This is why I never bought the whole "we should leave more things up to the states to decide" line of argument: as bad as the US Congress is, state legislatures are generally solidly worse; they just don't get as much press. Or maybe this is just a New York thing and other states are different, I don't know.
There is nothing magically different between the state and federal legislators aside from their ability run larger campaigns.
The reason we SHOULD leave more up to the states is that bad legislation WILL be passed, but when the federal government has real limits, the scope of those fuckups will be limited and more easily rectified by the actual democratic process.
When the Federal government fucks up, it is nationwide, backed by the full force of the government (infinitely more powerful than you because you are part of what makes up its power), and correcting fuckups of the Federal government is all but impossible. The only thing we can hope for in correcting things at the Federal level is that it starts some other initiative that interferes with the one that is engaged in screwing you over.
Case in point, federal sin taxes. Don't expect them to go away, but thankfully they are so dependent on the income they bring in that they can't go full nanny-state on us and outright ban them. The government has a vested interest in collecting taxes from cigarettes, so thankfully for those of us who don't smoke (but hey, I might feel like it), they can't just ban it.
I love my beer, my alcohol, and my other vices. So when Utah or Alabama decide that they want to be draconian in their restrictions on such things, I can make the decision not to move to either of those states. They don't gain an engineer and my tax revenue, and I'm not subjected to their laws.
When the Federal government does something that I disagree with... well I can't really leave the country (My handle describes my industry), so I can't move to another jurisdiction. Even worse, the US federal government pushes its laws as far as it can overseas as well.
That's is why that while it sucks when states do stupid things like this, and even though the Federal government is slightly less likely to do things like this (gridlock), it is far far far more important to keep and reinforce the limits that prevent the Federal government from doing things like this in the first place because their jurisdiction and power is effectively unlimited with regards to the actual citizens of this country.
You are misappkying the 'expectation of privacy' angle. If you are in public you retain all of your privacy rights. The expectation of privacy statement only means you can't revoke something after it was made public from an evidence perspective if when you made it public that you had the expectation that it was public.
Its tangential to your statement(which is not wrong) but it is dangerous and wrong to apply it in that manner. It is a nuanced decision that is often misinterpreted as an affirmation that no privacy exists outside a hermetically sealed chamber in your bedroom.
There is plenty that is in public which retains significant privacy. A hand shielded whisper picked up by a parabolic mic would be an example of someone acting privately in public.
It applies to all people not because of what it says, but because of who the constitution applies to.
It is only a list of powers granted to the government and a few critical (but incomplete) prohibitions/limitations.
In otherwords, if it isn't in the Constitution, the US government should NOT be doing it, regardless of the nationality of the person they are 'doing it to'.
The US Constitution does NOT apply to you, me or any 'one' person. The Constitution applies only to the government. It is the set of rules with the government must follow to be considered legitimate.
It's a mistake that is commonly made, and a dangerous one for people to believe since the document was NEVER intended to be some sort of protection of the people. There are a few affirmations, but the document itself is only a limited list of authorities granted to the government.
It grants us (the people) nothing. Everything we have, we have had regardless of the Constitution.
The Trinitron 36âoe television serving as a work bench begs to differ.
Tubes have their place, but I will gladly sacrifice all of their benefits for something that doesn't weigh more than an NFL linebacker.
It is like a cast iron bathtub. Buy a new one and it will run you at least a grand. Try to get rid of a decent used one and you will be relieved if the buyer's offer is no more than to come and pick it up from its current location.
Ground based radiobeacons are much harder to jam than GPS by orders of magnitude. To jam it you would need to raise the noise floor or exceed the signal strength at the location of the aircraft.
Not to mention that your jammer would show up as the perfect target for an radio seeking missile. If someone wereto complain that your missile hit their jammer... you respond "The missile was a controlled demolition missike that only could target this specific registered radio frequency. That frequency is only used by this beacon. Therefore it couldnt hit anything else... unless of course that something else were a system designed to specifically crash civilian aircraft, but we know that such a thing didn't happen. Next time we will use a demolition missile that only goes to specific geographic coordinates. We appreciate your concern Mr kim. I do hope this letter reaches you at 59.06578N Xx.4564E. Sincerely, the guy with very accurate missiles."
It's also amazing how many pilots/captains have completely lost the ability to transmit messages via carrier pigeon.
It's a tool, and like any tool, if you remove the ability to use it while you are using it, it's going to cause disruption. Most pilots prepare for emergency landings should their engine quit, you wouldn't be surprised if that disrupted things, why should GPS?
What if their more robust VHF/UHF radios kicked the bucket while flying? That would seriously disrupt them too, but you wouldn't lament the fact that they are dependent on that technology would you?
You can dig a ditch with a shovel and a bucket, but you don't see road crews eschewing the use of diesel powered equipment for fear that you would run out of fuel mid-project.
People have these fears for precisely the reasons you specified.
Because the courts repeatedly find in favor of the government regarding searches, expansion of authority, and general 'oops we sent a swat team to the wrong house but we thought it was the right house so we arent culpable for shooting you' cases.
If the government was shown to actually respect the limitations on its authority, you would have a point.
If you license a patent at ten percent of wholesale price of products which utilize the patent, you can't switch that up without risking antitrust issues in most cases.
So I sell my product for $1000 and sell another product mod for $10. The product mod contains your patented tech. I then owe you $1 in licensing as opposed to $100.
The advantage to consumers is that if I don't need your tech's features, I don't have to pay for it. And in theory, I can buy a $1000 product instead of a $1100 product.
Those aren't your interests. All you are seeing is the futures of Orwell and Huxley fighting it out in real time.
One comes via fear, force and ignorance, the other comes with a spoonful of sugar and ignorance. The problem is, they are both well on their way to becoming real.
Liberty will be just as dead if killed through violent oppression (Orwell) or diabetic shock (Huxley).
Emergency supply port. Call AAA and they send a truck with a charged 20 mile capacity battery to get you to the next station. Drop off the pack at the station and recharge there.
Or just have AAA tow you to the station. Next time pay attention to your meters. Do you run out of fuel so often that this is a concern? My gas needle has been broken for years. I just reset the trip meter and fill up every 300 miles. Never had to hike yet.
Liability of the swap station. Large propane cylinders are leased and are not cheap to buy. Return one undamaged and get a certified good one. If it dies outside of an accident the swapping company replaces it.
Its electricity. Make a few large stations to capture economy of scale, and run charging cables to each parking spot.
5 mins per car with a four pump station could serve 48 cars per hour. At 30 minutes you only need 24 parking spaces to serve the same quantity.
Without all complexity of pumps, you could put a 3 storey parking garage in the footprint of a regular gas station and serve 180 cars per hour at max capacity.
Pull up, swipe credit card, the machine says go to space 34, park, plug in, and have a coffee at the attached cafe.
That's just wishful thinking. The EU is exactly as self interested as any other sovereign power. The only reason the EU happens to behave better is because there is still a bit if diverging interests between member states.
It also has the advantage that it would be difficult to consolidate political parties across the member states.
But any sovereign entity is first and foremost, selfish.
Rick Moranis being the outcast child from his lumberjack tribe who was discovered and adopted by a childless mountie woman to be raised as one of their own, never realizing his true origin, until one day...
It flew past my office at about 200 meters on its first pass. I am on an upper floor with beautiful views of DC. I really wish we were allowed cameras because I think I had the best vantage point of anyone.
A coworker slipped out on the roof and got some good pics, If I can get the copies Ill post them here.
The chase plane was literally overhead from our position on the pass.
A female VP from a major defense contractor was made to wait outside a contract signing not too long ago. A male subordinate sat at the event in her stead.
And that's supposedly the way women can be treated by the business classes. I certainly would think twice before I subjected myself to such a culture. If you can be a successful entrepreneur, you would provably also succeed in a much more favorable culture.
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This is why I never bought the whole "we should leave more things up to the states to decide" line of argument: as bad as the US Congress is, state legislatures are generally solidly worse; they just don't get as much press. Or maybe this is just a New York thing and other states are different, I don't know.
There is nothing magically different between the state and federal legislators aside from their ability run larger campaigns.
The reason we SHOULD leave more up to the states is that bad legislation WILL be passed, but when the federal government has real limits, the scope of those fuckups will be limited and more easily rectified by the actual democratic process.
When the Federal government fucks up, it is nationwide, backed by the full force of the government (infinitely more powerful than you because you are part of what makes up its power), and correcting fuckups of the Federal government is all but impossible. The only thing we can hope for in correcting things at the Federal level is that it starts some other initiative that interferes with the one that is engaged in screwing you over.
Case in point, federal sin taxes. Don't expect them to go away, but thankfully they are so dependent on the income they bring in that they can't go full nanny-state on us and outright ban them. The government has a vested interest in collecting taxes from cigarettes, so thankfully for those of us who don't smoke (but hey, I might feel like it), they can't just ban it.
I love my beer, my alcohol, and my other vices. So when Utah or Alabama decide that they want to be draconian in their restrictions on such things, I can make the decision not to move to either of those states. They don't gain an engineer and my tax revenue, and I'm not subjected to their laws.
When the Federal government does something that I disagree with... well I can't really leave the country (My handle describes my industry), so I can't move to another jurisdiction. Even worse, the US federal government pushes its laws as far as it can overseas as well.
That's is why that while it sucks when states do stupid things like this, and even though the Federal government is slightly less likely to do things like this (gridlock), it is far far far more important to keep and reinforce the limits that prevent the Federal government from doing things like this in the first place because their jurisdiction and power is effectively unlimited with regards to the actual citizens of this country.
You are misappkying the 'expectation of privacy' angle. If you are in public you retain all of your privacy rights. The expectation of privacy statement only means you can't revoke something after it was made public from an evidence perspective if when you made it public that you had the expectation that it was public.
Its tangential to your statement(which is not wrong) but it is dangerous and wrong to apply it in that manner. It is a nuanced decision that is often misinterpreted as an affirmation that no privacy exists outside a hermetically sealed chamber in your bedroom.
There is plenty that is in public which retains significant privacy. A hand shielded whisper picked up by a parabolic mic would be an example of someone acting privately in public.
I work with folks who earn 200k+ per year and they would do the same. Its human nature, and we are very social gossipy animals.
Always write laws and grants of authority with the mindset that they will inevitably be abused.
It applies to all people not because of what it says, but because of who the constitution applies to.
It is only a list of powers granted to the government and a few critical (but incomplete) prohibitions/limitations.
In otherwords, if it isn't in the Constitution, the US government should NOT be doing it, regardless of the nationality of the person they are 'doing it to'.
The US Constitution does NOT apply to you, me or any 'one' person. The Constitution applies only to the government. It is the set of rules with the government must follow to be considered legitimate.
It's a mistake that is commonly made, and a dangerous one for people to believe since the document was NEVER intended to be some sort of protection of the people. There are a few affirmations, but the document itself is only a limited list of authorities granted to the government.
It grants us (the people) nothing. Everything we have, we have had regardless of the Constitution.
The Trinitron 36âoe television serving as a work bench begs to differ.
Tubes have their place, but I will gladly sacrifice all of their benefits for something that doesn't weigh more than an NFL linebacker.
It is like a cast iron bathtub. Buy a new one and it will run you at least a grand. Try to get rid of a decent used one and you will be relieved if the buyer's offer is no more than to come and pick it up from its current location.
Ground based radiobeacons are much harder to jam than GPS by orders of magnitude. To jam it you would need to raise the noise floor or exceed the signal strength at the location of the aircraft.
Not to mention that your jammer would show up as the perfect target for an radio seeking missile. If someone wereto complain that your missile hit their jammer... you respond "The missile was a controlled demolition missike that only could target this specific registered radio frequency. That frequency is only used by this beacon. Therefore it couldnt hit anything else... unless of course that something else were a system designed to specifically crash civilian aircraft, but we know that such a thing didn't happen. Next time we will use a demolition missile that only goes to specific geographic coordinates. We appreciate your concern Mr kim. I do hope this letter reaches you at 59.06578N Xx.4564E. Sincerely, the guy with very accurate missiles."
It's also amazing how many pilots/captains have completely lost the ability to transmit messages via carrier pigeon.
It's a tool, and like any tool, if you remove the ability to use it while you are using it, it's going to cause disruption. Most pilots prepare for emergency landings should their engine quit, you wouldn't be surprised if that disrupted things, why should GPS?
What if their more robust VHF/UHF radios kicked the bucket while flying? That would seriously disrupt them too, but you wouldn't lament the fact that they are dependent on that technology would you?
You can dig a ditch with a shovel and a bucket, but you don't see road crews eschewing the use of diesel powered equipment for fear that you would run out of fuel mid-project.
Honestly, how important are surge protectors? Don't most have a disclaimer that they don't protect vs lightning anyway?
I'm sure for large businesses or extreme cost equipment they are a good investment, but for home users are they really needed?
(Honest question since I don't really know)
People have these fears for precisely the reasons you specified.
Because the courts repeatedly find in favor of the government regarding searches, expansion of authority, and general 'oops we sent a swat team to the wrong house but we thought it was the right house so we arent culpable for shooting you' cases.
If the government was shown to actually respect the limitations on its authority, you would have a point.
Oh pish posh.
You aren't going to see an orwellian dystopia. So stop worrying.
Be brave.
Don't fear what is new.
No orwellian gov will run this world.
I can pay my bills online now without an eID. I actually wouldn't mind if someone faked my identity to pay off my tax bills.
Why would I want everything about me unified? I use different logins so people CANT consolidate everythibg about me.
It doesn't have to be but it can be.
If you license a patent at ten percent of wholesale price of products which utilize the patent, you can't switch that up without risking antitrust issues in most cases.
So I sell my product for $1000 and sell another product mod for $10. The product mod contains your patented tech. I then owe you $1 in licensing as opposed to $100.
The advantage to consumers is that if I don't need your tech's features, I don't have to pay for it. And in theory, I can buy a $1000 product instead of a $1100 product.
But you still CAN drive a spike into a vampire's heart.
Besides, I'm setting the rules for the fictional universe, and in that universe vampires are puppies and drink soda.
Those aren't your interests. All you are seeing is the futures of Orwell and Huxley fighting it out in real time.
One comes via fear, force and ignorance, the other comes with a spoonful of sugar and ignorance. The problem is, they are both well on their way to becoming real.
Liberty will be just as dead if killed through violent oppression (Orwell) or diabetic shock (Huxley).
All we need is a pointer to Earth that says 'You are here.' and it's game over for us all!
Emergency supply port. Call AAA and they send a truck with a charged 20 mile capacity battery to get you to the next station. Drop off the pack at the station and recharge there.
Or just have AAA tow you to the station. Next time pay attention to your meters. Do you run out of fuel so often that this is a concern? My gas needle has been broken for years. I just reset the trip meter and fill up every 300 miles. Never had to hike yet.
Liability of the swap station. Large propane cylinders are leased and are not cheap to buy. Return one undamaged and get a certified good one. If it dies outside of an accident the swapping company replaces it.
Solvable.
Its electricity. Make a few large stations to capture economy of scale, and run charging cables to each parking spot.
5 mins per car with a four pump station could serve 48 cars per hour. At 30 minutes you only need 24 parking spaces to serve the same quantity.
Without all complexity of pumps, you could put a 3 storey parking garage in the footprint of a regular gas station and serve 180 cars per hour at max capacity.
Pull up, swipe credit card, the machine says go to space 34, park, plug in, and have a coffee at the attached cafe.
That's just wishful thinking. The EU is exactly as self interested as any other sovereign power. The only reason the EU happens to behave better is because there is still a bit if diverging interests between member states.
It also has the advantage that it would be difficult to consolidate political parties across the member states.
But any sovereign entity is first and foremost, selfish.
Rick Moranis being the outcast child from his lumberjack tribe who was discovered and adopted by a childless mountie woman to be raised as one of their own, never realizing his true origin, until one day...
It flew past my office at about 200 meters on its first pass. I am on an upper floor with beautiful views of DC. I really wish we were allowed cameras because I think I had the best vantage point of anyone.
A coworker slipped out on the roof and got some good pics, If I can get the copies Ill post them here.
The chase plane was literally overhead from our position on the pass.
Depends on your definition of quickly. It would take longer to destroy the engine than it would take for your car to run out of fuel.
Modern engines can run for hours, every day, for years. Full throttle would wear on it, but Id bet it would take days of max revs to break it.
A female VP from a major defense contractor was made to wait outside a contract signing not too long ago. A male subordinate sat at the event in her stead.
And that's supposedly the way women can be treated by the business classes. I certainly would think twice before I subjected myself to such a culture. If you can be a successful entrepreneur, you would provably also succeed in a much more favorable culture.
It might be because the autocorrect on your phone is junk. My phone introduces more errors than it fixes.