In this case, we have some small amount of voter fraud... dead people voting, vote buying, etc. An obvious solution is to do a better job with voter identity.
In this case we have such a small amount of voter fraud that it is significantly less than the margin of error in the counting process. Given that basic fact, any argument for tightening up access to voting must be seen as disinegenuous.
In the US, one of the major networks is owned by one of the major arms manufacturers, GE who also forced their employees to sit through right-wing propaganda videos narrated by Ronald Reagan.
GE recently sold NBC to Comcast. That's probably even worse for the country as a whole though.
Well of course the numbers are larger you silly child there are more accessories for iPhone than for Android. Its a numbers game at that point and not a telling of the markets movement.
I'll have to remember this one.... Making more varieties of something guarantees you will take all the top sales spots. Brilliant!
If the #1 selling item does 1 million units and the #2 does 100,000 - then making 8 different varieties of the #1 item and splitting the market 8 different ways will move the #2 guy down to #9 without any change in actual units being sold.
the advantage of Facebook is that random family & friends are likely to have an account, while you don't know a single person who has a freedom box.
Network effect. And for those who don't want an actual freedombox, let them run an instance in the cloud, it is still better than facebook's model of centralization for corporate stalking purposes. Amazon has tiers that are essentially free for personal use as long as you stay under cputime/diskspace/bandwidth limits.
Screw the children. The raspberry sounds like a near perfect platform for a freedom box. Imagine your own personal "facebook" server that knows how to find the personal servers of all your friends without actually relying on the "man in the middle attack" that is facebook itself.
His ideas are more "calm" than those of his father. I have yet to hear any Rand position that I would object to.
The guy is a bigot and a hyopcrite when it comes to religious freedom - suggesting that even though the population of a religious minority has increased substantially in a neighborhood over the years, that they should not build themselves a church but should instead commute to a church somewhere else because people who don't even live there would have their feelings hurt otherwise.
He also supports TSA profiling - and not some mythical irsaeli-style behavior profiling either.
Sometimes politicians say stupid stuff. Like when Obama said there are 57 states.
I don't agree either with Paul (slavery is too strong a word) or Obama (there are only 50 states),
There is at least one big difference - Paul means what he said, Obama was just campaign weary. Really, any kid growing up in Hawaii knows damn well there are only 50 states because the schools in Hawaii practically indoctrinate the kids with the fact that Hawaii is the 50th state. But if you grew up in Kenya, then you might know that...
But you can't go wrong with the ALA Caldecott winners and honorees. The ALA takes childrens books seriously so you can count on their recommendations to always be top notch. Many public libraries will even have a seperate display of caldecott winners to make it easier for parents to find them.
Apparently, when Bush referred to the Constitution as "just a goddamn piece of paper" he wasn't only being a traitorous ass, he was setting legal precedent.
The longer people on the payroll, the more they cost - if you don't generate more for the company than you cost, why should they keep you on staff?
That attitude is fine - as long as management is never tries to exploit employee loyalty to work for less than market rates. Goose and gander as it were...
You can pronounce it anything you want. It doesn't make it anything more than your personal opinion. Society is not obligated to enable you to foist your opinions on others as if they were facts.
Lol. There are no facts. Everything is opinion. Just some opinions are better supported than others.
Were there even Carrier Contracts involved, or was BART using off the shelf Cellular repeaters that anyone can buy, which they would be fully within their right to turn off?
There are a lot of questions to be answered before some guy on slash dot can pronounce something illegal, plain and simple.
Sure. But what we can do is pronounce it immoral and a societally destructive abuse of power. And spare me the claims of BART being a private enterprise - they operate at the will of the public even if they have wrapped themselves in fine print and legalese to try to shirk their responsibilities.
That said, your note that you believe the slippery slope is coming to reach to turning off the power is a bit much. Yeah you could have been exaggerating for fun but honestly, that's just silly.
So, which is more useful - blocking communications between members of a dangerous mob or blocking communications of potential victims of that dangerous mob to do things like call 911?
Of course that question assumes that you buy the claims that the mob is dangerous to anything more than the jobs of the people turning off the communications.
Uh yeah. And what's ridiculous about commerce clause expansion is how the group that is happy to use it to administratively outlaw drugs is for the most part the same group that is terribly upset that it is used to require people to purchase health insurance. No fun drugs for you and no functional drugs either. I guess maybe they are consistent after all..
None of those cases did or would have involved the FBI. Other countries have other security circumstances. It is conceivable that you would have a valid point if we were talking about those countries. But we are not, we are talking about homegrown plotters.
BTW I think drugs should be decriminalized. Per the 10th amendment Congress has zero authority to ban them... no more authority than they have to ban alcohol.
Indeed. It took a freakin constitutional ammendment to outlaw liquor, but now the DEA can just publish a new drug schedule and tada, they've outlawed some new drug without congress even voting on it.
Funny how it is. When a young-looking woman poses as an underage girl online and 40-year old men get arrested for trying to have sex with her, it's catching predators.
That's frequently bullshit too. Just like these "terrorists" almost all of the guys caught up in online pedo stings are witless patsies that pose only the most minor risk because they are by definition too stupid to really get anywhere without some LEO orchestrating the whole thing.
Another thing to note is the ridiculously low standard of evidence in these trials. Part of the reason the FBI gets away with these ridiculous con-jobs is that the standard of proof for terrorism charges has been lowered practically into the ground over the last decade. To be clear, if these were criminal conspiracy charges for anything other than "terrorism" they would almost always be thrown out of court.
But what it seems its doing is much more appropriate than that -- flooding the pools of potential recruits with undercover agents, flooding the supply chain for explosives etc with informers, etc so anyone who tries to get a major attack off the ground ends up running into one of the traps and ultimately arrested before the plot can come to fruition.
The problem with your analysis is that it presumes there are realistic threats somewhere out there in the first place. There aren't. All of this work is for naught. How do I know? Because universally these cases turn out to be witless patsies. If they were stopping real threats there would be some seriously hardened guys in there with all the doofuses. But there aren't.
Then there is the lack of actual succesful attacks. It would be ridiculous to believe that any system would be perfect in the face of the existential threat these guys are made out to be. And yet the record for actual home-grown attacks over the last decade is basically two or three whackjobs with some guns and that one guy who flew his plane into the IRS building. I think the death toll is under 20 people all told. That level of risk just does not justify the resources that are put into these schemes not to mention the erosion of public confidence that it brings.
Meanwhile real crimes go unsolved because of the resources spent on these con-job photo-ops.
Jury nullification is a bunch of white guys acquitting another white guy for lynching his daughter's black boyfriend, because they think that shouldn't count as murder.
It has no place in a healthy judicial system.
That example is misleading bullshit. In a situation like that, chances are lots of other people in the system are bigots too, including the judge, the cops who can withhold or plant evidence, the local politicians who write the laws and the electorate who puts them in office.
I'm sure stuff like that actually happened, but I am even more sure that jury nullification has been used to invalidate racist laws too.
Jury nullification is by no means a panacea, but it is one more iteration in the system of legal oversight that is inherently imperfect.
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In this case, we have some small amount of voter fraud... dead people voting, vote buying, etc. An obvious solution is to do a better job with voter identity.
In this case we have such a small amount of voter fraud that it is significantly less than the margin of error in the counting process. Given that basic fact, any argument for tightening up access to voting must be seen as disinegenuous.
In the US, one of the major networks is owned by one of the major arms manufacturers, GE who also forced their employees to sit through right-wing propaganda videos narrated by Ronald Reagan.
GE recently sold NBC to Comcast. That's probably even worse for the country as a whole though.
Well of course the numbers are larger you silly child there are more accessories for iPhone than for Android. Its a numbers game at that point and not a telling of the markets movement.
I'll have to remember this one.... Making more varieties of something guarantees you will take all the top sales spots. Brilliant!
If the #1 selling item does 1 million units and the #2 does 100,000 - then making 8 different varieties of the #1 item and splitting the market 8 different ways will move the #2 guy down to #9 without any change in actual units being sold.
thepiratebay.se works for me with BSNL (which is govt owned), so I doubt private ISPs would be quicker to block it.
Are any of the private ISPs butt-buddies with the MAFIAA like they are in the US? For them, the law would be a convenient excuse instead of a burden.
the advantage of Facebook is that random family & friends are likely to have an account, while you don't know a single person who has a freedom box.
Network effect. And for those who don't want an actual freedombox, let them run an instance in the cloud, it is still better than facebook's model of centralization for corporate stalking purposes. Amazon has tiers that are essentially free for personal use as long as you stay under cputime/diskspace/bandwidth limits.
Screw the children. The raspberry sounds like a near perfect platform for a freedom box. Imagine your own personal "facebook" server that knows how to find the personal servers of all your friends without actually relying on the "man in the middle attack" that is facebook itself.
His ideas are more "calm" than those of his father. I have yet to hear any Rand position that I would object to.
The guy is a bigot and a hyopcrite when it comes to religious freedom - suggesting that even though the population of a religious minority has increased substantially in a neighborhood over the years, that they should not build themselves a church but should instead commute to a church somewhere else because people who don't even live there would have their feelings hurt otherwise.
He also supports TSA profiling - and not some mythical irsaeli-style behavior profiling either.
Sometimes politicians say stupid stuff. Like when Obama said there are 57 states.
I don't agree either with Paul (slavery is too strong a word) or Obama (there are only 50 states),
There is at least one big difference - Paul means what he said, Obama was just campaign weary. Really, any kid growing up in Hawaii knows damn well there are only 50 states because the schools in Hawaii practically indoctrinate the kids with the fact that Hawaii is the 50th state. But if you grew up in Kenya, then you might know that...
I don't know about comic books per se
But you can't go wrong with the ALA Caldecott winners and honorees. The ALA takes childrens books seriously so you can count on their recommendations to always be top notch. Many public libraries will even have a seperate display of caldecott winners to make it easier for parents to find them.
Apparently, when Bush referred to the Constitution as "just a goddamn piece of paper" he wasn't only being a traitorous ass, he was setting legal precedent.
Yeah! Except for the fact that he never said anything remotely like that.
True scepticism means doubting the things you really want to be true.
The longer people on the payroll, the more they cost - if you don't generate more for the company than you cost, why should they keep you on staff?
That attitude is fine - as long as management is never tries to exploit employee loyalty to work for less than market rates. Goose and gander as it were...
You can pronounce it anything you want. It doesn't make it anything more than your personal opinion. Society is not obligated to enable you to foist your opinions on others as if they were facts.
Lol. There are no facts. Everything is opinion. Just some opinions are better supported than others.
For every instance where it turned over an oppressive law there's a murderer who goes free because the jury doesn't see the rights of his victims.
Again, wishful thinking on your part. You are so confident in the rate of abuse, lets see some data.
Were there even Carrier Contracts involved, or was BART using off the shelf Cellular repeaters that anyone can buy, which they would be fully within their right to turn off?
There are a lot of questions to be answered before some guy on slash dot can pronounce something illegal, plain and simple.
Sure. But what we can do is pronounce it immoral and a societally destructive abuse of power. And spare me the claims of BART being a private enterprise - they operate at the will of the public even if they have wrapped themselves in fine print and legalese to try to shirk their responsibilities.
That said, your note that you believe the slippery slope is coming to reach to turning off the power is a bit much. Yeah you could have been exaggerating for fun but honestly, that's just silly.
So, which is more useful - blocking communications between members of a dangerous mob or blocking communications of potential victims of that dangerous mob to do things like call 911?
Of course that question assumes that you buy the claims that the mob is dangerous to anything more than the jobs of the people turning off the communications.
Uh yeah. And what's ridiculous about commerce clause expansion is how the group that is happy to use it to administratively outlaw drugs is for the most part the same group that is terribly upset that it is used to require people to purchase health insurance. No fun drugs for you and no functional drugs either. I guess maybe they are consistent after all..
In fact the vast majority of cases of jury nullification have followed this exact pattern.
Sounds like wishful thinking on your part.
Ah, so you are just making the same point that circlesquare already did - we need to lock up all the idiots.
None of those cases did or would have involved the FBI. Other countries have other security circumstances. It is conceivable that you would have a valid point if we were talking about those countries. But we are not, we are talking about homegrown plotters.
In my part of the woods, the Microsoft language is simply known as C hash.
Why (honestly curious)?
Because you have to get seriously baked to think it is a good idea to use it?
yeah, it's a honeypot operation. and better the fbi catch the witless pansies before someone hardened and malintentioned puts them to bad use
If you want to lock up all the idiots in the world then that prison is going to have be really, really big.
BTW I think drugs should be decriminalized. Per the 10th amendment Congress has zero authority to ban them... no more authority than they have to ban alcohol.
Indeed. It took a freakin constitutional ammendment to outlaw liquor, but now the DEA can just publish a new drug schedule and tada, they've outlawed some new drug without congress even voting on it.
Funny how it is. When a young-looking woman poses as an underage girl online and 40-year old men get arrested for trying to have sex with her, it's catching predators.
That's frequently bullshit too. Just like these "terrorists" almost all of the guys caught up in online pedo stings are witless patsies that pose only the most minor risk because they are by definition too stupid to really get anywhere without some LEO orchestrating the whole thing.
Another thing to note is the ridiculously low standard of evidence in these trials. Part of the reason the FBI gets away with these ridiculous con-jobs is that the standard of proof for terrorism charges has been lowered practically into the ground over the last decade. To be clear, if these were criminal conspiracy charges for anything other than "terrorism" they would almost always be thrown out of court.
But what it seems its doing is much more appropriate than that -- flooding the pools of potential recruits with undercover agents, flooding the supply chain for explosives etc with informers, etc so anyone who tries to get a major attack off the ground ends up running into one of the traps and ultimately arrested before the plot can come to fruition.
The problem with your analysis is that it presumes there are realistic threats somewhere out there in the first place. There aren't. All of this work is for naught. How do I know? Because universally these cases turn out to be witless patsies. If they were stopping real threats there would be some seriously hardened guys in there with all the doofuses. But there aren't.
Then there is the lack of actual succesful attacks. It would be ridiculous to believe that any system would be perfect in the face of the existential threat these guys are made out to be. And yet the record for actual home-grown attacks over the last decade is basically two or three whackjobs with some guns and that one guy who flew his plane into the IRS building. I think the death toll is under 20 people all told. That level of risk just does not justify the resources that are put into these schemes not to mention the erosion of public confidence that it brings.
Meanwhile real crimes go unsolved because of the resources spent on these con-job photo-ops.
Jury nullification is a bunch of white guys acquitting another white guy for lynching his daughter's black boyfriend, because they think that shouldn't count as murder.
It has no place in a healthy judicial system.
That example is misleading bullshit. In a situation like that, chances are lots of other people in the system are bigots too, including the judge, the cops who can withhold or plant evidence, the local politicians who write the laws and the electorate who puts them in office.
I'm sure stuff like that actually happened, but I am even more sure that jury nullification has been used to invalidate racist laws too.
Jury nullification is by no means a panacea, but it is one more iteration in the system of legal oversight that is inherently imperfect.