Let me point out the US Constitution, where the reasons for veto aren't spelled out either, and that the President can veto anything he likes, even if it's submitted on a type of paper he dislikes or his mood or anything trivial. While those reasons aren't used, there is no requirement that the President have a valid reason to veto.
Spelling out "valid" reasons required for veto is to claim to predict the future and all contingencies, which is impossible.
If the real problem is that the Royal Family is unelected, then make the head of state an elected executive subject to term limits or not and fix the problem the right way.
Parliamentary systems without "winner take all" elections are not the same as what we have here in the states. It's a structural difference. Different things completely.
>Just because there aren't formal groups doesn't mean that coalitions aren't formed independent of party lines
Bipartisanship is a fucking joke. Have you fucking *looked* at our legislature lately? You have to ignore reality to say that party lines don't matter.
>Sure you can. That the government created the National Helium Reserve and its attendant bureaucracy for dirigibles and is still holding onto it in 2012 is ludicrous,
It's like you totally missed the story about the helium shortage affecting MRI scanning.
>. Coming from a parliamentary system I have seen grassroot parties grow from nothing to destroy the establishment.
The US government is not a parliamentary system where various parties can form coalitions and whatnot. There is no such thing as a "minority government" in the US legislature.
He's upset that the government and criminals just willy-nilly ignore privacy advocates, while privacy advocates hold his company's feet to the fire on privacy rights.
Because his company should be allowed to be just as crooked as the governments and criminals.
It's all so much schoolyard whining and toddler mentality.
"But mooooom! The other kids are stealing information too!" "If the other kids all jumped off the Tappan Zee, would you?" "No, but mooom, it's not faaaaaaaaaaair!"
Transparency, or lack thereof, will determine if people in the market stay in the market or desert the market. It's called confidence in the market. And if confidence disappears, you have no market, because everyone leaves.
People eventually get tired of being fucked in the ass with no lube or reach-around and look for nicer places to be fucked in the ass or find ways to stop being fucked in the ass.
"I've been kicked out of classier joints than this."
There is only one person i know of on Fox that has any redeeming qualities, and that is Shepard Smith. But he doesn't make up for the rest of the derp on that network.
It's obviously an experiment in painting the tape. Make bids, cancel them. Walk stocks up and down with the bid price. Head-fake other HFT corps that track bid prices in their algorithms.
It went badly because it was detected. It needs tweaking to be not so obvious next time. And yes, there will be a next time.
It's a casino now. It's been a casino for a while, and if you're not part of the house, you're the mark.
Machines used: the year before I got into compsci at the highschool - a PDP11 First semester doing compsci: TRS80 model IV machines. Second semester: we got a bunch of Apple IIe machines, which is how we got the assembly programming done.
Prerequisites were pre-algebra or algebra1 taken concurrently.
I would rather the receiver be made smart enough to be able to distinguish one point-source of EM radiation from another than restrict what people can broadcast and with what equipment.
Then you don't understand physics and expect the world work on magic.
And if I'm caught with real pepper spray (not bear spray) 10 miles from here, I go to jail.
In Massachusetts, residents may purchase defense sprays only from licensed Firearms Dealers in that state, and must hold a valid Firearms Identification Card (FID) or License to Carry Firearms (LTC) to purchase or to possess outside of one's own private property.[40] It is classed as "ammunition",[41] unlicensed possession of which is punishable by up to 2 years in prison.[42]
> Once it becomes clear that it's considered the same and will be treated the same as if they slugged someone in the face people will stop doing it.
In a perfect world.
But we don't live in a perfect world. We no longer live in that 300 member tribe where everyone knew everyone and getting caught meant embarrassment or ostracism by consensus.
You cannot buy a transmitter that outputs to anything but Part 12 frequencies *or* CB unless you have a license. Do you want your next door neigbor with a severe learning disability installing a 1500w transciever and throwing harmonics all over the place because he can't be arsed to balance his load and get a respectable swr and blow whatever signal you *might* recieve on your fancy schmancy HDTV? Or worse yet, fucking around in UHF and microwave frequencies?
No?
Then what's your problem with regulating another part of the EM spectrum that can also cause physical harm to people?
We regulate explosives. We regulate a whole bunch of things, because it's not enough to wait around for people to get angry. This is why we have civilization instead of a bunch of warlords driving around with.50cal machine guns driving down the street.
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>Secure boot is a good thing. It stops pre-boot malware.
So?
Why is it mandatory on ARM but not x86?
>buy an iPad, Kindle, or Android device. You have choices.
This is disingenuous, at best.
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The other person already answered what it's about. I will answer this:
As you can easily turn it off if you will,
Not on ARM you can't.
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Because secure boot has never been about securely booting.
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What a bunch of whining.
"need of a proper written constitution"
Let me point out the US Constitution, where the reasons for veto aren't spelled out either, and that the President can veto anything he likes, even if it's submitted on a type of paper he dislikes or his mood or anything trivial. While those reasons aren't used, there is no requirement that the President have a valid reason to veto.
Spelling out "valid" reasons required for veto is to claim to predict the future and all contingencies, which is impossible.
If the real problem is that the Royal Family is unelected, then make the head of state an elected executive subject to term limits or not and fix the problem the right way.
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> Interesting that BSD/Apache/MIT is all the rage these days.
Really?
The only place I see that is the trollfest that is /g/.
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>No, it's not beside the point.
Parliamentary systems without "winner take all" elections are not the same as what we have here in the states. It's a structural difference. Different things completely.
>Just because there aren't formal groups doesn't mean that coalitions aren't formed independent of party lines
Bipartisanship is a fucking joke. Have you fucking *looked* at our legislature lately? You have to ignore reality to say that party lines don't matter.
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>Sure you can. That the government created the National Helium Reserve and its attendant bureaucracy for dirigibles and is still holding onto it in 2012 is ludicrous,
It's like you totally missed the story about the helium shortage affecting MRI scanning.
http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/08/23/theres-a-helium-shortage-on-and-its-affecting-more-than-just-balloons/#the-government
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>. Coming from a parliamentary system I have seen grassroot parties grow from nothing to destroy the establishment.
The US government is not a parliamentary system where various parties can form coalitions and whatnot. There is no such thing as a "minority government" in the US legislature.
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Romney is even more authoritarian.
Unfortunately, in a two party system, you are bound to pick the lesser of two evils, and a vote for a third party is a vote for the incumbent.
In b4 shitstorm of people who don't know how the system is deliberately broken.
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The overall effect is the same.
Tacit approval means that the Court will simply look the other way. While it doesn't set legal precident, it certainly sends a signal.
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>Denying a petition doesn't mean the SCOTUS agrees with the lower decision just that the Court won't hear the case for whatever reason
Tacit approval is still approval.
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He's upset that the government and criminals just willy-nilly ignore privacy advocates, while privacy advocates hold his company's feet to the fire on privacy rights.
Because his company should be allowed to be just as crooked as the governments and criminals.
It's all so much schoolyard whining and toddler mentality.
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"But mooooom! The other kids are stealing information too!"
"If the other kids all jumped off the Tappan Zee, would you?"
"No, but mooom, it's not faaaaaaaaaaair!"
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Let's get one thing clear:
Transparency, or lack thereof, will determine if people in the market stay in the market or desert the market. It's called confidence in the market. And if confidence disappears, you have no market, because everyone leaves.
People eventually get tired of being fucked in the ass with no lube or reach-around and look for nicer places to be fucked in the ass or find ways to stop being fucked in the ass.
"I've been kicked out of classier joints than this."
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There is only one person i know of on Fox that has any redeeming qualities, and that is Shepard Smith. But he doesn't make up for the rest of the derp on that network.
He deserves better.
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I was amused. TYVM.
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"The motive of the algorithm is still unclear."
Oh what a load of bullshit.
It's obviously an experiment in painting the tape. Make bids, cancel them. Walk stocks up and down with the bid price. Head-fake other HFT corps that track bid prices in their algorithms.
It went badly because it was detected. It needs tweaking to be not so obvious next time. And yes, there will be a next time.
It's a casino now. It's been a casino for a while, and if you're not part of the house, you're the mark.
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I am serious and not serious.
I am serious in implying that we taught the Chinese well.
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>China practically invented the category of Gov't spyware in electronics.
NSAKEY
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...were taught BASIC and 6502 Assembly.
Machines used: the year before I got into compsci at the highschool - a PDP11
First semester doing compsci: TRS80 model IV machines.
Second semester: we got a bunch of Apple IIe machines, which is how we got the assembly programming done.
Prerequisites were pre-algebra or algebra1 taken concurrently.
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I would rather the receiver be made smart enough to be able to distinguish one point-source of EM radiation from another than restrict what people can broadcast and with what equipment.
Then you don't understand physics and expect the world work on magic.
This is telling.
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It's not just him though.
You are arguing that it's just this guy.
There are *thousands* of idiots doing this.
Down in Virginia Beach, people shine them from their hotel balconies at incoming jets.
Because they think it's cool.
5 years ago, I held the same belief that you have. I thought the Australia laws were nuts. I no longer believe so.
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The people who subscribe to the Genesis story always hovers around 45-48 percent of Americans.
It's been that way since the Scopes trial.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/05/americans-believe-in-creationism_n_1571127.html
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And if I'm caught with real pepper spray (not bear spray) 10 miles from here, I go to jail.
In Massachusetts, residents may purchase defense sprays only from licensed Firearms Dealers in that state, and must hold a valid Firearms Identification Card (FID) or License to Carry Firearms (LTC) to purchase or to possess outside of one's own private property.[40] It is classed as "ammunition",[41] unlicensed possession of which is punishable by up to 2 years in prison.[42]
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> Once it becomes clear that it's considered the same and will be treated the same as if they slugged someone in the face people will stop doing it.
In a perfect world.
But we don't live in a perfect world. We no longer live in that 300 member tribe where everyone knew everyone and getting caught meant embarrassment or ostracism by consensus.
You cannot buy a transmitter that outputs to anything but Part 12 frequencies *or* CB unless you have a license. Do you want your next door neigbor with a severe learning disability installing a 1500w transciever and throwing harmonics all over the place because he can't be arsed to balance his load and get a respectable swr and blow whatever signal you *might* recieve on your fancy schmancy HDTV? Or worse yet, fucking around in UHF and microwave frequencies?
No?
Then what's your problem with regulating another part of the EM spectrum that can also cause physical harm to people?
We regulate explosives. We regulate a whole bunch of things, because it's not enough to wait around for people to get angry. This is why we have civilization instead of a bunch of warlords driving around with .50cal machine guns driving down the street.
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