Access to my tweets without a warrant is not a fight I need to have. I spew these out to my supposedly private followers, and it would be trivial for the government to sneak into my list with a handle as unimaginiative as bigbrother or watchingyou or even mintruth. Privacy on Twitter is not an illusion, it is nonexistent.
Access to my Facebook wall, if I designate it as for friends only, I think is improper. No, this I need to fight.
Reading my email without a warrant? Time to consider that email is replacing snail mail so well that the USPS is going under, just slower than Hostess. If the government needs a warrant to open an envelope and read my paper mail, they should need a warrant to do the same to my email.
And the electronic nature of email does not change the fact that I have as much an expectation of privacy as with paper mail. Think it over. Someone can, for most of us, reach into your mailbox and take out an envelope, steam it open, Polaroid the contents, and put it back. The medium does not change the act, merely the process. We need to re-establish the Fourth and Fifth Amendments, among others. This finally gets me to open up my phone and email my representatives today. We may have to have the revolution after all.
We've been doing this at my work for a few years now. Any organization that is at all concerned with data loss should already be doing this to all user workstations, portable AND desktop. Anything less is bordering on malpractice.
And it's interesting. Apparently, the Beeb decided that the overwheling evidence of climate change and global warming rendered dissenting views not only null, but dangerous, in that these dissents would only impede what is necessary action, and are either specious, disingenuous, false, or all of the preceding. So the BBC essentially wanted to suspend even the pretense of impartial reporting and just go all in for acknowledging man-caused climate change as fact.
Now, it may well be, but this decision had the effect of marginalizing opposing points of vew, on the BBC, to the point that there would be NO dissent.
I wonder if there are any other issues that the Beeb (affectionately referred to as 'Auntie' in the Register article referenced, and also by some of those Brits old enough to suspect the Beeb is less than honorable in some areas) would similarly suspend impartiaility (sometimes considered a foundation of journalism, so therefore suspending the practice of 'journalism' in reference to these issues) and thereby become essentially the mouthpiece of one side or the other in a dispute? Other than the Israel/Palestine conflict, Islamic terrorism, and perhaps global crony capitalism, I can't thing of a thing.
Ssadly, the BBC is become just another media outlet, adding to the spew of whatever meme is advantageous to the powers that be. Those powers, for those of you at home scoring in pen, do not include us.
And of course, the BBC would prefer to not even be asked these questions, much less have to answer them honestly or at least be compelled to admit they even discuss such things. Here in the U.S. we don't have such a problem. Our media outlets are essentially divided into three camps; Leftist, Rightist, and irrelevant. And these outlets are hardly called to account for anything, except by an opposing camp, though the Irrelevants tend to question everything, even themselves, perpetuating their irrelevancy. You know which outlets belong to which camps, right? Ok, score this one in pencil until you get time to review the action and come to a better decision...
" Religious views don't bring any benefit to society at all."
In the U.S. alone, the Catholic church operates many hospitals devoted to charity care, which also accept paying patients. This alone puts the lie to your narrow, misinformed, biased and unsupportable statement.
And while we can argue at great length about whether our nation is or has been a Christian nation, it was founded by a group of men influenced by their religions. I propose that their experiment has been beneficial to the world overall.
There is much about religion that you could point to and make a case that it is not exclusively good for the world, but to proclaim it to be wihout any benefit to society is provably wrong and without merit.
The best source for a new tonneau cover gear is $249. U joint for the cover is over $200. Tonneau motor assy no longer available in the U.S. thst I know of, send it off to be rebuilt. Canvas is available, but weatherstripping is getting hard to find. some computer modules are rumored to be DOA due to age on shelf, but some not so bad.
Shipped from Europei isn't too bad, but even SIDs are getting hard to find.
I don't share your optimism, either by choice or experience. Can I still get ignition keys cut for less than $200?
I made a good living servicing Selectric typewriters back in the 90s and uo to about 2002, entirely due to the court decision that forced IBM to permit independent servicers to purchase manuals, tools, and parts. And a little mechanical aptitude. Untimately it was about product owners being able to fix their own stuff, and engage whoever they wanted to. This decision had effects in other industries.
At the least, car manufacturers should be required to publish the specs for the diagnostic interfaces, and then sell the manuals (reasonable price was part of the IBM decision, IIRC) and let us service what we do in fact own. If they are claiming that the software is licensed, not sold, we need to have that fight.
FWIW, I drive a 1998 Saab 900 SET Convertible. What a fun car. If you hose up the top, for instance repositioning any of the potentiometers that feed back position data to the computer, you will be going back to the dealer or someone who purchased the very expensive Tech II tool, which is not just an OBD2 reader, but interfaces with various onboard computers and make settings etc. I've done some terrible things to the top so far, and no need to reprogram, but that's just because I was warned in advance. My local dealer gave me the radio code when I had the battery replaced - they didn't have to do that for free, but they did. I'm pretty interested in this, since I prefer to buy beaters, and soon there will be no such thing, just high-mileage cars that need trips to the dealer to solve specific onboard computer problems.And there will be more, not less. problems with this. Despite major improvements, I don't see these onboard computers getting that much better, and the automobile is a terrible environment for anything like that. With Saabs, the 9000 was notorious for problems figuring out just which computer was causing the error, and the TCS system would put you in limp mode at the drop of a hat. Perfectly good car, just the computer choosing to be broken. ABS, climate control, seats, top, etc, there are 7 computers I know of in the 1998 Saab 900, not counting ther SID and cruise control...
And Saabs, of course, are orphaned. Why would they withold info if there is no more business to protect? Mine can suffer any number of problems and that's the end of it, no part to fix it with. Windshield moldings seem to be gone now, so you use generic rubber. Parts for the top are becoming terribly precious.
Would you have the same opinion of prayer if I told you of the times I've prayed for specific things, and they came to pass? Praying that a friend's ankle would no longer cause her pain, for instance. Or others, who prayed that I would find work in a new city that paid twice what I had previously been paid, and i did - to the penny. The less specific prayers, those I cannot offer up. But claims that prayers have never been answered ignore many reports, too many, I think, to be blithely ignored.
However, I expect you will deny these without some acceptable proof, and I won't quibble with that. I can only tell you I have a reason for my faith. I understand that you can't accept that. It changes nothing.
Driving tank trucks around any of the Boroughs seems like a pretty tough proposition even today. In a real disaster, plan to not be able to even call the fuel dealers and ask if they are coming, much less getting them through the main gate and down the service road.
All legislation is someone's morality. Your proposal seems to require we make reasoned, logical decisions, when many of the issues not be, in fact, rational or even factual ussues.
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Yes it will, bit not only has it not had any effect on the environment yet, it could still be deferred or cancelled.
Once again, Obama gets credit for something that won't happen any time soon. If at all.
And when do these new CAFE standards take effect? this week? Obama has had no effect on this yet. typical hyperbole.
I'm aligned with the party that compromises. Guess where that got us, both the party and the nation...?
These are cute toys, but no substitute for actually knowing what the hell you believe.
Knowing why, that's another subject.
And what sort of country is that?
They do come from two different countries. Our choice is which country do we want going forward?
Fixing this world will REQUIRE taking sides.
Access to my tweets without a warrant is not a fight I need to have. I spew these out to my supposedly private followers, and it would be trivial for the government to sneak into my list with a handle as unimaginiative as bigbrother or watchingyou or even mintruth. Privacy on Twitter is not an illusion, it is nonexistent.
Access to my Facebook wall, if I designate it as for friends only, I think is improper. No, this I need to fight.
Reading my email without a warrant? Time to consider that email is replacing snail mail so well that the USPS is going under, just slower than Hostess. If the government needs a warrant to open an envelope and read my paper mail, they should need a warrant to do the same to my email.
And the electronic nature of email does not change the fact that I have as much an expectation of privacy as with paper mail. Think it over. Someone can, for most of us, reach into your mailbox and take out an envelope, steam it open, Polaroid the contents, and put it back. The medium does not change the act, merely the process. We need to re-establish the Fourth and Fifth Amendments, among others. This finally gets me to open up my phone and email my representatives today. We may have to have the revolution after all.
Breathtakingly racist.
We've been doing this at my work for a few years now. Any organization that is at all concerned with data loss should already be doing this to all user workstations, portable AND desktop. Anything less is bordering on malpractice.
And it's interesting. Apparently, the Beeb decided that the overwheling evidence of climate change and global warming rendered dissenting views not only null, but dangerous, in that these dissents would only impede what is necessary action, and are either specious, disingenuous, false, or all of the preceding. So the BBC essentially wanted to suspend even the pretense of impartial reporting and just go all in for acknowledging man-caused climate change as fact.
Now, it may well be, but this decision had the effect of marginalizing opposing points of vew, on the BBC, to the point that there would be NO dissent.
I wonder if there are any other issues that the Beeb (affectionately referred to as 'Auntie' in the Register article referenced, and also by some of those Brits old enough to suspect the Beeb is less than honorable in some areas) would similarly suspend impartiaility (sometimes considered a foundation of journalism, so therefore suspending the practice of 'journalism' in reference to these issues) and thereby become essentially the mouthpiece of one side or the other in a dispute? Other than the Israel/Palestine conflict, Islamic terrorism, and perhaps global crony capitalism, I can't thing of a thing.
Ssadly, the BBC is become just another media outlet, adding to the spew of whatever meme is advantageous to the powers that be. Those powers, for those of you at home scoring in pen, do not include us.
And of course, the BBC would prefer to not even be asked these questions, much less have to answer them honestly or at least be compelled to admit they even discuss such things. Here in the U.S. we don't have such a problem. Our media outlets are essentially divided into three camps; Leftist, Rightist, and irrelevant. And these outlets are hardly called to account for anything, except by an opposing camp, though the Irrelevants tend to question everything, even themselves, perpetuating their irrelevancy. You know which outlets belong to which camps, right? Ok, score this one in pencil until you get time to review the action and come to a better decision...
" Religious views don't bring any benefit to society at all."
In the U.S. alone, the Catholic church operates many hospitals devoted to charity care, which also accept paying patients. This alone puts the lie to your narrow, misinformed, biased and unsupportable statement.
And while we can argue at great length about whether our nation is or has been a Christian nation, it was founded by a group of men influenced by their religions. I propose that their experiment has been beneficial to the world overall.
There is much about religion that you could point to and make a case that it is not exclusively good for the world, but to proclaim it to be wihout any benefit to society is provably wrong and without merit.
Get back to me in four years.
The best source for a new tonneau cover gear is $249. U joint for the cover is over $200. Tonneau motor assy no longer available in the U.S. thst I know of, send it off to be rebuilt. Canvas is available, but weatherstripping is getting hard to find. some computer modules are rumored to be DOA due to age on shelf, but some not so bad.
Shipped from Europei isn't too bad, but even SIDs are getting hard to find.
I don't share your optimism, either by choice or experience. Can I still get ignition keys cut for less than $200?
I made a good living servicing Selectric typewriters back in the 90s and uo to about 2002, entirely due to the court decision that forced IBM to permit independent servicers to purchase manuals, tools, and parts. And a little mechanical aptitude. Untimately it was about product owners being able to fix their own stuff, and engage whoever they wanted to. This decision had effects in other industries.
At the least, car manufacturers should be required to publish the specs for the diagnostic interfaces, and then sell the manuals (reasonable price was part of the IBM decision, IIRC) and let us service what we do in fact own. If they are claiming that the software is licensed, not sold, we need to have that fight.
FWIW, I drive a 1998 Saab 900 SET Convertible. What a fun car. If you hose up the top, for instance repositioning any of the potentiometers that feed back position data to the computer, you will be going back to the dealer or someone who purchased the very expensive Tech II tool, which is not just an OBD2 reader, but interfaces with various onboard computers and make settings etc. I've done some terrible things to the top so far, and no need to reprogram, but that's just because I was warned in advance. My local dealer gave me the radio code when I had the battery replaced - they didn't have to do that for free, but they did. I'm pretty interested in this, since I prefer to buy beaters, and soon there will be no such thing, just high-mileage cars that need trips to the dealer to solve specific onboard computer problems.And there will be more, not less. problems with this. Despite major improvements, I don't see these onboard computers getting that much better, and the automobile is a terrible environment for anything like that. With Saabs, the 9000 was notorious for problems figuring out just which computer was causing the error, and the TCS system would put you in limp mode at the drop of a hat. Perfectly good car, just the computer choosing to be broken. ABS, climate control, seats, top, etc, there are 7 computers I know of in the 1998 Saab 900, not counting ther SID and cruise control...
And Saabs, of course, are orphaned. Why would they withold info if there is no more business to protect? Mine can suffer any number of problems and that's the end of it, no part to fix it with. Windshield moldings seem to be gone now, so you use generic rubber. Parts for the top are becoming terribly precious.
Did you ankle heal instantly , after decades of treatment and painkillers? Idiocy indeed.
The idiocy is my trying to explain the unexplainable.
Would you have the same opinion of prayer if I told you of the times I've prayed for specific things, and they came to pass? Praying that a friend's ankle would no longer cause her pain, for instance. Or others, who prayed that I would find work in a new city that paid twice what I had previously been paid, and i did - to the penny. The less specific prayers, those I cannot offer up. But claims that prayers have never been answered ignore many reports, too many, I think, to be blithely ignored.
However, I expect you will deny these without some acceptable proof, and I won't quibble with that. I can only tell you I have a reason for my faith. I understand that you can't accept that. It changes nothing.
Your logic depends on itself for its proof.
This seems simple, but naive. You require that my faith be based on proof, or discarded as idiocy. Fine. I find your requirement idiotic.
There, we're even.
That's irresistible grace. Right after unconditional election.
There is only one Wall Street.
Driving tank trucks around any of the Boroughs seems like a pretty tough proposition even today. In a real disaster, plan to not be able to even call the fuel dealers and ask if they are coming, much less getting them through the main gate and down the service road.
Um, some would say the Lord's wrath for the sins of Americans has big ears and can shoot the jumper.
Me? the Lord needs do nothing special to make us miserable. We do that well all by ourselves. Special Wrath not required.
In the Northeast, diesel and #2 are pretty similar. Why not switch the valve and send some furnace oil to the gensets?
Or do they not use oil in NYC?
The poor quants. Won't ANYONE think of the poor quants?
All legislation is someone's morality. Your proposal seems to require we make reasoned, logical decisions, when many of the issues not be, in fact, rational or even factual ussues.
Sometimes it's just not that simple.