Originally the EC didn't have to vote with the state!
Only 24 states have laws to punish so-called Faithless Electors". So in more than half the states it is still the case that the elector is not bound by the state popular vote result.
Look, whether they were planning on being colossal douchebags or not doesn't change the fact (if it is a fact) that they were raided without a hint of a warrant. People need to get it through their heads that the Constitution was implemented largely to constrain what government agencies can get away with. Whether it turns out ex post facto that the victims of government overreach were guilty is utterly irrelevant. If the police thought that there was probable cause they could have easily gotten a warrant and done things the right way. That they (apparently) didn't shows that civil liberties are well on their way to being nonexistent in this country, not only for the guilty, but also for those who might only appear to be guilty, or who might've pissed off the wrong person at the wrong time.
Geez, spoken like a (15-year-old) single person. The wedding is all about her because, unlike the man, she has quite likely been thinking about her wedding ever since she played wedding with her Barbies. When I got married I was quite content with the idea that, even though I was a major player in the wedding, everybody was focussed on my bride. That's simply the way things are. Most guys who get married care about being married, not so much the getting married part. Girls also care deeply about the being married part, but the getting married part is much higher on their list of important events than it is for guys.
Someday you'll grow up and realize that this is a pretty much universal truth that reflects not one bit on how selfish the girl might be.
We won't see sensible tech legislation until the people that have some sensible ideas are donating more money to politicians than the people who don't.
That's problematic, since one of the more sensible ideas is that public elections should be publicly funded.
Um, doesn't the Bible say that the Earth was here BEFORE there was light?
Yes it does. But let's imagine for a moment that God is telling Moses the story of creation as though the observer's point of view were on Earth itself. The early solar system is coalescing into planets, the Sun, etc. When the Sun ignites the planets are already largely coalesced. The solar wind sweeps the system clear of the remaining gas and dust. So our (long-lived and surprisingly hardy) observer on the newborn Earth sees the Earth in the dark, then sees the Sun come in to view as it ignites and clears the solar system of obscuring clouds of dust and gas.
Although the logo for Vista when it was referred to as "Longhorn" was a stylized image of a steer's head, the association of "Longhorn" with a steer was a bit of a retcon. The real source of the "Longhorn" name is a bar at the Whistler-Blackcomb ski resort in British Columbia. XP was referred to as "Whistler" during development, and the next version of Windows was to have been codenamed "Blackcomb" (that codename has since been retired). Vista (nee "Longhorn") was originally meant to have been a quick interim release between Whistler and Blackcomb. Obviously that didn't work out quite as planned.:-b
That Vista was originally named for a saloon may give some insight into its development process.:-)
Good luck collecting. Odd are the person doing the identity theft doesn't have more than a few grand in assets Which is why the old concept of the "debtor's prison" needs to be revived.
This is done with the Volume Shadow Copy service. The driver, volsnap.sys, sits under NTFS and watches modifications going down to the storage stack. When a snapshot is taken, volsnap sets up a "diff area" for this snapshot on your disk. After this happens, subsequent modifications of on-disk data are intercepted by volsnap, who saves away the blocks about to be overwritten to the diff area, and then lets the writes go down to the disk. When you pull up a snapshot copy of a file, volsnap intercepts the reads from disk and inserts blocks that were saved to the diff area. The result of the read is therefore composed of blocks from the actual file that were not changed, and blocks that were saved to the diff area, presenting you with a point-in-time view of the file.
Emailing them may work also, but I don't think it has the same significance as a letter in hand.
I used to think that too, until I sent email to my Representative (Jay Inslee) regarding the network neutrality provisions in the COPE Act. He actually said in his response:
I encourage you to contact me via email, telephone, or fax, because security measures are causing House offices to experience delays in receiving postal mail.
Turns out that these days, snail mail is the least-preferred method of communication with your elected officials. Maybe it has slightly more psychological impact, maybe not, but if it doesn't get there in time then it has no impact at all.
What's more, they can't win whichever way they go now. If the "Holy Blood and the Holy Grail" maintain that theirs is a scholarly work of non-fiction, Dan Brown shouldn't have any problems, same as if he based a book on any other historical reference. If they now claim that theirs is fiction it both ruins whatever reputation they may have had, and still gives Dan Brown an out: when he read it the authors claimed it was fact, so we're back to the historical reference defense.
The FBI is an agency of the Department of Homeland Security now. Therefore any crime that falls under the jurisdiction of the FBI is also the DHS's problem.
As far as Amazon is concerned with respect to sales tax, you're a bit late on the prediction of ramifications. I'm a resident of Washington state, and I already have to cough up sales tax to Amazon. Fortunately between free shipping (assuming you can stand to wait) and their markdowns on most of the stuff I buy, I still come out ahead of where I might at a brick-and-mortar establishment. I hate to think what their e-commerce software has to do on every single transaction to assess proper taxes though.
Why spend any money at all? Go to the IRS's Free File page, and pick from a number of online entities who provide free tax preparation and e-file. For a lot of them (including H&R Block) there are no restrictions, and everyone qualifies. Sure, it isn't an Open Source (which will likely never happen anyway), but it also isn't $70 bucks either.
The "default" shares (c$, etc.) don't exist in either XP Home or Professional if they're not members of a domain. (I just did a clean non-domain install of XP Pro the other day, and was confused for a while about where my default shares had gone, that's how I know.) You have to explicitly enable sharing for those shares to be created. Since most home users don't have domains, and those who do should know about the shares, my guess would be that most home XP users are not affected by this one.
Of course, once you enable file sharing the default shares are created, and you are therefore vulnerable. At that point it goes back to good old strong password requirements.
23% illiterate in the US? You must be counting children under 3 years of age or something. The CIA World Factbook reports a 97% literacy rate for persons over 15 in the U.S. I guess it's just fashionable to believe that the U.S. citizenry are all drooling morons.
...I think every reasonable American knows that the founding fathers designed the second amendment to allow all Americans access to personal firearms. Muzzle loaded, smoothbore, single shot flintlocks. Of course, the idea of giving a person today's concealable automatic ceramic-barreled teflon-round armed killing machines would have been complete anathema even to Patrick Henry...
Nonsense. The Founding Fathers had no intention of limiting the type of firearms available to the general public. The point of the right to keep and bear arms is to provide a check against a tyrannical government. British army regulars at the time had "muzzle loaded, smoothbore, single shot flintlocks". So allowing the general public access to those weapons was not a limitation, but a guarantee of parity.
If you take the Second Amendment and update its grammar and vocabulary to 21st century English, you discover some interesting things. For example, "A well regulated militia...". According to 10 U.S.C. 311, the U.S. militia is defined as all able-bodied males 17 years of age or older who are or intend to be citizens, plus female citizens in the National Guard. "Well regulated" itself does not mean legally regulated, but "properly equipped", as in a rell regulated machine. Early U.S. law (the First Militia Act of 1792) required that all men between 17 and 45 maintained a musket, 60 rounds of ammunition, and a tomahawk.
Granted there are a lot of nutbags out there, some of them hoarding fully-automatic assault rifles by the dozen. They're dangerous, but primarily because they're nutbags. But if I want to own a Beretta or a.357 Magnum or whatever, the Constitution says that nobody in the government can make a law infringing that right.
any traffic passing _through_ Panama would be subject to the filters
Although realistically this is unlikely to be a problem for any significant percentage of Net traffic. Topologically, Panama is most probably a spur on the Internet, rather than a hub. Most of the western hemisphere's traffic passes through the US west coast on its way to anywhere. By the time a given packet hits Panama, I'd lay good odds its actually bound for an endpoint in Panama.
At least you only get "ripped off" when you're in another country. In the US, all cell users have to pay airtime, whether they originated the call or not! So even in your local calling area you're paying for other people's calls, and if you're roaming (which, depeinding on carrier, could only be in the next state!) then you get airtime and roaming charges.
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Really? You're honestly comparing execution of hardened criminals to genocide? And this mindless dreck got modded "insightful"?
Only 24 states have laws to punish so-called Faithless Electors". So in more than half the states it is still the case that the elector is not bound by the state popular vote result.
No, that would be the GNU/Apocalypse.
Look, whether they were planning on being colossal douchebags or not doesn't change the fact (if it is a fact) that they were raided without a hint of a warrant. People need to get it through their heads that the Constitution was implemented largely to constrain what government agencies can get away with. Whether it turns out ex post facto that the victims of government overreach were guilty is utterly irrelevant. If the police thought that there was probable cause they could have easily gotten a warrant and done things the right way. That they (apparently) didn't shows that civil liberties are well on their way to being nonexistent in this country, not only for the guilty, but also for those who might only appear to be guilty, or who might've pissed off the wrong person at the wrong time.
Geez, spoken like a (15-year-old) single person. The wedding is all about her because, unlike the man, she has quite likely been thinking about her wedding ever since she played wedding with her Barbies. When I got married I was quite content with the idea that, even though I was a major player in the wedding, everybody was focussed on my bride. That's simply the way things are. Most guys who get married care about being married, not so much the getting married part. Girls also care deeply about the being married part, but the getting married part is much higher on their list of important events than it is for guys.
Someday you'll grow up and realize that this is a pretty much universal truth that reflects not one bit on how selfish the girl might be.
That's problematic, since one of the more sensible ideas is that public elections should be publicly funded.
Yes it does. But let's imagine for a moment that God is telling Moses the story of creation as though the observer's point of view were on Earth itself. The early solar system is coalescing into planets, the Sun, etc. When the Sun ignites the planets are already largely coalesced. The solar wind sweeps the system clear of the remaining gas and dust. So our (long-lived and surprisingly hardy) observer on the newborn Earth sees the Earth in the dark, then sees the Sun come in to view as it ignites and clears the solar system of obscuring clouds of dust and gas.
That's how I interpret it anyway.
Although the logo for Vista when it was referred to as "Longhorn" was a stylized image of a steer's head, the association of "Longhorn" with a steer was a bit of a retcon. The real source of the "Longhorn" name is a bar at the Whistler-Blackcomb ski resort in British Columbia. XP was referred to as "Whistler" during development, and the next version of Windows was to have been codenamed "Blackcomb" (that codename has since been retired). Vista (nee "Longhorn") was originally meant to have been a quick interim release between Whistler and Blackcomb. Obviously that didn't work out quite as planned. :-b
:-)
That Vista was originally named for a saloon may give some insight into its development process.
Microsoft is transitioning the server line to 64-bit exclusive. Not the client line. You'll note that TFA has been updated to clarify this.
...you really can't stop the signal. :-)
This is done with the Volume Shadow Copy service. The driver, volsnap.sys, sits under NTFS and watches modifications going down to the storage stack. When a snapshot is taken, volsnap sets up a "diff area" for this snapshot on your disk. After this happens, subsequent modifications of on-disk data are intercepted by volsnap, who saves away the blocks about to be overwritten to the diff area, and then lets the writes go down to the disk. When you pull up a snapshot copy of a file, volsnap intercepts the reads from disk and inserts blocks that were saved to the diff area. The result of the read is therefore composed of blocks from the actual file that were not changed, and blocks that were saved to the diff area, presenting you with a point-in-time view of the file.
They're not talking about the browser (Internet Explorer), they're talking about the shell (Windows Explorer).
What's more, they can't win whichever way they go now. If the "Holy Blood and the Holy Grail" maintain that theirs is a scholarly work of non-fiction, Dan Brown shouldn't have any problems, same as if he based a book on any other historical reference. If they now claim that theirs is fiction it both ruins whatever reputation they may have had, and still gives Dan Brown an out: when he read it the authors claimed it was fact, so we're back to the historical reference defense.
They can't have it both ways.
The FBI is an agency of the Department of Homeland Security now. Therefore any crime that falls under the jurisdiction of the FBI is also the DHS's problem.
As far as Amazon is concerned with respect to sales tax, you're a bit late on the prediction of ramifications. I'm a resident of Washington state, and I already have to cough up sales tax to Amazon. Fortunately between free shipping (assuming you can stand to wait) and their markdowns on most of the stuff I buy, I still come out ahead of where I might at a brick-and-mortar establishment. I hate to think what their e-commerce software has to do on every single transaction to assess proper taxes though.
Why spend any money at all? Go to the IRS's Free File page, and pick from a number of online entities who provide free tax preparation and e-file. For a lot of them (including H&R Block) there are no restrictions, and everyone qualifies. Sure, it isn't an Open Source (which will likely never happen anyway), but it also isn't $70 bucks either.
The "default" shares (c$, etc.) don't exist in either XP Home or Professional if they're not members of a domain. (I just did a clean non-domain install of XP Pro the other day, and was confused for a while about where my default shares had gone, that's how I know.) You have to explicitly enable sharing for those shares to be created. Since most home users don't have domains, and those who do should know about the shares, my guess would be that most home XP users are not affected by this one.
Of course, once you enable file sharing the default shares are created, and you are therefore vulnerable. At that point it goes back to good old strong password requirements.
23% illiterate in the US? You must be counting children under 3 years of age or something. The CIA World Factbook reports a 97% literacy rate for persons over 15 in the U.S. I guess it's just fashionable to believe that the U.S. citizenry are all drooling morons.
If you take the Second Amendment and update its grammar and vocabulary to 21st century English, you discover some interesting things. For example, "A well regulated militia...". According to 10 U.S.C. 311, the U.S. militia is defined as all able-bodied males 17 years of age or older who are or intend to be citizens, plus female citizens in the National Guard. "Well regulated" itself does not mean legally regulated, but "properly equipped", as in a rell regulated machine. Early U.S. law (the First Militia Act of 1792) required that all men between 17 and 45 maintained a musket, 60 rounds of ammunition, and a tomahawk.
Granted there are a lot of nutbags out there, some of them hoarding fully-automatic assault rifles by the dozen. They're dangerous, but primarily because they're nutbags. But if I want to own a Beretta or a .357 Magnum or whatever, the Constitution says that nobody in the government can make a law infringing that right.
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Although realistically this is unlikely to be a problem for any significant percentage of Net traffic. Topologically, Panama is most probably a spur on the Internet, rather than a hub. Most of the western hemisphere's traffic passes through the US west coast on its way to anywhere. By the time a given packet hits Panama, I'd lay good odds its actually bound for an endpoint in Panama.
At least you only get "ripped off" when you're in another country. In the US, all cell users have to pay airtime, whether they originated the call or not! So even in your local calling area you're paying for other people's calls, and if you're roaming (which, depeinding on carrier, could only be in the next state!) then you get airtime and roaming charges.