Oh and i think Judges are beginning to hate mass John Doe#1 to # Court Orders anyway because of their over use by Copyright Trolls to gather User information from IP addresses.
Except that judges for civil suits are totally different from FISA court judges. Zero connect in the law processes since they don't intersect other than the judges (reputedly) went to law school.
Its NOT science, in that you can never come up with a true reading. All you can say is a human responded in certain ways. You have NO WAY of knowing how accurate the machine is. Polygraphs, as used in law enforcement might as well be a crystal ball for all its legal usefulness.
Which is why they're inadmissible as evidence in a trial. The damned things don't work. Period. They can be beat easily. Hell, just smoke a joint first, you'll beat it. You'll either be so mellow that nothing bothers you, showing no changes, or so paranoid that your readings will be all over the scale and thus useless.
Why they're cracking down on somebody who shows how to beat a bullshit test using readily available information, just collated for an easy instructional session, is beyond me. They have something against private enterprise or something??
Yup. Block their IPs for transmission into the US. A simple matter of adjusting the rules for the top level domain nameservers. That'll stop anybody that doesn't know how to find a 'dotted quad' address, like, practically nobody.
This isn't partisan hackery. Plenty of people who thought that Obama was going to make things better have been thoroughly disillusioned.
OK, Constitutional Practice 101 time.
El Presidente is head of the Executive branch. He's also Head of State. His job is to implement laws voted into existence by Congress. Congress creates the laws, not El Presidente. The current El Presidente is stuck with a Congress that can't vote on a lunch menu let alone something like a budget, a jobs bill, a 'take care of the veterans' bill, and so forth. When the 'Opposition' screams at him to 'compromise', what they do is demand he do things their way, follow their agenda. And since the Opposition came to power with the platform of 'Let's screw the scary black guy so we can seize power in the next election', that's why you have 40 votes on repealing ACA/'Obamacare/Romneycare/whatever. That's the sole focus, waste time and clog the channels so nothing gets done so they can drop the blame on 'the scary black guy'. Case in point, Benghazi. Republicans voted to cut funding for embassy security worldwide, knowing it'd be just a matter of time before somebody took a swing at an embassy. They did, and the Republicans immediately started chopping down trees for a cross, sharpening nails, and digging up hammers.
What of 'Executive Orders', you say? Those are instruments for El Presidente to instruct, educate, illuminate, and motivate the Executive Branch. They have no legal standing outside the Executive Branch.
El Presidente needs some appointees confirmed? Too bad, this Congress ain't gonna do it, cause that would help El Presidente do his fucking job, and we just can't have that.
I have finally figured out why the statue holding 'the scales of justice' wore a blindfold!;-)
I can't figure out why they didn't give her a cigarette. It is traditional to offer somebody a blindfold and a cig before they face a firing squad, after all...
Problem is, insurance companies as well as financial institutions HATE to spend money unless it's on executive perks. If it ain't broke yet, it don't need replaced. No matter how obsolete or kludged it is, if it still works, it'll be kept around. That's why the Y2K 'bug' had them so freaked out, they were using old COBOL software from the Stone Age that kept working, and they didn't want to spend money to upgrade.
I get a lot of 'offshore content' from TPB. Stuff you just cannot get here in the States by any other means, legal or otherwise. I like a lot of Brit tv shows that aren't shown on PBS or BBCA. Likewise, I got hooked on some Australian TV shows as well as a couple South African shows. You just can't get them here in the States.
Canadian tv is available up by the border, but not down here in the desert. And my sat dish company won't sell me any Canadian content. The rat bastards.
You take away the potential to make money from that copy.
People somehow seem to think that when the reproduction cost for something is zero, it automatically removes all the value from the product and unlimited free copies can be made and no one loses anything.
For example, when you buy a book from a real bookstore, you are not only paying for the printing costs but also the extra value that the bookstore, publisher and the author has set for the item to recoup the production costs. Now we can take the physical printing process and the bookstore out of the equation and if we want, and make unlimited PDF copies or whatever. Does that mean that the publisher and author deserve no compensation?
The author is paid by the publisher with an advance, not the book store, a set fee against future royalties. The royalties kick in after the advance is covered by enough sales. Editing costs and printing costs are paid by the publisher in job lots. The publisher is paid by the distributor. The distributor is paid by the book store.
Um, no. Copyright in the US is effectively eternal now. Currently, it's life of the artist plus something like 70 years, or practically forever if the copyright is held by a corporation.
The 'Birthday Song' believe it or not is still under copyright, and the copyright holders are vicious about litigating for singing that damned song in any place that a listening public might hear, including movies, TV shows, plays, and concerts.
Your argument would be fine and logical IF the copyright holders actually paid the content producers what it's worth to keep them producing. The middlemen, the production companies and distributors, tend to grab the copyrights, and try to pass off 'work for hire' contracts on the actual content creators to pay them a set fee to create, thus keeping all the profits for themselves.
Read what Joe Straczynski, creator of Babylon 5, has to say about 'Hollywood accounting'. It's easily Googleable, but one of the things he's been quoted on is that B5 has *yet* to 'show a profit' according to Warner Brothers, and the way the contract was written, they could have a fire on a set in the Congo next week and the replacement costs would be charged to B5's profits. So don't give me that 'the artist gets ripped off by piracy' routine. The artists are already getting ripped off by their distributors.
The ultrarich wouldn't have to put up with poor and homeless wandering onto their estates all the time. They'd know their neighbors are 'quality people' who think, act, and believe just like they do.
Except that grass is still illegal at the federal level. The feds can and do raid licensed medical marijuana dispensaries in California for violations of federal law. When the locals make it legal, the 'outlaws' come above ground and make easy targets for the DEA.
Drugs will never be legal until the entire system is changed to take the profit away from prohibition. Look at who benefits. Police departments get bigger budgets to militarise even more (for example, Maricopa County, AZ is the most famous one). Businesses are making money selling that military grade gear to 'law enforcement' organisations and individuals. Politicians keep office selling the fear of drug addicts to the voters. The list goes on and on and on. Follow the money, it's the only way you'll understand it all.
Buy a dash cam and you could have saved money on the attorney. When the rookie cop goes through his list ask him if he wants to add any more to the list, then remark that he's on your cam as well as his so his job will be on the line and he'll end up a mall cop, and then follow through with it. There are excellent officers but bad cops like that make them ALL look bad.
Except civilian dashcams aren't 'evidence' in most juristictions (no chain of evidence), they arrest people who videotape police actions, and besides, when they impound the car, that dashcam and its recorder will be found to be inoperative due to 'unknown persons' attempting to remove and wipe the record.
Do you really think the cops put dashcams in their cars for your benefit? They put them there to record everything so they have more charges to throw against you. Obviously GP's arresting officer never considered his dashcam footage would be used against him.
Reflects more the preposterousness of those in power,
and the infantile apathy of those that allow them.
It's not apathy of the public that allows banana republics to survive. It's a feeling of hopelessness and inability to change anything that keeps the colonels in power, backed by American dollars shoveled at them for being 'anticommunist'. Keep the serfs uneducated, poor, and powerless, and you keep your power.
Now, based on this thread, we engaged in "parallel construction". I just saw suspicious activity and we manufactured the rest (but it was all legit). (I didn't realize I was so clever.)
So it's not the parallel construction that's the problem. It's the massive dragnet to find the information to begin with.
How is that "parallel construction?" Your observations established probable cause for the raid. That was linear construction.
It's not. Parallel construction would have been an undercover cop from a different jurisdiction as part of the gang collecting evidence, then phoning the tip in while playing the neighbor. That would have protected the undercover.
> I don't think that I dare hope for a setup that cute, though.
What do you think the entire DEA is for ?
All the DEA does is cut down the competition so the price rises and the CIA can get more money for their off book black ops. You don't really think those drugs get smuggled without help, now, do you?
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No, but her IQ does.
No, it doesn't. How she retained enough brains to keep breathing is beyond me.
They also had districts in key battleground states with 100%+ turnout and 100% Obama votes. That's real great analytics there.
Oh? 100%+? Some Chicago-style voting going on there? Got any cites?
Oh and i think Judges are beginning to hate mass John Doe#1 to # Court Orders anyway because of their over use by Copyright Trolls to gather User information from IP addresses.
Except that judges for civil suits are totally different from FISA court judges. Zero connect in the law processes since they don't intersect other than the judges (reputedly) went to law school.
If it was for specific conversation between specific address at a specific date/time then It's reasonable to comply.
Lavabit had around 10,000 customers. If FISA issues 10,000 individual subpoenas, would that be OK? Because I'll bet it's not a problem for them...
It shouldn't be a problem to hit the FISA judges with 10,000 requests. The requests can be computer generated...
Its NOT science, in that you can never come up with a true reading. All you can say is a human responded in certain ways. You have NO WAY of knowing how accurate the machine is. Polygraphs, as used in law enforcement might as well be a crystal ball for all its legal usefulness.
Which is why they're inadmissible as evidence in a trial. The damned things don't work. Period. They can be beat easily. Hell, just smoke a joint first, you'll beat it. You'll either be so mellow that nothing bothers you, showing no changes, or so paranoid that your readings will be all over the scale and thus useless.
Why they're cracking down on somebody who shows how to beat a bullshit test using readily available information, just collated for an easy instructional session, is beyond me. They have something against private enterprise or something??
Yup. Block their IPs for transmission into the US. A simple matter of adjusting the rules for the top level domain nameservers. That'll stop anybody that doesn't know how to find a 'dotted quad' address, like, practically nobody.
or maybe to bring in some 'goodies' over the border without having to deal with those pesky Customs agents?
This isn't partisan hackery. Plenty of people who thought that Obama was going to make things better have been thoroughly disillusioned.
OK, Constitutional Practice 101 time.
El Presidente is head of the Executive branch. He's also Head of State. His job is to implement laws voted into existence by Congress. Congress creates the laws, not El Presidente. The current El Presidente is stuck with a Congress that can't vote on a lunch menu let alone something like a budget, a jobs bill, a 'take care of the veterans' bill, and so forth. When the 'Opposition' screams at him to 'compromise', what they do is demand he do things their way, follow their agenda. And since the Opposition came to power with the platform of 'Let's screw the scary black guy so we can seize power in the next election', that's why you have 40 votes on repealing ACA/'Obamacare/Romneycare/whatever. That's the sole focus, waste time and clog the channels so nothing gets done so they can drop the blame on 'the scary black guy'. Case in point, Benghazi. Republicans voted to cut funding for embassy security worldwide, knowing it'd be just a matter of time before somebody took a swing at an embassy. They did, and the Republicans immediately started chopping down trees for a cross, sharpening nails, and digging up hammers.
What of 'Executive Orders', you say? Those are instruments for El Presidente to instruct, educate, illuminate, and motivate the Executive Branch. They have no legal standing outside the Executive Branch.
El Presidente needs some appointees confirmed? Too bad, this Congress ain't gonna do it, cause that would help El Presidente do his fucking job, and we just can't have that.
I have finally figured out why the statue holding 'the scales of justice' wore a blindfold! ;-)
I can't figure out why they didn't give her a cigarette. It is traditional to offer somebody a blindfold and a cig before they face a firing squad, after all...
Problem is, insurance companies as well as financial institutions HATE to spend money unless it's on executive perks. If it ain't broke yet, it don't need replaced. No matter how obsolete or kludged it is, if it still works, it'll be kept around. That's why the Y2K 'bug' had them so freaked out, they were using old COBOL software from the Stone Age that kept working, and they didn't want to spend money to upgrade.
How ARE those Dockers working out for you?
'Probably OK' isn't OK. If the copyright holders find out, expect nasty letters from l*wy*rs.
Naw. Wait a couple months and download the DVD rip. Better quality.
I get a lot of 'offshore content' from TPB. Stuff you just cannot get here in the States by any other means, legal or otherwise. I like a lot of Brit tv shows that aren't shown on PBS or BBCA. Likewise, I got hooked on some Australian TV shows as well as a couple South African shows. You just can't get them here in the States.
Canadian tv is available up by the border, but not down here in the desert. And my sat dish company won't sell me any Canadian content. The rat bastards.
You take away the potential to make money from that copy.
People somehow seem to think that when the reproduction cost for something is zero, it automatically removes all the value from the product and unlimited free copies can be made and no one loses anything.
For example, when you buy a book from a real bookstore, you are not only paying for the printing costs but also the extra value that the bookstore, publisher and the author has set for the item to recoup the production costs. Now we can take the physical printing process and the bookstore out of the equation and if we want, and make unlimited PDF copies or whatever. Does that mean that the publisher and author deserve no compensation?
The author is paid by the publisher with an advance, not the book store, a set fee against future royalties. The royalties kick in after the advance is covered by enough sales. Editing costs and printing costs are paid by the publisher in job lots. The publisher is paid by the distributor. The distributor is paid by the book store.
Um, no. Copyright in the US is effectively eternal now. Currently, it's life of the artist plus something like 70 years, or practically forever if the copyright is held by a corporation.
The 'Birthday Song' believe it or not is still under copyright, and the copyright holders are vicious about litigating for singing that damned song in any place that a listening public might hear, including movies, TV shows, plays, and concerts.
Your argument would be fine and logical IF the copyright holders actually paid the content producers what it's worth to keep them producing. The middlemen, the production companies and distributors, tend to grab the copyrights, and try to pass off 'work for hire' contracts on the actual content creators to pay them a set fee to create, thus keeping all the profits for themselves.
Read what Joe Straczynski, creator of Babylon 5, has to say about 'Hollywood accounting'. It's easily Googleable, but one of the things he's been quoted on is that B5 has *yet* to 'show a profit' according to Warner Brothers, and the way the contract was written, they could have a fire on a set in the Congo next week and the replacement costs would be charged to B5's profits. So don't give me that 'the artist gets ripped off by piracy' routine. The artists are already getting ripped off by their distributors.
The ultrarich wouldn't have to put up with poor and homeless wandering onto their estates all the time. They'd know their neighbors are 'quality people' who think, act, and believe just like they do.
Except that grass is still illegal at the federal level. The feds can and do raid licensed medical marijuana dispensaries in California for violations of federal law. When the locals make it legal, the 'outlaws' come above ground and make easy targets for the DEA.
Nope.
Drugs will never be legal until the entire system is changed to take the profit away from prohibition. Look at who benefits. Police departments get bigger budgets to militarise even more (for example, Maricopa County, AZ is the most famous one). Businesses are making money selling that military grade gear to 'law enforcement' organisations and individuals. Politicians keep office selling the fear of drug addicts to the voters. The list goes on and on and on. Follow the money, it's the only way you'll understand it all.
Buy a dash cam and you could have saved money on the attorney. When the rookie cop goes through his list ask him if he wants to add any more to the list, then remark that he's on your cam as well as his so his job will be on the line and he'll end up a mall cop, and then follow through with it. There are excellent officers but bad cops like that make them ALL look bad.
Except civilian dashcams aren't 'evidence' in most juristictions (no chain of evidence), they arrest people who videotape police actions, and besides, when they impound the car, that dashcam and its recorder will be found to be inoperative due to 'unknown persons' attempting to remove and wipe the record.
Do you really think the cops put dashcams in their cars for your benefit? They put them there to record everything so they have more charges to throw against you. Obviously GP's arresting officer never considered his dashcam footage would be used against him.
I rather like Banana Republic.
Reflects more the preposterousness of those in power, and the infantile apathy of those that allow them.
It's not apathy of the public that allows banana republics to survive. It's a feeling of hopelessness and inability to change anything that keeps the colonels in power, backed by American dollars shoveled at them for being 'anticommunist'. Keep the serfs uneducated, poor, and powerless, and you keep your power.
Sound familiar?
It's not. Parallel construction would have been an undercover cop from a different jurisdiction as part of the gang collecting evidence, then phoning the tip in while playing the neighbor. That would have protected the undercover.
> I don't think that I dare hope for a setup that cute, though.
What do you think the entire DEA is for ?
All the DEA does is cut down the competition so the price rises and the CIA can get more money for their off book black ops. You don't really think those drugs get smuggled without help, now, do you?