I'm sorry, but can you trust law enforcement when they profit from the misapplication of terrible laws?
Sometimes you can, but if you cut funding so that they depend on asset seizures to operate then all bets are off. Don't blame the police for some slimy utter bastard in politics that saw an opportunity for cost cutting.
The obvious is going to happen once you start forcing the people who make the seizures to earn their living from it no matter how honest 99% of them are.
Yet they keep on coming up in politics through history over and over. It's if you guys are going back to the Fuedal system and they are nobility going back a couple of centuries. That's not a very good thing ti see in a democracy, people who see themselves as born to rule.
People travel. While for some insane reason laptops/notebooks became a status symbol meaning a lot of them just sat on office desks, there's still a few people that need something with a little bit of grunt and a keyboard. For the rest who are travelling tablets plus keyboard do the job. IMHO the surface is effectively a laptop and blurs the lines.
Dell seemed the last holdout, in actually assembling PCs in America in the mid 2000s
Only because ASUS stopped making stuff for Dell in Taiwan and went their own way in 2005, so Dell had to do it itself for a while. www.quora.com/What-is-the-story-of-asus-and-dell
Heck, remember the netbook craze that completely died away because of tablets?
It went MS Windows only overnight remember - after that trade show where the head of ASUS was singing the praises of his netbooks in the morning and APOLOGISING for them in the afternoon after lunch with some MS folk. Big coincidence there because MS never threatens OEMs do they? The MS netbooks didn't sustain the craze and it fizzled out. Whether the linux ones could have kept up the sales is a matter of speculation, but up to that point they had been doing well.
Rock crumbles, is brittle, and has a low tensile strength even though the compressive strength is high. The sort of steel used for a pipe is none of those things. See also stuff designed for "soft rock" suddenly hitting Basalt.
Ah yes, the cry of those people who think they are "special" and that society owes them everything. In most situations it would be a sign of immaturity, but in politics it gets air time for some reason.
The single line of course contains: "They've drastically increased the standard of living in that country over the past few decades, and turned it into a major world economic power That's what I'm referring to. While the Chinese government is a hell of a lot less "awful" than it used to be there are still things like a 99% conviction rate of those arrested. It's still an "interesting" place to do business as in executives of foreign companies that inconvenience state owned industries have been arrested, convicted and imprisoned within days of business deals going sour. Corruption is on the decline (as seen with the drastic decline in revenues for the many casinos around the world that helped out with a bit of money laundering) but I think the description above still stands (or at least that's how a few Chinese ex-pats are describing it)
This basically puts control of an entire nation directly into the hands of whomever can hack the results of the voting system
That is already the case with any voting system and it has typically been dealt with by inserting representatives of everyone interested in the outcome into the process. It just means the system does not have to be as naively designed as say a ballot box where the results are only counted by the incumbents. An electronic version of that would be as useless to the voter as a physical version of that.
Postal votes already exist and who said anything about a constraint of zero lead time? For details ask the Swiss, they have already had something that fits the suggestion above for deades.
welfare... I have an idea how to terminate the horrendous practice of a welfare state
Wow - keywords really set you off don't they? How do you know one way or another that a "welfare state" applies? You don't seem to understand that Australia is currently run by people with politics either similar or identical to your own. Hilarious.
But that would mean employing more staff instead of the sort of cuts that led to something like this making it out into the wild instead of staying as a brain fart expressed by a political advisor that has never had a different job. So it's a fuckup to try to make up for the fuckup of not having enough support staff.
However, it very much wasn't worth a headline, it was a potentially interesting anomaly at most.
Hence my last line: "What gets it into the papers is probably a University press officer who has to keep on putting out press releases to keep their job." There was a vast amount of hate for the press people at a university materials science department I worked at.
Maybe not. A bit of treatment may be able to get the poisons out. There are quite a few toxic things that people have historically eaten after a bit of bashing, washing, mixing in ashes and boiling. So that's part of the challenge. What's getting in and what do we need to do to get it out? What can be done with the stuff available - for instance it looks like you can even condense freaking formaldyhde out of the atmosphere there so something to react with the heavy metals to precipitate them out may be able to be done. It's very interesting even if the SF story has ignored a few potential show stoppers.
Don't get too hung up on it and add extra meaning that is not there. "The customer is always right" is a statement that become utter bullshit in a variety of circumstances even if it is the catch cry of retail. I used to do weld tests and the ones that failed stayed failed no matter what the customer wanted in the short term. Services have defined limits.
You take a bunch of pictures and videos and send them to someone and then sick the government on them, forcing them to effectively upend their own privacy rights over mere continued possession.
Not what happened, and if it does happen that way it's going to have to involve sending a lot of money in the direction of lawyers to get them interested.
I don't know if you are mixing up criminal law (governments pay) and civil law (litigants pay) but it looks like it. Utter bastards trying to turn civil issues such as copyright into criminal issues are of course confusing the issue, but even with that sting you suggest it is not something the police are going to care about so the stinger is going to have to "lawyer up".
So sorry to say but it doesn't even hold up as a soap opera plot.
So you'll go to the same US court that dealt with runaway slaves instead? Oh that's right, it doesn't exist either except for in name because the world has moved on.
WTF is it with people pretending to be too stupid to be able to breath in order to make some sort of tortured and convoluted point that spits in the face of reality?
and a risque photo is nothing that has ever caused anyone any trouble
I'm not sure how you managed to miss using such a thing as blackmail material as the staple of crime shows and movies for years even if you managed to miss some examples from reality.
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Sometimes you can, but if you cut funding so that they depend on asset seizures to operate then all bets are off. Don't blame the police for some slimy utter bastard in politics that saw an opportunity for cost cutting.
The obvious is going to happen once you start forcing the people who make the seizures to earn their living from it no matter how honest 99% of them are.
Yet they keep on coming up in politics through history over and over. It's if you guys are going back to the Fuedal system and they are nobility going back a couple of centuries. That's not a very good thing ti see in a democracy, people who see themselves as born to rule.
You needed political connections or somewhere to hide your money outside of the country - Trump went broke four times and just laughed it off.
Yes they were voting against absolutely everything back then because...obama - please try to keep up.
Spite is a very childish way to run an opposition and shows utter contempt for the country but it can be effective at times.
People travel.
While for some insane reason laptops/notebooks became a status symbol meaning a lot of them just sat on office desks, there's still a few people that need something with a little bit of grunt and a keyboard. For the rest who are travelling tablets plus keyboard do the job. IMHO the surface is effectively a laptop and blurs the lines.
Only because ASUS stopped making stuff for Dell in Taiwan and went their own way in 2005, so Dell had to do it itself for a while.
www.quora.com/What-is-the-story-of-asus-and-dell
It went MS Windows only overnight remember - after that trade show where the head of ASUS was singing the praises of his netbooks in the morning and APOLOGISING for them in the afternoon after lunch with some MS folk. Big coincidence there because MS never threatens OEMs do they?
The MS netbooks didn't sustain the craze and it fizzled out. Whether the linux ones could have kept up the sales is a matter of speculation, but up to that point they had been doing well.
Look at PHP as normally used - "anything else" is an improvement.
It may as well be Perl again.
Rock crumbles, is brittle, and has a low tensile strength even though the compressive strength is high. The sort of steel used for a pipe is none of those things.
See also stuff designed for "soft rock" suddenly hitting Basalt.
Hmm, both basically Oligarchies at the time?
I should have thought of that.
Ah yes, the cry of those people who think they are "special" and that society owes them everything. In most situations it would be a sign of immaturity, but in politics it gets air time for some reason.
The single line of course contains:
"They've drastically increased the standard of living in that country over the past few decades, and turned it into a major world economic power
That's what I'm referring to.
While the Chinese government is a hell of a lot less "awful" than it used to be there are still things like a 99% conviction rate of those arrested. It's still an "interesting" place to do business as in executives of foreign companies that inconvenience state owned industries have been arrested, convicted and imprisoned within days of business deals going sour. Corruption is on the decline (as seen with the drastic decline in revenues for the many casinos around the world that helped out with a bit of money laundering) but I think the description above still stands (or at least that's how a few Chinese ex-pats are describing it)
Reduced to that single line it sounds like the early history of the USA.
That is already the case with any voting system and it has typically been dealt with by inserting representatives of everyone interested in the outcome into the process.
It just means the system does not have to be as naively designed as say a ballot box where the results are only counted by the incumbents. An electronic version of that would be as useless to the voter as a physical version of that.
Postal votes already exist and who said anything about a constraint of zero lead time?
For details ask the Swiss, they have already had something that fits the suggestion above for deades.
Wow - keywords really set you off don't they? How do you know one way or another that a "welfare state" applies? You don't seem to understand that Australia is currently run by people with politics either similar or identical to your own.
Hilarious.
But that would mean employing more staff instead of the sort of cuts that led to something like this making it out into the wild instead of staying as a brain fart expressed by a political advisor that has never had a different job.
So it's a fuckup to try to make up for the fuckup of not having enough support staff.
Hence my last line: "What gets it into the papers is probably a University press officer who has to keep on putting out press releases to keep their job."
There was a vast amount of hate for the press people at a university materials science department I worked at.
Pity I can't mod that up.
Maybe not. A bit of treatment may be able to get the poisons out. There are quite a few toxic things that people have historically eaten after a bit of bashing, washing, mixing in ashes and boiling.
So that's part of the challenge. What's getting in and what do we need to do to get it out? What can be done with the stuff available - for instance it looks like you can even condense freaking formaldyhde out of the atmosphere there so something to react with the heavy metals to precipitate them out may be able to be done. It's very interesting even if the SF story has ignored a few potential show stoppers.
Don't get too hung up on it and add extra meaning that is not there. "The customer is always right" is a statement that become utter bullshit in a variety of circumstances even if it is the catch cry of retail. I used to do weld tests and the ones that failed stayed failed no matter what the customer wanted in the short term. Services have defined limits.
Not what happened, and if it does happen that way it's going to have to involve sending a lot of money in the direction of lawyers to get them interested.
I don't know if you are mixing up criminal law (governments pay) and civil law (litigants pay) but it looks like it. Utter bastards trying to turn civil issues such as copyright into criminal issues are of course confusing the issue, but even with that sting you suggest it is not something the police are going to care about so the stinger is going to have to "lawyer up".
So sorry to say but it doesn't even hold up as a soap opera plot.
So you'll go to the same US court that dealt with runaway slaves instead?
Oh that's right, it doesn't exist either except for in name because the world has moved on.
WTF is it with people pretending to be too stupid to be able to breath in order to make some sort of tortured and convoluted point that spits in the face of reality?
I'm not sure how you managed to miss using such a thing as blackmail material as the staple of crime shows and movies for years even if you managed to miss some examples from reality.