His plan to make everyone who uses the Internet "show papers" aside, his commentary about the hypocrisy of Silicon Valley billionaires is to the point.
But the solution to this isn't LESS privacy, it's MORE privacy, if anything.
It's not only a racial issue. It's an issue of many American cops being overzealous assholes, drunk on power, that don't know to leave well enough alone. They're the agents of a vicious set of governments that imprisons more people per capita than any civilized country and which tried to force people to conform to anti-pleasure victimless crime laws. Anything that erodes their power and authority is a good thing.
As far as the Gates case, it's not like cops whose widdle feewings get hurt ever lie. Cops are the most honest, upstanding citizens, right?
Most of Continental Europe doesn't enough of a fuck to increase surveillance, especially further East -- they learned the lessons of authoritarianism under the Soviets.
We're not talking about the ticket stampers on trains, but the people at the station selling tickets BEFORE boarding. Amtrak has people stamping (or scanning) tickets as well.
Because the National Radio Quiet Zone prohibits WiFi, satellite internet, and cell service in a large part of W. Va. to protect radio astronomy telescopes from interference. The "lack of Internet" is due to this, I suspect, not because of poverty or lack of will.
The National Radio Quiet Zone covers a large part of West Virginia. The "lack of Internet" is by design, though I guess wired Internet is still possible. No WiFi, satellite Internet, or cell service allowed to protect radio telescopes from interference.
I'd argue that the ability to buy tickets for cash is a good enough reason to have ticket agents. And also the ability to make certain changes to trips in progress that aren't always possible online.
Document editing: desktop. Scroogle Crapps and Orifice Online both stink. Chat: mobile app, generally. Email: desktop app or mobile app. Webmail is slow and silly.
So the first two could be bar fights and the last stealing a sandwich. Even in California's implementation, the law is idiotic. I don't love violent crime, but I do think that violent crims can be rehabilitated.
How many crimes? Case by case decision, and should be subject to a parole review after 10 years. A person is often completely different at age 35 than at age 25.
Prof. Gates showed his papers. Cop should have seen he lived there, told him to have a nice day, and gone to fuck off. Instead, he chose to stay, probably go on a fishing expedition for warrants. That's when Gates (tired after a long trip) got snippy. BTW, it's not actually illegal to be rude to a cop. Nah. Screw that cop. The US would be better off with less powerful cops who are too scared of bad publicity to do their jobs zealously.
Regardless of Trayvon Martin's past history, he was being stalked by an armed man. An armed man with a recent history of armed domestic abuse.
Regarding Ferguson, the shooting may or may not have had merit. But their police force and town government are pure corrupt scum, deriving a large % of their revenue from tickets for very minor offenses and associated court costs. Basically a parasitic local government, similar to (but not quite as bad as) Tenaha, TX.
Obama brought some very real issues about overzealous, corrupt law enforcement to the front, and I'm glad they're finally being discussed. Cops are humans, not the blameless "heroes" that many Americans liked to think of them as after 9/11.
They're also a distraction in lectures/classes -- you retain a lot more if you're taking notes on paper and not browsing the Internet. Honestly, this should extend to all electronic devices like laptops and tablets unless there's an accommodation for a disability.
(4) Cops generally don't get ENOUGH shit in this country. American cops are 50% about doing decent work, 50% about zealously enforcing victimless crime laws that have no place outside a theocracy. Fuck that second part of their "jerbs."
Accusations of race-baiting are cr@p. He called asshat cops on some of their worse actions (harassing a man "breaking into" his own house, Holder's attempt to dial back civil forfeiture) instead of calling them "heroes" even if what they did was wrong.
The race-baiting came mainly from people who couldn't stand a Black president actually standing up for civil rights. Many "constitutional conservatives" are only conservative until people who don't look like them demand their Constitutional rights. When that happens, only the Second Amendment seems to matter.
Our national debt per person is actually lower than many other developed countries. Americans are also often the creditors as well as the debtors -- in the form of bonds and bond holding funds.
Can you give us one good reason out of the 10 trillion total, or will you leave us hanging?
He wasn't perfect in many ways. But he did: (1) Start us on the path to criminal justice/drug law reform. Mass incarceration is hugely expensive. (2) Shore up the economy after the 2008 crash, and push regulations to keep the same thing from repeating. (3) Help set up a (mediocre, but better than pre-2010) insurance system that allowed the self-employed with pre-existing conditions to get health care. Also, loosened the ties between insurance and employment, increasing worker mobility. ACA does a bad job at cost control, but it's still better than what existed before 2010.
I was on a plane with a fuel leak from a fuel pump cover on the wing. Pointed it out to the flight attendant, one of the pilots walked back and looked out the window. He determined that it wasn't severe enough to be a concern, and we made a normal landing at our destination (we were only about 40 min away when this happened).
Slashdot Mirror
His plan to make everyone who uses the Internet "show papers" aside, his commentary about the hypocrisy of Silicon Valley billionaires is to the point.
But the solution to this isn't LESS privacy, it's MORE privacy, if anything.
UK's security minister needs to go bugger a diseased goat, says anyone who's not an authoritarian skumbag...
How do you verify that a country has actually disarmed without experts in technical means of verification?
It's not only a racial issue. It's an issue of many American cops being overzealous assholes, drunk on power, that don't know to leave well enough alone. They're the agents of a vicious set of governments that imprisons more people per capita than any civilized country and which tried to force people to conform to anti-pleasure victimless crime laws. Anything that erodes their power and authority is a good thing.
As far as the Gates case, it's not like cops whose widdle feewings get hurt ever lie. Cops are the most honest, upstanding citizens, right?
Most of Continental Europe doesn't enough of a fuck to increase surveillance, especially further East -- they learned the lessons of authoritarianism under the Soviets.
Yeah, you know they're acting like trash when even Federal cops complain about their tactics.
Almost makes me want to move there -- lack of techbros on their phones/absorbed in their "devices" is a feature, not a bug.
To make this cost-effective, they'd have to get rid of the National Radio Quiet Zone.
We're not talking about the ticket stampers on trains, but the people at the station selling tickets BEFORE boarding. Amtrak has people stamping (or scanning) tickets as well.
Because the National Radio Quiet Zone prohibits WiFi, satellite internet, and cell service in a large part of W. Va. to protect radio astronomy telescopes from interference. The "lack of Internet" is due to this, I suspect, not because of poverty or lack of will.
The National Radio Quiet Zone covers a large part of West Virginia. The "lack of Internet" is by design, though I guess wired Internet is still possible. No WiFi, satellite Internet, or cell service allowed to protect radio telescopes from interference.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
I'd argue that the ability to buy tickets for cash is a good enough reason to have ticket agents. And also the ability to make certain changes to trips in progress that aren't always possible online.
Document editing: desktop. Scroogle Crapps and Orifice Online both stink.
Chat: mobile app, generally.
Email: desktop app or mobile app. Webmail is slow and silly.
So the first two could be bar fights and the last stealing a sandwich. Even in California's implementation, the law is idiotic. I don't love violent crime, but I do think that violent crims can be rehabilitated.
How many crimes? Case by case decision, and should be subject to a parole review after 10 years. A person is often completely different at age 35 than at age 25.
Prof. Gates showed his papers. Cop should have seen he lived there, told him to have a nice day, and gone to fuck off. Instead, he chose to stay, probably go on a fishing expedition for warrants. That's when Gates (tired after a long trip) got snippy. BTW, it's not actually illegal to be rude to a cop. Nah. Screw that cop. The US would be better off with less powerful cops who are too scared of bad publicity to do their jobs zealously.
Regardless of Trayvon Martin's past history, he was being stalked by an armed man. An armed man with a recent history of armed domestic abuse.
Regarding Ferguson, the shooting may or may not have had merit. But their police force and town government are pure corrupt scum, deriving a large % of their revenue from tickets for very minor offenses and associated court costs. Basically a parasitic local government, similar to (but not quite as bad as) Tenaha, TX.
Obama brought some very real issues about overzealous, corrupt law enforcement to the front, and I'm glad they're finally being discussed. Cops are humans, not the blameless "heroes" that many Americans liked to think of them as after 9/11.
What does one thing have to do to another? Not that cops having less ability to conduct surveillance is ever a bad thing.
They're also a distraction in lectures/classes -- you retain a lot more if you're taking notes on paper and not browsing the Internet. Honestly, this should extend to all electronic devices like laptops and tablets unless there's an accommodation for a disability.
He was right -- Obamacare ~= Romneycare.
(4) Cops generally don't get ENOUGH shit in this country. American cops are 50% about doing decent work, 50% about zealously enforcing victimless crime laws that have no place outside a theocracy. Fuck that second part of their "jerbs."
Agreed that Romneycare was worse than single-payer (or ideally, a hybrid public-private system like in UK or Germany).
Accusations of race-baiting are cr@p. He called asshat cops on some of their worse actions (harassing a man "breaking into" his own house, Holder's attempt to dial back civil forfeiture) instead of calling them "heroes" even if what they did was wrong.
The race-baiting came mainly from people who couldn't stand a Black president actually standing up for civil rights. Many "constitutional conservatives" are only conservative until people who don't look like them demand their Constitutional rights. When that happens, only the Second Amendment seems to matter.
Our national debt per person is actually lower than many other developed countries. Americans are also often the creditors as well as the debtors -- in the form of bonds and bond holding funds.
Can you give us one good reason out of the 10 trillion total, or will you leave us hanging?
He wasn't perfect in many ways. But he did:
(1) Start us on the path to criminal justice/drug law reform. Mass incarceration is hugely expensive.
(2) Shore up the economy after the 2008 crash, and push regulations to keep the same thing from repeating.
(3) Help set up a (mediocre, but better than pre-2010) insurance system that allowed the self-employed with pre-existing conditions to get health care. Also, loosened the ties between insurance and employment, increasing worker mobility. ACA does a bad job at cost control, but it's still better than what existed before 2010.
I'd pay $30 to have a real window, not a fake-ass screen.
I was on a plane with a fuel leak from a fuel pump cover on the wing. Pointed it out to the flight attendant, one of the pilots walked back and looked out the window. He determined that it wasn't severe enough to be a concern, and we made a normal landing at our destination (we were only about 40 min away when this happened).