It could place providers in the position of requiring warrants for all law enforcement requests.
That's the point. It's not that hard to get a warrant. The idea is that another branch of government should be reviewing police actions. Law enforcement should not be getting a free hand to obtain anything they want. The intent of the 4th amendment was that citizens should be allowed to conduct their lives without fear of government intrusion except when that intrusion was justified, reviewed by other branches of the government, and the action were open to the view of citizens. Too bad if that's an inconvenience for law enforcement and the phone company. I'm sorry if my rights are a bit of an inconvenience.
The thing that really gets me about all of this is that the US federal government, states, and localities already have tremendous power to do all of the snooping, spying, and arresting people for online activities that could need. They just need to take care of a few bothersome details like warrants. The new laws they want simply remove any judicial or administrative oversight so the various governments can do what they please without any questions being asked: DMCA is too much trouble - gosh, we have to send a letter; a warrant is too much trouble - golly, we have to ask a judge to rubber stamp this application. It's tyranny by the lazy and people indifferent to citizen's rights.
I like how he said "that Hollywood and the technology industry 'need to come to an understanding' about new copyright legislation." Hollywood and industry? We peasants don't get a say I guess.
Get the african nations to stop fighting each other
Impossible.
I was to going make some comments about the situation there but everything I wrote sounded racist. How do you address the fact that seems to be a clear pattern of behaviour in that continent that doesn't look like it will ever be solved while the locals are in charge?
I'm not so sure things were better when the Europeans were running the show. The last 400 years of the history of sub-Saharan Africa was largely a world war against the local populations. The extent that some of the locals haven't gotten their act together in the last 50 to form stable governments can probably be traced to that history.
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I do not believe in a god, but I don't believe in organ donation either. I don't generally see a high quality of life for the recipients. In most cases it's just prolonging the agony. If the patients had more legs and the doctor had DVM after his name, this would have been called "inhumane".
Wrong. Recipients of kidney transplants have a high quality of life. As an anecdotal example, my son received a renal transplant 20 years ago and is sill going strong. For something non-anecdotal, see this also.
Who the hell is reading all of these text messages and deciding to arrest someone based on a single message? Is the automated NSA system flagging any message with the word "bomb" and reporting it to the Canadian cops? Were they already following this guy because he's a North African Muslim? Would this have happened to a WASPish white guy? How the hell did they get an arrest warrant based on a single text message? Don't they need warrants in Canada? There's a definite WTF factor about this article.
You mean like Warhol did with Superman?
"Art is what you can get away with." - Andy Warhol
It seems like you can't get away with as much these days, so art suffers.
Back in the heyday of the psychic networks, I actually got a call from some psychic network, soliciting I guess. I'm not sure how or why they got my phone number. I was dumbstruck for a moment, but then I told them if they were truly psychic they would have known I wouldn't be interested and hung up. Around the same time, I had a buddy who had a girlfriend who was working for some psychic hotline. It was a big scam. Keep the suckers on the line as long as you can and tell them what they want to hear, run up the minutes. She said she was going to quit and go back to phone sex work because it was more honest.
Just curious... Can you tell me how many of these scientists predicted a fresh water plume, stirred by iceberg moved by high winds, would cause more ice to melt?
Googling "predictions of arctic fresh water plume" might be a start.
Part of the reason that the US does as well as it does is because cancer is largely a disease of the elderly. Health care for the elderly is socialized through Medicare. The US is particularly poor on infant mortality because of lack of public services for pregnant women and infants. Extend Medicare to pregnant women and I'll bet that would turn around fast. There's a big US debate about saving random fetuses but the infants and mothers among the uninsured don't seem to show up on the radar very well.
What we need to do is take back our republic from the 1%.
It's the highly-paid top marketing minds, political functionaries, spin doctors and government job lifers who conceived of the so-called "1%/99%" dichotomy and wrote all the slogans and seeded the memes that the deluded unwashed of the "Occupy" movement have been made to believe are their own. It's designed to allow Obama -- the candidate deepest in the pocket of the Content Industry -- to play an effective class warfare card in the pending election and defeat the Gordon-Gecko-esque Romney.
Stop being a tool.
Do you have any evidence of that at all? Maybe AdBusters dreamed the idea up, but they are hardly highly paid top marketing types. They can barely market themselves. Where I live, the occupy group seems local. It was inspired by occupy Wall Street etc. but everything I have seen about the local activities makes me think the the occupy movement gave local folks a focus for a lot of existing concerns. Even if the spin doctors might have invented the memes, they lost control of them.
IDK whats wrong if a database has a track of my monthly grocery purchases
It's MY information about ME. I don't collect information about how many cans of soup the market sells and I couldn't without the store's permission. Why should I want them to collect information about me to be sold to a 3rd party without asking me and paying me? If that information is valuable to a store, it's valuable to me. I want to know what clear benefit there is to me and I want to decide which transactions I engage in. I realize that is probably a vain hope since we long ago stopped being customers and became products.
Corporations can and do abuse the legal system to censor free speech, but it is not strictly censorship as it is not the policy of the government, and if it is a found to be a SLAPP there are severe penalties in a lot of courts.
"Censorship is the suppression of speech or other public communication which may be considered objectionable, harmful, sensitive, or inconvenient to the general body of people as determined by a government, media outlet, or other controlling body." wikipedia. It's not just the government, anyone who has control over the means of communication can be a censor.
There's a reason why the constitution doesn't include the right to do whatever drug you might want to do.
The US constitution doesn't grant rights. It contains the rules for operating the government and places limits on what the government can do. For example, the first amendment doesn't grant rights to free speech. It places a restriction on the government's ability to make laws abridging the preexisting rights to speech. The usual arguments for the federal government's ability to restrict drug use are from the constitution's inter-state commerce clauses. The arguments against the fed's ability to restrict drug use are usually based on the 4th amendment restrictions. That poor amendment is so abused by the government, it's on life-support.
Let me add the Free Music Archive to that list. Tons of CC stuff of all types. Also, while I'm at it, I'll add a plug for my favorite radio station WFMU, the best station on this planet (not sure about others, get nothing but static from other planets).
Today's lesson is parents keylogging kids with the aid of the police. How long will it be before the computer savvy among the kids keylog their parents or teachers? Kids learn things quickly. Teach them that spying and dishonesty is the way to treat people and they'll learn the lesson and apply it.
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It could place providers in the position of requiring warrants for all law enforcement requests.
That's the point. It's not that hard to get a warrant. The idea is that another branch of government should be reviewing police actions. Law enforcement should not be getting a free hand to obtain anything they want. The intent of the 4th amendment was that citizens should be allowed to conduct their lives without fear of government intrusion except when that intrusion was justified, reviewed by other branches of the government, and the action were open to the view of citizens. Too bad if that's an inconvenience for law enforcement and the phone company. I'm sorry if my rights are a bit of an inconvenience.
The thing that really gets me about all of this is that the US federal government, states, and localities already have tremendous power to do all of the snooping, spying, and arresting people for online activities that could need. They just need to take care of a few bothersome details like warrants. The new laws they want simply remove any judicial or administrative oversight so the various governments can do what they please without any questions being asked: DMCA is too much trouble - gosh, we have to send a letter; a warrant is too much trouble - golly, we have to ask a judge to rubber stamp this application. It's tyranny by the lazy and people indifferent to citizen's rights.
I like how he said "that Hollywood and the technology industry 'need to come to an understanding' about new copyright legislation." Hollywood and industry? We peasants don't get a say I guess.
Get the african nations to stop fighting each other
Impossible. I was to going make some comments about the situation there but everything I wrote sounded racist. How do you address the fact that seems to be a clear pattern of behaviour in that continent that doesn't look like it will ever be solved while the locals are in charge?
I'm not so sure things were better when the Europeans were running the show. The last 400 years of the history of sub-Saharan Africa was largely a world war against the local populations. The extent that some of the locals haven't gotten their act together in the last 50 to form stable governments can probably be traced to that history.
Of course! It's against the law to lie to Congress, you know!
He had his fingers crossed, so no problem.
Let me just point this out The Bill of Rights for Busy People. Don't worry kids, you don't need those pesky "rights" things anyway.
I do not believe in a god, but I don't believe in organ donation either. I don't generally see a high quality of life for the recipients. In most cases it's just prolonging the agony. If the patients had more legs and the doctor had DVM after his name, this would have been called "inhumane".
Wrong. Recipients of kidney transplants have a high quality of life. As an anecdotal example, my son received a renal transplant 20 years ago and is sill going strong. For something non-anecdotal, see this also.
Who the hell is reading all of these text messages and deciding to arrest someone based on a single message? Is the automated NSA system flagging any message with the word "bomb" and reporting it to the Canadian cops? Were they already following this guy because he's a North African Muslim? Would this have happened to a WASPish white guy? How the hell did they get an arrest warrant based on a single text message? Don't they need warrants in Canada? There's a definite WTF factor about this article.
You mean like Warhol did with Superman?
"Art is what you can get away with." - Andy Warhol
It seems like you can't get away with as much these days, so art suffers.
Back in the heyday of the psychic networks, I actually got a call from some psychic network, soliciting I guess. I'm not sure how or why they got my phone number. I was dumbstruck for a moment, but then I told them if they were truly psychic they would have known I wouldn't be interested and hung up. Around the same time, I had a buddy who had a girlfriend who was working for some psychic hotline. It was a big scam. Keep the suckers on the line as long as you can and tell them what they want to hear, run up the minutes. She said she was going to quit and go back to phone sex work because it was more honest.
Just curious... Can you tell me how many of these scientists predicted a fresh water plume, stirred by iceberg moved by high winds, would cause more ice to melt?
Googling "predictions of arctic fresh water plume" might be a start.
Part of the reason that the US does as well as it does is because cancer is largely a disease of the elderly. Health care for the elderly is socialized through Medicare. The US is particularly poor on infant mortality because of lack of public services for pregnant women and infants. Extend Medicare to pregnant women and I'll bet that would turn around fast. There's a big US debate about saving random fetuses but the infants and mothers among the uninsured don't seem to show up on the radar very well.
What we need to do is take back our republic from the 1%.
It's the highly-paid top marketing minds, political functionaries, spin doctors and government job lifers who conceived of the so-called "1%/99%" dichotomy and wrote all the slogans and seeded the memes that the deluded unwashed of the "Occupy" movement have been made to believe are their own. It's designed to allow Obama -- the candidate deepest in the pocket of the Content Industry -- to play an effective class warfare card in the pending election and defeat the Gordon-Gecko-esque Romney.
Stop being a tool.
Do you have any evidence of that at all? Maybe AdBusters dreamed the idea up, but they are hardly highly paid top marketing types. They can barely market themselves. Where I live, the occupy group seems local. It was inspired by occupy Wall Street etc. but everything I have seen about the local activities makes me think the the occupy movement gave local folks a focus for a lot of existing concerns. Even if the spin doctors might have invented the memes, they lost control of them.
IDK whats wrong if a database has a track of my monthly grocery purchases
It's MY information about ME. I don't collect information about how many cans of soup the market sells and I couldn't without the store's permission. Why should I want them to collect information about me to be sold to a 3rd party without asking me and paying me? If that information is valuable to a store, it's valuable to me. I want to know what clear benefit there is to me and I want to decide which transactions I engage in. I realize that is probably a vain hope since we long ago stopped being customers and became products.
I saw this documentary many years ago, that explains how NOT to be seen..
Or perhaps, you hide the event of being there.
My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government. - Thomas Jefferson
Don't believe everything you read on the internet. - Abraham Lincoln.
This. Mod parent up.
Corporations can and do abuse the legal system to censor free speech, but it is not strictly censorship as it is not the policy of the government, and if it is a found to be a SLAPP there are severe penalties in a lot of courts.
"Censorship is the suppression of speech or other public communication which may be considered objectionable, harmful, sensitive, or inconvenient to the general body of people as determined by a government, media outlet, or other controlling body." wikipedia. It's not just the government, anyone who has control over the means of communication can be a censor.
Don't worry, problem solved.
There's a reason why the constitution doesn't include the right to do whatever drug you might want to do.
The US constitution doesn't grant rights. It contains the rules for operating the government and places limits on what the government can do. For example, the first amendment doesn't grant rights to free speech. It places a restriction on the government's ability to make laws abridging the preexisting rights to speech. The usual arguments for the federal government's ability to restrict drug use are from the constitution's inter-state commerce clauses. The arguments against the fed's ability to restrict drug use are usually based on the 4th amendment restrictions. That poor amendment is so abused by the government, it's on life-support.
You can get the roll call votes here
House: here
Senate: here
If you're nostalgic, you can get Turbo Pascal here and run it on Linux with dosbox.
Let me add the Free Music Archive to that list. Tons of CC stuff of all types. Also, while I'm at it, I'll add a plug for my favorite radio station WFMU, the best station on this planet (not sure about others, get nothing but static from other planets).
You're not the only one who notices this phenomenon, but some people think it's confirmation bias.
Today's lesson is parents keylogging kids with the aid of the police. How long will it be before the computer savvy among the kids keylog their parents or teachers? Kids learn things quickly. Teach them that spying and dishonesty is the way to treat people and they'll learn the lesson and apply it.
Single point of failure. If the FBI can get in the backdoor, so can lots of others.