Because they need the funding for equipment, and to free up their very limited budgets for other tasks. US teachers have very limited career choices and are juggling enormous social and bureaucratic demands, in an extremely stressful work environment. It's difficult to refuse such funding and support when they are scrambling to find teachers with computer skills who will, in fact, teach instead of switching to industry computer programming for far more money.
It doesn't "allow" unauthorized transactions. That's why such theft is called "wire fraud". And using your credentials, fraudulently, would allow just such theft: it's quite a common problem, often tied to the related criminal activities of "identity theft".
I've no idea where you live that such fraud is not an ongoing problem. And in this case, there's so little information that it could even have been an old paper check, forged with Donald's signature. In the USA, ongoing fraud of this sort will eventually bring the attention of the Secret Service, whose primary role ias as agents of the U.S. Treasury. It takes a great deal of such fraud to get them to take an active interest. But for fraud involving Donald Trump's personal finances? I'd assume they'd respond quite a lot faster than they do for normal identity theft crimes.
Precisely this was happening in the late 1970's. It's one of the reasons the air traffic controllers when on their infamous strike in 1981. The personnel _could not_ do their jobs well with 40 hour work weeks, their attention would wander, even for a moment, with the high workloads and much poorer instrumentation available to them and they needed to be able to come in, especially after inevitable double or even triple shifts due to short staffing.
> I'm not sure how a suit will be stupid to fight a NSL. This is general asking for third party data a
I assume that you mean that NSL's in general, ask for third party data. While this is true, it's the _specific_ cases, such as the Silk Road operators, who'd gladly reach out for lawyers at no fiscal risk to themselves. And that was a service where the owners of the service, themselves, have been convicted of criminal behavior involving that service. So I'm unclear why you think that a "company suspected of gun running" would not hesitate to battle the NSL in court, at the government's expense, win or lose.
I completely agree that NSL's lack consequence to those that write them. The lack of a court involved, and the tendency of court to issue them on the slightest prtext or with "rubber stamp" approvals contribute to this lack.
I'm not sure I can endorse "the government automatically paying all legal costs". Some suits filed will be stupid, and expensive, and filed by companies that that _do_ commit criminal abuses such as selling weaponry to foreign enemies.
I'm afraid that I really miss "www.fuckedcompany.com". It used to be _the_ place to go for insider corporate rumors on layoffs and outsourcing, and I knew several people who were first warned of layoffs there. It was a vicious website, but a great place to get insider information about what companies were really like on the inside. I considered checking that website to be part of my due diligence when working with a new client or partner.
And lighter. I'd be more concerned about the _rest_ of the isotopes refined or generated that might be used for other purposes. India's nuclear power program is very real, and rather frightening with their relationship with Pakistan, their adjacent nuclear neighbor.
Clause 3 (to peacably assemble) and clause 4 (to petition the government) are quite clearly political. Restrictions on gatherings are common and vital, parts of a state protecting itself from its own citizens and from any groups that might confront or overwhelm those of the state itself. Take a good look at the "Arab Spring" gatherings, or of the British restrictions on gatherings before and during the American Revolution, or even look at the national conventions for presidential candidates for examples.
> The process for changing the Constitution is written in the document itself, and it does not say "this document shall by be changed by a justice writing down their opinions."
No, it leaves interpretation of the Constitution in the hands of the Supreme Court. Application of general principles to specific cases always relies on the official on the spot, and the power of the Supreme Court to make rulings is in Article III, Secition 1 and 2. The "writing down of the opinions" explains the reasoning of the judges, and this establishment of judicial precedent for following judges long predates the US Constitution. Discarding it would lead to far, far more power in the hands of individual judges to re-interpret every case as they individually saw fit: this can be _extremely_ dangerous.
> recombinant-DNA technology,' the first piece of basic research to expose the public-at-large to an immediate threat of harm.
The invention of fire, nuclear power, and basic reasearch into poisons don't count? And later on:
> "isotope separation" could disclose a cheap and abundant energy source for nuclear weapons
It's not "cheap". The expense of isotopic separation is one of the factors that limit nuclear proliferation.
The ideas in the legal analysis are interesting and lay out some of the free speech grounds for protecting scientific research from ban or regulation, such as occurs for encryption or fetal research. But the occasional bit of nonsense such as those above call the reasoning into question.
>> and the 'great white male' is slowly but surely dying out.
> How the actual fuck are you calling me 'racist"
I can't imagine why anyone would call you racist. I must not be "great white maile" enough to imagine hatred for genetic or sexual class would possibly make anyone think you're even biased, much less racist.
> Makes me wonder sometimes if we, as a race, even deserve to survive. (there's me getting cynical again)
Why are you assuming that aggression, or even using the young sexually, is _not_ a survival trait? There are many species that are notably more aggressive than humans and have outlasted our species by millions of years. Even the bonobos, who are quite closely related to humans, have large amounts of rape, even of children, as normal parts of their tribal behavior. And for other mammals, such as canines and felines, the response to a female in heat is not a gentle and willing partnership among peers.
I don't mean to suggest that this is a good or ethical idea, or something humans should emulate. But it's the cultural _control_ of sexual behavior that seems quite unusual.
Besides the physical security, there's also getting the neighbors to know you. They're much more likely to call the police, or to notify you of vandalism, if you've established contact with them. They'll also be more willing to feed your pets, pick up your mail when you travel, or let you know if the local kids, or more organized gangs, have been making trouble, if they know your name. And doing them similar favors is a good investment in making the whole neighborhood safer.
Perhaps the easiest way to do this is to put down laptop and take a walk before work or close to dinner time. Say hello to the local dog owners, ask if their dogs like petting. Sharing a minor safe personal detail and asking about local shops or restaurants is invaluable information, and you don't have to do it every day.
> If it's 100% legal then there's no percentage in screwing over the customers
Except for the profit margin. That seems enough to trigger fraud and abuse in money other industries. And prostitution is more vulnerable than most, due to the large amount of cash and the reluctance of most clients, and of most employees, to admit their involvement.
Even New Zealand, which is apparently very good about protection and enforcement against sex trafficking, is not immune. They're listed as a destination of internal sex slave trafficking at http://www.humantrafficking.or.... They do seem to be doing all they can reasonably do against it, but it can apparently happen even there.
This single step has increased my wife's, my daugher's, and my workplace secretary's phone lives by a day for all of them. Facebook transmits a *ridiculous* amount of image data and other wifi or cellphone data plan traffic, and turning it off also cut their phone bills quite a lot because they stopped going *over* the very generous data plan limits they had bought. I flipped out when we looked at their phone bills and I saw roughly 300 MByte every hour on the hour of accumulated Facebook data. Leave it on all day, and it blow through 3 Gig a day easily. Make it a month, and spend significant amounts of time dinking on Facebook away from a reliable wifi access point, and you can go through a month's data plan in a couple of days, and go through a battery in la few hours.
Then I found out they were using the big battery packs I'd bought them *as a default device to around with their phones plugged in* rather than leaving that on the charger in the house, or on their desk, so *of course* that was always drained, too.
In the US, at least, it's a criminal enterprise in most states. That automatically makes it likelier than most businesses to be crooked. And for far, far too many of them, the prostitutes are abused, with little ability to get police, community, or family support against abuse or harassment.
I've actually known a few former prostitutes of both genders, socially. They'd been desperate for money, for food, for drugs, and one even to care for her 2 children. One college student I knew, a very athletic dancer, became a pole dancer. She didn't mind the prostitution at the club in and of itself, but when the managers kept trying to get her hooked on drugs and _insisting_ that she defraud the customers in various waysl she became disenchanted and got out. And with the amazingly poor bookkeeping, all done in cash, it was clear that it was also a money laundering business.
So please, don't assume that a brothel is honest. They're most likely to be _dishonest_: honesty doubtless exists in the field, but should be seen as the exception.
> For their part, authors and publishers, even if they did eventually settle, were difficult and conspiracy-minded,
I'm afraid it's because they've dealt with publishers and agents. They are _accustomed_ to being gouged by people who claim to be there to help, and a certain amount of paranoia is an evolutionary pressure for authors: those who don't practice caution tend to get out of writing very quickly.
And to knock you down if you're not braced for it, coupled with the massive burst of pain from the impact of the pullet tearing flesh and possibly bone.
Or the Moro during the Boer wars. The.45 caliber pistol was invented _precisely_ to stop determined attackers, and has proven extremely effective. The penetrating power, cost of ammunition, and risk of stray rounds damaging innocent bystanders is why few police departments use them as a standard issue round.
Ahh. That is when you snip the ends off of old and questionable cables, perhaps with enough of a tail to attach a label that says "dead port" or "beware reset switch".
> As other posters have mentioned the level of switches discussed by op are not DC switches. SMB switches, sure, but enterprise datacenter, no.
I acknowledge you rpoint. From Cisco's specs, they're not aimed at the "enterprise datacenter". With the integrated wireless support, they seem aimed at the corporate datacenter. Frankly, I see a lot more of those these days than of core ISP data centers and switch configurations. But even in an enterprise datacenter, with businesses or individual departments in individual cages or in individual racks, customers will use the tools they have in the budget today, not the ideal tools for the data center. And they'll use the "desktop on its side" critical servers with only one network cable, fail to configure pair bonding correctly and instead use one port on each of several different VLan's in order to segregate traffic and simplify switching, and run out of physical ports and switches to enable true A/B failover for core switches
If you don't believe this is a frequent level of careless, please check the next 10 client managed racks you see, and you'll find at least half of them with both power plugs and network ports for the same server plugged into the same switch, on the same UPS.
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Because they need the funding for equipment, and to free up their very limited budgets for other tasks. US teachers have very limited career choices and are juggling enormous social and bureaucratic demands, in an extremely stressful work environment. It's difficult to refuse such funding and support when they are scrambling to find teachers with computer skills who will, in fact, teach instead of switching to industry computer programming for far more money.
It doesn't "allow" unauthorized transactions. That's why such theft is called "wire fraud". And using your credentials, fraudulently, would allow just such theft: it's quite a common problem, often tied to the related criminal activities of "identity theft".
I've no idea where you live that such fraud is not an ongoing problem. And in this case, there's so little information that it could even have been an old paper check, forged with Donald's signature. In the USA, ongoing fraud of this sort will eventually bring the attention of the Secret Service, whose primary role ias as agents of the U.S. Treasury. It takes a great deal of such fraud to get them to take an active interest. But for fraud involving Donald Trump's personal finances? I'd assume they'd respond quite a lot faster than they do for normal identity theft crimes.
Precisely this was happening in the late 1970's. It's one of the reasons the air traffic controllers when on their infamous strike in 1981. The personnel _could not_ do their jobs well with 40 hour work weeks, their attention would wander, even for a moment, with the high workloads and much poorer instrumentation available to them and they needed to be able to come in, especially after inevitable double or even triple shifts due to short staffing.
> I'm not sure how a suit will be stupid to fight a NSL. This is general asking for third party data a
I assume that you mean that NSL's in general, ask for third party data. While this is true, it's the _specific_ cases, such as the Silk Road operators, who'd gladly reach out for lawyers at no fiscal risk to themselves. And that was a service where the owners of the service, themselves, have been convicted of criminal behavior involving that service. So I'm unclear why you think that a "company suspected of gun running" would not hesitate to battle the NSL in court, at the government's expense, win or lose.
I completely agree that NSL's lack consequence to those that write them. The lack of a court involved, and the tendency of court to issue them on the slightest prtext or with "rubber stamp" approvals contribute to this lack.
I'm not sure I can endorse "the government automatically paying all legal costs". Some suits filed will be stupid, and expensive, and filed by companies that that _do_ commit criminal abuses such as selling weaponry to foreign enemies.
I'm afraid that I really miss "www.fuckedcompany.com". It used to be _the_ place to go for insider corporate rumors on layoffs and outsourcing, and I knew several people who were first warned of layoffs there. It was a vicious website, but a great place to get insider information about what companies were really like on the inside. I considered checking that website to be part of my due diligence when working with a new client or partner.
And lighter. I'd be more concerned about the _rest_ of the isotopes refined or generated that might be used for other purposes. India's nuclear power program is very real, and rather frightening with their relationship with Pakistan, their adjacent nuclear neighbor.
Clause 3 (to peacably assemble) and clause 4 (to petition the government) are quite clearly political. Restrictions on gatherings are common and vital, parts of a state protecting itself from its own citizens and from any groups that might confront or overwhelm those of the state itself. Take a good look at the "Arab Spring" gatherings, or of the British restrictions on gatherings before and during the American Revolution, or even look at the national conventions for presidential candidates for examples.
> The process for changing the Constitution is written in the document itself, and it does not say "this document shall by be changed by a justice writing down their opinions."
No, it leaves interpretation of the Constitution in the hands of the Supreme Court. Application of general principles to specific cases always relies on the official on the spot, and the power of the Supreme Court to make rulings is in Article III, Secition 1 and 2. The "writing down of the opinions" explains the reasoning of the judges, and this establishment of judicial precedent for following judges long predates the US Constitution. Discarding it would lead to far, far more power in the hands of individual judges to re-interpret every case as they individually saw fit: this can be _extremely_ dangerous.
> recombinant-DNA technology,' the first piece of basic research to expose the public-at-large to an immediate threat of
harm.
The invention of fire, nuclear power, and basic reasearch into poisons don't count? And later on:
> "isotope separation" could disclose a cheap and abundant energy source for nuclear weapons
It's not "cheap". The expense of isotopic separation is one of the factors that limit nuclear proliferation.
The ideas in the legal analysis are interesting and lay out some of the free speech grounds for protecting scientific research from ban or regulation, such as occurs for encryption or fetal research. But the occasional bit of nonsense such as those above call the reasoning into question.
>> and the 'great white male' is slowly but surely dying out.
> How the actual fuck are you calling me 'racist"
I can't imagine why anyone would call you racist. I must not be "great white maile" enough to imagine hatred for genetic or sexual class would possibly make anyone think you're even biased, much less racist.
> Makes me wonder sometimes if we, as a race, even deserve to survive. (there's me getting cynical again)
Why are you assuming that aggression, or even using the young sexually, is _not_ a survival trait? There are many species that are notably more aggressive than humans and have outlasted our species by millions of years. Even the bonobos, who are quite closely related to humans, have large amounts of rape, even of children, as normal parts of their tribal behavior. And for other mammals, such as canines and felines, the response to a female in heat is not a gentle and willing partnership among peers.
I don't mean to suggest that this is a good or ethical idea, or something humans should emulate. But it's the cultural _control_ of sexual behavior that seems quite unusual.
Besides the physical security, there's also getting the neighbors to know you. They're much more likely to call the police, or to notify you of vandalism, if you've established contact with them. They'll also be more willing to feed your pets, pick up your mail when you travel, or let you know if the local kids, or more organized gangs, have been making trouble, if they know your name. And doing them similar favors is a good investment in making the whole neighborhood safer.
Perhaps the easiest way to do this is to put down laptop and take a walk before work or close to dinner time. Say hello to the local dog owners, ask if their dogs like petting. Sharing a minor safe personal detail and asking about local shops or restaurants is invaluable information, and you don't have to do it every day.
> If it's 100% legal then there's no percentage in screwing over the customers
Except for the profit margin. That seems enough to trigger fraud and abuse in money other industries. And prostitution is more vulnerable than most, due to the large amount of cash and the reluctance of most clients, and of most employees, to admit their involvement.
Even New Zealand, which is apparently very good about protection and enforcement against sex trafficking, is not immune. They're listed as a destination of internal sex slave trafficking at http://www.humantrafficking.or.... They do seem to be doing all they can reasonably do against it, but it can apparently happen even there.
This single step has increased my wife's, my daugher's, and my workplace secretary's phone lives by a day for all of them. Facebook transmits a *ridiculous* amount of image data and other wifi or cellphone data plan traffic, and turning it off also cut their phone bills quite a lot because they stopped going *over* the very generous data plan limits they had bought. I flipped out when we looked at their phone bills and I saw roughly 300 MByte every hour on the hour of accumulated Facebook data. Leave it on all day, and it blow through 3 Gig a day easily. Make it a month, and spend significant amounts of time dinking on Facebook away from a reliable wifi access point, and you can go through a month's data plan in a couple of days, and go through a battery in la few hours.
Then I found out they were using the big battery packs I'd bought them *as a default device to around with their phones plugged in* rather than leaving that on the charger in the house, or on their desk, so *of course* that was always drained, too.
> A brothel is at least an honest business.
In the US, at least, it's a criminal enterprise in most states. That automatically makes it likelier than most businesses to be crooked. And for far, far too many of them, the prostitutes are abused, with little ability to get police, community, or family support against abuse or harassment.
I've actually known a few former prostitutes of both genders, socially. They'd been desperate for money, for food, for drugs, and one even to care for her 2 children. One college student I knew, a very athletic dancer, became a pole dancer. She didn't mind the prostitution at the club in and of itself, but when the managers kept trying to get her hooked on drugs and _insisting_ that she defraud the customers in various waysl she became disenchanted and got out. And with the amazingly poor bookkeeping, all done in cash, it was clear that it was also a money laundering business.
So please, don't assume that a brothel is honest. They're most likely to be _dishonest_: honesty doubtless exists in the field, but should be seen as the exception.
> For their part, authors and publishers, even if they did eventually settle, were difficult and conspiracy-minded,
I'm afraid it's because they've dealt with publishers and agents. They are _accustomed_ to being gouged by people who claim to be there to help, and a certain amount of paranoia is an evolutionary pressure for authors: those who don't practice caution tend to get out of writing very quickly.
Check the cell phone videos of police shootings for corroboration, please. They really don't empty the clip for amusement.
It also hurts, quite a lot. Few people without practice can ignore such a blow and keep fleeing, or attacking.
And to knock you down if you're not braced for it, coupled with the massive burst of pain from the impact of the pullet tearing flesh and possibly bone.
Or the Moro during the Boer wars. The .45 caliber pistol was invented _precisely_ to stop determined attackers, and has proven extremely effective. The penetrating power, cost of ammunition, and risk of stray rounds damaging innocent bystanders is why few police departments use them as a standard issue round.
Ahh. That is when you snip the ends off of old and questionable cables, perhaps with enough of a tail to attach a label that says "dead port" or "beware reset switch".
What crimper? Just use a connector with no cable connected to it.
> As other posters have mentioned the level of switches discussed by op are not DC switches. SMB switches, sure, but enterprise datacenter, no.
I acknowledge you rpoint. From Cisco's specs, they're not aimed at the "enterprise datacenter". With the integrated wireless support, they seem aimed at the corporate datacenter. Frankly, I see a lot more of those these days than of core ISP data centers and switch configurations. But even in an enterprise datacenter, with businesses or individual departments in individual cages or in individual racks, customers will use the tools they have in the budget today, not the ideal tools for the data center. And they'll use the "desktop on its side" critical servers with only one network cable, fail to configure pair bonding correctly and instead use one port on each of several different VLan's in order to segregate traffic and simplify switching, and run out of physical ports and switches to enable true A/B failover for core switches
If you don't believe this is a frequent level of careless, please check the next 10 client managed racks you see, and you'll find at least half of them with both power plugs and network ports for the same server plugged into the same switch, on the same UPS.
The phrase "especially handy" was meant to be ironic.
> (2) Show me a datacenter that's an all cisco shop
I saw two small business datacenters, basically single company server rooms, that had critical core Cisco switches with no redundancy.