That's a pretty good understanding of the law for a IANAL. IAAL, a prosecutor in fact, and I can tell you that the Fourth Amendment is the subject of mountains of suppression motions. I'm sure you are all familiar with the concept of "plain view," which is that if an officer is legally in a place and sees something in plain view that provides probable cause that a crime has been or is being committed, that thing can be searched or seized. There are also "plain smell" and "plain touch" doctrines which work in a similar way. This case extends "plain smell" to a police dog's senses. But this doctrine has always been limited to actual senses - sight, hearing, smell, touch - NOT to technological monitoring, e.g., a thermal scan of someone's house is NOT plain sight. So I think the metaphor between dog (or more broadly, police officer) sniffing and packet sniffing is without any real merit.
I think it goes back to 97, but I can't be sure...in any case, with OXP, just insert a section break, and then insert page numbers on that section. Edit the format to restart numbering at whatever integer you choose.
Face it, unless you seal yourself off, you have no privacy anywhere. How is gmail more invasive than any mailserver, except that it actually does something with the information that passes through its circuits?
The real question is, who do you trust with that information? Google has worked hard to build trust.
I would not be surprised if the whole concept of buying individual copies of the song becomes completely outmoded. It's the music you want, after all, not the file. I would be satisfied with mass-coverage wifi that would let me use my Rhapsody-enabled Panasonybishi Music Device on-the-go. Integrate it into a cell phone. Who needs to carry around a data storage device if we can network to server farms?
That's not the only reason.
It also gives states flexibility in how they choose electors (it doesn't necessarily have to be by popular vote, nor does it have to be winner-take-all).
It also somewhat balances the power of populous vs. populous states.
what is wrong with a good old paper ballot and a pen to mark your choice(s)?
This actually IS an insightful question. There are paper-based voting systems already used in many areas that are quite effective. The ballot shows the names of each of the candidates next to an arrow with a broken stem, like this:
=== ==>Bush === ==>Kerry
You simply use any black ink to fill in the stem of the arrow pointing to the candidate you want to vote for. Seems very straightforward and obvious to me. Then, you personally insert your ballot into an optical scanner. If you have overvoted, it will immediately warn you and you can get a new ballot. Otherwise, it electronically tabulates your votes. At the end of the day, you have a reasonably accurate computer tabulation AND a paper record created by the voters themselves which can be hand-counted and used to audit the computers.
The reason is historical. The idea has been that a personally identifiable voting record is so prone to abuse, both by the gov't and third parties, that it's better to not have any at all.
My dad has been waiting for something like this for a long time. He works in production control at a local manufacturing plant, and while he does a lot of work at his desk, he also has a great need to access spreadsheets and data on-the-go on the shop floor. A tablet PC is too big and too expensive, and a PDA isn't quite enough (he uses one, but the screen is too tiny to display spreadsheet data). This seems just perfect, especially if you could get/build some kind of docking solution.
An inexpensive array of LED's that could possibly emit enough such light is a fool's hope.
Now, solid state RGB lasers that rapidly scan the entire screen CRT-style may soon be feasible...
Hate crimes are perpetrated (most often) by the majority onto the minority. As in most places in the US white people are the majority, you'd expect on purely statistical terms a much larger percentage of hate crimes committed by white people. It's not a legal scheme or plot, but maths.
I think his point was that hate crimes are not charged equally among interracial crimes, despite the fact that blacks commit proportionally many more interracial crimes than whites.
Of course, the right would have you label these black people "lazy" and say they love living off welfare, being poor. Lies. People are people, and until people see that, it's not going to change.
While it is not accurate that all blacks who do not succeed are lazy, it is also not accurate that all blacks who fail are not lazy. There is a serious cultural problem regarding blacks and education. Being smart should not be a stigma; it should not be denigrated as "acting white." There is not much the government can do to help people until they voluntarily give up that attitude. That's the biggest problem with AA - it covers up the real causes of the imbalance and allows the very perpetrators of this attitude blame their situation on someone else.
It will heavily depend on your metrics, which is why I said "among the freest." Well in the interest of full disclosure, here are some of my metrics:
- Do I have an absolute right to speak my mind, no matter how hateful or divisive, so long as it does not directly harm (beyond hurt feelings/sensibilities) others? Do I have a corollary right not to support the speech of other private individuals with which I do not agree?
- What percentage of my life's labor is exclusively for the benefit of the state?
- How federal is the government? What is the balance of legal control between local and national governments?
These are just a few off the top of my head. Freedom House has some pretty good metrics in my opinon (and they rank both the US and Norway as a "1" for both political and civil freedom, incidentally.) That said, is it really true that Norway has a state church supported by tax dollars?
And here I was thinking that flag-burning was a criminal offence in the USA.
It definitely is, if you consider laws to be stricken as unconstitutional to be valid.
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That's a pretty good understanding of the law for a IANAL. IAAL, a prosecutor in fact, and I can tell you that the Fourth Amendment is the subject of mountains of suppression motions. I'm sure you are all familiar with the concept of "plain view," which is that if an officer is legally in a place and sees something in plain view that provides probable cause that a crime has been or is being committed, that thing can be searched or seized. There are also "plain smell" and "plain touch" doctrines which work in a similar way. This case extends "plain smell" to a police dog's senses. But this doctrine has always been limited to actual senses - sight, hearing, smell, touch - NOT to technological monitoring, e.g., a thermal scan of someone's house is NOT plain sight. So I think the metaphor between dog (or more broadly, police officer) sniffing and packet sniffing is without any real merit.
Stenography? You mean the transcription techniques used by court reporters and closed-captioners? Or did you perhaps mean "steganography"?
I think it goes back to 97, but I can't be sure...in any case, with OXP, just insert a section break, and then insert page numbers on that section. Edit the format to restart numbering at whatever integer you choose.
What is SOOOO hard about inserting a section break?
The real question is, who do you trust with that information? Google has worked hard to build trust.
Either you are using some weird OEM version of Windows, or you are confusing WMP with RealPlayer.
You mean Apple's TrueType?
What? You might want to double-check that particular assumption.
It varies state to state. Many states allow shopkeepers to detain thieves on their own property.
I would not be surprised if the whole concept of buying individual copies of the song becomes completely outmoded. It's the music you want, after all, not the file. I would be satisfied with mass-coverage wifi that would let me use my Rhapsody-enabled Panasonybishi Music Device on-the-go. Integrate it into a cell phone. Who needs to carry around a data storage device if we can network to server farms?
Well...excepting that there were some good reasons NOT to use a pencil...
The Florida State Legislature, when they codified the state election procedures. All the SCOTUS basically did was hold them to their own laws.
Keep in mind we're talking about US elections...
Reason #825 why Democrats Lose Elections
That's not the only reason. It also gives states flexibility in how they choose electors (it doesn't necessarily have to be by popular vote, nor does it have to be winner-take-all). It also somewhat balances the power of populous vs. populous states.
Riiiiiight...blame Republicans for the fact that felons tend to vote overwhelmingly Democrat.
This actually IS an insightful question. There are paper-based voting systems already used in many areas that are quite effective. The ballot shows the names of each of the candidates next to an arrow with a broken stem, like this:
You simply use any black ink to fill in the stem of the arrow pointing to the candidate you want to vote for. Seems very straightforward and obvious to me. Then, you personally insert your ballot into an optical scanner. If you have overvoted, it will immediately warn you and you can get a new ballot. Otherwise, it electronically tabulates your votes. At the end of the day, you have a reasonably accurate computer tabulation AND a paper record created by the voters themselves which can be hand-counted and used to audit the computers.This seems like an ideal system to me.
The reason is historical. The idea has been that a personally identifiable voting record is so prone to abuse, both by the gov't and third parties, that it's better to not have any at all.
So...the only legitimate election is one that Kerry wins?
Hey, wait a minute...you can't presume to lecture us on behalf of the rest of the entire world.
That's France's job.
My dad has been waiting for something like this for a long time. He works in production control at a local manufacturing plant, and while he does a lot of work at his desk, he also has a great need to access spreadsheets and data on-the-go on the shop floor. A tablet PC is too big and too expensive, and a PDA isn't quite enough (he uses one, but the screen is too tiny to display spreadsheet data). This seems just perfect, especially if you could get/build some kind of docking solution.
An inexpensive array of LED's that could possibly emit enough such light is a fool's hope. Now, solid state RGB lasers that rapidly scan the entire screen CRT-style may soon be feasible...
I think his point was that hate crimes are not charged equally among interracial crimes, despite the fact that blacks commit proportionally many more interracial crimes than whites.
While it is not accurate that all blacks who do not succeed are lazy, it is also not accurate that all blacks who fail are not lazy. There is a serious cultural problem regarding blacks and education. Being smart should not be a stigma; it should not be denigrated as "acting white." There is not much the government can do to help people until they voluntarily give up that attitude. That's the biggest problem with AA - it covers up the real causes of the imbalance and allows the very perpetrators of this attitude blame their situation on someone else.
It will heavily depend on your metrics, which is why I said "among the freest." Well in the interest of full disclosure, here are some of my metrics: - Do I have an absolute right to speak my mind, no matter how hateful or divisive, so long as it does not directly harm (beyond hurt feelings/sensibilities) others? Do I have a corollary right not to support the speech of other private individuals with which I do not agree? - What percentage of my life's labor is exclusively for the benefit of the state? - How federal is the government? What is the balance of legal control between local and national governments? These are just a few off the top of my head. Freedom House has some pretty good metrics in my opinon (and they rank both the US and Norway as a "1" for both political and civil freedom, incidentally.) That said, is it really true that Norway has a state church supported by tax dollars?
And here I was thinking that flag-burning was a criminal offence in the USA. It definitely is, if you consider laws to be stricken as unconstitutional to be valid.