As long as its not illegal to completely disable these devices I wouldn't have a problem with it in my car, but its a very slippery slope as you alluded to with the seatbelt. The government could simply make it illegal to disable such a system, and next thing you know police are using it to disable cars with offensive bumper stickers (say a darwin fish in the southern USA? chevy loyal cops disabling fords? or just giving a cop an eye he doesnt like).
Of course cops would not get away with this. If they could, they would do it now. Most people do stop when the flashing lights come out. The reason that would never happen is the same reason that it doesn't happen now. Cops like their jobs and don't want to pay you for the rest of their lives for something stupid like that because you will sue them into submission. I personally think most cops are good. Some are evil, and if they are already evil. Bottom line is, if anyone, cop or civilian begins to believe they are above the law, then bad things happen.
Considering that no one has a right to drive on a public road. It is a privilege afforded by the government, then I say the one who doles out the privilege can mandate it's use in any way they choose. If you play on my yard, you'd better not tear up the grass, even if you use your own toys. And you can't be stabbing yourself with your own toys in my backyard either. I'll make you leave. Now, as far as I know, there is no law that prohibits driving a car without a seatbelt on your own land, or driving without a permit, etc. You can be a stupid as you want on your own road, but not on the governments' road. I think it's great that those who use my money to build the roads we all use makes being stupid on the road more difficult.
If Bush came out and said 'ya I fired them - so what?'
If that happened he would have been massacred by the media for using his executive power with prejudice. Oh wait.. he's being massacred by the media for using his executive powers with prejudice. Seems like anything he does or does not do is wrong. Seems like everyone just assumes that first. It must be a wrong-headed evil, corrupt act because it came out of the white house. I'm not saying that there aren't wrong-headed, evil, corrupt acts that come out of the white house or even my own house, but I don't assume that to begin with.
JBOSS was just recently aquired by Red Hat. Oracle was in the market for JBOSS but they didn't sell out to Oracle. JBOSS being the de facto J2EE server is the prize here. Oracle wants to get back in the java application server side of things, which have been poorly done in the past.
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As long as its not illegal to completely disable these devices I wouldn't have a problem with it in my car, but its a very slippery slope as you alluded to with the seatbelt. The government could simply make it illegal to disable such a system, and next thing you know police are using it to disable cars with offensive bumper stickers (say a darwin fish in the southern USA? chevy loyal cops disabling fords? or just giving a cop an eye he doesnt like). Of course cops would not get away with this. If they could, they would do it now. Most people do stop when the flashing lights come out. The reason that would never happen is the same reason that it doesn't happen now. Cops like their jobs and don't want to pay you for the rest of their lives for something stupid like that because you will sue them into submission. I personally think most cops are good. Some are evil, and if they are already evil. Bottom line is, if anyone, cop or civilian begins to believe they are above the law, then bad things happen.
Considering that no one has a right to drive on a public road. It is a privilege afforded by the government, then I say the one who doles out the privilege can mandate it's use in any way they choose. If you play on my yard, you'd better not tear up the grass, even if you use your own toys. And you can't be stabbing yourself with your own toys in my backyard either. I'll make you leave. Now, as far as I know, there is no law that prohibits driving a car without a seatbelt on your own land, or driving without a permit, etc. You can be a stupid as you want on your own road, but not on the governments' road. I think it's great that those who use my money to build the roads we all use makes being stupid on the road more difficult.
If Bush came out and said 'ya I fired them - so what?'
If that happened he would have been massacred by the media for using his executive power with prejudice. Oh wait.. he's being massacred by the media for using his executive powers with prejudice. Seems like anything he does or does not do is wrong. Seems like everyone just assumes that first. It must be a wrong-headed evil, corrupt act because it came out of the white house. I'm not saying that there aren't wrong-headed, evil, corrupt acts that come out of the white house or even my own house, but I don't assume that to begin with.
Write a firefox plugin.. only techies would care anyway.
JBOSS was just recently aquired by Red Hat. Oracle was in the market for JBOSS but they didn't sell out to Oracle. JBOSS being the de facto J2EE server is the prize here. Oracle wants to get back in the java application server side of things, which have been poorly done in the past.