Inspecting physical goods has the reasonable objective of preventing smuggling
That's too broad, though.
Inspecting physical goods might reveal immigration fraud (a letter of employment in the hands of someone 'on vacation') or financial fraud (wire transfer documents etc.)
In these cases, it's really no different from examining a phone. The rule is simple: Either the border officers can 'look in your stuff' or they can't.
To me, the owner of any electronic device that is password protected should not disclose the password to the device unless the authority has a warrant out for that person.
What about being required to open your locked briefcase at the border? Same deal? If the border officials are required to get a warrant to open your briefcase are you OK having them store your briefcase until they get a judge's ruling?
Sellers can not leave negative feedback for buyers.
They used to be able to in the good ol' days, but eBay got rid of the feature after too many complaints that sellers were waiting to see what their review was before rating the buyer.
"If you'd feel more comfortable buying your iPod at our Police Station go ahead."
"Thanks - As a teenage girl, that does make me feel more comfortable."
Between stories like this one, 'peeping Toms' and people flying them into aircraft flight paths you can bet that drones are rapidly moving to the top of the list of things for the governments to ban...
Or to put it another way, this is why we can't have nice things.
You'd still be an addict, just one who could never satisfy his cravings.
Yes, but eventually the cravings would be greatly reduced.
If I dropped a chain-smoker on a desert island for a year with everything they needed, but without any cigarettes, their first month would be hellish, but by the end of the year most of the nicotine cravings would be gone.
You'll have to define "common sense" for me. My understanding of it is incompatible with your description of it. Common sense is a groupthink. It's a moron-level competent man standard.
But how far does it extend?
Everyone in the developed world thinks it's common sense to provide healthcare to all of one's citizens. Not the USA - That's commie talk.
Everyone in the developed world thinks it's common sense to restrict access to firearms. Not the USA - That's Theft of Freedom.
So sure, it's common sense not to run over your foot with a lawnmower, but anything more complicated than that...
Money in the hands of people who know what the hell they are doing and how to truly give help to those who need it (think Medecins Sans Frontieres) goes a lot further than some volunteer stumbling around.
But back when I had no money I did volunteer a lot at the local Boys and Girls' Club.
I have read this three times and I still have no idea what you are talking about.
Option 1: Spend your space $100K on this piece of grey plastic.
Option 2: Spend your spare $100K on food for your local food bank to help families in your community that are feeding their kids Cheerios for dinner. Or worse, sending them to school hungry because this month they had to put a new muffler on the car that they drive 20 miles to work.
I assure you that makes a "damn lot of difference."
I've walked through some of Saddam's old palaces, and the amount of money he probably wasted on that stuff while the rest of the country rotted is just staggering.
Yeah, but unlike Saddam I'd like to think we're not a bunch of assholes who would put an old video game ahead of the well-being of kids.
You want to know why they hate us? *THIS* is why they hate us. $100K for an effing OLD VIDEO GAME?
You know how many schools you could build in Kenya for $100K? How many goats you could buy for needy families? How many girls you could send to school in Afghanistan? How many life-saving vaccinations you could dispense? How many malaria nets? How many wells you could dig?
Hey bidders, if you seriously have this kind of coin go spend it on something that will honestly make a difference in the life of a kid.
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Inspecting physical goods has the reasonable objective of preventing smuggling
That's too broad, though.
Inspecting physical goods might reveal immigration fraud (a letter of employment in the hands of someone 'on vacation') or financial fraud (wire transfer documents etc.)
In these cases, it's really no different from examining a phone. The rule is simple: Either the border officers can 'look in your stuff' or they can't.
Why can he not? I'd certainly rather return to Dominican Republic
Unless he's a Dominican citizen, he can't just move to the Dominican Republic.
Further use requires a password.
To me, the owner of any electronic device that is password protected should not disclose the password to the device unless the authority has a warrant out for that person.
What about being required to open your locked briefcase at the border? Same deal? If the border officials are required to get a warrant to open your briefcase are you OK having them store your briefcase until they get a judge's ruling?
yet Border Services thinks they need to inspect the data on everyone's phones?
No, not everyone's phones, just phones of people they suspect of something.
It's the same deal with inspecting the contents of suitcases. They don't inspect everyone's suitcases, just some of them.
no one has made the large touch screen that you plugin to the LAN and it just does that ...
Sure they have -
http://smarttech.com/Home+Page...
Should we be happy that these organizations have chosen censorship as a response to abuse?
"Happy" doesn't enter into it. These are private sites; they can do what they want. If you don't like it start your own Reddit.
This just in - Getting humans safely to the surface of Mars is way wicked hard and totally expensive.
as well as parents that support the idea of the importance of homework over xBox
Hard to be that parent when you're not there & you're working three jobs just to put Cheerios on the dinner table.
Well, that clinches it for me. 2020 is *definitely* the year of the Linux desktop.
Why stop human evolution?
Not really evolution though.
Most humans on the Asperger's / Autism spectrum either aren't interested in finding a mate, or are unattractive to the majority of the opposite sex.
As a result, the genetic mutation isn't passed on.
For every character that's added to the Marvel Cinematic Universe you get one more reason to ask "Why doesn't "X" get off his ass and help out?"
Same glaring problem in the comics, though. Where's Superman when Batman is in trouble? Where's Iron Man when Spider-Man needs help?
Sellers can not leave negative feedback for buyers.
They used to be able to in the good ol' days, but eBay got rid of the feature after too many complaints that sellers were waiting to see what their review was before rating the buyer.
Man, this comments section is depressing.
"If you'd feel more comfortable buying your iPod at our Police Station go ahead."
"Thanks - As a teenage girl, that does make me feel more comfortable."
FASCISTS!!!
Between stories like this one, 'peeping Toms' and people flying them into aircraft flight paths you can bet that drones are rapidly moving to the top of the list of things for the governments to ban...
Or to put it another way, this is why we can't have nice things.
You'd still be an addict, just one who could never satisfy his cravings.
Yes, but eventually the cravings would be greatly reduced.
If I dropped a chain-smoker on a desert island for a year with everything they needed, but without any cigarettes, their first month would be hellish, but by the end of the year most of the nicotine cravings would be gone.
You'll have to define "common sense" for me. My understanding of it is incompatible with your description of it. Common sense is a groupthink. It's a moron-level competent man standard.
But how far does it extend?
Everyone in the developed world thinks it's common sense to provide healthcare to all of one's citizens. Not the USA - That's commie talk.
Everyone in the developed world thinks it's common sense to restrict access to firearms. Not the USA - That's Theft of Freedom.
So sure, it's common sense not to run over your foot with a lawnmower, but anything more complicated than that...
Can you think of any good targets?
Saudi Arabia - Sheiks, bankers. After all, they're the one pulling the strings of their 'jihadist' puppets.
Whatever happened to the great days of shareware?
The people making 'shareware' realized they had rent to pay and kids to feed.
Why do we keep putting people who have a history of being enemies of the scientific community to the scientific subcommittees in Congress?
"We" don't, the Republican Party does. They don't like pesky science - It keeps contradicting the bible.
Money in the hands of people who know what the hell they are doing and how to truly give help to those who need it (think Medecins Sans Frontieres) goes a lot further than some volunteer stumbling around.
But back when I had no money I did volunteer a lot at the local Boys and Girls' Club.
I have read this three times and I still have no idea what you are talking about.
Option 1: Spend your space $100K on this piece of grey plastic.
Option 2: Spend your spare $100K on food for your local food bank to help families in your community that are feeding their kids Cheerios for dinner. Or worse, sending them to school hungry because this month they had to put a new muffler on the car that they drive 20 miles to work.
I assure you that makes a "damn lot of difference."
I've walked through some of Saddam's old palaces, and the amount of money he probably wasted on that stuff while the rest of the country rotted is just staggering.
Yeah, but unlike Saddam I'd like to think we're not a bunch of assholes who would put an old video game ahead of the well-being of kids.
Time to put my flame suit on.
Done.
You want to know why they hate us? *THIS* is why they hate us. $100K for an effing OLD VIDEO GAME?
You know how many schools you could build in Kenya for $100K? How many goats you could buy for needy families? How many girls you could send to school in Afghanistan? How many life-saving vaccinations you could dispense? How many malaria nets? How many wells you could dig?
Hey bidders, if you seriously have this kind of coin go spend it on something that will honestly make a difference in the life of a kid.
Wow... Where to begin?
In addition to the ones already listed -
- Car backfiring
- Car engine dieseling
- Vinyl record 'stuck in the groove'
- Motor drive on a 35 mm SLR