Protesting and revolting directly against those infringing on your rights is a core American value. Some would say there is a fine line between activism and terrorism... lately however I think the line is finer between authoritative government and terrorism.
Want your basic civil liberties? You may be a terrorist. Want freedom? You may be a terrorist. Worried about your government? You may be a terrorist. Think differently from the rest of the sheeple? You ARE a terrorist!
I still don't know how they can tout the smartphone apps but still have laws on the books making it illegal to use smartphones while you are driving. Are we to bring a 'spotter' with us everywhere we go?
Could be, they're intending to make a pile of cash off the tickets that will be written for using those smartphones to find those spaces. How hard is it to have a bike cop around to ticket somebody after they pull into the spot?
As has been pointed out elsewhere, we're all star stuff. (Cue really cool B5 Year 2 ref here). I've found it entertaining to explain this to interested people, especially when I follow it up by asking, "So, how does it feel to be nuclear waste?"
Actually, no. Getting to some of those 'ridiculously easier to obtain' resources isn't as easy as you think.
The Earth's crust is mostly iron. You'd think then iron was easy to come by. It's all bound up in different chemical compounds that are hard to work with, expensive to refine, and polluting as all hell to deal with. Regions like the Mesabi Range in Minnesota have iron that's almost pure, relatively easier to work with. The problem is, places like the Mesabi Range are fairly rare.
Meteoric evidence suggests asteroidal iron to be even purer, and a lot easier to work with.
That's how you could get around it, but it doesn't stop the antivirus people from putting the hashes in to begin with.
Pesonally, I just prefer to rip directly from the DVD & shrink it. If they come up with hashes for the stuff I have on my drive, I've got more serious problems than antivirus software.
Yeah, I wouldn't be surprised to get hauled off to Gitmo the next time I try to fly home, based on my/. posting history. They'll probably set me up for double waterboarding, no starch.
... the other tweet in question was a Family Guy quote...
Ah, copyright infringement. No wonder they were kicked out.
Only because they haddn't already been properly extradited to the US, you know. Wouldn't do to have to try and arrest them before all the paperwork was in.
From what I understand, the few FISA warrants that were kicked were because the agents requesting them fucked up on the paperwork. The court told them redo the paperwork. They did, and got their warrants.
There is no requirement that I know of for a judge to listen to expert witnesses on a contempt charge. It's not part or party of the case the judge is hearing. Contempt of court comes into play during a trial for something else. It's how a judge forces testimony out of a witness that refuses to testify. Ignore a subpoena, get hit with contempt of court. Wanna sit on the witness stand and go to sleep instead of testifying? Contempt of court. Refuse to give evidence in an ongoing trial? Contempt of court.
Have a marginal product that you can't sell? Blame it on anybody other than the designers/manufacturers. Let's ignore the fact that Microsoft wrote the specs for the phone as well as the operating system, let's ignore that the phone is locked up tighter than a 14 year old Mormon virgin, let's ignore the fact that there's been practically no marketting and advertising for this brick. It's the salesmen's fault, pure and simple.
... aren't in home desktop machines or laptops. They're in 4GWhatever smartphones. Those are what's being pushed now. Your nifty installer might work on a desktop or laptop or even one of the few surviving netbooks, but let's see it work on a smartphone and still have plenty of storage space to do useful stuff with. And be prepared to pay out the ass for your data plan.
And what you gonna do with that pirated data you do manage to download onto your home machine? What's to stop antivirus makers from adding the hashes of popular movies to their virus databases, with appropriate scary-sounding descriptions ('FuzzyWuzzy virus detected! Multiple incidents! Clean these? ')?
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Getting the insurance companies to pay for anything damned near takes 3 acts of God & an act of Congress. They try to classify anything more advanced than leeches as 'experimental'.
All oxygen then. Even atmosphere oxygen, other than that used for industrial processes for instance welding.
By this 'right', the government can regulate our breathing. So when are they gonna start collecting an air tax?
True enough, but that made it a fairly local problem, not a national problem. Once you got across state lines, you were ok. It's like driving from a dry county to a wet county to pick up a 12 pack. Illegal to own at home, but cross the county line and they have package stores lined up just waiting to sell you whatever booze you want.
And here I thought Roe vs Wade claims the State has no right to tell you what you can or cannot do with your body.
Oh, wait, they're trying to invalidate Roe vs Wade. Too many loopholes, I guess...
I was gonna say, what about My Lai, but the US lost that war, too.
An Army captain named Medina got orders from MACV in Saigon to have the village of My Lai destroyed and everybody there killed. He passed that order to Lt Calley, who followed it. Calley got prison. Medina & his superiors got off. The court martial's explaination was of course, 'Following orders is no excuse!'. However, at the time, there was no such thing as an illegal order, so Calley could have been cort martialed for refusing a direct order and gotten shot. Calley knew this, and it came out at the trial.
Later, the UCMJ was annoted to allow refusal to follow illegal orders as a defense at a court martial.
When it looked like there weren't any terrorists to throw in Gitmo anymore cause they were all dead or someplace else. Gotta justify the DHS budget somehow ya know.
No can do, Comrade. But I'll save you a spot in the chow line at Gitmo.
Only if it was left in the park. Suspicious packages, ya know...
Want your basic civil liberties? You may be a terrorist.
Want freedom? You may be a terrorist.
Worried about your government? You may be a terrorist.
Think differently from the rest of the sheeple? You ARE a terrorist!
Yeah, that went over really well at Nuremburg, too, ya know.
Could be, they're intending to make a pile of cash off the tickets that will be written for using those smartphones to find those spaces. How hard is it to have a bike cop around to ticket somebody after they pull into the spot?
I think we have a word for it: "matter."
Sh!!! They're dumbing it down for the Neocons.
As has been pointed out elsewhere, we're all star stuff. (Cue really cool B5 Year 2 ref here). I've found it entertaining to explain this to interested people, especially when I follow it up by asking, "So, how does it feel to be nuclear waste?"
Actually, no. Getting to some of those 'ridiculously easier to obtain' resources isn't as easy as you think.
The Earth's crust is mostly iron. You'd think then iron was easy to come by. It's all bound up in different chemical compounds that are hard to work with, expensive to refine, and polluting as all hell to deal with. Regions like the Mesabi Range in Minnesota have iron that's almost pure, relatively easier to work with. The problem is, places like the Mesabi Range are fairly rare.
Meteoric evidence suggests asteroidal iron to be even purer, and a lot easier to work with.
Time to change the combination on your luggage, eh?
and your login password...
Great in theory, but that's not quite how the universe works.
Make an idiot-proof mousetrap and the universe evolves a smarter better class of idiot.
That's how you could get around it, but it doesn't stop the antivirus people from putting the hashes in to begin with.
Pesonally, I just prefer to rip directly from the DVD & shrink it. If they come up with hashes for the stuff I have on my drive, I've got more serious problems than antivirus software.
Yeah, I wouldn't be surprised to get hauled off to Gitmo the next time I try to fly home, based on my /. posting history. They'll probably set me up for double waterboarding, no starch.
Only because they haddn't already been properly extradited to the US, you know. Wouldn't do to have to try and arrest them before all the paperwork was in.
Yeah, save these for the comedy clubs. Prolly still better than anything on TV these days...
Yup, the terrorrorrorrorrists have won.
"And so's his WIFE!!"
From what I understand, the few FISA warrants that were kicked were because the agents requesting them fucked up on the paperwork. The court told them redo the paperwork. They did, and got their warrants.
There is no requirement that I know of for a judge to listen to expert witnesses on a contempt charge. It's not part or party of the case the judge is hearing. Contempt of court comes into play during a trial for something else. It's how a judge forces testimony out of a witness that refuses to testify. Ignore a subpoena, get hit with contempt of court. Wanna sit on the witness stand and go to sleep instead of testifying? Contempt of court. Refuse to give evidence in an ongoing trial? Contempt of court.
Have a marginal product that you can't sell? Blame it on anybody other than the designers/manufacturers. Let's ignore the fact that Microsoft wrote the specs for the phone as well as the operating system, let's ignore that the phone is locked up tighter than a 14 year old Mormon virgin, let's ignore the fact that there's been practically no marketting and advertising for this brick. It's the salesmen's fault, pure and simple.
... aren't in home desktop machines or laptops. They're in 4GWhatever smartphones. Those are what's being pushed now. Your nifty installer might work on a desktop or laptop or even one of the few surviving netbooks, but let's see it work on a smartphone and still have plenty of storage space to do useful stuff with. And be prepared to pay out the ass for your data plan.
And what you gonna do with that pirated data you do manage to download onto your home machine? What's to stop antivirus makers from adding the hashes of popular movies to their virus databases, with appropriate scary-sounding descriptions ('FuzzyWuzzy virus detected! Multiple incidents! Clean these? ')?