Also, how exactly would you not incriminate yourself (atleast in the eyes of the police) if you have to explicitely state you want to use the right not to incriminate yourself?
Simple: Can you name each and every criminal law/statue/ordinance that applies in your current location? No, you can't. So you can't be safe not to incriminate yourself with anything you say. Just remain silent.
It also increases the chances of them making horrible mistakes.
Oh, tryin' to out-cop the cop? Did you miss the fact that the cop has much, much better training and much, much more experience in getting you to make horrible mistakes (like consenting to an otherwise unwarrented search), than you have in getting the cop to make a horrible mistake?
If you can't leave, and aren't free to go, what is your legal status?
You're being detained. Any time you're not free to leave, you're being detained.
If you're being detained, insist to remain silent and to see a lawyer, with some exceptions. State that you do not consent to searches, but do not resist searches, either. If you're free to leave, leave.
There are other sweeteners that are much better for you,
For the vast majority of humanitys existence, sweet meant that the food was good for you - this has calories, it'll extend the time before you die from starvation! Eat it, eat it now, eat as much as you can!
"Too many calories" is a very recent problem. Too recent for human genetics to adapt to.
Even with blind tastings there is subjectivity, as people sense of taste and smell is quite varied.
Afaik, this was a trap soft drink manufacturers fell into. They had taste tests with dozens or even hundreds of participants. Later on, it was found out that human genetics alone can produce thousands of different "taste types", depending on whether a persons smell/taste receptors can pick up the presence of certain chemical compounds.
Hence, having a hundred people in a taste test is far from being a representative sample.
Not having a fifth amendment doesn't stop police from negotiating with a witness, exchanging testimony for leniency/immunity on the lesser crime the witness was engaged in.
The police cannot make any such bargains. They'll happily record your confession, though.
Another one who wins is the real perpetrator of the crime. If I committed a murder and the prosecution uses torture to get someone else to confess to the crime then I go free.
This is what they should hammer into the brain of every aspiring prosecutor. "If you screw up, if you help to convict the wrong person, then a murderer just got away with murder."
Someone's accused of some minor crime. Some evidence/witness statements point towards guilt, some are exculpatory.
With fifth amendment rights in place:
Accused gets out of pre-trial jail on bail. During the trial, he's either found guilty (and receives a sentence for the minor crime), or found not guilty.
Without fifth amendment rights in place:
The court could now subpoena the accused to give a statement, like a witness. The accused could be put in jail or fined just for refusing.
And now it gets worse: If he chooses to give a statement (instead of being fined/jailed for not complying with the subpoena), and the court decides not to believe it, he'll also face charges for giving false testimony! And that would even happen if his statement would have confirmed his guilt, but the court finds him not guilty of the original crime.
Without the right not to incriminate yourself, "the government" could coerce you to incriminate yourself, with whatever methods of coercion are currently available (jail, fines, threats, torture, etc). And they could also punish you for not incriminating yourself during a trial.
Skipped civics much?
...because I can't think of any reason why someone would cover what's essentially a toy with enough legalese to require a couple of attorneys to understand.
... to have a lots and lots of PDFs about the sites to watch and the possibly suspicious activities.
I'm sure the terrorists(tm) will never ever read those PDFs and even if they do, will not at all use the information found therein to obfuscate their activities.
First, "iWATCH"? Really? Apples lawyers are going to be all over this.
Second, âoeThe majority of citizens want to do whatâ(TM)s right,â? "Wanting to do what's right" is usually the exact opposite of "Doing what's right."
And third, this sounds like an excellent way of getting back at those annoying neighbos. There are so many suspicious activities that they're bound to engage in a least one or two of them. Nothing like seeing them "evicted" by a SWAT team someday.
I don't like injections either, but I sure as hell got my tetanus shot after I stood on a rusty nail.
A tetanus shot usually doesn't leave permanent neurological damage. Having a hole drilled into your skull and bits of brain tissue removed for a biopsy will.
How the hell can a doctor prescribe SSRI without measuring the actual levels first?
Most patients would object to a brain biopsy.
And even doing one would give very little insight into the actual dynamic processes inside the synaptic clefts. It's not a simple issue of "there's too little serotonin in your system", but rather a "there's too little serotonin within the synaptic cleft for the sensitivity and number of receptors to reliably cause an action potential in the receiving cell when required"...
I'm using IARs IDE. However, starting with version 5.50 (EWARM) it seems to have an issue drawing its GUI elements which, over time, leads to interesting screen corruption and an eventual crash to the desktop (running under XP, when running under W7 the screen corruption doesn't happen, but the crash eventually occurs, too). Version 5.42a was still fine.
However, I'm stuck with it, so that's what I'm using.
I saw a TV program that showed electrodes connected to one person. That person was able to move an avatar around a 3D environment. Sure doesn't seem like they have come very far...
20 years ago, it was fake. Today, it actually works.
... a rocket-powered crane, a power source that lasts a few years, a laser that can vaporize rocks and a fusion reactor that spits out neutrons?
Thought so.
And I'm not even getting into allowed temperature ranges, radiation hardening and so on.
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Simple: Can you name each and every criminal law/statue/ordinance that applies in your current location? No, you can't. So you can't be safe not to incriminate yourself with anything you say. Just remain silent.
Oh, tryin' to out-cop the cop? Did you miss the fact that the cop has much, much better training and much, much more experience in getting you to make horrible mistakes (like consenting to an otherwise unwarrented search), than you have in getting the cop to make a horrible mistake?
If I were to be, my money would be on the cop.
You're being detained. Any time you're not free to leave, you're being detained.
If you're being detained, insist to remain silent and to see a lawyer, with some exceptions. State that you do not consent to searches, but do not resist searches, either. If you're free to leave, leave.
Guns. You have a lot more freedom keeping and bearing those than people in other civilized nations do.
I think the higher-ups in the government heavily rely on things the NSA says.
Oh ... wait ... we're screwed, I guess.
Shoot people attempting to leave the country.
For the vast majority of humanitys existence, sweet meant that the food was good for you - this has calories, it'll extend the time before you die from starvation! Eat it, eat it now, eat as much as you can!
"Too many calories" is a very recent problem. Too recent for human genetics to adapt to.
Dislike of/indifference towards sugar is acquired and overrides the instinctive preference for sweet food.
Afaik, this was a trap soft drink manufacturers fell into. They had taste tests with dozens or even hundreds of participants. Later on, it was found out that human genetics alone can produce thousands of different "taste types", depending on whether a persons smell/taste receptors can pick up the presence of certain chemical compounds.
Hence, having a hundred people in a taste test is far from being a representative sample.
The police cannot make any such bargains. They'll happily record your confession, though.
This is what they should hammer into the brain of every aspiring prosecutor. "If you screw up, if you help to convict the wrong person, then a murderer just got away with murder."
With fifth amendment rights in place:
Accused gets out of pre-trial jail on bail. During the trial, he's either found guilty (and receives a sentence for the minor crime), or found not guilty.
Without fifth amendment rights in place:
The court could now subpoena the accused to give a statement, like a witness. The accused could be put in jail or fined just for refusing.
And now it gets worse: If he chooses to give a statement (instead of being fined/jailed for not complying with the subpoena), and the court decides not to believe it, he'll also face charges for giving false testimony! And that would even happen if his statement would have confirmed his guilt, but the court finds him not guilty of the original crime.
Without the right not to incriminate yourself, "the government" could coerce you to incriminate yourself, with whatever methods of coercion are currently available (jail, fines, threats, torture, etc). And they could also punish you for not incriminating yourself during a trial.
Skipped civics much?
...because I can't think of any reason why someone would cover what's essentially a toy with enough legalese to require a couple of attorneys to understand.
You lose in every possible scenario, BY DESIGN!
So it's kind of like Dwarf Fortress? Or even like real life where you always die in the end?
I'm sure the terrorists(tm) will never ever read those PDFs and even if they do, will not at all use the information found therein to obfuscate their activities.
Second, âoeThe majority of citizens want to do whatâ(TM)s right,â? "Wanting to do what's right" is usually the exact opposite of "Doing what's right."
And third, this sounds like an excellent way of getting back at those annoying neighbos. There are so many suspicious activities that they're bound to engage in a least one or two of them. Nothing like seeing them "evicted" by a SWAT team someday.
A tetanus shot usually doesn't leave permanent neurological damage. Having a hole drilled into your skull and bits of brain tissue removed for a biopsy will.
Then again, you might not notice the difference.
Most patients would object to a brain biopsy.
And even doing one would give very little insight into the actual dynamic processes inside the synaptic clefts. It's not a simple issue of "there's too little serotonin in your system", but rather a "there's too little serotonin within the synaptic cleft for the sensitivity and number of receptors to reliably cause an action potential in the receiving cell when required" ...
I guess this system will increase the occurence of scary sounds of the second kind.
However, I'm stuck with it, so that's what I'm using.
Anyone else having CTD issues with IARs IDE?
Err. Wellbutrin is a substituted amphetamine, and it's not an SSRI since affects norepinephrine and dopamine reuptake and not serotonin reuptake.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wellbutrin
20 years ago, it was fake. Today, it actually works.
Thought so.
And I'm not even getting into allowed temperature ranges, radiation hardening and so on.
... to sodium. Instant, on-demand hydrogen!