The main issue in this country is that judges can be bought just like any other elected official. Judges having the final say over bad laws and statutes should be held to even higher standards of electoral rules than either senators or presidents. They are potentially the most powerful people in the US, interpreting laws as they see fit, if they get "donations", it colors their judgment and is no longer impartial.
Why illegal? If people want to ruin their health, have them do it and pay for it into a special fund for health care. If all were legal the taxes levied on alcohol, tobacco, marijuana, heroin etc could go and pay for full universal health care for all.
An H1B-type system is sustainable if the US were producing something of value. Look at Saudi Arabia and other (eg. Native American) communities, the natives are basically guaranteed an income and the people that want to work do what they want and foreigners do the rest.
It's great if you have an existing economy to fund this. We don't have an existing economy because we drove every manufacturer out of the country by slashing funding for basic research and education while increasing foreign military spending and benefiting outsourcing and foreign businesses more than local businesses.
What needs to happen is a huge curtailing of foreign spending while stimulating local economies for not just a voting cycle but at least 3-5 voting cycles. It won't happen because the ruling political party in the US is part of the problem, the lawmakers are bought and owned by those benefiting from foreign industry or the status quo.
Coupons and discount codes are just a marketing strategy. They are used to measure which channels (mail, e-mail, radio) do best in marketing and they typically only coupon the brands that are more expensive regardless of coupons or stuff they want to get rid of.
Large retailers typically coupon everything at 15%, why don't they just lower the prices by 15% and stop sending junk? It would save the environment and the hassle.
Trucks carrying combustibles like gasoline may be restricted to certain roads (eg. not through your average family neighborhood). They also require a special license for the truck driver and they are not set up to hook to someone's car's gas tank at home. In some countries (not sure about the US), they color fuels as well for use in different places - eg. diesel fuel for homes is taxed differently than for cars and although the product is the same, one is white, the other red.
Even the small containers for when you break down are not all that clear. You can only use government approved containers for emergencies and some old(er) containers (metal and plastic alike) may be totally illegal to use for gasoline.
In some states it's illegal to spill gasoline by overfilling your car or container, even at a gas station, in most states it's illegal to spill gasoline in residential areas. In certain states (New Jersey and Oregon for example) it's illegal to fill your own car which I don't know if this qualifies since you are assumed to be at a gas station.
A pickup truck with a barrel of gas on the back is obviously illegal in most if not all states, not just local or state law but federal/environmental laws as well. There are a number of safety requirements such as inspections, pressure relieve valves, the amount of off-gassing allowed as well as a way of quickly containing and/or evacuating the liquid in case of emergency (fire, impact).
You don't understand the technical differences. Bits per second is a measurement of data transfer rate, how many characters physically fit over a data line, it is not a measurement of limits. A 10Mbps line is only capable of 10Mbps whether you measure it over a month or a year.
MB/month is a data capacity limit and they are an artifact. There is no physical limit to the amount of data you can transfer over any length of time as long as you remain within the bounds of your data transfer rate. Your line doesn't dissolve after 6GB is transferred, the switches don't break at 100TB.
To give you a similarity: Say you have a water pipe with a pump, the pump is connected through a pipe to an infinite water supply. What you are saying is: the pump is running at 200Hz and the cost to install and maintain the pipes is $5/month, what would be the cost of 10,000 gallon of water per month.
There are plenty of fields where humans can move into beyond basic cognitive abilities. Obviously everything that is repetitive can be automated and AI has some purpose there. However there is much in human cognition that we don't yet understand ourselves, so it's impossible to program it into an AI. Programming AI's or any advanced logic, mathematics and deductive reasoning etc. will continue to be part of the human condition. Also, anytime it's too expensive to build a machine to do a human's job, we will continue being in place. Engineers for repairs will always be necessary for any complex system, creating a machine to deduce, find and then tighten a random bolt is just overkill.
It doesn't affect your credit score at all to cancel a purchase especially a fraudulent one. It's an excellent threat even for big chains to get customer service. What would cause your credit score to go haywire is if you fraudulently claim to be the victim and then refuse to pay for the services provided.
But that also doesn't punish the vendor. I cancel the entire purchase the minute a fraudulent charge comes through. Doesn't matter if they already shipped, I no longer want to do business with them and they can ship me a box and schedule a UPS pickup if they want their shit back.
Yep, I once got charged with one of these clubs from a store, just cancelled the entire purchase through my CC company because the original receipt was fraudulent. They get slapped with a nasty charge back fee ($32/charge) and are out of shipping and merchandise. I also stopped purchasing through them.
You can't buy Photoshop once off anymore. And it's not just Photoshop, a professional business photographer will also pay licenses for media/asset management software, license management and discovery services, probably plugins for Photoshop and a number of effects. Just Photoshop really is on the cheap end of things for amateur and low end professional work, it sure is prevalent but not the primary choice of high end shops.
I worked for a commercial print catalog shop with in house photography, we plunked down a few k per user per year just for the asset, version and workflow management between the photographers and the photo editors with each a suite of Adobe software and Quark software (just to be compatible with external contractors). Then there was the color calibration software, the actual storage and offsite backup plans.
Again, I don't know how big this photographer really was or what he has but most established photography business will have more than "just Photoshop" with work occasionally saved on an external hard drive.
The average photographer does typically not even license wedding photos or head shots to their customers. You have a number of digital versions and prints but not for publication or (the quality for) more prints.
Especially if you're going to be 'publishing' the pictures, the licenses are relatively short term or single use, that's really how photographers make a steady stream of money.
I doubt an art student would even have the gear to take equivalent pictures. I haven't seen the pictures but the investment for a basic setup could be close to $10k, then there is the post-shoot work, cleaning up the pictures in Photoshop, licenses for software that costs $10k+/year. Why do you think movies and commercial pictures look nothing like just snapping a picture of real life?
$4200 for an entire afternoon work and 3y full licensed usage is about par for the course, even a simple wedding photographer will charge $2k for a half day work and you don't even get a license to reprint.
No true Scotsman falacy. If that were the case we wouldn't have laws like the ones in North Carolina and Alabama. Most Christians raise their children similar to Muslims raising theirs; if they had their way we'd all be dead.
And who is going to evaluate it? The dozen or so people that have to handle the 250k applicants per year? It's well known in the industry, IBM does it, Microsoft does it, Google does it, go after those companies first because they do it by the dozens.
You must pay them at least the actual or prevailing wage for your occupation, whichever is higher, according to the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS). Again, you just make these occupations up and you make sure nobody can fill the position.
And that falls under the 5th. You don't have to tell the police anything, ever, even in court or after a warrant has been obtained. You can only be convicted based upon the evidence they collect. Obviously they make it more attractive to cooperate (reduced sentencing etc) but it's in no way required. This judge thinks the victim is guilty and just locks him up until he says he did.
Yes, you can be convicted for software piracy in general in the US because software piracy is a federal felony, not a business dispute (as it should be)
So what's the difference between encryption governments can't break and a law that requires you to give the password (as you propose)? Probable cause is (sometimes) enough for a warrant, not enough for a conviction.
You're going around the "beyond a reasonable doubt" clause by just jailing someone with "probable cause"? Then people don't need any courts anymore, the police can just say "I think he did something bad" and the judge goes "well, jolly good, put him in 10y for contempt of court then". There would be no need for trials or juries because judges would have ultimate power to jail someone at a whim.
A warrant doesn't compel the victim of government overreach to participate in the search, 5th amendment applies during searches. You are expected to allow them to execute the search but you're not expected to point out where you hid the evidence.
What kind of sound card do you have? There is no such thing as a finely engineered DAC in a sound card unless you plunk down something like $600 for an external sound card (and no Creative or Realtek are not brands you'll see mentioned in the same sentence as good quality). Even so, your DAC doesn't have to be THAT finely engineered, it just has to be a 24 bit DAC with the analog section nicely filtered and the device shielded against interference, the DAC chip will be roughly the same whether it is in a $1 headphone without any filters or a $50 one with all the filtering, it will sound totally indistinguishable in those tiny earplugs.
Plenty of people ARE interested in nursing and similar jobs, the foreign workers are if not cheaper, more reliable and hard working and don't have much legal recourses for shorting them overtime pay and sick days.
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The main issue in this country is that judges can be bought just like any other elected official. Judges having the final say over bad laws and statutes should be held to even higher standards of electoral rules than either senators or presidents. They are potentially the most powerful people in the US, interpreting laws as they see fit, if they get "donations", it colors their judgment and is no longer impartial.
Why illegal? If people want to ruin their health, have them do it and pay for it into a special fund for health care. If all were legal the taxes levied on alcohol, tobacco, marijuana, heroin etc could go and pay for full universal health care for all.
An H1B-type system is sustainable if the US were producing something of value. Look at Saudi Arabia and other (eg. Native American) communities, the natives are basically guaranteed an income and the people that want to work do what they want and foreigners do the rest.
It's great if you have an existing economy to fund this. We don't have an existing economy because we drove every manufacturer out of the country by slashing funding for basic research and education while increasing foreign military spending and benefiting outsourcing and foreign businesses more than local businesses.
What needs to happen is a huge curtailing of foreign spending while stimulating local economies for not just a voting cycle but at least 3-5 voting cycles. It won't happen because the ruling political party in the US is part of the problem, the lawmakers are bought and owned by those benefiting from foreign industry or the status quo.
Why is he in jail and Hillary isn't? If anything, he's a whistleblower on major criminal activity.
There have been 'free' SSL certificates for a very long time. You don't need to buy a certificate to enable encryption (it's just more convenient).
Coupons and discount codes are just a marketing strategy. They are used to measure which channels (mail, e-mail, radio) do best in marketing and they typically only coupon the brands that are more expensive regardless of coupons or stuff they want to get rid of.
Large retailers typically coupon everything at 15%, why don't they just lower the prices by 15% and stop sending junk? It would save the environment and the hassle.
It's not obviously legal.
Trucks carrying combustibles like gasoline may be restricted to certain roads (eg. not through your average family neighborhood). They also require a special license for the truck driver and they are not set up to hook to someone's car's gas tank at home. In some countries (not sure about the US), they color fuels as well for use in different places - eg. diesel fuel for homes is taxed differently than for cars and although the product is the same, one is white, the other red.
Even the small containers for when you break down are not all that clear. You can only use government approved containers for emergencies and some old(er) containers (metal and plastic alike) may be totally illegal to use for gasoline.
In some states it's illegal to spill gasoline by overfilling your car or container, even at a gas station, in most states it's illegal to spill gasoline in residential areas. In certain states (New Jersey and Oregon for example) it's illegal to fill your own car which I don't know if this qualifies since you are assumed to be at a gas station.
A pickup truck with a barrel of gas on the back is obviously illegal in most if not all states, not just local or state law but federal/environmental laws as well. There are a number of safety requirements such as inspections, pressure relieve valves, the amount of off-gassing allowed as well as a way of quickly containing and/or evacuating the liquid in case of emergency (fire, impact).
You don't understand the technical differences. Bits per second is a measurement of data transfer rate, how many characters physically fit over a data line, it is not a measurement of limits. A 10Mbps line is only capable of 10Mbps whether you measure it over a month or a year.
MB/month is a data capacity limit and they are an artifact. There is no physical limit to the amount of data you can transfer over any length of time as long as you remain within the bounds of your data transfer rate. Your line doesn't dissolve after 6GB is transferred, the switches don't break at 100TB.
To give you a similarity: Say you have a water pipe with a pump, the pump is connected through a pipe to an infinite water supply. What you are saying is: the pump is running at 200Hz and the cost to install and maintain the pipes is $5/month, what would be the cost of 10,000 gallon of water per month.
There are plenty of fields where humans can move into beyond basic cognitive abilities. Obviously everything that is repetitive can be automated and AI has some purpose there. However there is much in human cognition that we don't yet understand ourselves, so it's impossible to program it into an AI. Programming AI's or any advanced logic, mathematics and deductive reasoning etc. will continue to be part of the human condition. Also, anytime it's too expensive to build a machine to do a human's job, we will continue being in place. Engineers for repairs will always be necessary for any complex system, creating a machine to deduce, find and then tighten a random bolt is just overkill.
It doesn't affect your credit score at all to cancel a purchase especially a fraudulent one. It's an excellent threat even for big chains to get customer service. What would cause your credit score to go haywire is if you fraudulently claim to be the victim and then refuse to pay for the services provided.
But that also doesn't punish the vendor. I cancel the entire purchase the minute a fraudulent charge comes through. Doesn't matter if they already shipped, I no longer want to do business with them and they can ship me a box and schedule a UPS pickup if they want their shit back.
Yep, I once got charged with one of these clubs from a store, just cancelled the entire purchase through my CC company because the original receipt was fraudulent. They get slapped with a nasty charge back fee ($32/charge) and are out of shipping and merchandise. I also stopped purchasing through them.
You can't buy Photoshop once off anymore. And it's not just Photoshop, a professional business photographer will also pay licenses for media/asset management software, license management and discovery services, probably plugins for Photoshop and a number of effects. Just Photoshop really is on the cheap end of things for amateur and low end professional work, it sure is prevalent but not the primary choice of high end shops.
I worked for a commercial print catalog shop with in house photography, we plunked down a few k per user per year just for the asset, version and workflow management between the photographers and the photo editors with each a suite of Adobe software and Quark software (just to be compatible with external contractors). Then there was the color calibration software, the actual storage and offsite backup plans.
Again, I don't know how big this photographer really was or what he has but most established photography business will have more than "just Photoshop" with work occasionally saved on an external hard drive.
The average photographer does typically not even license wedding photos or head shots to their customers. You have a number of digital versions and prints but not for publication or (the quality for) more prints.
Especially if you're going to be 'publishing' the pictures, the licenses are relatively short term or single use, that's really how photographers make a steady stream of money.
I doubt an art student would even have the gear to take equivalent pictures. I haven't seen the pictures but the investment for a basic setup could be close to $10k, then there is the post-shoot work, cleaning up the pictures in Photoshop, licenses for software that costs $10k+/year. Why do you think movies and commercial pictures look nothing like just snapping a picture of real life?
$4200 for an entire afternoon work and 3y full licensed usage is about par for the course, even a simple wedding photographer will charge $2k for a half day work and you don't even get a license to reprint.
No true Scotsman falacy. If that were the case we wouldn't have laws like the ones in North Carolina and Alabama. Most Christians raise their children similar to Muslims raising theirs; if they had their way we'd all be dead.
And who is going to evaluate it? The dozen or so people that have to handle the 250k applicants per year? It's well known in the industry, IBM does it, Microsoft does it, Google does it, go after those companies first because they do it by the dozens.
You must pay them at least the actual or prevailing wage for your occupation, whichever is higher, according to the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS). Again, you just make these occupations up and you make sure nobody can fill the position.
And that falls under the 5th. You don't have to tell the police anything, ever, even in court or after a warrant has been obtained. You can only be convicted based upon the evidence they collect. Obviously they make it more attractive to cooperate (reduced sentencing etc) but it's in no way required. This judge thinks the victim is guilty and just locks him up until he says he did.
Yes, you can be convicted for software piracy in general in the US because software piracy is a federal felony, not a business dispute (as it should be)
So what's the difference between encryption governments can't break and a law that requires you to give the password (as you propose)? Probable cause is (sometimes) enough for a warrant, not enough for a conviction.
You're going around the "beyond a reasonable doubt" clause by just jailing someone with "probable cause"? Then people don't need any courts anymore, the police can just say "I think he did something bad" and the judge goes "well, jolly good, put him in 10y for contempt of court then". There would be no need for trials or juries because judges would have ultimate power to jail someone at a whim.
A warrant doesn't compel the victim of government overreach to participate in the search, 5th amendment applies during searches. You are expected to allow them to execute the search but you're not expected to point out where you hid the evidence.
What kind of sound card do you have? There is no such thing as a finely engineered DAC in a sound card unless you plunk down something like $600 for an external sound card (and no Creative or Realtek are not brands you'll see mentioned in the same sentence as good quality). Even so, your DAC doesn't have to be THAT finely engineered, it just has to be a 24 bit DAC with the analog section nicely filtered and the device shielded against interference, the DAC chip will be roughly the same whether it is in a $1 headphone without any filters or a $50 one with all the filtering, it will sound totally indistinguishable in those tiny earplugs.
Plenty of people ARE interested in nursing and similar jobs, the foreign workers are if not cheaper, more reliable and hard working and don't have much legal recourses for shorting them overtime pay and sick days.
It's completely legal.